Chris, thanks for the screen shot. My mistake, and now that I think about it I new it was there in the past but stopped using it and forgot about it. Here is why I stopped using it. When I go to edit materials with the color wheel. I see a point that represents the current color, and I can make minor adjustments. I found that the sliders don't update to the current color so was fine for new colors but not tweaking existing ones.

Looking at it now I see can choose Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, HSL sliders. Interesting next there is also a pulldown to choose a profile next to the slider, so If my photoshop document is AdobeRGB, I can choose adobe RGB profile before I enter color, and then if I switch to srgb. The color appearance won't change, but the numbers will. This is the first thing I've noticed in SketchUp that mentions color profiles.

Looks like the odd surface at top right has two surfaces on top of each other. Delete one of them and everything is normal again.

Don't have any insight on how your colors could have changed. It would be better for us to look at your previous raw export vs. the Photoshoped file. One thing to keep in mind is that SketchUp exports un-tagged images which I believe are srgb just not tagged as such. Depending upon your color settings in Photoshop it may be displaying it as if it was adobeRGB or something else?

It is annoying that SketchUp doesn't let you pick RGB values (at least on mac, unless I'm missing it) but there could be workaround. Just save color patch out from Photoshop; making sure that it is an srgb image. Then import that into SketchUp as a texture. Then oddly, go to edit the texture and remove texture (not the actual material, just the applied texture), it will then fall back to a color that I assume will be good rgb value match. I have not tested this, but do know if you take brick and throw it away, it converts to same color that showed if you had been viewing model with textures off.

Thanks, just came to me; very much like having buildings grow out of the ground but in this case just one replacing another. If you got fancy, you could have a small separation gap by offsetting the section plans a bit. Also when you are dealing with replacing one geometry with a different one (vs. just duplicates with different colors) you will start to see that the model is just thin shell vs. solid building. May want to just black that out, or you can get more detailed and throw in floor plates, maybe stairs and elevator towers etc.

On a loosely related note, I have noticed that watermark's fade in and fade out between scenes, vs. hard cut or cross dissolve. May be small issue but I do wish there was control to determine how watermarks transition. No control on speed of fade out/in but possible that it varies with different scene to scene timing?

Gaieus, you bring up an interesting point about how far away the lines are. I've noticed when working with fog, that you can different results with seemingly the same view. What I have found is that when you are have perspective off you still are a certain distance away from the model. I think that is determined by where you camera was positioned at the time you turned perspective off? When you just choose (top,left,right, etc), not sure what it does, maybe goes to edge of model?. I guess could choose that and then turn perspective off, and use fill and stage plugin it identify your camera position.

The point is that just because you aren't in perspective, you still have a camera location that effects things like:

• fog
• depthcue
• maybe some styles (?)
• can occasionally create clipping plane issue

OK, maybe not what you are looking for. But instead of hiding one design and showing a new one for next design, you could get fancy with a section cut in each group. And have the section cut wipe across or up through the model between scenes. In scene one the section cut would effectively show design-a and hide design-b. The section cuts would be on top of each other (can use copy and paste in place) but would be facing in opposite directions.

Just made up quick sample. You could of course turn of the section planes, and change appearance of section cut, and cut cut through at more interesting diagonal angle. and could change the camera view between scenes.
Sample file showing wipe between one scene and another.

Of course you could just drop to jpgs onto slideshow or video editing application that will do cross fades and do it outside of SketchUp.

I'm using 9x12 Intuos 3 tablet, but also effectively used 4x6 tablet for long time before this.

Key apps for me are Photoshop but Also Illustrator. The pen tool there is pressure aware, so you can make some really natural and fluid, but still vector objects. Both the Intuos and 4x6 graphire come with nice mouse with scroll wheel. Driver lets you customize for specific applications, so if you are setting up a new system, you can get the graphire at $100 for about price of nice mouse. This mouse like the pen is cordless and never needs batteries.

One day a Ciintiq would be great, but are a bit pricy for now. Maybe the macebook tablet, will have pressure sensitive display when it comes out?

I've done 30x42 boards in layout, but you have to be patient with it, and I often had to print or export page at a time so it would behave better. Here is full page, and also enlarged partial view to show some annotations I created in Layout.

Doesn't seem to be problem unique to this model. I have same problem if I start a brand new file and start drawing shapes on ground plane. Although to be clear, for me the problem only comes up when I use a sketchy style. If I am on wireframe, and just change to hidden line, everything is fine. If I'm in a sketchy style, then problem is very bad if hidden, and still existing if in wireframe.

On a whim, I wanted to see what happened if I brought it into layout. That seemed to improve things, but some sketchy styles still have falloff of lines near edge. Others that are almost invisible in SketchUp, are perfect in Layout (like Sketchy Lines Round Endpoints, and Marker Dry Erase). Ok with a littler further testing, of the 25 sketchy styles in SketchUp, all but six of them worked fine in Layout. Here are the six that didn't. For someone who knows about Styles, what makes them unique.

Styles that didn't work in Layout:
Airbrush
Charcoal Loose
Crayon
Graffiti
Pen Shakey
Pencil

A slide note: one advantage of doing things in Layout is also that you have lineweight control (Globally for a view, not line by line) so styles like Brush Strokes, that may look horrible in SketchUp, can be made to look nice in Layout.

I have similar issue with control joints on my elevations when exporting to jpg, or using in Layout. I typically have control joints on their own group so they don't break the building geometry up. Moving them just off of building surface helps, but isn't perfect.

By the way, may want to purge your model before posting .I was trying to figure out why 1.7mb, and what was hiding in the model. Saw all layers on and no hidden geometry. When I purged went down to 84k.

Illustrator CS3 imports dwg files to scale, including text and layer structure. If yo wanted to you could map line and or fill styles to layers to match various plot settings.

I've actually played with using CS3 as a median step between Autocad and SketchUp to have more control of how curves are segmented. They come into CS3 as curves, and I can break them into segments before sending to SketchUp so I have control over them.

For me it definitely can be slow to edit the model view. Outside of changing to simple style, make sure to turn of shadows and fog before trying to orbit or zoom in Layout.

As much as I can I try to setup my view in SketchUp. Keep in mind if the aspect ratio of your window in Layout is different, that the view won't be exactly the same.

Just out of interest, are you on mac or PC. I'm on Mac, so that is only platform I have Layout experience on.

FYI currently on Mac (but not PC) you can import PDF. So if you convert your EPS to PDF you can bring it in. But won't provide the quality of InDesign. When I have had PDF's for Layout, I found I got better quality by rasterizing myself in Photoshop and importing as an image.

Seems interesting at first glance, but would be nice to see some thing in the gallery other than cars. I'm sure they will add more soon.

Another interesting section animation I did showed 2nd floor of my house in perspective. Then I started moving the camera down and at the same rate moved the section plane down (from scene to scene). The end result looks like the section plane is stationary and someone is pushing the model up into the section plane where it dissolves.

Ends up being pretty cool effect.

Here is link to more complex example of mine from another post. Building columns and skin grow separately.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/download/file.php?id=10591
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10423

For various sizes you could duplicate the material once its in SketchUp, and alter the size there (may want to un-link the aspect ratio. This would save you having to work with multiple image files being imported but in the end that may be just as easy?

http://gizmodo.com/5024930/floor+by+floor-demolition-blows-minds-saves-environment

I've found when I make a change to a texture (like transparency or name) I have to tab into another field within that texture or my changes don't stick? maybe that is what is happening to you.

I'm on mac

I haven't used this feature much so not sure why it wouldn't scale correctly. Of course for an ISO not all dimensions would be correct. For example on a square surface, measuring along the axis (edges of square) would be correct, but measuring diagonally wont' be.

At any rate, if you want to can just scale the file in AutoCad.

I'm assuming of course that you have perspective turned off.

Hmm, that is odd. Are your shadows saved as part of a scene that you are using in Layout or did you manually setup the shadows in Layout.

Also did you alter North in your sketchUp Model; if so, was that before or after you setup the Layout file.

Getting Layout to update certain kind of Changes to SketchUp Model/View can be quirky.

Not quite sure what you mean? Yes, you can do wireframe or you can do hidden line, but is there something different you are looking for?