@tt_su said:

Update: Workaround: enable scene transition.

Great tip! especially with 0 seconds

I emailed Trimble yesterday with the same request, Still haven't heard back from them. Tomorrow it's taking my current reseller already 1 week to send me the new code for release 2014. Their response until know: "we're waiting for them to send us the codes."

Very strange and not happy about it... 8 hour trail period was already 90% gone on the first day... High hopes for tomorrow.

edit: at last, on Friday I get my new codes from the reseller & Trimble a few hours later.

Hurrai, in the new release of SketchUp & Layout 2014 it's fixed! Thanks Trimble.

@dave r said:

Why aren't you doing the dimensioning in LayOut anyway?

I do all my construction and working drawings in SketchUp and Layout. I need to be 100% sure the dimensions are correct. I add them in 3d mode, zooming in and out and thus can be sure the right points are being used for dimensioning. No problems with snapping to another point at the same xy but slightly different z.

greetings, Max

I'm not sure what you mean by the position is altered but it sounds like you've got it now. Just in case, here's an anaolgy.

When you make a component it's kind of like wrapping the selection in clear cling wrap. Think of a sandwich wrapped in cellophane. If you want to make a change to the sandwich you have to open the wrapper. In the same way, if you want to edit a component, you have to open its wrapper first.

Now, if you have two individually wrapped sandwich components and wrap them in another piece of cling wrap, you have a nested component like the Shapes component in my example. If you want to wrap a pickle (the cylinder) up with the sandwiches, you have to take the pickle from where it is and place it inside the wrapper. In SketchUp Edit>Cut and Edit>Paste in place do that. So does grabbing the pickle and dragging it over the sandwiches in Outliner. Outliner is opening the wrapper automatically when you hover over it's name and it highlights.

And of course because the wrapper containing the two sandwiches is a component all other copies of it get the pickle, too.

All of this can be confusing until you have a really good picture of what's happening. Then you'll find it is all incredibly powerful.

TIG - great! Exactly what I was looking for. Especially when working with large scenes my old workflow took some time. With your script, a menu-item & keyboard shortcut it's nice and easy.

Thanks a lot

Greetings, Max

I guess someone already has the solution: PageHide v.1.100 by Rick Wilson

hello TIG,

Thanks for your suggestion. This wouldn't give me the look I was aiming for. I already started to do it manually.

Greetings, Max