Excellent! So glad I could help.

Hi Jeff, no, I wasn't getting the cursor in the input field, so I couldn't assign anything, but I've just checked again now (on my mac book ) and it's working fine again, so I don't know what happened. But thanks, all is well! best regards.

Great, all sorted, thanks Jeff.

Sally, I'm happy it worked for you. I don't know why it worked that way but I'm happy it seems to be settled.

Genius Tig, it works!! Thank you so much, I really appreciate your help

Hi, to anyone on a Mac who wants to know more, I kept having problems even after Box and Wind-bourne helped me so I played around a little more and discovered what I was still not doing completely right. I have summarised the steps you need to follow in the attachment below. Hope it helps! Best, Sally [image: HUZ0_scenechanges2.jpg]

thank you so much!

@sally said: Well after being passed up the chain, over 28 emails to and from me and lots of delays.....it is now working. I had to download the latest driver (10.0.10) which is still in beta, but due to be released soon. So all seems to be OK, finally! Now at least I'll get a chance to use it! If you want to download this driver, go here http://www.3dconnexion.com/labs My patience was wearing thin, let's hope it works consistently now! Or I will be asking for my money back. Hurrah!! my 3D Connexion Space Mouse now works in SKP 2013. Thanks Sally

Hi Gilles, I live in France but I am English. And I haven't joined the French sub-forum, as it's much easier for me to communicate in English. But I did try to reply (in not too perfect French) to a question recently!! Thanks for your help with my issue. Merci mon p'tit loup!

To recap... A SKM file is a Sketchup Material definition file. A SKM file is a ZIP archive that just has a different file-extension. Changing its extension to ZIP allows you to see what it contains - but the only thing you might be interested in is the res/Image file, which is there if the Material has a Texture; the rest of the contents are things like the Material's thumbnail used in the Browser and XML files that contain the Material's data - like Image/Size [if any], RGB, Opacity etc... Placing a SKM file [unchanged] into a subfolder that is within the Materials folder [or any other folder that is in the Material Browser's search paths...] allows the Material that it defines to be displayed in the Materials Browser when that subfolder is chosen [like any other Material]; when applied to objects in the model that Material is added to the Model's internal Materials collection. If you modify or newly create some Materials in a Model, then the Material Browser's pop-out/context menu options allow you to Save the Material[s] to external SKM files [as a 'collection' etc]: this allows you to 'make' a custom Material in a Model, then make a SKM version of it that is reusable in any other Model later on... You do not need to 'open' a SKM file, just put it in a subfolder that the Materials Browser can see and it's automatically displayed - like any other Material...

OK, I worked it out, I had unhidden everything, and obviously the outside lines in the components had been hidden, rather than 'alt' erased, so when I unhid all, they appeared. So problem solved.

It's a pretty clever program, Sally. Dimensioning has been enhanced somewhat as well as precise move options which allow you to format elements on your page exactly how you want... see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCve65JJhI oh, and exporting to DWG!!!!

Oh! Thanks a lot! It´s easy! But I didn´t know about it. C.

Thank you, all neatly layered and scened!! It's made a huge difference to how fast it runs.

Hi folks. The SU videos available for download here: https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupvideo/?AuthEventSource=SSO Just ideas.

For more on using SketchUp Pro for construction documents, see the heavy traffic on http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=15911 b