I'm using decimal inches. It's the same using fractional inches. Just putting 20 in it scales 20x. If I type 20 then push the shift key to put " after it the 20 disappears and it goes back to 1.0. Seems to be a bug. I'll just start using Fredo Scale. It works.

I'm having issues with this as well in SU 2015. I just read about it in the D'oh book. I can enter 20cm and it works, I can enter 1'8 and it works. I can't get it to do straight inches though. When I try 20in it just ignores the in and does 20x scale. Trying to use " for inches doesn't work either.

I trying to add text to surfaces on my model using the 2D text tool but I get the spinning beach ball (Mac 10.8.5) for 10-20 seconds before it places the text. I am using Sketchup Pro 2015.3.329. Any ideas why?

Thanks, works now.

This looks really simple but I can't get it to work. The Add Location window appears, I navigate to the location I want, I click the Select Region button, adjust the selection box, then click Grab and the selection box disappears but the Add Location window is still there with no options to do anything. When I close the Add Location window there is nothing in Sketchup. I am using Sketchup 8 free for Mac.