@gaieus said: No, the skp example was just an analogy. I mean to open the image in an image editor and start a new image in the editor, too. Then select the old image and paste it into the new one and try that new. Gaieus, thanks for the suggestion. We "solved" it by starting a brand new drawing and inserting the images there. It plotted with transparency. What we didn't solve is why the problem with the first drawing? Corrupted perhaps? A mystery. We also noticed in our first drawing that any text placed in paperspace, on top of the viewport, vanished in the plot preview and the plot. So we had 2 issues going on at the same time. It also wasn't a matter of plotting from paperspace. The subject image did also not plot transparent from model space. Anyway we got the results wanted but still wish we could determine what was going on. Thanks everyone.

@ben ritter said: Thanks everyone. I have the problem solved. It's a good idea to explain how you solved your problem so someone who is following this thread or finding it by Searching will know what the solution is.

Ben I thought I had the issue with SP sorted - obviously not it has many many files and I thought that by adjusting that one we'd sort out the issue - I'll have another look - so at the moment it's SP OT 2Dfillet [or Mirror] for some of you till I get to the bottom of this...

I was thinking to create a 'scene' for paralell projection and one for perspective. So you can quicly flick between both.

@krisidious said: it's always vector for me... dwg and for adobe that works well. Krisidious, I mostly export dwg as well. However, the quantity of entities KILLS me. The SketchUp drawing below has 49,595 entities. I believe this is because dwg does not support Bezier curves or ellipses. All arcs, ellipses, curves and many lines are broken into segments. That is, a simple circle (a single entity item in some vector drawing programs) breaks down to 24 entities in SketchUp. And, the quality of the dwg export is not really good - even for relatively simple objects. Many lines go missing, corners don't meet, etc. I've tested this in Corel Designer and Illustrator. If I have a choice, I bring 3D models into SolidWorks for export as dwg. The filters are fantastic and the results are nearly perfect. Other programs with similar results to what I get with SketchUp (high entity, bad quality vector export) include QuadriSpace, Right Hemisphere (Deep Exploration), and Adobe 3D. [image: Overall.png] JJ

@unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Halroach, thank you. Wow, just had one of those "duh" moments after reading your first suggestion. So if you want the same camera view though for each scene, you set up the camera view first, then switch to the next scene and make another section plane active right? you can: after setting up all your different scenes, place the camera where you want it, and recheck the camera position in all the scenes. save one scene with only the camera position checked - that way you can snap back to your favorite position without worrying about anything else. That makes sense. I'll try it and thank you for responding.

@youngosg said: @tig said: If the face[s] and the rectangle that won't 'cut' are indeed coplanar select them both and "Intersect" them. they will now break... [it works I tried it... ] if i want use sketchup api to do this,how should i do? thanks! http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/entities#intersect_with Read up on it - it is one of the most complicated methods. You need to get transformations and get/set containers etc... However, there are many example scripts to crib from...

Thanks again. I set max texture size and was able to use an image of 4000 pixels with no problems. Using SU8.

what kind of issues? I'm going to guess it's related to graphic card drivers.

That seems to do the trick. In one instance, I had to make it a unique texture, then re-apply and make unique again. Oh well, whatever works, correct? Thanks for your help.

Have you recently changed any plugins ?

Not really - where I work they have it and I tried hard to get use to but no way! To slow and uncomfortable and has a lot of tools that I don't need. Rhino has much better tools for work with curves and huge import-export options!

You might find it worthwhile checking out Sketchup Show #27 on You Tube which is about modelling a chair in photo match.

Pilou, thank you so much. I didn't even know how to search for it. Bless you.

TIG, thank you for responding. Ben

Your right in thinking you cant use IES profiles in podium or SU, several of the other renderers can, though.

They say if you stack 1 Trillion dollars in dollar bills on top of eachother. . . .you've got way too much time on your hands. also .. you'd need a to hold your breath for a while cuz you are on the moon.

Hmm, good question. I've never actually used that feature. But from a quick test, it appeared to work on my SU6. Chris