There are several threads about this subject and there are several people who insist dimensions in Layout are associative. For the life of me I don't know what they're seeing that I'm not. In my mind Layout is a very useful tool for exporting images of the SketchUp model and, if the model is actually complete and no further revisions are expected (a very rare occurrence in my business), a useful tool to output 2D views with dimensions and annotations. But for a 3D model or a model that will go through numerous revisions, I don't see how Layout's dimensions would be useful.

Thanks for the info and links, I will continue to look through the warehouse and some manufactures. I guess if I found one close I could just modify them.

Thanks for some feedback. Yea I am familiar with lumber dimensions, these just happen to be rough sawn to full 3"x8", then left exposed. I am not designing this part of the house, these are actual measurements from the house. I am modeling it as built now so I can see when I make changes what it will involve. I guess I should apply the material to the faces and not the group/component so I can rotate it to get the proper grain direction?? Are you saying put each group on a different layer?

I have to regrettably confess that I do not use Outliner either. The only time I open it is when there is a question about it in the forums.