Hey Jeff,

Keep in mind too, that a lot of guys find better results by exporting a 2D image at a really large pixel size (4-5K) and then reducing the size with a photo editor. Depending on your graphics card, sometimes, SU's built in Anti Aliasing can still leave things a bit choppy if you zoom in at all and saving it larger than needed and then reducing it after will leave a really crisp lined drawing, especially for printing. Also good when using them to send to clients who you know they are going to zoom in and "look around". I know other members were also finding it took longer to save a file at a moderate size with AA turned on, than it did to save a file at three times the resolution with no AA. Just something to keep in mind when you play around with the export settings.

Best of luck!

You have to "import as texture" in order to make it a .skm (sketchup material)

If you search in the Plugins forum, I believe there is a plugin to help with mass importing materials but I can't think what its called now...

@pghstone83 said:

I'm trying to insert a set of steps on to the back porch of a house. How do you set it up before pulling the object into the design? I figured it was like attaching the roof but no luck. Also, does anybody know a good plugin for vinyl decks and steps?

See this link for tuts on steps http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sketchup+steps&search_type=&aq=f. Don't think there will be any difference for vinyl vs dimensional lumber unless you are looking for some thing which brings in the actual dimensions or the ref plugin does that. You can add vinyl to your component library
Sorry did a search for Archiland after writing the above but the link should stiil show the process

@gaieus said:

Let's not talk about "images" (they are 2D raster file formats like jpg or png) but "models" that you can download from the warehouse.

See the screenshot - whatever you download from the warehouse into your "In model" (temporary) library, you can simply drag and drop into the secondary window > libraries (that is on your Hard Drive)

Thanks for your help Csaba!