@kanastrous said:

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

Open the scenes window. At the bottom are check boxes for what gets saved with a scene. They can vary scene-to-scene.

...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.

Somewhere along the line you ought to be able to get someone to export so the dimensions are correct when imported into SketchUp. If not, can you get one of the other file types that SketchUp will import? Then you should be able to click on Options and set the correct units.

It wouldn't hurt to see if you can get cleaner models to import, too.

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

My apologies, and fear not I'll never darken your threads again.

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

@cotty said:

Like this?

Hmm, not seen that before, I was also thinking more like a drape.

drape su.jpg

In the end it turned out that there was a mass of dust that had basically become compressed into a block of felt, obstructing the cooling vents in such a way as to be -very- difficult to see save from just the right angle. So, mystery solved. Thanks guys!

UPDATE: After the usual purging, check for un-needed hidden geometry, removal of lurking layers, etc the file size is basically unaffected by removal of half the geometry...

...but if one copies the remaining (that is, desired)geometry into a fresh, empty iteration of sketchup and saves -that-, one winds up with a properly-sized file interms of what's been cut (that is, a 64MB file rather than a 128MB file containing the identical geometry.

Still, given that the fbx original was only 23MB to start with, the resulting 64MB file still seems excessively large (though at least it's now useful for something).

Does anyone know if skp files are just always inherently larger than fbx files describing the same object?