You need Jim's 'Unfold' tool - here - http://sketchuptips.blogspot.com/2007/08/plugin-unfoldrb.html

There is only one kind of inferencing you can turn off - length (and in fact, angle) snapping in Window > Model info > Units. No other inferencing can be turned off. BUT - we can often read this from beginners and believe me, if you really learn to use it, it will be your friend, not an enemy. Also, you would be completely lost without it in SU's virtual 3D space. Maybe it's only annoying with the freehand tool - but use some other application to draw freehand. I may have used that tool like three times over the past 3.5 years.

@don9of11 said: Is there anyway to add folders to the layers panel to group layers? No: BUT you can try to name your layers logically and they'll group when sorted by name [click the Layer Browser's pane bar above the layers' names]. I prefer to use AIA-like layer naming [4 characters, a dash, ad infinitum] as it is logical and makes you keep the layers' names "in line"... For example the first floor layers always start with 0001, those for the second floor 0002... Layers for Walls are WALL, Doors are DOOR, Roofs are ROOF, Furniture is FURN etc etc... So the layer containing the first floor's furniture is called 0001-FURN. The layer containing related text is 0001-FURN-TEXT... All of the first floor's layers stack together starting with 0001- My default skp template has all of these commonly used layer names already premade [and even precolored in 'type-sets'] so then I don't even need to think about what to call them - if I do need new layers then I can just follow the pattern already there: any layers that I don't want can be deleted or purged later... Remember that layers in SUp don't work like in CAD - turning them on/off only changes the visibility of thing on those layers - it does not separate geometry which remains connected to things that might be on layers then made invisible - so erasing a visible edge could cause a non-visible face that's on another layer to disappear unexpectedly ! Almost always* put 'raw geometry' on Layer0 and then place groups/componnet-instances of that on other layers to control their visibility [*only when doing clever tricks of animation etc should you break this layering rule - but that IS the exception...]

Thanks, Jean That makes perfect sense now.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=13077&p=95648&hilit=point#p95648 does what you want.

I am running in Decimal-Inches. Length snapping is turned off and precision is set to 0.000000". This is the Product Design Woodworking template. The issue seems to exist on my PC and Laptop.

And to explain your unsuccessful way to set it by the template - templates do not set the tool selected but are actually model files themselves.

@don9of11 said: @tig said: 2D Tools z-plane ? Are you referring to a ruby script or is there a 2D tools in the SketchUp? 2D Tools is a set of Tools added to the Draw Menu by my Ruby scripts - it mimics most of the 3D tools constrained onto a selected 2D z-plane... There are also the separate Tools on Surface - which mimic many drawing tools onto 3D curved surfaces...

Thanks everyone. I switched the open GL to "maximum texture size" and the image is much clearer and not as fuzzy. It still imported at a smaller size, but then I just scaled it up to the correct size.