My bad It almost worked, two segments are out of alignment. I can fix those by rotating them Thanks!!

From TIG's thread which I linked to above. @unknownuser said: You need to have Java enabled on you computer. For more check that thread.

I was thinking of a leader but I think it will be a lot of extra manual work. if it was just a few items I wouldn't mind too much. holding the cursor over to get the info would be a start but I would need it visable for printing. essentially what I have been asked to do is take someone else's blueprint (hopefully autocad file) and trace the walls to make a wall framing key plan for the framer. I would then label the walls to be visable as to where they are going then copy the walls and line them up to add dimensions to them for easier framing. If it was a house or small multi-family complex I wouldn't mind but this is 2 large 4 storey condo complexes totaling about 180,000 sqft so that's a lot of walls to both name and label.

What do you mean by "reformat" your skp file? If you want another file type, use File>Export. Or you may need to get an exporter extension. Look in the Extension Warehouse. Be aware that exporters for some file types only work in SketchUp Pro. Your profile indicates you are using SketchUp Make. That would be limiting.

@rich o brien said: Is it the viewport resolution or the print resolution? It's probably both, although I have not tried printing it. What I'm doing is importing maps into SketchUp that do not have a scale in place and creating a scale bar which I then export to Layout to put in annotations. It seems that other people have had problems with this issue and there is no solution. Importing the image directly into Layout turns out fine but importing the image into SketchUp and then exporting into Layout reduces the image quality. I will have to scale my images in Layout directly or in other software from now on. Thanks for your help Rich, I appreciate it. All my questions were answered.

@rich o brien said: ...and felt compelled to confse things further.... Being stingy with the letters again, too. @elmchris, you could make the style and Units changes as desired and save as a default template so you don't have to make those changes every time you start a new drawing.

RJAML and all: thank you soooo much for your original posts and subsequent replies!!! I have been "fighting" with what I thought was a loosing battle: this "Z-Fighting" without co-planar elements!!! I was going crazy, specially since it seemed to activate and de-activate at random!! But after reading these last entries, I switched from parallel to perspective view and back again...and PRESTO: it disappeared!!! You SAVED MY SANITY!!!! 🤪

Look at TIG's "extrusion tools" plugin. Note you may have to make the begining and end shapes into "Curves" by welding the parts together. If that end is single line. Break it to min. two parts and weld it back. With Extrude edges by rails, that setup will give you a shape that diminishes to a flat line.If you wanted it to remain curved-top throughout you have to consider an ending profile.

That is a great idea pbacot thanks will report back when I've tried it! EDIT: Ah, it appears that colour to alpha is for Gimp only not PS, in PS you have to use channels apparently. I'll try it in Gimp, at least I know now that I have to make the image transparent before I import it into SU!

You can set the shadow settings (in all scenes) such that it does not display cast shadows on the ground plane. In the Shadows window (expanded pane). Then you probably would want a script that can do that.

Maybe it was an error. The solution was to explode and then re-make the component.

you 'll find the fast way here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53rpy8UAseA [mod=:122uc0cl]Embedded video using BBcode[/mod:122uc0cl]

Hello, I know this topic is open a long time but i had the same problem and i found out that when you "explode" all your lines in the AutoCad drawing and then save the drawing again it will load into SketchUp when imported as a DWG-file.

Thank you to everyone. Check out the finished product. https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=f044d1ee-6d43-461f-a16d-1f60ce57acd4 You can change the sizes in Component Options. Don't inspect too closely and it looks pretty darn good! Thanks again!

@garry k said: Yes The Mother component has an new variable that you add called Rotation. Rotation starts out = 0 Click once and Rotation goes to 1 Click again and Rotation goes to 0 In a situation where you want more than 2 states - separate them by commas. So for a 4 state variable where you might open and close the door in increments. ANIMATESLOW("some variable", 0, 1, 2, 3) Yea I get it now. It's basically math with functions and variables, variables which can be defined at one place to use it at another, not so complicated actually. Thank you for your time Garry. Especially - @garry k said: Think of it this way The top most component (Mother) gets rotated 90 which rotates both the grey and the white panels. Then rotate the gray one -180 was an eye-opener.

Old script Stroim_dom_ builds log structures SU v5 http://www.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=414 dtr

SketchUp's tolerance is 1/1000" That's' pretty small for most use. But if you are making a small thing - say it's a tiny chamfer in woodworking, or a rounded-corner for 3dPrinting - then you'll run into issues. SketchUp can't create edges shorter than that - it simply takes their start and end points as being coincident, so it skips making them. A missing edge means a missing face that needed that edge. The work around has been discussed in many threads... I'd recommend that you make the 3d object as a component. The place a second instance to one side, and scale it x1000. Then do your small size work within an edit of that. There'll be no issues of tiny geometry. When you are done delete the x1000 version. When you look back at the original sized version the tiny geometry will be there. Tiny geometry can exist but it cannot be directly created !

thx for all the reply's guys very usefull!