The OpenGL settings unfortunately didn't really help. Just as I figured, a style change might be the best thing available currently. I whipped up some styles for my main template and a few plugins that switch between a normal display mode and some construction modes, that's gonna have to do I guess.

People complain about Sketchups texture mapping process....they should give UDK a try. Just combine all the fragmented google pieces and "render to texture"....easy! Here are a couple of links to get you started. http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/udk/udk-import-custom-textures.php https://forums.epicgames.com/threads/918963-Import-google-sketchup-meshes-(-skp-textures-to-UDK. ps: I was kidding about it being easy.

@calypsoart said: I have the SU export setting options set to "best quality," with anti-alising and Use View size. The "Use View size" setting exports a screenshot of your model exactly as it is visible on your computer screen. In most cases this is too coarse for printing on paper. For good-looking colour prints, you will need a resolution of about 150 - 300 pixels per inch for the print not to look too jaggy. The recipe to achieve the best print quality images exported from SketchUp is to first export a larger image than you need (about 2x is a good estimate) with antialiasing turned off (faster and more reliable), and then to resize the image in Photoshop (or your image editor of choice). This gives you much better looking lines than the antialiasing in SketchUp can produce. Anssi

Thanks Rich for the search feature, the Ruby's script : " Group to XY plane " work perfectly. I'm on SU 8 ( not SU 6 than i thinking before, oups ).

Thanks for the help guys, really appreciated.

XREF plugin/tool does this well

@dik harrison said: ... but I finally looked at what it would take to upgrade my 2017SU, ...$240 is more than I'm willing to fork over now... if an upgrade does cost U$ 240.- (= maintenance lapsed more than 1 year) you initially did not have bought 2017 but an older version and got one or two new major releases for free during the maintence period... ... be aware, that if the maintenance lapses more than 3 years no further upgrade will be possible, i.e. upgrading requires to buy a full new license.

Using Sketchup 2015 for exporting an "animation set", I have encountered a pixel resolution limitation of 3840x2160. In previous versions of Sketchup, I was able to export animation sets with the same parameters available for exporting a 2D Graphic, which would be 9999x5653. When doing a finished animation, I routinely render at 3 or 4 times the desired resolution and then size the images down to a usable size such as 1920 x 1080. This process is essentially a poor man's anti aliasing. It would be great to have the full resolution capacity back in the Export> Animation> Image set routine!!!

No problem... He says he knows some home designers. Is the work structural? or interior?

There are several plugins to join [or aka 'weld'] lines, curves, arcs etc into a single bound 'curve' object, these can then be used in processes, like those in some of my Extrude Tools... My own version is available in the PluginStore. http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIG-weld Preselect a set of connected edges/curves, run the 'weld' tool from the Tools menu item, or setup/use a shortcut key-press... and then it should make a welded curve - but remember there can be no intervening 'branch' edges as these will split the curve where they touch it...

outer shell did bugsplat, I sent in the report... will have a look at why... I'm on an older mac, but v15 and Yosemite, so it's all up to date... john

Uninstalled and reinstalled, not repair, seems to work now, S

edges are measured in pixels.. so if your style has edges set to 1px and you export an image 10,000px wide, the lines are going to appear tiny in the export.. if you want to export at that size with fatter lines, increase your profile settings in the style.. for instance, if your workspace is 1000px wide and you have edges set to 1px, you'll have to make your edges 10px to appear the same at 10,000px wide. with sketchy styles, there's a problem if i understand correctly how they work.. the sketchy edges are raster images so if they scaled according to your export size, they'd look horrible/pixelated when blown up.. they'd look the same as if you exported a jpg at 999px wide then in an image editor, increased the size to 9999px wide.. i don't know if it's possible but you might have to create a custom sketchy style with really thick linework -or- really high resolution in order to export a giant JPG which inherits the sketchy style.. (like so thick that when viewing in the model space, it will look bad with way-too-big edges.. but when exported at 5x size, they look normal/good)

A couple more examples of the Sketchucation Viewer [sw:3el9584q]borW29qZMMJU8CN[/sw:3el9584q] [sw:3el9584q]kJIkQSqAS04O8u8[/sw:3el9584q]

Probably the best solution until Sketchup are able to update or give an alternative set of options; would be to plug in to a extra monitor. I find it quite convenient to run two and move my laptop between office and home

Another work around is to apply a checkers material directly to the faces of the component and then delete it from the model. This sets the UV for faces. Now, any material you apply to the component remains correctly UV maped.

It might be worth noting that you say you have SU2014 Pro in your post but Make in your profile, I'm guessing you have Make and are currently in the trial period of Pro. If that is the case, the Solid tools won't work for you once the trial period is over.