SketchUp by nature is destructive when it comes to geometric changes. It's only course correction is the undo stack. To get around this my preferred method is to have a series timestamped files that constitute as snapshots. So rollback is easier. If I'm working in a modular fashion I use saved components. As an example I have a 00-master.skp with all the components. These components are also saved a separate files in a working directory next to the master. If I work on a component file I can reload changes in the master. My main objective to keep the master file as the target file and everything else piped to it. Not sure it that helps in regards your workflow. My approach has been to treat the master file as assembly point of the work I do in other files. If I do make minor changes in the master I save that back to the components working directory as either an overwrite or as a new timestamped version.

If the surrounding geometry is such that the text is obscured you can use the native Text Tool to reposition it.

3D PDF would be my suggestion https://www.simlab-soft.com/technologies/simlab-3d-pdf.aspx Its the easiest path to success without asking clients to download some additional app to view. Simlab has a nice Composer integration too so baking textures and other 'effects' are possible for that wow factor. Or you could go bespoke and try using threejs to build your own html viewer. Sam's PBR tool is worth exploring too. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=pbr

s4u Reset Axis maybe

TIG has such plugins i think. Go to 'PluginStore' here, filter plugins by author (TIG) and read descriptions.

Awesome! Thank you both so much.

@unknownuser said: Does it work real-time (I can move objects in SketchUp and immediately see them move in Enscape) and let me use light sources such as spot lights through SketchUp? Seems I have writed "real real time" and shown a video! So yes ! Minutes 3.50 and following... About Lights yes! See Minutes 7.50 and following...

ThruPaint?

One more for the list. https://danieltal.com/

I have made a script that rotates groups and components to point toward an attractor. https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=LookAt

I don't get the same result when renaming the master component. Perhaps more detail is required. How do you "save" the components as separate files? Save-as (contextual menu) command? How do you import? the import command? Or are you using a component library? Are you importing to the original file where the component first resided? A new file? Are there old versions of the component in the file?

So this didn't happen before last week? Same version of SketchUp you were using before last week? What has changed since then? If you are using the same version of SketchUp, you can count SketchUp out of the equeation. There have been reports of others having trouble with P5000 Quadro GPUs. If you updated the driver and that didn't do it, maybe roll back to one from a month or so back. Have you ruled out the mouse?

If you close the curve around the lake so it is almost offset of it, and than move the lake, I guess it will be ok. You could start with offseting the lake to have a guide.

Yes, that is what proxies are for. I recommend you watch all of Chaos Group's tutorials on their youtube channel. They cover proxy use on their latest webinar concerning setting up an exterior scene from start to finish. She starts with proxies at about 29 minutes in. Cheers! GD

That is very clever! So I turn the surface and drape lines into a component, copy them, scale up e.g. 100X, drape, and the original components will get the cut lines, without having to downscale anything.

Sometimes I like to work on components in a separate file using "Save as" and "Reload" in the contextual menu (for example a whole building as part of whole site). Partly to speed work but also to more easily isolate while working on that portion. Sometimes this also helps work because the axis of the component is the model axis in the sub-file.

I'm having the same problem with SU2019 Pro. Does anyone have insight as to where the JointPushPull 'project on a plane' has gone to?

Key rotate uses component center, not component base to rotate. Also, I don't know how to open and edit plugin codes - is it hard to learn? EDIT: I managed to change the rotation, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to change the point of rotation from group/component center to its base. Apparently need to rewrite this line: pt = e.bounds.center

I have one master model w/ ~150,000 faces that I broke up into 8 or 9 sub-assemblies. To ensure a correct placement in the final product I would pick a location in the master model and draw a triangle from there to where I would create an origin point in each future sub-assembly. That gave me an exact number of meters for an XY offset. Of course that triangle would be sent off to the sub-assembly too just in case I needed to importing everything back into a master model for inspection. When I was sure I was done I'd make a copy, remove my offset triangle, and export from there. When I just needed to clear out space and work on everything separately (but always intended to produce just a single model), I'd do the reload component trick mentioned above.

Hi, I am having the same problem using USGS DEM files from høydedata. I have tried converting them to UTC projection and save as ASCII dem files in 3DEM, but get the same result as filibis. I have also tried converting GeoTIFF from høydedata with the same method. Have you found anyway around this problem besides using Civil 3D?