@rich o brien said:

Is it the viewport resolution or the print resolution?

It's probably both, although I have not tried printing it. What I'm doing is importing maps into SketchUp that do not have a scale in place and creating a scale bar which I then export to Layout to put in annotations.

It seems that other people have had problems with this issue and there is no solution. Importing the image directly into Layout turns out fine but importing the image into SketchUp and then exporting into Layout reduces the image quality. I will have to scale my images in Layout directly or in other software from now on.

Thanks for your help Rich, I appreciate it. All my questions were answered.

Hi guys, I have three questions and would greatly appreciate it if someone would answer them.

1. Other than using a video editing software, is there a way to create animation videos from SketchUp so that one scene transitions to another while a different scene goes immediately into the position(camera) of the next scene without the transition.
   Eg I want Scene 1 to transition to Scene 2 but I want the scene to cut immediately from Scene 2 to Scene 3 without any transition

2. I have noticed that when I hide a group that is nested within another group, I am unable to unhide it without having to manually do so in the Outliner window (the Unhide All command doesn't work). Is there a way to truly unhide everything?

3. Whenever I send an image that I have imported into SketchUp to Layout, the quality of the image is always reduced. I am wondering if there was a solution to this issue.

All questions were answered. Thanks

Hey pbacot, thanks for the reply, you solved question #6. Turns out it was only a result of me being in Parallel Projection as you stated. The axis problem goes away when I am in Perspective view. Thanks again.

Hey pilou, I can't upload my file here because it is too large but I did upload it to dropbox. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g2i3rt3og00h3ou/Axis%20Problem.skp?dl=0. I'm thinking the problem has to do with the images I got from Google Earth.

Thanks for answering my questions Pilou and pbacot. You guys helped me solved almost all of the problems I was having and provided great insight. I am still having a problem with question #6 though. Although pbacot stated that this is normal, if I were to open a new file, I am able to orbit from one side to another (even going 360, imagine the protractor on the red/green axis) without the blue axis changing direction. Why am I in this file unable to do the same?

I know it's a lot of questions but I thought it would be best to ask them all together rather than create 10 separate posts for each. Thanks for taking your time to help me out though, hopefully someone else will be kind enough to provide answers for the rest of my questions.

Hi Everyone,

I have been using SketchUp Pro for a while now and have accumulated a few questions that I am unable to find the answer to. It would be greatly appreciated if someone would provide me the solutions.

Questions

1.How do you get rid of the mirroring effect that happens when you overlie a face over another? The solution that I have been using for this is to manually lower/move the face by a small increment in order to hide this annoying effect.

Please refer to the following link/image on what I mean:

2. Another problem that I often encounter is when I am using the Push/Pull tool, the face that I am Pushing/Pulling will get stuck at the "Offset Limit" and I will have to deselect the tool and then select it again in order to continue Pushing/Pulling the face. How do I get rid of this annoying "Offset Limit"?

3. Why do I keep getting these large black dots on the vertices of edges that I create with the Bezier curve tool? How do I get rid of them?

Please refer to the following link/image on what I mean:

4. How do I make individual lines/edges in SketchUp thicker? I know that you can go into Styles and change the Profiles but this changes every line/edge in my model as well. I just want individual lines that I have selected to have a larger width.

5. How do I set the axis by which to use my Rotation command without having to play around with the Orbit command to align the rotation tool to an axis?

6. I keep encountering a problem where my blue/z/ axis will change direction when I attempt to hover over to the opposite side of the quadrant that I am currently in. The axis will change direction and force me to go the opposite way when I am attempting to view from a different side. What am I doing wrong here?

Please refer to the following link/image on what I mean:

7.Why is it that I am sometime unable to move an object orthogonal or connect the vertex of an object to another (the green dot end point doesn't show up)? This usually only happens to a single object in the file and I would have to delete the group/model that I created and recreate to fix the issue.

8. Is there a command/tool/plugin that will allow me to manually add vertices to an edge? For example, I don't want to divide an edge to have more vertices, I just want one at a point that I selected with the cursor

9. When I am drawing lines in a layer, why does the lines I draw in my current layer also connect to the lines that I drew in another layer? Is there a way to fix it so that whatever I draw in one layer is locked for that particularly layer unless I am on it? I don't want to have to lock all the other layers when ever I want to edit something in a particular layer.

10. When I am adding satellite images from Google Earth, is there a plugin that will automatically import all the other images within a 1000m boundary of the georeferenced point? I would simply like to have 1000m by 1000m square of the highest resolution satellite image from Google Earth without having to manually go into Geo-location tab, use the Add More Imagery command and crop out every single image and stitch them together.

Thanks, your help is greatly appreciated.