Another way of doing it would be to just get your drawing area to the correct aspect ratio (1.407 in your case) and then use the "Save current window size" in the sketchup workspace preferences.

To get your aspect ratio just draw a rectangle 760x540 (the units don't matter) and then zoom it to get one axis or the other to fill your screen. Then shrink the window to fit the other axis of the rectangle. Your viewport will now be pretty well at the correct aspect ratio.

When you export a 2D image it might be larger than you need in pixel count but you can now resize it easily in photoshop (or similar) without worrying about the aspect ratio changing.

I use this method to make sure that all my files are setup at 16:9 so when I render them in Maxwell they come out the correct shape for my workflow.

Good luck,

James.

I've tried reading through a lot of these "Beginners Tips" posts, but there are a LOT, so please excuse me if this has already been posted...

Imagine you want to delete a large number of small objects, like the segments to a curved line for example. If they are isolated from other parts of your model it's easy to group select and mass delete. If they are tucked away amongst other objects it can get pretty tedious clicking each one with the eraser tool or trying to select and hide the rest of your model.

My tip is; did you know you can click and hold the eraser tool to paint multiple objects, easily selecting lots of fiddly objects, then when you release the mouse button they all delete

This has saved me thousands of mouse clicks cleaning up models, I hope it does the same for you!

Merry Christmas!

James

@driven said:

there's a couple of new mac tools on the horizon, for skp and skm file, both will need some testers, [highlight=#ffff00:3g3b142f]PM me if your up for it[/highlight:3g3b142f].
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Hi there, I'd love to PM you but I'm new to the forums so it won't let me

I'm more than happy to act as a tester for your new sketchup file viewer, if you're still looking for someone that is? I use an iMac running OSX 10.9 with Sketchup 2013 Pro. I have a large library of Sketchup files I use for building my property renders and it drives me up the wall that I can't preview the files in finder. Any help would be VERY much appreciated.

Regards

James Ball

@driven said:

James
check your messages in your 'User Control Panel', [highlight=#ffff00:3v9hg3sc]you should able to reply to me from the PM I sent you...[/highlight:3v9hg3sc]

john

Nope

I've emailed the forum admin asking why I can't even reply to a PM sent to me. Thanks a lot for letting me test the plugin, it works very well There are a few bits of feedback I want to pass on, nothing serious. Do you want me to do that here in the public forum or wait until the admin let me PM?

Thanks again,

James