Saying that, I have not finalized the tool I will use but am glad that at least I won't spend more time with SU for this purpose. But, I will surely use SU for lot other reasons.

till then so long.. (not for long)

Pankaj

ps: Thanks Alan for pointing to new tool.

SU doesn't have text, for starters. It may have a Text tool, but what appears in the drawing space is not text, it's a polyline approximation of text. Specialized drawing packages like Corel or Illustrator not only keep the text smooth with bezier curves instead of straight line segments, but they also keep it editable...even after you have performed all manner of manipulations on it.

They also have gradient fills, graduated transparency, drop shadow effects, control of line width and a hundred and one other things that are totally outside the remit of a 3D modelling package. If you don't have access to a Pro drawing package, there are plenty of free ones around, like the Serif range.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/default1.asp

The attached pic was done in seconds in Corel. You couldn't hope to get the same kind of effects in SU.

Hi
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Now questions:

1. Can we design crispy games like Monopoly in Sketchup?
2. All in all, I feel that I am at crossroads now. Should I continue my journey with Sketchup or jump to something else for board-game design?
   .......
   Pankaj

Mittalpa,

Could you upload an (a handdrawn) example to show what you want to achieve?
I think SU is excellent for designing board-games, even with text.
And you can even 'add' perspective view to all the board parts to make it look more interesting before printing/exporting.

Wo3Dan

SU 3D Text objects are converted into facetted 3D entities when entered, and the real text objects can only be placed relative to the screen, so using SU in stead of a 2D drawing package is a waste of energy, the powers of SU are elsewhere.

Anssi

I did check it out and I really liked it in terms of placing the text. 

One major limitation I can see right away that it doesn't have multi-line option. I guess the work around to that for right now would be to place multiple tags. Not sure how good that is in long term. 

If anyone has better ideas to deal multi line issue, please pitch in. Thanks
Pankaj

Once youve doenloaded it you'll need to put it in your SU pluins folder. You should be able to find this in the SU directory.

Once you have done that (re)start SU and you should have a drop down thing called 'plugins' in the menu bar. In here you will find the button to activate any rubies you have in your plugins foder, althoguh sometims you will ahve to look in the 'tools' menu for your plugin.

Textag itself is fairly self explanatory once you get it started, the only thing is that you need to select a face before starting it up.