Hi. I could not find the answer in the SketchUp help center, not in YouTube, not in the official SketchUp forums.. Nowhere! But I found it after trial and error. So I'll write it here. Maybe I'll rediscover this post myself some years from now, when I've forgotten about it (has happened before): In SU for Mac, when you first open a model and want to edit a material, you press B to open the Material Editor. Now, press the "Brick" tab and then the house to see the "Colors in model". Now click on the material in the model to select it, while pressing Cmd. If this is the first time you're going to edit this material in the current session, the "Colors in model" window will automatically scroll itself so the material you selected is visible... Among 20 other similar ones, and only identified by a faint baby blue outline. Strain your eyes a little bit to find it, and double-click on it to enter the edit mode. Yup. So many steps just to be granted the privilege of editing the material. Now, in the current "brick" tab you can only edit the texture. To edit the color, pick any of the other tabs. If you hit "close" you're out of the edit mode. If you don't, you can keep editing other materials by just Cmd + clicking on the scene. Now, if you have already edited this material before in the current session, and you have already exited Edit mode, the "colors in model" window will not automatically scroll to it and select it... It will just stay where it is. Yup. It's not gonna help you at all to find the material in the window. It won't even place the faint baby blue halo around it. Weirdly, opening Safari, googling "how to get rid of SketchUp" and then returning does help. Now it does scroll to the material and place the faint, ghostly halo around it, so you can double-click to edit it. You can also do this: Double click on ANY material in the "colors in model" window to enter Edit mode, and THEN use the eyedropper (Cmd + click) to actually select the material you really want to edit. I'm still not giving up on SketchUp for Mac.

I can see that might be a problem to have the box checked when there's no watermark. It may be expecting to save an image which it can't find.

@zain01 said: I have a problem with section cut faces assigned to layers and set in scenes. I create a section cut, create a section cut face for it and assign it a layer corresponding to that scene. I do this multiple times and then when i orbit, the section cut faces are still visible. I select one and it says its on layer 0 even though i just assigned it a layer. Doesn't happen to any other type of group/component. Im on a mac Thanks in advance for any advise. It also happens with me but not for all SectioCutFaces. I simply change it to the right layer and the problem is fixed until I redo the SectionCutFace.

Do it with lines, and then use TIGs C-point at vertex plugin to generate points at endpoints

WOW, this is really nice.......Thanks for sharing. In a past life, I used to work with some of the large home builders here in the US. I could see a set of these in the sales office for a home builder (one for each model they are offering in the subdivision). Now, think about how it would be to take it to the next level and be able to remove the roof and or the 2md story and show the floor plan.

And when you curvate it with Fredo Scale! (random rectangles are made with the tricky Protrude by Jim) [image: 9GOx_GIF_lattice.gif]

I drew over some missing faces' edges and they healed up. However, the one on the shallow-dome part cause a double face to form - it was only zillions of an inch apart - but stopping it being a solid. Because the edges were supporting too many faces ! I selected one of those faces and deleted it. Then it reported as a solid. I suspect that there is some incredibly tiny variance in these edges which SketchUp thinks can't support a face - or can - and then adds two faces ! Doh ! These overlaid faces can some times occur - SolidInspector will show them - but can't fix them...

Please ignore that last bit I am viewing this on my phone and just realised the lines have been added by yourself.

@juju said: Isn't Skalp supposed to manage that automatically? I think so, but I don't use it. What I'm trying to say is that the perspective scene probably derived directly from a scene where the plan layers were active and that's maybe why they are also active on the new scene.

Thanks!

Ah ha. I never would of thought of checking the geo-location. Another one for the Doh book. Thanks Box.

It's not a SketchUp bug, though.

@srx said: You could rotate the screen if your monitor has a pivot Or lay on your side.

Thank You very much. Your replies are much appreciated. I am familiarizing myself with tools mentioned above. Thank you

For me Save as component (once you've set it where it goes in the master model)works well. .. as noted above. Just be aware of anything you do with the axes for that component.

Probably a known bug - open the Ruby Console window and if an error occurs when selecting a DC with CO dialog open.

[image: 6mhZ_v6.jpg] panrouter_v6.skp

k. thanks