Thanks everyone. I especially like the protractor tool idea. Still don't know why inference sometimes doesn't work (on an actual circle), alas.

Wow!Fantastic. Sometimes I can't see the birds for the trees. Thanks

I come from the drawing board, I was trained in the respect for the standard. We can evolve towards the modernity while keeping the meaning strength of past. I always use the plugin Hatchfaces, which gives good results to me in LO in vectorial. I hope that it will be developed for the next versions of Skechup pro Sorry my English is incorrect. Henri

In layout there are two places where you can get styles from to use on your document: 1 - Sketchup model - wich it's symbol is the small house on the styles tab 2 - Styles Library - wich is any library you have/create on sketchup, if you keep adding styles from here with the same name, it will keep on adding them to your document but won't replace them... Maybe that's what's happening.

Ah... You didn't specify all that before. I don't know of anything that's going to give you all of that info automatically.

Haven't tried Artisan, but I like Vertex a lot. My trial ran out so I just bought it.

Just installed it. Nice.

Could you post or PM me the full error message (from the top) Also, I see a mention of jbb_layer_panels in the error message. So there may be a conflict there too. Fredo

So, something is wrong with your SketchUp installation, or your Keyboard or its key-mapping ! Using Erase+Ctrl+Shift works fine for me in unsmooth/unsoftening edges. I have the latest v2103 [although that should not matter as it has always worked faultlessly] Have you considered doing a 'Repair' or failing that fixing things a 'Reinstall' ?

Apologies for the overlapping tiles. After experimenting with the various approaches, it appears to me that trimming instances of tiles components with the Solid Tools Trim tool may be the quickest method overall. My thinking has evolved over this thread and I now see the value of having solid tiles. For one, they look much better, and they save space. Now that I know the Trim tool makes trimmed components unique, saving what I thought was an extra step,I find it relatively easy to step through and trim each tile. Zorro2 is a great tool and will very quickly trim groups of tile components, making each one unique as it does so, but it leaves the trimmed edges without a face. This is fine in many cases, but when you want a face, it takes time to edit each component to replace it. That said, there's a place for each method.

Wow, this is great! Two more tools to use in the hunt, both of which worked to find the internal face, and an excellent explanation. Big thanks to all. kupono

@kupono said: and mutter affirmations and incantations. Of course.

Kristoff's question is good. Did you just recently update the graphics drivers? It isn't unheard of that an update to the graphics drivers causes problems. What have you changed on the computer recently? Did you install any new plugins? If SketchUp 8 has been working fine for years it isn't likely to be a problem with the program but rather something else causing the problem.

Nope, no renderers, camera tools or other plugins that may affect this.

Thanks all for your responses. I ended up using Scan2CAD with very good results. I found that importing a raster image, converting it to a vector, and editing the vector was easier. [image: WI1y_OrchidCapture.PNG]

Thanks Glenn. After spending more time than it was worth, I came to the conclusion that DC wasn't going to work for me on what had become a fairly complex component. FredoScale's stretch function works very well. Although it couldn't handle stretching the entire component including it's sub-components, if I stretch the outer component, then stretch the inner components (that it couldn't handle) separately, it works fine. Dynamic Components would be so much better if a FredoScale like stretch function were incorporated. In fact, Sketchup might consider incorporating that function as a tool. Regards

Set your reference on its own layer and lock it. Also uncheck Auto render in Preferences/general.