Maybe an eraser similar to the tool in Adobe Illustrator?

If you swipe through a dense area of faces and line, the faces and lines are all cut at the right where the eraser touches them.

I wouldn't use a tool like this often in SketchUp...

Hmmm.

What I don't get, is why the lines appear in the first place?

In my case, I haven't edited the terrain (or even opened the group for editing), and the lines still appear.

@bjanzen said:

Barry: Your questions though brought up a good point, though. There is an issue here with setting scale. If I have a model view, usually it has a scale of some default value based on the camera from SketchUp, e.g. on my test case it was 1:82.9117. I want 1/8" = 1' , or 1:96. When I change the scale, I now have "(Modified) My Scene Name". And what's strange, is that we snapshot this, so that if you change the style for that scene, you wont see your model view change unless you go back to the standard scene (and your scale to 1:82.9117! And it does this in Raster, Vector or Hybrid rendering. I think this is what's confusing a lot of people when they update their model (in addition to not saving styles, then scenes, then the model). We'll be working on how to address this / fix this to be less confusing.

I've noticed this too. My workflow?

Save changes in SketchUp > Reselect Scene in LO (so there is no longer (modified) next to the scene reference) > Update reference in LO > Switch back to desired scale

Smoother operation for this situation would be very welcome.

+1 for construction lines
+1 for "print" attribute for the layer -- technically, you can turn a layer off and it won't print, right? And, if you export as a PDF, with the layer turned off, that layer won't appear in the PDF. So I guess this is kind of there already. I rarely print directly out of LO.

+1 vote.

@bjanzen said:

Barry: Feature request for Precise Move filed: store the Center of Operation location persistently with it's entity.

Brilliant!

It would go without saying that a "reset center of operation" command would be needed?

+1 vote for construction lines or guide lines in LayOut

Hi all -

This has happened a few times now. Here's what happens.

1. I create terrain from contours using sandbox.
2. The terrain initially has all the internal lines hidden (the outside border of the terrain is visisble).
3. Sometime after I've continued editing, a random smattering of lines across the terrain become unhidden (noted by the blue arrow on screeshot). The lines are actually part of the terrain group. Is there any way to prevent this from happening?
   

@jim said:

Edson,

You can move to a relative or absolute point using the Move Tool with the Measurements box.

• Select the Move Tool
• Select the point on the object to move.
• Type in [x, y, z] and Press Enter (absolute position)
  or
• Type <x, y, z> and press Enter (relative move.)

I can get this to work great. Is it possible to use this type of control to do the following:

Say I have many objects with different x,y, and z coordinates. I want to select all the objects, and move all of them to z = 0, without changing the x and y coordinates for any of them. Is this possible using the move tool without a plugin? (I'm aware of several "drop" plugins that will essentially solve this problem).

Can you sample a scrapbook style, without pulling the object onto the active LayOut page?

Answer: I just tried it, and, yes, it works! (I'll just leave this note here, for the benefit of someone who hasn't already learned this.)

Hmm. I'm not on the same model now, and the setting seems to be working fine. I don't know what is different this time.

Yes, I have the latest driver available. It is from Dell, and not from NVIDIA. The driver from Dell fixed some other issues that I was having (the screens always blinked to black on starting or ending sketchup).

I'll see if there's one available from NVIDIA.

Thanks, Remus.

Disabling hardware acceleration solved the issue.

Generally speaking, if I have a nice video card, SketchUp should perform better with hardware acceleration enabled, correct?

When I use the Camera > Zoom Window command, I'm getting white lines in the zoom selection box. See the attachment below. This seems like it may be a video card error, but I'm not sure.

I just switched to windows 7 pro, 64 bit. I'm on a dell m4500, with an nvidia quadro fx 1800m graphics card.

On windows xp, with sketchup 7 pro, the Camera > Zoom Window command did not behave this way.

Any ideas?

That would be great, Chris.

This would be the first step to answer these questions:

1. Have I downloaded the maximum available detail from google earth? (the idea is that if your sample is 2500 points, it may have been resampled)

2. What is the resolution available from google earth on the terrain? (I guess if you know you have the max, you can measure the grid?)

Hello -

If I understand correctly, a single terrain import from google earth is a maximum of 2500 points.

Does anyone know of an easy way to count the points on my terrain imports, to determine if I've maxed out?

Ok, I don't know if this will help, but I've been converting my LO 2.1 Templates, and here's what I've found:

I'm removing one of the layers, and all the entities on the layer, from my old templates. Doing so triggers the error described above if I do the following:

1. If I select the layer, and delete it, and choose "Delete Entities" from the dialogue that comes up, I get the "can't save" error every time.

2. If I select all the entities on the layer, hit the delete button, and then delete the layer, I can save the file.

I hope this helps.

Best,
Dan

Hello -

When I edit the Depth Cue through the Styles window, I can't enter a different value than the default, which is 4.

If I enter a number less than 20, an error message pops up that says: "Please enter an integer between 1 and 99"
If I enter a number greater than 20, an error message pops up that says: "Please enter an integer between 1 and 20"

In either case, the value resets to 4.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Can you set the extension to 0 before you draw the first dimension? Or, if you can't edit that setting with the dimension tool selected, try this:

Draw your first dimension, then edit the line styles to be exactly what you want.

Select the dimension tool again, but before drawing, push the "s" key, to select the sample tool. Click with the sample tool on the dimension you have already formatted, and it should switch back to the dimension tool. Now the dimensions you draw should have the same line styles as the one you formatted.

Does this do what you're trying to do?

I don't think I've found a thread with more views than the shape bender thread. Am I wrong?

Hi J -

I didn't have your email, I just emailed the files associated with this error to Barry. Let me know if I can provide more details.