Thanks, Sonder. You make an excellent point about liability. This is a deck for my parents' house so I wasn't in that mindset, but I should be- anything could happen in the next 10 years...

At some point, however, there must be times when you have to block information from others at a certain scale- do you import it all into SU and bring it in that way?

By the way, this is Lindy from Kings Beach- you can run but you can't hide!

Yes, I had set up my scene in SU to be a non-perspective top view, but maybe it got slightly tweaked and that's why it registered as "none"? Thanks for the help.

Thanks for the suggestion, pbacot. I will try the larger size paper and see if that works for my scaling issue.

On a PC, I am unable to directly insert a pdf- I get an error message saying that it's an unsupported file type. That's why I convert to jpg first.

Does anyone else do this kind of thing? What works best?

Tig,

I had been messing around with snapping to temporary orthagonal points, but every time I moved the grips of the dimensions, it would either lose its scale and measure in paperspace or flip back to the diagonal distance.

I did figure out what was wrong, though! In the model dialogue box, the standard view was set to "none". I changed that to "top" and suddenly everything worked as it should. Any ideas why?

I've received structural drawings from an engineer in CAD and want to put them on my title block in LO. I was thinking the best way would be to ask for the CAD drawing in pdf format, then convert into a jpg in photoshop, and then import it into LO.

Or is there a better way?

Is there a way to import a pdf directly?

Is there a way to scale a jpg (or pdf) to a certain scale? It seems to come in at a random scale, not at 100% of the image size identified in photoshop.

Thanks

I've been sifting through other posts and can't find the solution to this: I'm trying to dimension a house that has various plane changes on the exterior wall. I want to measure along the x or y axis, but am snapping to points not along the same axis. It gives me the diagonal dimension distance no matter how I pull the dimension string (along x, y, or perpendicular to the diagonal points). However, in another LO file I have, the dimensions read differently in each instance, so there must be some setting I'm missing?

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Thank you, Gaieus! That was indeed the issue.

I don't know if you're supposed to call them viewports, but the blue box that defines the bounds of my sketchup reference suddenly turned into a visible black rectangle that I don't want. What happened and how can I get rid of it?

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Thank you, Dave!

I am spending long days working in SketchUp and my hand/arm/back is suffering from using the middle button on my mouse for orbiting because it requires a fair amount of force. I like the suggestion of programming a thumb button instead, but wanted to hear if anyone recommends certain mice (wireless, please) that only require a light touch (especially the middle button).

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