Dave R., thank you.

If you uncheck edges and profiles in the styles dialog box and uncheck the cast shadows in the entity info dialog box after you select the "man" these are the results. Not sure if this is what you are after. [image: drCm_Screenshot2022-06-08143450.png]

Sorry. I wasn't trying to suggest that you should change the size of the model window for every project. Only that what you asked could be done that way. Here's an example of the second suggestion. In my LayOut template I have three viewports from a sample or dummy model. Each one shows a different scene in the SketchUp file. (I've turned off the title block and other layers for this.) [image: Ayy0_Screenshot-2_3_20226_53_08AM.png] The scenes in my project file have the same names as the scenes in my dummy SketchUp file in the template. [image: liFP_Screenshot-2_3_20226_54_55AM.png] After clicking Relink in Document Setup and choosing the project file the viewports look like this. [image: X1l5_Screenshot-2_3_20226_56_26AM.png] I did have to change the scale for the two elevations because my template is set up for furniture-sized projects, not buildings. In this case I just selected both of those viewports and changed their scale in one step.

It uses Google Search but limits search reults to sketchucation.com. It works for me. Do you have some browser extension related to ad blocking that prevents it from loading? [image: myBfJlB.png]

If you are using layers correctly Layer0 should remain as the active layer and shouldn't effect your scenes. If you are using layers incorrectly anything is possible. Attach your model so we can see what you have.

Select the dimension and edit the font colour in the entity info window. Or edit the default settings in Window/Model info/Dimensions.

Dave, thanks for replying. I realized the problem isn't making a jpg from a skp. The jpg export is perfect. I'm having the "dirty" image after importing the jpg into a CorelDraw file and then exporting it as a pdf.

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All I see are doors when I search for them. [image: PQZ0_Screenshot-12_7_202010_56_54AM.png] Under Collections I see things like kitchen cabinets but those are collections created by users and they've added the word 'doors' as a keyword.

Can you show us what you are seeing? It could be that you've turned on Back Edges. Press k again to turn them off. Or it could be that you're seeing a dashes style because you've assigned a dash style to a Layer/Tag

Window/Model Info/Credits

Thank you for finally uploading the file. The problem, as Peter alludes to, is that you have the Light and Dark shadow sliders crossed up and Dark is set so high that shadows won't show on white. What is it you are trying to achieve with the sliders set as they are? If you set the Dark slider down to 78 or less, shadows should start to appear on the white face. [image: ccVM_Screenshot-8_7_20196_50_34AM.png] The shadows are falling below your white ground face into the hole, too.

How are you adding components? Do you mean you are downloading them from the 3D Warehouse? If so, you should open them in a separate file and clean them up including getting rid of unwanted layers before putting them into your main model.

Dave R and box, Thank you for your helpful suggestions.

Or "optimize" with Acrobat Pro or "compress" with Free PDF Compressor.

It looks like you have the first two scenes working just fine. Scene 1 shows a red cube, scene 2 shows green. I'm not sure what your plan is but you have 12 copies of the green cube on Layer 2. [image: Zm3e_Screenshot-3_20_201911_22_23AM.png] You've also managed to assign edges and faces of the green cubes to layer 2 instead of Layer 0 where they belong. I've fixed the layers problem, removed 11 of the green cubes leaving just one, made a copy of the cube, painted its faces blue and assigned it to Layer 3 and now it all works just fine. Scene 1 [image: iHXT_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_16AM.png] Scene 2 [image: 5fv5_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_26AM.png] Scene 3 [image: TuQy_Screenshot-3_20_201911_32_36AM.png] If you want to place copies of the same group in the exact same position but on different layers, try it this way. Original group created on Layer 0. Create the number of layers you need and name them appropriately. Turn off their visibility. Select the group. Hit Ctrl+X to cut it to the clipboard. Hit Edit>Paste in place. A keyboard shortcut is a good idea for this. Immediately change its layer association to the first layer. It'll disappear because that layer's visibility is turned off. Hit Edit>Paste in place again. A new copy of the cube will appear. Assign the next layer in the list to it. Rinse and repeat until you have copies of the component on each of the desired layers. Set up your first scene with the first layer visibility turned on but all the rest turned off. Create the scene. Turn off the first layer, turn on the second. Create the next scene. Repeat until you have all of the scenes created.

Works nicely. Thank you.

One of the main benefits of Dave's suggestion of Tig's image trimmer is that the trimmed png will cast a correct shadow rather than a block.

@jga said: Matthieu NOBLET released a plugin Recall_last_tool.rb that worked with SU7, but I've found it didn't appear to work with SU201* versions. Depending on what kind of errors occur, that could be because SketchUp changed from Ruby 1.8 to Ruby 2.0 in 2014, or it could be due to changes in the SketchUp API. It is quite common for older plugins, especially way back to SU7, to need updating for new versions of SketchUp.