Are you creating design or construction documents?

I assume that there would be a drawing of it at a suitable scale to establish the profile desired. I'd go with 'dropped newel, see detail'.

A notice pops up when I start SU, telling me that four extensions need to be updated.

If I select these extensions, three out of the four tell me:
"Failed to update xxx, Unable to read extension archive."

What's with this? Where is it looking for the archive(s)?

How do I insure that extensions are installed correctly, that is, will update properly in the future?

Thank you

Thank you

I like to draw a set of lines which will be used later to create piping. In order to have these appear in the Outliner, I group them. Since there are more than a few, each group representing a different system, water, electric, heat, etc., it would be good to apply different colors to them.

I've tried putting them on a separate layer - 'color by layer' doesn't work. Neither does trying to apply a material color.

Is it possible to apply a display color to lines?

I hope that this is the best place for this question.

What is the relationship, if any, between 'vertexTools', 'subD', and quadFaceTools?

Are they independent or is one or more required for the other(s) to function?

Thank you

Thanks Chip

I am in the habit of selecting the objects before the tool. I didn't realize that the move tool must be selected first for this to work.

I have a similar problem - easy to describe:
I'd like to move one corner of a planer surface.
I had assumed that I'd need 'Vertex Tools' or another plugin, but then I saw DaveR's reply.

I can't get vertices to display. SU behaves as though vertices didn't exist. This is consistent with the general rule that SU only knows about edges and faces.

What am I missing?

Create an object or assembly in it's own .skp file.

Import or insert the assembly or component into a 'main' SU model.

Update and edit the assembly file; it would be good if the assembly were updated in the main file, similar to what LayOut does with inserted SU models.

This becomes more important as the assembly becomes more complex.

Forgive the vague subject.

Is it possible to convert a SketchUp object to a LayOut object; that is, a real LayOut vector object, not just a link to a SU file?

I understand that it is possible to do something like this using .pdf's with the Mac version, but I'm on Windows.

Thank you

The subject might a little misleading, what I'm looking for is a command that, after I select a few objects in a crowded scene (very long Outliner), allows me to hide everything else. Then, when I've completed work on the selected objects, unhide the recently hidden objects.

Perhaps thre's a command hidden somewhere, or possibly a script.