Hi Dave, the file is nothing special, it could be any file. I just modeled a simple floor plan to figure the line weights out. I would just like to know the simplest way to make the walls thicker than everything else. So far, tracing the walls in LayOut with the stroke tool is it. I turned off Fill, and it worked. If there's an easier way, please LMK!
Dave, yes, it's a viewport from a SketchUp model. The only other way I can find involves making scenes, copying viewports, lining them up, switching to vector view, and changing line weight in one of the scenes. But that method still doesn't work for me. When I copy viewports, one obscures the other. I can't get the top viewport transparent.
Hi, I'd like to trace the walls on a top-down view (floor plan) with the stroke tool to make them thicker. But when I do this, the whole plan fills, so I can't see the interior. Is there a setting that I can adjust that will turn this fill off so I can simply trace all the exterior and interior walls?
Hi, I'm trying to draw a circle outline, but the circle keeps filling in with an opaque white. Moving the opacity slider under Colors doesn't help. I know that an outline can be done because I'm trying to follow a YouTube tutorial where he draws a circle outline. Where is the setting to fix this? Thanks!
Turn off the hidden geometry! Of course! facepalm...
Thanks!
I already did the equivalent of wadding it up and throwing it out, lol. I will recreate and post later.
Dave ...that's all I've been doing for two hours. 
All I can do is project it piece by piece onto each polygon ... there's got to be a better way? Does the radial mesh in that model have anything to do with it, do you think? And how did he do that?
Hi all, I've tried to recreate the above model and have done it every way but the right way. How did the modeler get that radial mesh, and is it necessary for the end result?
I made a rectangular mesh with the Sandbox tools (grid and smoove), drew a circle over it, exploded, and then trimmed everything outside the circle. However, the pizza picture has to be tediously painted onto each polygon. It appears that the modeler just painted one complete image onto it (or maybe I'm wrong. Just didn't think anyone would spend the time doing that). I tried smooth/softening, but that didn't work, either.
I can position the pizza texture nicely inside a circle, I can make a rectangular mesh inside a circle, but I can't put the two together. Any ideas?
Well, I went to OpenGL and clicked "Fast Feedback" and that fixed it. Guess it was a display issue.
FWIW, I first uninstalled and reinstalled SketchUp, thinking that might fix it. In the process I learned that all the plugins I had previously downloaded were preserved. Weird, I would have thought that the plugins folder would have been erased when I uninstalled the software, but that wasn't the case.
Tried it, as well as restarting the computer -they still don't appear. No one else has this issue?
Thanks Juan -I looked at the setting, and it's indeed checked. But the tooltips still aren't showing up. I downloaded a bunch of plugins from that new warehouse just to experiment with them, maybe that messed it up?
Hi, just wondering -those of you who use SketchUp Make (free), do the tooltips show up when you hover your mouse over the individual tools in the toolbars? During the free trial, the tooltips showed up for me, but as soon as the trial ended, the tooltips stopped appearing. I'm wondering if there's a setting for this, or if there are indeed no more tooltips over the individual tools in free SketchUp (I found those tooltips helpful, esp. when running them over unfamiliar plugin tools).
Box -regardless, in version 8 it asked me if i wanted the component downloaded to the model, anyhow, and the choice was given to download it elsewhere. dave says he still gets that screen, so i guess i have to figure out why i'm not. i do appreciate everyone's input, it's a big help!
Thanks, Box. Did you get that screen through the components browser? I can get it if I click on the warehouse download tool icon. But oddly, not through the browser on my PC. Wonder if a setting is messed up somewhere?
Ok. Well, I've been working on my Mac now and saw that if I go to the Warehouse through the browser and download something, I'm given the option of downloading it into the model. However, the PC doesn't give me the download-into-model option anymore (in version 2013). Have you found that to be the case, too?
I found my way to the PC components folder. If I could get the exact path to the Mac's, that would be great. After you're done fixing the anesthesia machines, that is.
BTW, I never had to set permissions on my own computer before, so that info was great, thanks. Funny, in the "groups" box, the first entry was CREATOR OWNER. I guess that's the SketchUp folks? Because only that group had permission to do anything, lol. I bet a lot of casual users like myself are going to come up against that if that is indeed the default on installation.
Oops, I see I cross-posted w/you. But it looks like you're confirming what I said.
Can you tell me the specific path to link to the program files in the Mac to do this? I'm not a Mac person ...still trying...
Ok, I think I got it. My confusion was over the term "local collection." Local collection, to me, implies a folder on the computer that isn't inside the software. But a local collection can indeed be installed in the software, if I understand this correctly now.
I adjusted the permissions and it works! I can now drag from top to bottom pane. When I click "open or create a local collection," a new folder appears. That folder can be created in the program files if I navigate to it. So it would be in the software. But if I place it anywhere else, like on the desktop, it ISN'T in the software. Correct?
And it doesn't matter if the folder is in the software or not -no benefit either way?