Maybe something like this? [image: hzBW_Screenshot-7_6_20194_20_01PM.png]

@unknownuser said: Well, I have been using Sketchup since Ver 4, and I do not see this selection, Shape Style. A little help would be nice. Thanks in advance, Ken It's in Layout. Bep

Turn off the hidden geometry! Of course! facepalm... Thanks!

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.

@rose123 said: 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! If I implied I get that screen when I'm downloading through the Components browser, I apologize. I don't get that and never have. I only get that option if I have my internet browser open to the 3D Warehouse. when I choose a 3DWH model from the Components browser it comes right into the current SketchUp model. Don't spend anymore time trying to fix something that isn't broken.

So they're only needed to download plugins? Not for accessing the Warehouse through the browser, or to access the Help page or anything else? I notice, too, that when I access the Warehouse though the components browser, the option to download directly into the model isn't there anymore. Wonder why.

Thanks, Jeff. I do have links to a local collection. Is there any advantage to putting components in the sketchup software itself (e.g., putting it in the program files on the pc or dragging to the lower browser pane) vs. linking to a local collection? or is just linking the best way to go?

Another way of looking at this is "Geometry Density". You want appropriate amounts of detail - with drag and drop of components from external sources, its very easy to add innocuous content that has far too much detail compared to the rest of the model. I've seen simple school room models with more faces in a single coat peg than in the rest of the model! For this reason, I wrote a free plugin called Goldilocks which can help track down in your model, where you've got geometry objects which have more detail than the surroundings. http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/goldilocks Adam

Ok, thanks, Gaieus! I figured someone would have a reason.

After I found they wouldn't change, I kind of wondered why you hadn't asked about the materials. Anyone with pro could change the component to make scale handles work.

That did it, thanks!

Ok, thanks!

I wasn't clear, sorry. I was referring to the PC eyedropper icon that says "match color of object in model." Not the eyedropper/magnifying glass that samples a color from the screen. It seems to do the same thing as the eyedropper that samples colors and matches them.

@pbacot said: I had read someone talking about pdf output in the PC and Mac. Or is it png? In the Mac you can print to pdf and it works pretty well with LO. Is it the same in PC? for one, you can import pdfs into sketchup (as well as export to them even with the free version since they're coming from the OS instead of the app).. on windows, i think you have to extract jpgs and whatnot from pdfs in order to bring them in for tracing etc.. (def could be wrong on this though) png and tiff will also export natively with alpha channels/transparency using mac

Thanks, I finally got it to work (and Cotty's second suggestion worked for me, too). I am just wondering why I can't rotate it and have 360 show up like in the video.

Sorgesu, thanks for the explanation! I am going to implement that.

That works great pbacot, thanks!

You will get this whenever more than one face occupy the same plane. If you want to show alternatives, you have to put the face (and edges) in a group and assign to a layer, put the conflicting alternate face in a group and assign to a different layer. Make the layer setup for each scene hide the ones you don't wish to see. (If that makes any sense.) You might group all the interior wall surfaces for each scene together. Either erase or hide that portion of GE terrain that lies under your carpet, or raise the floor above the GE image. Is the floor really exactly at ground level? It may be that the interior scene you are showing doesn't need the GE image layer on at all. If this is not the answer, please post a model file.

@rose123 said: That looks very neat, will try, thanks! That looks neat? Are you kidding me? I don't think its safe or wise to stack a small end table on top of a set of drawers like that at all. Someone could easily get hurt rose, and I don't recommend trying anything like it! Oh, did you mean that toolbar layout? Oh yes, that is indeed very neat!

I understand that MatchPhoto is recreating a perspective drawing, but once you put those orange and green bars on the photo's parallel features, seems to me that IS recreating it; it finds the vanishing points from those bars. Well, I'll do more photomatches with other photos and see if it still works. I've deleted the problem files! Argh ...when it happens again I'll upload. Thanks!