Thank you for the info. Yes, we are aware of some posts made between Thursday 10 AM GMT and today 4 PM by those whose membership info was corrupted disappeared. We'll try to restore these posts on Monday. From now on everything should be normal. Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Kaas, I took a look at the output from Revit and it was the same - good lines but jagged text. As per your suggestion I took a look at Adobe Reader and indeed there is a setting for "Smooth Text". Voila, text looks good. Problem solved. Thanks for your help. KrisM

@pbacot said: I can't make sense of what this has to do with groups, but whenever I have worked on a component without opening it, e.g. scaling, it has only changed that particular instance. But as Dave has says there seem to be a number of requests to change this for Solid Tools and it should be achievable, as proved by Jim's plugin. Peter, making other changes to components without opening them, Scaling them, for example, doesn't make any changes to the geometry inside. Although the Solid tools don't open the component for editing, they are making changes to the geometry within. This is more like editing a component to add or subtract geometry. It is reasonable to expect any tool which change the geometry within a component to make those changes to all instances of the component. Any other tool that modifies a component's geometry does that. The native Solid Tools are inconsistent in that regard.

@krism said: I know what I am asking for violates one of the cardinal rules of SU. I do model with all objects (edges, faces, etc) on layer 0 with groups and components on appropriately named layers. I also work with Revit and have the need to control visibilty of the imported SU objects. I can bring the layers from SU into Revit but cannot play with visibilty because all the actual edges and faces are on layer 0. Is there a plugin which will take all the objects (edges & faces) within a group or component and put those objects on the groups layer. This would only be used in a copy of the model which would be saved for the Revit export. Any ideas? KrisM This works from the Ruby Console on a selection of components or groups. mod = Sketchup.active_model ent = mod.entities sel = mod.selection sel.each{|corg| ents = corg.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;Group ents = corg.definition.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance ents.each{|e| if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge || e.class==Sketchup;;Face e.layer = corg.layer end } } or this from the context menu when you right click on a component or group unless file_loaded?(__FILE__) mod = Sketchup.active_model ent = mod.active_entities sel = mod.selection UI.add_context_menu_handler do |menu| unless sel.empty? || (sel.first.class != Sketchup;;ComponentInstance && sel.first.class != Sketchup;;Group) menu.add_separator menu.add_item("Move Entities To Comp/Group Layer") { corg = sel.first ents = corg.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;Group ents = corg.definition.entities if corg.class==Sketchup;;ComponentInstance if ents ents.each{|e| if e.class==Sketchup;;Edge || e.class==Sketchup;;Face e.layer = corg.layer end } end } end#unless sel end#do file_loaded(__FILE__) end#file

This one is working, great! I appreciate your help.

Shep[/quote] Hi Shep. I am writing in regards to the Logitech m560 mouse. Did you use the LOGITECH SETPOINT software in order to customize buttons for Sketchup? Yes, it's the only app I've set custom functions for. Did this affect mouse settings in other software? No, not that I've noticed. I am a bit reluctant to install the logitech software as this may cause all sorts of other issues. Thanks in advance.[/quote] You Bet, Shep

have a look at [anchor=texture_resizer goto=http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=360679#p360679:3q4d018w]texture_resizer[/anchor:3q4d018w], I haven't used it lately, but it's very good... john

damn... Dave beat me to it and made me look like a Johnny come lately.

@whaat said: Is there any chance you could develop a library and API for the hole drilling functions? Dale, Thanks for your encouragements, I appreciate. The algorithm is not that complex actually (the GUI is more time-consuming), but I have isolated it anyway in a separate class with no GUI dependencies. Note that the hole shape itself is specified as another class, called Stencil, which allows to aggregate several faces to build the hole pattern. Fredo

@dave r said: I got around the wasted real estate by sticking in a couple of single button toolbars thusly These two are anyway more important than the lower...

Even when plans are smaller (D size) you see the contractor printing 1/2 size sets. Actually with better SW and printing now, reduced sizes are still readable. That said, most plan checkers want a minimum size text, 1/8" high or so. With all the info that usually goes on a floor plan it can get crowded at smaller scales. You can help by utilizing the software to carefully arrange the info,use more plans: ceiling plans, separate power and lighting plans etc. to put the info on. Personally never gone below 1/4"-1'. If necessary. I have a 1/8"=1'scale overall plan then provide larger plans of sections of the house. Just make sure it is legible under the Bldg. dept. standards and check if they'll take it. Ideally everyone would have iPads but that hasn't translated to ease of use at the site yet. I heard in Europe--don't they use smaller format, sort of like a book?

Dave, Just had a "DUH" moment. I couldn't figure out why you said the post was 290 feet tall but when I measured it with the tape measure tool, it was the correct height. Scaled. Yah, I get it. Anyway, problem solved. Kris

@krisidious said: Goh is this something only people who are upgrading to 20154 should use? or is it safe for all versions? hi Krisidious, this is ok for all version of SU. cheers!

@box said: Does revizto have this capability. Simply put, can I use your excellent program as a way of viewing and manipulating models on an Android Tablet. Revizto Using Android or iOS you need to download our free vewer from App Store or Google play. This vewer is working with local projects on your tablet, downloaded diectly from Revizto gallery onto your tablet. You may view and navigate your scene. At any time you may connect your tablet to internet(Revizto) and using your 3D scene set new markers with comments, sync with cloud - other members of your team or your customer will see these markers as well, even they would connect later or connected in real time. Using tablets you will see the scene with almost the same quality like I posted above, however theare still present some limits due to limited power of tablets. Currently the main limit for Android and iOS is the size and complexity of project (as well as how accurate it was done in SU in terms of 3D modeling culture). There are not web viewers for Android or iOS devices. Revizto web viewer is working only for PC or Mac.

Mine is not so bad on a Mac (using Simon's example). But how can we compare complexity of work? I can say that it is mostly use of plugins that can cause it and I know which ones seem to be doing heavy lifting and sometimes drop the ball so I save before these. But I can definitely get screwed sometimes. Don't get me wrong.

No probs, I'm just giving you the basics, Dave has the good stuff.