Thanks- I did it As Image and it worked. I'd tried that yesterday and it didn't work, but this time it did. Don't understand why, but I'm far more interested in outcomes than process... Appreciate your help.

But I can't make a group or do anything else. If I right click on the image, the only option it gives me is Edit Matched Photo, and then I get a bunch of things that look like Bezier Spline control points but they don't seem to do anything.

Hi- I am trying to make an SU drawing of an upcoming woodworking exhibition. I have all of the pieces and podiums drawn, and am now at the stage of figuring out where they go. Since I have a PDF of the venue floor plan, I (eventually, after a struggle) imported the floor plan into my drawing. I now need to rotate it and scale it to the right size, and put it on its own layer. The challenge I'm having is I can't select the imported image to do anything with it. I have done this before with other photos, etc, but can't remember how i did it. Any thoughts?

Thanks. I tried that and it seemed to work. Initially I had some issues with the size of the text relative to what I was pasting it onto, but the Scale tool seems to fix that. Not particularly efficient, but the outcome is what I was looking for.
Appreciate your help.

I am trying to do a Sketchup file that contains the inventory of podiums that our woodworking guild uses for the exhibition we put on every other year. We can then move the pieces around between the podiums to get the best fit in advance and save ourselves a lot of setup time. Drawing them is, of course, easy, but what's confusing me is I want to "stick" the dimensions and the inventory number onto the front side. When I try to use the text tool, I find that when I orbit around, the text is out in space. What I'm hoping to do is make it part of the component, just as if it was written on the piece. Is there a way to do this?

To Mac1- I did find the manual online, but didn't see anything in it that would help us. I'm starting to understand where you're coming from in the decimal/fractional conversation- clearly there is a difference between 1.2 and 1 3/16, but that's not the inaccuracy i have a problem with. The issue is that something on a printed drawing measures 22 3/4 when it should measure 21 9/16 (or 22.75 vs 21.5625)
As to the HGH accuracy, you refer to a setup box- I've looked at Page Setup, Document Setup, SU Preferences, and Model Info, and don't see such a box. Could that be something in Pro that isn't in Make?

Dave- OK now I'm confused. You asked nDid you go through the process I outlined in the link I sent to you? Exactly?

I got a Print test which consisted of a drawing, but there was no other link containing any instructions that I could find. Did I miss something?

Mac1- I don't have a manual for the plotter. I know that others have said they couldn't find one, but I'll poke around on the HP website and see what's there.
You refer to High Accuracy HLR. I've never seen that in SU. Where can I find out more?

To Mac1: First, I don't know whether the plotter is vector or raster, and I really don't know how I would find that out.
Second, to your comment about using decimal inches: I use references to fractional inches when on posts like these, but when I'm in Document Setup I'll use 1 or 1.0 in the scale box.

To Dave: I tried the print test you sent me on both my small printer and the big plotter. They both worked fine- as accurate as my old eyes can measure with the ruler on my desk. This says to me that I'm screwing something up in the way I set up the plot (which I always suspected). So one more time, Here's the sequence I go through- Page Setup- Format for: the plotter and Select Page Size: in this case Manage Custom Sizes- the metric equivalent of 36" wide x 60" long. Choose Portrait or Landscape, usually Landscape. Document Setup- Zoom in or out in drawing so that Print Scale is as close to 1:1 as possible. This occasionally requires the actual screen size to be altered by using the arrows on the bottom right corner of the window. Uncheck Fit to Page, and change Print Scale to 1:1. Sometimes that's a change in the Drawing box, sometimes it's a change in the Model box. Print box- check the settings, see if the preview box looks reasonable, and hit Print.

Can either of you see any flaws in this?

Dave-
Sorry for the delay, we had a snowstorm and our internet was out for a couple of days.
Per your request. I measured some things at right angles to each other.

Using the plotter printout I found one dimension which was 22 3/4" on the plan and 21 9/16" on the paper. At right angles to that there was a piece which was 11 5/16" on the drawing and 10 3/4" on the paper.

I then went back to my little letter size printer. Drew a box 6" x 3" and it printed out at 6 5/8" x 3 5/16"

I know I must be doing something wrong, other people get this to work. I've turned off Perspective in the Camera menu, selected Top View, and gone into Document Setup to uncheck Fit to Page, and changed the scale boxes so that they both read 1" in Drawing and 1" in Model. It's almost like it doesn't believe me....

To Dave- thanks, I'll check the things you mentioned. It will probably be Monday before I get back to you.

To Mac1- Seems like I didn't express myself clearly. A variance of 1/16 in 23" I can work with. A variance of 1 1/2" in 23" I can't.

I do my drawing on a iMac computer, and also have an HP 1055CM plotter. It's often useful to print plans (or parts of plans) full size, particularly if the piece of furniture has curves or funky angles joining each other. I know I have to turn off Perspective in the camera menu, and then set the scale as 1:1 in Document Setup. Recently, I plotted a coffee table on a (custom size) 36" x 60" page, and when comparing the Sketchup drawing with the plot, there was a difference of about 1 1/2 inches on a 23 inch part. I could have probably lived with a 1/16" variance, but this is way too much. Does anyone have any comments or experience with stuff like this?

IT WORKED!!!!!!
Thank you all for your help and patience. I'm going for a Scotch now.

I tried to reinstall, I think... What I'm doing right now is, I uninstalled everything that I could find that referred to Sketchup except the drawings, I'm now downloading 2013 (again, sigh). It should be finished downloading in about a half hour and I'll try to reinstall then and see what happens.

I just upgraded to mavericks 10.9.1 because I'd been told about the Snow Leopard issue. Didn't seem to change anything.

Well, I used the link suggested, downloaded 2013, when the download was complete I found a box called Sketchup Make that referred to 2013, dragged it over to Applications as it instructed, opened up Sketchup and, as every time before, it's still Sk 8... I may be doing something wrong, let me rephrase that I'm probably doing something wrong, but I don't know what that is. should I uninstall everything and download again, should I take all the stuff in my download screen that refers to Sketchup and trash it, or do both?

Indeed why? The answer is when I Googled Sketchup, that's where I was taken. No Sketchup link showed up. I'll try the link you suggest. Thank you.

http://google-sketchup.en.softonic.com/mac

Hi Dave
So we just downloaded it again. We specifically asked for 13, but what we got is the "Sketchup 8 Installer package"

Hi Dave
I just had it upgraded yesterday to 10.9.1

I do woodworking designs on my main computer, then email them to my laptop so I can take it out to the shop & get dimensions, etc. Both machines are Macs. Problem is there's 2 separate Sketchup versions- I have 8.0.16845 on my computer and 13.0.4123 on the laptop, so as soon as I save something on the laptop I can't put it back on the main computer again. I have been trying since November to download the newer version to the computer, and have even gone to the point of installing a new O/S on the computer, thinking that might be the issue. But today I downloaded Sketchup again and it's still the same 8.0.16845. It's driving me nuts.Has anybody got any suggestions?