Switch off color-by-layer. Switch on View > Texture mode Imported objects should now look OK. Obviously everything else will look pants! You need to then apply colors/materials to the 'home-made' parts. All 'raw' geometry [faces] take an applied material. Groups and component-instances will take a material if faces are in the 'default'. You can edit a group/component to apply materials to parts inside it, any left uncolored will take each instance's material - e.g. car with black-tires, glass-windows, red tail-lights etc can have default-shell and there have different colors for the main areas... IMPORTANT: faces have a front and a back. You should always model so the front of the face is 'out' - i.e. where it's normally seen. If it looks like the default-back material [usually 'bluish' as opposed to a 'whitish' front - depends on your 'Style'] when seen in View > Monochrome mode, then you need to select it and right-click context menu 'Reverse' to flip it over...

Becca, could you post a screen shot of what you're seeing? Are the components you're importing "Face Me" components? If so and you don't want them to have Face Me behavior, you can select the component from the In Model component library, right click on it and edit the properties to untick the Always face camera box.

The lines in the sketchy line styles are set in increments defined by pixel length rather than in model units whatever they are. Depending upon the style, you may be able to increase the "Level of Detail" slider under Edges>Edit. One other thing that might make a difference is to uncheck the box for Halo in the edges edit tab. If that was turned on, it will shorten up the lines a bit. It might be possible to edit the line style to create shorter line segments and update the style in Style Builder but there is a limit to how short the lines can be. I believe it is 16 pixels.

There is that too. bgrubb, it shouldn't be any problem if you simply hide the outlines. All the pages of signage here were all done exactly as described. Most of it is way less than 26" and as you can see...no problem.