Really appreciate it Eric,
I see the difference on your screenie,
For one, I see I need better outliner management, and I was just checking out the old @last tuts; They show having a hidden component category, and physically dragging the selection you want to hide under that heading. I kinda like this idea, so I will know exactly where that hidden label is, when I want to be sure all are on, I'll definately be paying better attention to all these points. I cant hardly get them all back on after hiding. There is one component that stays on in the curtrent job that after hiding all the rest, if I don't pick on the last remaining component, the others wont come back.

on mine the light gray is open

Gaieus, thanks for explaining, I didnt mean to critique you drawing... my edited psot didnt read right and I didnt couldn't re-write the whole thing.
Anyway, I showed it to my daughter, was able to reinterate a useful metric lesson, and showed her where you were from on GE, You live in a very culturally rich, and architecturally inspired place.

Hopefully, someone will offer a method to unhide nested geometry?

Gaieus, The metric parapet...? what is that? the base is 100.000cm I have been teaching my daughter the metric system this week, and I want to show her the size of the numbers you are using, and the mm, cm usage. thanks

nevermind. I see the decimal is 3 places to the left. I took that as a comma, I need some specticles.

Gaieus, I see your metric parapet, and I unhid the geometry, and understand, i was using hide to make a complex model easier to see while I work.
I am working on a model of a house, and the roof is in several groups. Instead of invoking sections to work on the uppermost floor plan I found just clicking on the roof and hiding was an easy way to effectivly work on the second floor; Alternatively, to work on the floor below I could hide the upper floor entities and have excellent visibility if everything in the next floor below.
I was using it to navighate the model, and I do appreciate that the unhide all has reserves, but if you have a situation like mine you jhave to have the previous sequence of groups on to restore the hidden one(s).

Syburn: though I learned a very good reason for using the components instead of groups yesterday: A floor system would be a good example for nesting, You have the perimeter thickness as a group, plywood or subfloor can be a group, structural members can be a group...
another good example would be a custom shower, I used nested components instead, floor pan is component 1, the bench is component 2, the door and glass surround is component 3, the fixtures component 4...
but themaster component would be the first one drawn..the floor pan, it would contain the others, or you could arrange them all on the same level and component all the components...I jsut seem to go deep as I add detail, the groups/components get added.
I bet there is a lot better way to do it though.

The delete guides will remove guidelines from all depths of the drawing, why won't Unhide All unhide all depths of the drawing?

i guess my color scheme is off, when a groups is open, the text is very light. when it is hidden< I cant see anything. Where a square without any writing is, that is a hidden group/component., right click and unhide. The unhide All on the edit menu doesn't work in this scenario either.

Gaieus, Thank you.

When you hide groups which are nested inside of groups, to get the hidden group unhidden, you have to have the parent group open. Is there another way to unhide nested groups? From a location where you dont have to have the group open?
So you know you have all the hidden groups unhidden?

I say that because the dispaly all made your drawing very samll on the screen. I didnt see them, but elmer did, Your drawing was really unco-operative, so I opened a new session and copy/paste the plan to a new session and it corrected itself. You were right, about the tape measure, I work in imperial, but slect two points, tell the system what you want it to represent and select yes.

import your cad file to another file, it willcome in as a componenet, leave it as a component, if it disappears when you do a zoom extents your text, dimensions or something is messing with you. If it comes in ok trace over and around it and watch this video: Working with CAD:
http://www.go-2-school.com/podcasts/020

syburn,
you seem to have some cad stray pieces in there somewhere, and you are at a very small scale.
I would open a fresh SU file, window copy to clipboard a very tight box around your floor plan get just what is necessary from as close as possible: Past it to the new open file, and rescale the drawing. Use 1:1 size on your floor plan. If your copy paste reacts the same way in the new file, do it again a little differently, you probably grabbed the troublesome cad floater!
hope this helps,
Hank

lemastre,
I dont know shat version you are working with, but the software is definatly more powerful than the price! The possibilities with SU are there, you just have to quit thinking your working with cad. Hang out around here, check out back-to-school tutorials, the standard SU tuts, and there was a guy around named diedre bur (sorry about messing up the name) who had some very good plan drawing tutorials that will get you started quick. I think he is found on the Spirit Cad site. If that doesn't work I can get you a contact. good luck.

thanks Tom,
I had initially tried that and didnt get any change,
I just changed Enable Length Snapping (un-checked) and the restriction to 1/16" is now enabled. Doesn't quite make sense that unchecking makes less snap possible.
Thanks for your advice

I am working on a window detail model, and I have found no adjustment to snap tolerances.
I am working at a true 1 1/8" size and my snap is set at 1/8" when I need to place a point at 15/16" the cursor skips between 7/8" & 1". I cant get it to hit; I have my tolerances set to 1/64" for this drawing but it doesnt help. Is there a snap setting somewhere?
TIA

I got it! That sure helps keep the thought process going. My attention span needs all the help it can get these days!
Thanks Lewis,
That's very cool

I am working on a building that has a 45 degree section, I have to reset the axes as I work my way around. Each time there is the pick red, green etc.

Is there a ruby or setting that will save an axes setting and allow you to toggle between normal and angled, without doing the axis tool each time?

When constructing building models, I typically let the ground plane in SU equal roughly the floor elevation. I see there is only minor visibility situations when drawing below the work plane, therefore I am wondering is it better to leave as is and draw below the work plane, or turn all elements on and lift the entire drawing above the plane, or is there a 'move ground plane down' selection in SU somewhere?
TIA

i think the problem lies in the page that has the Q on it at first?
after the Q disappears the video starts loading and doesn't finish...scroll down that page, and you will find a list of available videos, select one...you will go to another page...select the video you want to watch again...on the next page ther are selectable titles at the top...I have had best success selecting the little Pod icon .
HTH

@unknownuser said:

they take so long to down load

the 'pod' selection has the quickest / most consistent results here.

yes Kris, I referred yours to them and this is the other one I was looking for. It is hidden in the back of Coen's site. http://www.go-2-school.com/podcasts/020

Thanks again, Have a great day!

there was a multi part architect's tutorial which was very good, i found it in the Sketchucation Blog section i think, I was about orientating your cad drawn elevatiosn around your cad floor plan and inferencing your elevation's openings, roofs, etc. while you draw in the y axis above your plan.

Does any one know a link to this tutorial or know the guy that made it? I'd like to get the series and I have a buddy who needs to see it.
Thanks