thank you very much for sharing..

and I thank you too! your instructions are really great! I think you gave me something to do this weekend...

oh yes, that would be great. because at the moment SketchUp is limited to small, single designs (surely partly because it has difficulties coping with large models). enabling it to support real teamwork would be such a wonderful thing. and you know what would be funny (not reasonable - but real fun)? if you had realtime teamwork. for example you have one location. three people are drawing at different buildings, everyone sitting at his own computer. and on the huge flatscreen in the lobby you see an overall perspective where the buildings are permanently manipulated... (would probably bust your network in no time and you needed a giant computer to render the realtime shadows. but it would be such a cool poser thing!)

@daniel said: I usually model everything in the default layer 0, but always put cars, people, and trees in their own layers so they can be turned off while modeling other things. ditto

I'm hoping it gets fixed in the next release / update of GSU. It's one of the most annoying things about GSU. I seriously don't know why this is still a bug, surely there is more than one way to fix this. Some other things I'd like to see in the next GSU release / update: high poly / large model support modern hardware support (specifically multi core CPU's) lighting issue seems to have been resolved by people developing a plug-in ATM bump mapping jolts between scenes when exporting an animation I'm sure there are some more things, but these (the above) are the ones that come to mind first.

there is a very good script written by didier bur (Layer Manager) that can save layer states, that is, different groups of scenes that you can invoke at will. it does much more that that, of course. it is really worth a look. and it comes with a great user guide.

thanks a lot. I didnt know how to use the "Expand" command. doesnt really help me though, because I am permanently changing the model, thus adding and deleting components every other minute. but the expand-function is definitely something that needs to show up in SketchUp 7 for components created within the current file - preferably with a sort of tree structure, that enables you to easily retrace the parented component. of course thats something close to an outliner then. well, I hope they will think about that and surprise us with something increddibly useful...