In case of this particular material, probably a simple, planar projection would work well. Can you post the file? (That pipe would just do).

If all you need to do, is to change an image from 96 dpi to 300 dpi, most image editors will do so. Keep in mind that the physical size of the image will shrink accordingly. [image: L236_Temp04.jpg]

Qwerter sent me some data, and the problem reproduces for me with SketchUp 7.1. I've recommended reporting it to Google. Until they fix it you can work around it by also exporting to PNG format and importing that image into Piranesi. Arvan

Sketchup doesn't handle large coordinates very well. That means problems when you import from DWG where things are very far from Origin - especially if it's drawn in real world coordinates. When importing a DWG copy what you need to a new DWG file and move everything near Origin. Note that blocks with insertion point set far away from the geometry will also behave badly - you need to adjust the insertion points for these as well.

The BEST solution is to export from Layout7. Its renders are far better than from Sketchup directly and you can specify a line weight without having to use custom styles.

Hm... Tom, you are still using version 5 if I am correct... In SU 7, these are the (bit easier) steps: First of all, make the one tree component you want to change unique (otherwise all will change). Right click and make unique. Now edit the component and right click on the face that has the image you want to change and again, make the texture unique now (note that though you have a unique component already, it shares the same image with the original instances). Now right click the face again > Texture > Edit texture image. This will open the image in an external editor (you can define in Preferences > Applications) and you can paint it whatever you want. Upon saving the image, it will instantly reloaded/updated in SU. Note that above I mentioned "faces". If inside the component, anything is in nested components/groups, you will need to enter as deep as to get to single faces.

Thank you very much!!

Layout 2 is indeed worthy

Thankss!!