I see this all the time, t's down to mesh triangulation when you have cut in your 'decals'. You could try re-smoothing the mesh.

Yea it does, and thats weird because all it gives me is the ABCs instead of the symbols. What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: nevermind, it places the symbols but doesnt show it beforehand in the textbox popup. Thanks guys...yes I am retarded.

@gaieus said:

You need not really save it into a new model then reimport. If you group the whole structure you want to scale, and use the tape measure rescaling method while in the editing context of this group, it will only scale whatever is inside.

To scale an entire model with the Tape measure tool:
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95006
To scale only an entity (i.e. a group in this case):
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=116447

thanks foe the tip, i was doing things the hard way! 😳

@simon le bon said:

Re: It seems that Ruby Library Depot can be reached again... 😉

*simon

Thanks Simon. It is actually on and off nowadays and sometimes it works sometimes don't.

check this guys stuff for technique and insperation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO_D3ltOilk&feature=channel_page its insane!

Thanks Jean, that is immensely helpful. I will try this when I get home today.

That's exactly the proper and idealuse of components. Also,to a limited extent,you can make changes to certain instances without affecting the others. These include
[list][]scaling
[]colouring
[*]moving and rotating (i.e.positioning and ligning anywhere)[list]
BUT in case you don't edit them just do these things "from outside" of the components.