TIG. Many thanks for the info.

I want to move certain shapes up or down on the page by using the up – and – down arrow keys until the two shapes coincide (overlap). The problem is that the incremental move on the page for each tap is too fierce. Does anyone know how I can adjust (fine tune) the amount of movement for each tap of the arrow keys.

Sonder. Wow! You picked up exactly what I was getting at. I couldn't have wished for a better clear and concise answer. It's opened it up for me. Thank you.
pbacot. I'm sure a new computer would be uplifting. It's on my wish list. I do find LO to be resource hungry.

I am busy with the Site Plan in a set of working drawings. The scene includes a few items from the model itself as well as a series of colored lines for things like set-back lines, roof line outlines, decks, sewage line, paved areas, boundary lines, 2D trees, retaining walls, the actual locality block plan, the house walls, stairs, gazebo outline, contour lines and so on. Each of these lines are a different color and I have set up a separate style with Profile 2 and the edges to color “by material”. A lot of these items have already been modeled but I have had to resort to drawing lines to make the Site Plan readable. I also like the idea of being able to render as a Vector in Layout. I take all of these groups nested in one group and one scene to Layout. I am happy with the result except that I cannot arrange their order. I have sorted the order in SU but I would prefer to do that in Layout where I will be able to see immediate results. What is the best way to go about this. I don’t like the idea of making say 20 scenes with each one holding a single line and then having 20 stacked view ports in Layout. I feel sure that I am missing something somewhere and I would appreciate some feedback.

I am using Snow Leopard v 10.6.8 and have full read and write permissions for my complete hard drive. I have tried to save this local collection in my Documents folder as well as the hard drive / library /application route.

I cannot comprehend what could have happened to de-activate all my section cuts in my scenes simultaneously. I am having difficulty in making my styles available in other Sketchup models; in other words to create my own styles collections so that they show up in the Styles dialog box. Please follow my procedure and perhaps you can pick up where I am going wrong.

1. Window - Styles.
2. Click Select tab.
3. Click Details fly-out menu - chose Create new collection.
4. Navigate to a folder.
5. Click New Folder.
6. Type in name.
7. Check Add to Favorites.
8. Type Name of file under “Save As” at the top of the dialogue box.
9. Click Save.

The Name of the created new collection is added to the Favorites section of the Collections drop-down list BUT that's all; no styles are included. It’s just empty. When I open another Sketchup model and open the Collections drop-down list, I see the name of my newly created collection but again it’s empty.

When I open the Secondary Selection Pane I am unable to drag and drop styles between folders. I am unable to drag and drop a style from the upper list to the lower. I get the green circle with the plus sign but it just won’t take.

If I try the following;

1. Window - Styles.
2. Click Select tab.
3. Click Details fly-out menu - chose SAVE new collection.
4. Navigate to a folder.
5. Click New Folder.
6. Type in name.
7. Check Add to Favorites.
8. Type Name of file under “Save As” at the top of the dialogue box.
9. Click Save.

I get precisely the same results.

Please help. I have explored every avenue I know of but can’t get it to work.

If I get circular arrows in the thumbnail in the upper left corner. I normally select a style in the list of styles that I have in my model and that I want to stick with. The arrows then disappear and I proceed with the scene update. If I get the warning box I click cancel, then select the style as described above. I then proceed to do the update again and of course I don't see the warning box again. I follow the above procedures because otherwise it seems that I have an increasing amount of styles, which to me look like a duplication anyway.

Having said that, all my styles have the "section cuts" box in styles checked so my reasoning is that no matter what style I choose I should be covered for the section cut. I haven't changed the attributes of a style or unchecked the "section cuts" box yet all my section cuts became inactive in one fell swoop, which had a ripple effect on Layout.

Thanks for the quick response Dave. I am going to work on that I have a strong feeling that you have pinpointed the problem. I have 10 section cuts in my model and all has been stable for some time. I then did as stupid thing and used the "save as" command and then later saved it back as my original working file. I later noticed that all my sections where inactive. I had already set up all my scenes in layout. So I had to start fixing up and I think that I must have gotten myself in a tis. What causes all the sections to be become inactive all at once?

Out of the blue after working normally the active section cuts deactivate themselves on odd occasions. I then need to go into the scene re-activate the section cut and update. Why won't they hold? Am I missing something? Anyone able to help?

The only Background I could find is the check box to the right of the fog button. It is linked to the Fog button and did not help my problem.
When I commented on quality, I am comparing it with other view ports on the same page. It is not good. It looks like I have inserted a poor quality Raster image not a SU model.