In SU8Pro - if I change a setting (shadows, or hidden geometry) in one scene, the changed setting ripples through -all- of the scenes, whether desired or not.

For example, if I want to hide one item in Scene 2 of 5, as soon as Scene 2 (and -only- Scene 2) is saved, the item is now hidden in -every- scene. Ditto style and shadow settings: it becomes impossible to have changes in style, shadow, hidden geometry etc from one scene to the next.

I figure that somewhere there is something like a save-current-changes-to-current-scene versus save-current-changes-to-all-scenes but I can't locate that on any of the menus and (surprise of surprises) the 'Help' index is of zero use, in tracking anything down.

Can anyone tell me what I am missing?

Thanks in advance

karl

...aaaaand as of turning the machine on this morning, the problem has resolved itself. White box, black text, all is well. No apparent connection to any intervention, on my part.

I'll take it.

Yeah, no matter what theme I set, I still have the identical problem: white-on-white (or invisible) numbers to start, and barely-visible/unreadable white-on-yellow numerals when I type anything in. So I suppose that it's a sketchup rather than Windows 8.1 thing. Though I never saw this using SU under XP, and it sounds as though you have not seen this problem under 8.1...

...are you using sketchup 8 trouble-free under 8.1? Your info says 2014, perhaps that's what makes the difference.

(1) The Text box starts out solid black

(2) Select and move an object (for example) and the box turns solid white (possibly white text on a white field but it's impossible to tell)

(3) When I begin to type in numbers the box turns yellow (and looking -very- closely it's just possible to make out white numerals against that yellow background).

numlock does not affect this one way or the other.

Rich, what color scheme are you using, under 8.1? Maybe I should try and see if setting the same scheme on my machine gets me the display colors I need.

thanks!

Well, -effectively- invisible, in the 'measurements' window at lower right.

Running Sketchup 8 using any of the schemes that shipped with Windows 8.1, I wind up with yellow text against a white background, which is basically illegible.

The 'Styles' menu does not appear to offer any settings to control the window background and text colors. Changing setting in Windows does not change what's displaying in SU, either.

Has anyone else encountered this problem with 8.1, and found a fix so as to make that text black-on-white (or any other legible color combination)?

thanks!

At this point it is Maya files imported to Rhino and then exported as skps

In fact it turns out that the files are originating in Maya, and being exported to sketchup via the intermediary of Rhino.

The Rhino operator is adding a 100'x100' cube, and I'm scaling the geometry from that (ie making the cube 100' per side; it comes in at 100cm per side).

I'll try the DAE -> SU route and see if that works better than the Maya->Rhino->Sketchup one.

Thanks!

The original geometry is created in Maya and exported to skp format.

I am not a Maya operator but the person doing the export indicated that she can't scale it in the Maya export.

About 25'6" x 2'0" x 5" - I need to scale it up by a factor of approximately 30.5

It is geometry exported from Maya (nightmare time under the best of circumstances).

91,734 Entities

63,265 Edges

28,469 Faces

One single texture (color only) applied throughout

Copying and pasting into a new sketchup window is taking so long that I will have to get back to you on how that works out.

thanks!

This file is only 5632KB on-disk (which seems as though it ought to be fairly easily manipulable, like other files of comparable size on my system) but for some reason scaling it is impossibly slow (like, 30-40 minutes and still the scale tool isn't done with it).

Since its file size seems reasonable I figure there's something amiss with the object but have yet to figure out what that is.

And advice very much appreciated.

thanks!

Found it. In case anyone else wonders it's accessed via the Styles Panel: Edit->Modeling (furthest tab to the right).

Hey -

I know that the color of dimension lines and text may be set via the Entity Info panel, but what I want to change is the color to which they -change- when selected. Working against a white background and having one's dimensions change to bright yellow when selected is...problematic.

Read through the threads on dimension-line color selection here and they only deal with the un-selected color - didn't find word on how to change the color to which they change when selected.

Typically most files with which I work have black lines and text that change to blue when selected. Knowing how to set that change-to-blue instead of the change-to-yellow with which some files load up would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Thanks Dave - appreciate your taking the time.

Thanks, Dave. I tried searching the site first as I figured it must be a question addressed before, but obviously I didn't write the search properly.

Box -

If your idea of time well-spent is cruising fora for the purpose of rendering judgment over which questions suggest to you whether someone else should have ticked one profile box versus another, you apparently have way too much time on your hands.

And why you believe that anyone else cares about your perception where that's concerned, is a mystery that I'm content to leave un-solved.

Please don't respond to any further threads of mine. You may have plenty of time to waste posting useless BS, but I don't really have time to waste, reading it.

Please go and obnoxiously amuse yourself somewhere else.

I have a lot of plugins from various authors installed along with Sketchup Pro 8 - does anyone have experience with the use of the LibFredo6, Artisan,SimLab plugins, and stuff like Curvizard, Stock Maker, Joint Push/Pull, Goldilocks and other SU8-compatible plugins, with 2013 or 2014? Am thinking about upgrading but want to develop some idea as to whether the plugins will work reliably with the new version.

...and there it is. Always nice when someone points you in the right direction. Thanks!

Tried installing Cleanup but weirdly enough while it shows up in the Plugins Manager, it's nowhere to be found on any menu.

Xiombarg - thanks for the tip. Also, great choice of screen name.

Bob James - I use Artisan but unfortunately its polygon reduction facility leaves lots of triples and distorts geometry too much, at the level of cleanup I need to perform.

Sometimes one winds up with a model (frequently imported)which contains a large number of unnecessary triangular polys (for example a flat plane which needs be defined only by its edges but nonetheless is subdivided into many polygons across its face).

Does anyone know of an automated tool that can analyze a model, and "de-triple" (combine together into one flat poly) polygons that are unnecessarily subdivided?

thanks,

karl