@cotty said: Gerrit wrote about the origins for the guides groups, not the beams origin. (@Trixta) Yes, I was only trying to explain why guides may not be displayed in certain cases: when their insertion point is too far off screen. Groups and components with real geometry (their edges and faces) are always displayed, even with the local origin not on screen. Just the guides may disappear. If you have things like beams that are mostly the same, start with one component. If the last 10% (or so) of the geometry of one beam slightly differs from the others, you can make this beam component unique and do the rest of the 10% editing only to this unique component. p.s. "Make unique" also applies to more than one component, to split a bunch into two groups of components.

ahh I did not see all that, and thanks for the info.

Charly, I went to a view looking down at the front door. I zoomed extents and saw the window expand to the upper right. I blindly window-selected in that upper right area. 2 edges were selected. I deleted them. After that zoom extents just shows the immediate building area. Peter

Sketchup.active_model.path returns the full path to the SKP. and Time.now returns the time/date. To get the user try ENV["USERNAME"] C:\Users\TIG\Desktop\oxo.skp Tue Apr 02 15:50:39 +0100 2013 TIG You can tailor the 'date' by using things like: "#{Time.now.year}-#{Time.now.month}-#{Time.now.day}"giving 2013-4-2 It'd be straight forward to add some screen-text that included these text strings. Updating it could be done with an onStart observer ?

Okay, that was easy, simply uncheck loop to starting scene in export options! Shame Sketchup doesn't have a more efficient, multicore, video encoder.

Try moving the component towards the boundaries of the edit box. (Rectangle select everything first within the edit box of the component). I guess three sides are origins for the edit box and won't resize automatically.

Now that TIG has explained what is going on in your model... I would offer some tools to fix what has been done. TIG Fix Reversed Face Materials. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30107&hilit=reverse+faces+tool Fredo Tools (reverse face orient) http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42089 ThomThom UV Tool Kit http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18992 Thomthom Material Tools. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17587&start=90 and there are others too...

thank you!

@pbacot said: Oh and the joints don't currently land on a joist. Ooo! Thank you. Don't know how I missed that. There goes the profit.

http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/117002

I wasn't clear, sorry. I was referring to the PC eyedropper icon that says "match color of object in model." Not the eyedropper/magnifying glass that samples a color from the screen. It seems to do the same thing as the eyedropper that samples colors and matches them.

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@tig said: You can add Text labels to your SKP. You can then include Text in what is to be Exported as a DXF, under the Exporter's Options... Also ensure the DXF format chosen supports Text... Note how I deliberately mis-labeled two vertices as '5' ---oOo--- First thing TIG thanks for taking time and trouble to reply much appreciated, What I am trying to do is force SketchUp to change the internal numbering (not shown on the screen) of the vertices (points) before I export the 3D wireframe drawing For example if internally point 2 is X 0.0 Y 2.1 Z 1.3 I want to be able to export it as say 3 X 0.0 Y 2.1 Z 1.3 But want to change the 2 to 3 from the screen graphically. I am transferring geometry to structural computer models and want to avoid tedious re-numbering of the joints textually to rationalize them for design purposes. I did try tracing over the original model using a different layer in desired sequence and then deleting original layer which works but in practice is not a good solution. Maybe I am hoping for too much…………. Tony

I've tried making multi-hinge chained objects with dynamic tools but they don't work correctly when trying to connect them in a hierarchy, like an arm. At least I haven't found a way to make them work. I thought by doing successive grouping would isolate each section of the chain as it grows, but for some reason that didn't work as you would expect.

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Thanks TIG, I've found nothing way over the horizon as it were (or way above or below), and the jaggy problem only occurs with parallel projection (and only really shows with 3D/iso type views), with perspective views it's all fine. Its probably time for a reinstall.

http://issuu.com/rclub24/docs/catchup_5 Take a look in catchup 5 Good luck

Thomthom has a plugin that will draw a box with the same size orientation as the bounding box.