I fail to understand why. If you can name something and but it in a catalog, e.g. a window or a car or door handle, then it is a component. If something only makes sense in a certain context, e.g. the slab of a specific floor in a specific building, then it's a group. I think it would only be confusing to blur the line even further.

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I just tried it and it works. Great find.

After erasing the weird 'rod' geometry... I guess the left-over piece of text includes an empty string or perhaps just a space ? Use the Outliner to open that Group in edit-mode. Edit > Select All. Entity Info now shows one piece of text. Press <delete>. That text is now gone. The now empty Group is also gone... Resolved.

My goal is to connect two offset rectangles with the speed and simplicity of using Curviloft - but without a reduction in aspect ratio. Want to avoid the extra step of manually drawing a path between said rectangles.

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copy shortcuts.xml from this location: C:\Users\mdurant\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp 2016\LayOut\shortcuts.xml to this location: C:\Users\mdurant\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp 2017\LayOut\shortcuts.xml Do NOT copy the .plo files, that will crash LayOut.

Installing SketchUp using 'Run as administrator' is not a mere suggestion, it is the correct way to do it. If it's not installed in that way unexpected flakiness and other weird things are well documented. It is the 'official' installation policy...

Edit your Title and write Resolved!

Thanks Rich for the video Tig - the premise of this exercise was not to change camera position - aka do not pan/orbit/zoom. But thanks anyway for the good narrative.

ya learn something' new every day

What do you mean they finally fixed it? It's worked that way all along.

In reference to Sonder's suggestion, it works. At least with LO 2016 linked to SKP 2015. Viewport was set to raster.

Glad you got it sorted. FWIW, you always have to start with an existing style because it's impossible to have SketchUp open without a style. You can modify a style and even change its name without creating a new style if it is in the In Model library.

ok - got it!

@pipingguy said: wow - pretty cool dave r.! Thanks. It's just a basic move thing. There's a lot of subtle options with the various tools in LO.

I found the group within my 12 meg model causing the issue. If I explode it, it exports. must explode before exporting 3d to cad.skp