Lack of control over line weights and line types was the major determining factor for me in why I don't draw house plans in Sketchup. I'd love to see that implemented.

Sketchup natively doesn't do so well with point clouds, Ming. Have you looked into any point cloud plugins for Sketchup? I know Bentley (the guys who make Microstation) have a point cloud plugin for Sketchup called Pointools that could be worth checking out.

That looks like a redraw issue, Kevin. Try updating your video card's drivers. Do you get any other artifacting like that in other graphic software?

There are a couple of ways you can do this, Gerry.

The first is the copy and paste method (a bit crude, but it works).

The second thing you can do is a little more refined. Save your components in files in a folder with a name and in a location of your choosing. With this accomplished, you'll want to create what's called a local collection. This is done by bringing up the Components dialog (Window > Components) and then clicking on the right pointing arrow on the right of the dialog. This will produce a flyout menu whose first option is to create a local collection. Selecting this option will bring up a window prompting you to select the folder where you saved your components (remember that part about saving your components in files in a folder in a location of your choosing?). With this done, you will have access to your new component collection!

Hope this helps.

Chris.

You're thinking of something like subdiv levels in 3DS Max, right?

This is surprisingly still relevant five years later. Works like a boss with Amazon's EC2 servers. Thanks, Rodrigo!