Thanks for the responses. Yes, the black dots are probably what are shown in the video. Since the endpoint inference dot is a different color, and I'm drawing in parallel projection/top view and not trying to inference anything, I thought the flashing black dot might have been a cardinal point. I guess it's an inference.

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Thanks, cotty! Don't know why that didn't occur to me!

@rose123 said:

Ah, that's the secret. Pulling the slider down.

Push up!

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@rose123 said:

I hadn't even noticed it before! I was just clicking on the color wheel and waiting for great things to happen, lol. Thanks so much!

You're quite welcome.

Ok, thx. Still leaves me wondering what happened to my rectangle tool in that file, though!

Got it -thanks, Gaieus!

Thanks, Dave! Boy, SketchUp can get almost Photoshop-like in the tricks department...

@dave r said:

So it isn't installed correctly in the Plugins folder. No wonder it doesn't show up.

You should have the SU2KT folder as well as SU2KT.rb and probably a related TXT file. The SU2KT folder should have a number of PNG files, a couple of SKP files and an XML file.

THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU! Apparently I've dropped the .rb and .txt file while transferring the stuff from the old laptop. This just saved more than my day!

Gaieus, thx! I do find it curious that sometimes that point works so perfectly for me, and other times (most of the times) it doesn't.

It's a tool cabinet but thanks.

If you want to move the geometry inside every component that makes up the door, you'd have to open each one for editing. It's just plain old easier to select the component (blue bounding box) with a single click and rotate the component no matter how the door is constructed. And it isn't that hard to rotate each door individually.

That click-n-drag thing works perfect! Thanks!

Download the trial and have a play. I think the omni grid comes as a component within the tool to place light throughout your model.

Ok, so just copying different instances for different walls is the correct way to do it without a plug-in. Thanks, and thanks for the great video!

Oh I see, ok, thanks for the explanation!

@rose123 said:

BTW, it doesn't seem like I have a file uploading option. Do you have to have a certain # of posts before you can do that?

New members have a bit of limitations (first couple of posts moderated) but nothing with attachments so you should be able to upload even with the very first post.

True. Especially with pre-made lighting fixtures of some rendering engine where the "light" itself (any geometry that represents whatever is emitting the light) should not intersect with any other geometry.

And then we have not even talked about exporting geometry to 3rd party software where the model origin may also be(-come) some kind of insertion point so you need to carefully choose what is "practical".

Like in your other topic, what I suspect is that their axis system is somehow "inconveniently" set up. Check to place the content (change the component axis) so that when imported into another file, they are normally oriented.

Thanks, Alan! A default template is a good idea, and I've got a few of those. I was just wondering about the default, though, because nothing is checked until I check "iso," and the screen does jump a bit, so I'm wondering what, exactly, is changing from the default.

Yes, selecting the whole line and then clicking "entities" works well, I think I just wasn't reading the box correctly before. Changing the size of the endpoints is also a trick I wasn't aware of, and that helps, too. Thx again!

Sometimes, even adding thickness isn't enough if the covering surface is fairly thin, like a thin sheet of ply overlying some support beams. You find as you zoom out that the underlying beams start to show through the surface.
This is a feature of SU itself...the fact that the edges don't get any visually thinner the further away they get. Therefore, what might appear to be an edge as thin as a human hair if you are zoomed right in becomes as thick as a girder if it's hundreds of yards away. The only solution is this case would be to actually hide the top edges of all the beams...or turn off edges altogether. There are also one or two styles that can mitigate the effect.

I think scaling was the issue ...thanks so much, folks. 😄