It is indeed caused by Joe's plugin. In fact he mentions that in the link you provided. I don't use his tools so that would explain why I never saw the layer before.

Hi I'm currently using Lenovo Y-50 gaming laptop to draw acad 13 and sketchup 15. I thought that laptop can render fast with vray. But it didn't work well. Whenever I insert components in my projects, it becomes slower and appears 'not responding' on the top of my drawing. I don't recommand to buy lenovo. Asus is better performance.

Your points are very fair and make sense, but man was it frustrating to figure out the hard way.

Your results are surely more typically accurate but my use at the moment is for a flat 2D sheet view. I will try to remember your idea. I will, but I bet I don't. [image: yLIy_white-1.JPG] [image: cDHF_white-2.JPG] [image: pt3v_white-4.JPG]

@andybot said: @unknownuser said: This is what I have Tig and its still not doing right but thanks! Maybe I still have something set up wrong? It's right there in your screen-grab - bottom left - uncheck the box for "0 inches" Thanks andybot, just didn't realize that was the problem!

Thank's for the tips everyone! I'm working on getting the poly count down a bit, and converting other pieces to components. I'll let you know if it helps.

I have a laptop with an nvidia gtx 540 card (with 1Gb memory) so some laptops do come with dedicated cards.

Gaieus beat me to it! Here my go anyway... It reiterates what he's just said... The intersection geometry appears in the 'current context'. So if you have two overlapping groups in the model, you select them and use 'Intersect with selection', then all the new edges are put in the model context. When you then explode a group it merges with this geometry. A much easier way is this... Do the Intersection as above. Select the new geometry [suggest you use a left>right fence to include just it and omit the groups, but if you accidentally pick something else too you can remove it from the selection by holding down Shift+Ctrl and picking it again; conversely you can add missed things to the selection by holding down Ctrl as you pick those]. Now you have all of the intersected geometry selected. Edit>Cut. Edit the group that you want to contain this new geometry [double-click to move into its context] Edit>PasteInPlace. The pasted geometry is now added to the group and merges with the existing geometry as appropriate. Edit the group's contents as desired... and then close its edit session. Another way that is even easier [provided that only the two groups intersect and there are no other overlaps you want to miss out]... is to initially edit the group where the intersecting new geometry is wanted, and use Edit>SelectAll. Now use 'Intersect with model' and the new geometry will form inside the group as it is made, merging as appropriate... Tip: To see what you are doing when editing something like this, use the View>ComponentEdit settings which can temporarily hide the rest of the model and/or similar components [groups and components are treated the same way for this 'toggle'] as you edit. It's useful to see what you are doing, but of course sometimes seeing the rest of the model outside of the edit context is useful as you can still snap to it etc...

Do you have a sketchup.rb file inside the Plugins folder? That file should only ever be in the Tools folder [at least since v5?], and the latest version is put there automatically by the SUp installer. Having files that should be in the Tools folder duplicated inside Plugins is a recipe for problems... You might have other ill-advised 'duplicates' too... Check these two folders contents and keep just the versions in Tools...

@pbacot said: You can do this. Before pasting in the closed shape to the grid, soften the edges in the grid by selecting all of them and clicking soften coplanar in the smooth/soften window. After you paste in the shape, you'll be able to select the outside and erase it. Ahhh.. yes of course, I have seen that before - my brain just didn't want to recognise the solution. @pbacot said: I don't know that you can lock the outside edges in this process. I guess you just have to avoid them. Anyone?... Maybe... and probably not too hard to do but it would be good to know if there is a technique to lock the shoreline in place. Thanks Mick

My book finally arrived! Following it's guidelines I put several scans together as a single jpeg using the autocad pdf lines to ensure everything was lined up in photoshop, when I import the image into sketchup and then scale it and paste the line work of what's existing into the file I'm trying to use the two lineworks no longer line up despite coming from the same file originally. Where am I going wrong? I've tried pasting the image into a more developed file but that meant the image wasn't visible despite being part of the file. I tried to upload the jpeg but I get a server didn't understand request dialogue.

Since it appears you have the pro version of SketchUp, just use File>Import... and set the file type to "AutoCAD Files".

Have you tried reinstalling SU?

I had that feeling as well. Thanks for the confirmation.

And indeed I do "forward" demands when I see they are widely requested and actually useful. But also, trust me, the Google Team monitors these forums quite regularly, too.

@chrisfr1990 said: Then making a group of wall, importing the png, exploding the image Now that is very much possible. Many rendering engines cannot deal with "image entities" so best is to explode them into real geometry with the image applied on it as texture.

There's also Elefont from Armanisoft. It not only allows you to interactively adjust the resolution of the curves, but it also offers a range of different bevels. It exports to dxf. It's Windows only...but you don't need to install it. In fact it will work right out of the download zip file.

So it's used like a film for tensile structures ? I have choice between this [image: 414hXmlHf0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg] and this [image: eden-63.jpg]