I'm no expert by any means, but if I was to tackle something like this I would want side and front views for sure. Probably wouldn't hurt to have a top view also. good luck with the model.

Fredo's Round corner would make quick work of that. It's in the PluginStore. [image: xgAS_round.gif] Click on the picture.

@dave r said: @john2 said: @autarchos said: Now, I only have to stretch the jpg render in Illustrator to match the size of the pdf. Everything then takes care of itself, i.e., the overlap. Can't you just resize the one to match the other by changing its dimensions? That's what I just did using the plugin. I entered the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the Jpeg render in the plugin and it resized my viewport so I could export the perfect pdf for vector line work.

Thanks for the thought, but that is not the case here. It happens on both my setups, one which runs two monitors, and one that is a single.

There may be a way. What version of SketchUp are you using? Please complete your profile.

Yes, I can do that. I have also oversized the dimension font so that the print is more suitable. However for the last 3 years before my update this was not an issue. Trying to determine if it is an issue with Sketchup or a setting in Sketchup. I have another PC that I didn't update (and it prints fine) So frustrating! I wish that I could take this PC back to Version 8. I do appreciate your efforts, Thank you!

@dave r said: You can place the camera with Position Camera from the Camera toolbar or menu And you can aim the camera with Orbit and Pan. From the Ruby documentation I now have a working script for exactly what I want to do: ` eye = [0,-10000,0] target = [0,0,0] up = [0,0,1] my_camera = Sketchup::Camera.new eye, target, up my_camera.focal_length = 100 view = Sketchup.active_model.active_view view.camera = my_camera` Is there really no plug-in with some tiny UI that lets me do this kind of stuff?

Opens more quickly than previous versions and seems to handle hi-poly a bit better. That's just an impression tho.

Yeah but.... It won't stay where I want it when I restart SU.

Since this thread was written things have changed. In the Window menu you will fine Extension Warehouse and Extension Manager. If you are wanting to install extensions you've downloaded directly, go to Window>Extension Manager. At the bottom you will find Install Extension.

Wow! Great answer and solution! I'll try to redo the whole thing with your great advice. Hopefully I can get it to work. Thanks.

Thanks for the heads-up! It looks quite useful, I hope they expand their database significantly to be useful to more people than just the 200 cities they currently have.

@box said: Look here http://www.ptfbpro.com/ Thanks, I'll try this application.

i have same problem with snapping, sometimes sketchup 2017 suddenly stops snapping to some axis. for example snaps only to red, or only to green.

@rich o brien said: The component browser only lists 12 results per page. So when you say it quits what do you mean? Sketchup disappears and then I'm looking at my desktop. I must restart SU.

@cotty said: I'm wondering where you will get the needed info for the high dynamic range from a single JPG... How I've done it in the past is to create false exposure images and use an HDR creating software to juxtapose them into a single HDR. It's tricky and fake but you can do it. The things to take care are light sources. My theory is that if you lower your image brightness in any software like gimp, then duplicate the background layer, and screen it with the layer below, only the brightest parts will enhance. If you save the image and repeat the process, you will have several images that you can use for braketing and create an HDR. It did work for me at the time, but eventually nowadays it isn't worth the trouble, anyway I've come up with my own sky system for Thea (development stalled) that is able to render images with the sky system 4x to 10x slower than with Thea's native sky, but also allows Thea to generate any sky. Once I get the procedural right I'll give more info: Here's a couple of images rendered with the system: [image: cfbR_CASCASkyDirectRender-10secsrender.jpg] [image: 4xJ8_CASCASystemonthefly15secs2.jpg] [image: U8Nj_CASCASystemonthefly15secs1.jpg] And a gif of the system in action: [image: dgWOYYI.gif]

Thanks for the tips. I'll try these methods to fulfill my requirements.

Dave this is a very well organized method to follow. I wish there was an easy way to print out a list of the plugin/ extensions I have installed so I could then just go through the list and check them off as I install them in the new version. This is also s good time to re- evaluate which ones I actually use and wether to install them in the new version of SU. Would be neat if someone could come up with a "migration tool" that would take your steps into account and walk you through the process. Once again, thanks for sharing you process. It is well thought out and logical.

@dave r said: @tgm said: What does the change in UI on v2017 have to do with the dynamic components on v2016? They changed the way the web dialogs work. they now use the embedded Chromium. This impacts the web dialogs for SU2016, too. They changed this partly because too many users failed to keep IE up to date and the web dialogs wouldn't work. @tgm said: I should be able to run each program independently of each other, correct? Mostly but not entirely. Just update SU Dynamic Component through the Extension Warehouse and it'll be OK.