Love this shortcut - use it all the time. Wish that sketchup didn't distinguish between groups and components within the menu - in other words, if they just named it 'flip along red axis' instead of 'flip group along red axis' and 'flip component along red axis' then maybe the command would work for both groups and components. Don't know quite enough about software development though to know if this is accurate. Guess I could write a plug in that does it? Yeah what the hell maybe I will. As it is, I've had to decide to set it for components and do groups the old fashioned way (right click, ugh)

Often I'll need to rotate a group/annotation inside of layout, and the only way is to select the object, then drag the rotational 'handle' to make it rotate.

If there was a menu item that was activated when a group was selected, I could set up a hotkey (like in sketchup) that allows me to rotate the item - this would speed things up a bit and make it less frustrating to use layout.

Sincerely,

Kyle Marsh

Thanks Utiler! These look great. Applied them quickly here to a model just to check out the style:

[attachment=0]Screen Shot 2015-07-18 at 2.05.46 AM.png

Hi Guys -

Just posted a reply to this under 'dashed lines' in the SU side of the forum. Expanding on my post, I've used the approach to do demo walls that show up Red in LO and with dashed lines as shown. These are tied to the model no need to update/explode/trace over. See my other post for more info.

Cheers -

Kyle

Just replied to this in another thread - might be helpful. It's under the SketchUp section search for 'dotted lines'.

Kyle

Hi Guys -

For the last year or so I've been incorporating dashed lines into my construction drawings that show dashed lines for roof overhangs and overhead beams/ceiling items. These are automatically generated from the SketchUp model and require no modification inside of LayOut. I also don't need to apply any special plugins or filters to my model or the roof geometry.

I struggled with this for a bit, and found that It was relatively easy to do once I uncovered the underlying hack.

By using StyleBuilder, I was able to create a custom SketchUp Style that gives me dashed lines. It renders well in LayOut when using Raster Mode, and you can see the screenshot of a dashed roofline for a drawing set I'm working on right now.

You can see it's not the prettiest dashed line in the world, but looks ok on the printed sets. I honestly have been meaning to do some nicer versions, but just haven't had the time to do a really nice set of different dash-styles and widths. Here it is in SU in Wireframe mode:

I've included the style below for your use and deconstruction. Anyway have fun with it I'm interested to see what people come up with. If you find it useful, please help keep SketchUp evolving by posting your own dashed line styles on this thread. Hoping that we may see the development of a good group of different dashed line styles.

Finally, I hope that this hack will be unnecessary eventually when SketchUp officially has dashed-line options for their Styles directly in SketchUp itself - so we can choose line styles/dash patterns directly from the Styles window in SUp.

Until then, Cheers -

Kyle

PS - I find that this particular version of the dashed line isn't quite 'thin' enough in LO even when adjusting line weight for the style (I use it anyway, still looks ok). This makes sense because I used Preview and the dashed line available in that program, using a pretty chunky line, when making the Style. Some more sophisticated drafting tools may give a better result, you may try with different line weights in the style creation tool, etc. Good luck!

Dashed Line.style

This would be a nice feature - right now I pre-define all my styles but there's always some little thing I need to adjust and it sucks to have to go back into sU to do it

Yeah I keep a bookmark for the 3D Warehouse on my bookmarks bar - it's much faster than the Component browser - download to the downloads folder then you can clean up the names and sort them into your local components folders. The 3D Warehouse is still weak, weak, but this trick helps a lot.

Another update - opening the same file on my 2008 MacBook Pro with the NVIDIA GeForce 256 and OS 10.8.4 gives the same result: No Axes. This is on a model where the Axes had previously disappeared.

I appreciate your help, and those are all great suggestions - but did you read my post? I went through all those before posting here on the forums.

Quick update: I have updated to Mavericks and installed the most updated drivers for the video card and still no luck. Just to be sure I tried the 'Hardware Acceleration' and 'Fast Feedback' again to no avail.