Thanks!

could anyone tell me why, in the image below, some edges have assumed the material's color, some remained black and some turned white (without any interference from me)?[image: HkB5_samematerial.png] EDIT: one thing that i noticed is that if you set the edge colors to by material before you do anything in a model then it is easy to control them. all of them come in black as you model but when you change a line's color the others remain black.

Hi Brad, Anssi I'm exporting from sketchup to dwg, then xref-ing these files into Autocad. Whenever I change something in SU, I then re-export the dwg and "refresh" the xref in autocad. The problem is as Anssi says. When my drawing gets larger or smaller in Sketchup, the origin of the exported dwg file changes, so when I refresh in autocad... the xrefs move! Anssi - good idea on setting up the views. Unfortunately, this is the way I have been doing it, so it doesn't solve the problem. Brad - any help you can give on this is much appreciated. It's the fly in the ointment for me at the moment. I'm evaluating the SU/Acad combo as a BIM solution with a view to getting it adopted company wide, and without a fix on this I can't really recommend it. Kind regards Rob D

It was definitely fixed in SU7.

Hamlet. This is an old thread. Dynamic Components are supposed to provide something like this. Look around for dynamic component windows. Personally I don't use them. I create new windows practically every project. I make the different sizes using Fredoscale stretching plugin and a few other tricks. Don't use AutoCAD, so can't speak to that.

Have a look at the SketchUp Basecamp video "Working With Terrain and Other Irregular Surfaces" that Daniel Tal gave. http://sites.google.com/site/3dbasecamp2008/. Another on would be "SketchUp and AutoCAD" Mitchel Stangl and Daniel Tal Hope it helps.

Ahh... there it is. Thanks Susan & Jeff (& everyone else). I'd tried this off a hunch from posts I'd seen on another issue, but since SU gave showed a message it would take effect for new windows I'd simply re-opened the file (rendering looked different, but still showed the issue). Now that you've confirmed, I changed the setting and then quit & relaunched SU and indeed the issue disappears. Also sadly indeed, it is barely useable in that mode. Guess I can do most of my building/manipulating with the acceleration on, then turn it off for establishing some final views with cuts. Was hoping planes could be more useful for me than that, but maybe with my next computer (since I don't dare imagine Google addressing this older, apparently rather specific hardware issue in future releases). Thanks again everyone. Incredible resource we've got here. --Ben p.s. if anyone is interested in the details, I'm running OS 10.4.11 and Sketchup for Mac 6.4.120 on a 1.42GHZ iBook G4 which the spec says has a 4X AGP ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 32 MB of DDR SDRAM

I have sent you a PM Chris.

I can only reiterate what has been said before. Sketchup for speed in conjunction with Rhino for complexity works very well indeed. The new exporter does a pretty good job too.

Thanks... I'll see if I can locate.

Hi I run Leopard on a MacBook and whenever I tried to use the middle mouse button it activated 'Spaces'. To resolve this I selected Spaces and held down the mouse button to select Spaces preferences where you will find two option boxes to activate 'Spaces' i.e. 'F8' and, over to the right, Secondary Mouse Button, Middle Mouse Button or, '-'. By selecting '-' it freed-up the Middle Mouse Button for use in SU Hope this works for you Stu.C

I am running XP Pro I have done everyhting short of reformatting. Tony

re: shadow bug. Why don't Google just buy / licence the fix from this company then? As previously stated, this is huge problem, def not becoming from a pro app (seeing the pro version also has the problem).

Ecory, To lock the inferencing (temporarily) to ANY axis hold down the SHIFT key on your keyboard. Very useful. ... This way you can lock to the R,G or B axes. Similarly, as in your case, when you see the Magenta coloured axis light up (= perpendicular to edge or parallel to edge) - hold down the Shift Key also. ... Holding down the Shift key will also lock the inferencing (temporarily) to any arbritrary axis (Black Line). ... As mentioned, guidelines can also be used. You could also draw a temporary line leading away from you ramp as a guide which you can delete afterwards. ... Hope this helps Howard L'

Okay Coen .... who is the lovely lady?

RpTools, a SketchUp add-on, has a Wizard to let you select a component or other geometry, see its current sizes, enter the desired sizes, and scale it. See: http://forums.renderplus.com/wiki/index.php?title=RpTools#Stretch_Wizard

Even better. Thanks.