Thanks Chris, extremely useful time saver.
I did have trouble creating a circle in a group, it didn't seem to work but after closing the group I found the circles outside the group. I was able to remedy this by changing your "Perpendicular Circle" script to read entities=model.active_entities which I found was the only thing different from your Perpendicular Square script.
Thanks for all your great work...

Hi all,
I have resolved this issue.
It appears a somehow I had removed my own access to temporary settings.
I discovered this when I tried to uninstall Sketchup in order to do a new install.
I got an error code on the uninstall which led me to the following link.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/error-2203-when-using-windows-installer/6ee19473-91e9-4dc1-8937-d0ce6b9c3e85

I have no idea how the problem came about butI followed the instructions in the link and all appears to be OK again...

This also fixed a problem I had in AutoCAD producing an etransmittal folder.

Hope this helps someone oneday....

Hi All,
I have a strange problem.
When I go to use the materials tool only the materials IN MODEL are working.
Even if I load a new collection when I click on a material in the that collection, the material looks alright when I select it but then appears and acts like the default material. I am using sketchup pro 2015 but strangely I have the same issue with sketchup pro 2014 and 2013 which I tested.
My materials exist in their respective folders...
I am using an HP z200 workstation running windows 7 professional service pack 1
with intel x3450 2.67ghz 6gb of ram and an NVIDIA quadro fx1800.
I have restarted my computer with no effect.
Any ideas, Cheers, David.

Thanks sdmitch your query tool is perfect for what I am doing.
JQL thanks also your link to TIGs solution also looks like it will do the job, though I had a look and it looked way complex... I like simple, Kudos to sdmitch.
Incidentally I tried doing an import yesterday where I preserved the drawing origin and Sketchup seemed to handle it way better than I remember. Perhaps the new versions have rectified some of the early issues with distance from origin.

The next challenge is to be able to geo reference your model with rotation to get the full benefit of accurate shadows and still be able to read and export to a local co-ordinate system. Maybe TIG's solution is closer to this, so I will check it out.
Thanks again all, awesome work....

I often use Sketchup to model topographical surveys.
I use the query tool to show the coordinates of various objects within the model.
As we know if a model is placed to far from the origin it creates problems rendering, so generally I do not use "preserve drawing origin" when importing data (dwg files).
However this creates an issue for me in that the query tool does not give me the same coordinates as the original coordinate system used for the survey.

Can anyone give me a work around for this or would it be possible to have a "query tool"
that would allow a constant to be applied to x, y, and z coordinates so when used it would show the coordinates as they were in the original survey.

Ideally it would be great to be able to set up an independent origin that allowed me to query and export the data at the same coordinates as the original survey. Even if the model was geo-referenced to its Google Earth location.

Thanks, David.

Thanks for your feed back on this issue.
I have done some experimentation with this and am pleased to say I have found a satisfactory work around.

Using Document settings to produce High quality output and with my sketchup insert in hybrid mode I used the export to pdf option which produced an A3 pdf document of 11088kb This is too big to be useful, particularly with multi sheet plans.

I managed to produce a much smaller A3 sheet only 1235kb using the same Layout settings but printing to a pdf print driver (in this case PDFILL) using print settings of 300dpi and jpeg compression for colour images. This file was still very acceptable for quality and will be my preferred method from now on.

If this is possible I still think there is room to improve the export to pdf option with more choices to improve high quality with less file size.

Cheers, David.

Hi all,
I am finding the export to pdf function is producing much larger pdf files than some other CAD software. Often when producing A3 size plans with multiple sheets the file size is blowing out and the pdf is slow to view, particularly when using imagery. I notice that a pdf with layer control is the same size as one without, is that normal? Is it possible to investigate a more efficient pdf converter?.
Thanks, David.

Can this include a tools setting as well so when you download from the cloud it syncs not only your shortcuts but your toolbar settings as well.
Cheers...

My wish is to have a unit setting which allows you to set text size in metric(mm)instead of pts.

Same for line thickness or weight, so you can specify a line should be 0.2mm, 0.5mm, 1mm etc. rather than pts.

Thank you for your replies to my query, and this resource to make that possible.
Cheers, David.