I'm having more and more problems with SU. Another problem that I never had before and that has just reappeared: I extrude a surface, enter the value, but the final extrusion is the one I dragged with the mouse.
Or, what has just happened again, too: I draw a rectangle, enter the dimensions, but it is not fixed.

Doesn't anyone really know how to solve this problem? I presume I'm not the only Mac user who is interested in the dynamic components in SU.

It's pretty stupid that I can't use this interesting function.
If only the unit was at least the mm. I don't understand what drove the developers to set the cm as the unit, contrary to custom (when you create a new sheet from a template, it is either in inches or in mm, but not in cm!

No, if I write 1.8 it turns to 18 directly.

Hi,

If I enter "=Beute!Wandstaerke" which is 1,8cm, in LenY under Aussenwand1 in the attached file "Formula", 18 is displayed instead of 1,8 (see attached file "Result")
Please note: I work on a Mac where the decimal separator is the comma.

How can I solve this problem?
Kind regards
Aloohaa

You will not see the problem because it doesn't exist anymore if one reopens the file.

"Please correct your forum profile then."

ok

"Is it just the tooltip for the Tape Measure tool that isn't showing?"

The mouse cursor took the form of the measure tools, but when I placed it at one end and dragged it to the other, nothing happened.

"Can you show what you are seeing?"

Only the next time it will happen again, but iin reality there is nothing to show: you will only see the icon of the tool. I would have to record the action as a video, and I don't know how to do that.

"Do you have Guides turned off in the View menu?"

No

"Generally don't use measure - use pencil instead"

Why not use the measure tool? That's what it's there for!
And as written, this applies to both measure tools. If I measure a length and I want the result to be retained, I can only use the tool in question.

I use SU Pro 23.1.341

I closed the file and opened it again, and I could measure again. Then the problem occurred again, which I was able to avoid by closing and reopening a second time.

Hello,
Recently I can no longer take measurements in an SU file, with both tools..
Only when I paste the relevant parts into a new file can I measure them.
What could be the reason for this?
Kind regards
PropApe

@Rich:
that's exactly what I did, but it didn't prevent exporting everything!

Update---

Only when I first saved and closed SU, then restarted, reopened the sheet with the pasted part and exported as .stl, all ghost parts were gone and only the one in question was exported.
But as I said, this is a makeshift solution, it should also be possible to export only the selected part from a sheet with several parts.

Hello,

I have drawn several parts in Sketchup and exported one of them for 3d printing as .stl with the option that only the selected part is exported, but in reality all existing parts are exported.

Exploding all groups into individual components before exporting does not change this.

I have thought of copying the part in question and copying it to a new SU sheet as a workaround, but even then all the other parts of the original sheet that were not copied are exported as well, which is incomprehensible as they do not exist!

Then I deleted all other parts in the original sheet, exported the remaining one, and again the deleted parts are also exported! How is this possible?

What am I doing wrong? What is the solution?
Kind regards

Sorry, that was a lapsus pennae, and it is evident that it can't make any sense; of course it should read: "Unfortunately, the letters cannot be extruded".
"You can edit the component and trace edges with the Line tool"
Unfortunately, there are not only straight lines, and the curves are not regular. I'll see how easy it is to do in Inkscape.
What I don't understand: how could there be faces in a drawing that is flat and where there are only lines?

My cars are nearly always in the garage, and when they are out, I hope not to loose the key.

And you can also look at it another way: if someone found it, with the key ring, and handed it in to the lost property office, you could identify the owner, me!

Unfortunately, the extruded letters cannot be extruded.

Lux plate font.dxf

Thank you very much!

Your objection is of course pertinent, but it's more of a gimmick, and whether I'll ever hang the parts on the keys is a moot point!
I have found the font here:

File:Luxembourg-License-Plate-Font-01.svg - Wikimedia Commons

(commons.wikimedia.org)

I don't know if it's available as truetype

Hello,

I would like to 3d print and/or mill my licecar plates as a key fob. After a long search, I found the right font, traced the bitmap in Inkscape and imported it into SU, but all the characters hang together.

How can I access the individual characters in the attached file? Separating them into individual parts has not worked.
Is it possible in SU or should I have done it in Inkscape?Font.skp

Kind regards
Alohaa

Yes, if I right click I get those items

I restarted at 0, created a rectangle of 50 * 10 mm, extruded it to 4 mm, then made an offset on the top from which I extruded the 1mm high border instead of drawing it directly in the sketch, which then probably led to the internal faces, placed the stars and the characters (absent in the posted file) on the layer bounded by the border, and the slicer no longer has a problem with it.
I can't find the menu item in the German SU synonymous with Scale definition so as the three items above it. They don't exist.
SU Pro 23.1.341

Thank you very much!
That is rather complicated; I have to study it.