When I import 3d Sketchup model all of the groups are imported as anonymous blocks. Is there a way to prevent this from happening within Sketchup?

I have glazed external balustrading in my model. The glazing displays ok in Sketchup. My dilema is that the balustrading becomes translucent when exporting to DWG format. The only work around that I have found is to detelte the glazing surface in Sketchup. Are there alternative methods to displaying what is behind the glazing when exporting to DWG?

@kaas said:

I hope this is a joke. I want to be able to decide if an update is worth my money or if I can stick with the current version because not much has been added that's actually worth it to me.

Subscription = ea$y option that mainly benefits the shareholders and not the users.

This is not a joke. I completed the survey late last week.

Well I am glad that I am not the only one that dislikes a subscription based licence.

To me the software developers become slack in developing the software with a subscription based model. Maybe its an indication that the software has reached its peak.

PS I have been using Sketchup since V3 and have always upgraded as soon as a new version is released.

@rogerb said:

Expect everything to go Subscription and/or moved to the cloud.
Part of the transition to merging of human and machine.

Ray Kurzweil and human ver 2.0.

@unknownuser said:

In just over 30 years, humans will be able to upload their entire minds to computers
and become digitally immortal - an event called singularity - according to a futurist
from Google.

Either you go along one step at a time or you draw the line somewhere.

I doesn't mean that you have to agree with it or go along with it like a mob of sheep.

Maybe it is time to take a stand and support those who care a little bit about the users.

Just received a survey from Trimble

Looks like Sketchup licence is going to be subscription based by the wording of the questions.

@tntdavid said:

**Hello juju,

Sorry to respond so late, we are very busy on the finalization of version 3.

Good news for you!

We have added the opening symbol for the doors and swing windows.

As we like to collaborate with our users to improve our tools, we need your opinion

Option A
The opening symbols are displayed only if a Door or Window is open.

Option B
The opening symbol is always there, and can be masked individually with click on it.

Option C
Our toolbar provides an icon to enable or disable all opening symbols.

Which option do you think is the most interesting?

Ps: We will soon open a new topic, because this one becomes too heavy and takes a long time to load.

Very cordially

David Barros**

I would prefer Option C for my workflow.

Can you please advise when V3 will be released (ballpark)?

Is there a way to rotate a component while it is being inserted into a model. I find that now I insert a component and then rotate it using the rotate tool.

Just hoping.

Thanks so much TIG.
I assume that the help file for V3 is still current

Hello TIG

I have installed V4.0 into SU2017.

I drew a simple rectanglular face and tried to create a hipped roof. However, I get the attached error message. Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for your help anyway. Much appreciated.

For me it is one of my wishes.

Thanks Dave.

I didn't frame the question properly. The rectangle was only meant as an example. It could be a single line etc.

I would like to rotate say the line A-B to A-C using the rotation bar and A being the rotation axis. Sorry, I probably didn't frame the question correctly this time either.

Is there an easy way using the rotation bar in Layout to rotate the A-B edge of the blue rectangle to the A-C position as shown in the attached image?

@unknownuser said:

seasdes,
Without an example of what you are trying to do, I can just say it is very much the same as in Sketchup.

Use your cursor to "show" Layout the line segment you wish to reference.
(let inference "see" by briefly running cursor on the line segment)

After that your new line should highlight in purple/magenta when parallel and perpendicular.

Charlie

Thank you Charlie_V.

I think that I found the problem. The perpendicular (purple/magenta) will not show if trying to reference a SU model walls.

However, it will show if I draw a line over one of the SU walls.

Thanks again.

I am referring to drawing lines here in SU 2016.

Is there a quick way to draw a line perpendicular to another in Layout.

I havn't had to use project teams within Sketchup. However, I think that having other project team members woking on components and someone in your office placing the components is the only way to go.

You would need to supply a template file with style, layers etc to the other team members. But how well it will work will depend on how well the other team members follow your template.

Thanks Dave & TIG. I half expected that it wasn't possible.

Walter

I am using the paid version of SU 2016. My CAD software can only read up to SU 2015.

Is it possible to set the save version to SU 2015 as a default until my CAD version is updated.

Thank you Panixia. Very useful info. I will follow your tips.