In my experience LO will update the other pages only if you got an object updated which is shared between all pages (there is an "appear on each page" (or something like this) tick in the LO layer menu). In theory one could setup a dummy layer which would trigger all page update in theory

In my view current LO behavior with updating page by page is ok because you don't want your machine to crash on a heavy model of a city precinct updating 10+ pages of elevations with shadows etc. For smaller models its ok though.

Assign material 1 to all wall surfaces. Assign mat 2 to all window surfaces. Right click in material browser and get total surface area mat 1 is assigned to. Same with mat 2. Add, subtract as required to get the info you are after.

Just thought I'd mention another thing which can affect clipping. Cameras
I had an issue the other day when I've set up scenes with saved views and created cameras from them to copy across to another file. Straight after that my clipping planes went berserk. I've checked my cad imports, turned on all layers and components, deleted all unnecessary stuff for the sake of making clipping go but no avail. In the end i've found 2 layers linked to cameras which were called something like camera_fov. These represented the field of view of my cameras and for some reason they were about 10 times larger than my whole model making my model geometry's bounding box 10 times bigger and producing clipping issue as a result. As soon as i've got rid of cameras clipping was history

Thanks. I'll have a look!

Hi everyone. Is it possible to transfer scenes from file to file? Is there any plugin which can achieve that? I know I can create camera, copy it over to another scene and recreate the original scene there. Just would like to have a quicker way to get this done. Thanks

Great tool! Thanks TIG

As we know Glue+Cut Opening Option in the Component settings effectively hides the face of the underlying object, replacing it with the Component. Is there any plugin/trick which would let one hide the linework within the opening as well?

The more softwares you learn the easier it is to learn the next one The tools are pretty much similar

Just a thought. Have you tried adjusting the layer order in the Layout. In SU7 at least sometimes I had text layers behind main SU viewport and they were invisible as a result.

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I can post via Tapatalk but can't see post here. Is it because the Sketchucation test forum site is a duplicate of this one?

Bump! I'm with with on this one for sure. Sketchucation is missing out on a lot of potential activity generated from people reading/commenting on their mobile devices.

Having Sketchucation on Tapatalk would be the dream come true! In fact I'll buy any other forum read app who would provided support for this forum.

@tig said:

The native 'flip' tools in the context-menu and/or Scale -1 only work 'axially' - RGB / XYZ.
They also affect the original objects.

The Mirror Tool, however, mirrors just the selected objects [temporarily grouping them to avoid geometry clashes], about any picked point or line from two picked points, or [more usually] a 'plane' you define by any three picked points - therefore the mirroring need not be 'axial' / orthogonal [but of course it can be if you so wish, since picking the points has all of the usual inferences/snaps/locking etc of native tools].

The other advantage of the Mirror Tool is that it initially mirrors a temporarily grouped copy of the objects and leaves the original objects in place, a closing dialog asks if you want to erase the originals - when Yes removes them and No leaves them in place, both options leaving the mirrored copy where it was required, with the temporary grouping exploded.
So as well as doing a simple Mirror it can also Copy the objects at the same time if desired - whereas using native tools this would be a much more intensive operation as you'd need to copy objects off to the side, perhaps grouping objects to avoid geometry clashes, scale -1 [ignoring the steps needed for resetting axes etc if the mirroring-plane were non-orthogonal] and moving back the mirrored objects back into place and exploding any temporary groups...

Thanks for detailed reply. My area of Sketchup Application is architectural concepts so in my case I work in various axis orientations anyway (and reset if required to go back to original one). So having to create a custom axis for mirroring is never a big deal. But I'll definitely give your plugin a go if I find that my scale -1 tool doesn't give me what I'm after. Thanks!

Hi. Forgive me for possibly a stupid question but which advantages does this plugin bring compared to good old scale x -1. Probably I'm missing something.
Thanks