@sexypox69 said:

move tool + ctrl

That's how I copied the group in my screen shot.

TIG has some good advice.

Ultimately it comes down to personal preference.

Typically if you have a lighting fixture, you would try to use an IES light to produce the most accurate lighting pattern for that fixture.

Rectangle lights are good for when large swaths of light are required in one single direction, lots of people use them to simulate the exterior light coming in through a window, or for product renders as studio "softbox" lighting.

Sphere and Omni lights will produce, as the name suggests, a surrounding light, similar to a bare bulb.

My best suggestion would be to make a simple scene and just play with each type of light to see how it behaves.

Robert

The multipage layer+copy/paste workflow is really handy in LO. The only thing missing is some kind of text that would behave like autotext in a multipage layer, but with manual text instead.

NOTE: Autotext can reside in a multipage layer and still have different text inside for each page, like page number or page name...

You're right. I forgot about that. So I edited my original post to leave out that confusion. Thanks!

You could use 2D Tools line style tool to locate the edges. Those won't get erased. However you have to keep them grouped separately if you want to keep them from interacting with geometry and be able to hide them eventually. So really any line can be used.It would be nice if you could use the line style tool to differentiate the lines from your model lines.

Edit. Basically what Dave says, a group and layer that is for layout lines-- and a scene if needed.

Thanks sdmitch. I love this sketchucation forum

I think I figured it out. Originally I had the section planes withing a group and now that I have placed new section planes I did them outside the group.

Thank Dave R,
Your suggestion was quite helpful. I imported floor plans from autocad of massive structure which was highly detailed and when i inserted it into LO I used hybrid render. There were 3 floor levels each on a seperate page. I just left it and after hours of waiting each page opened eventually and I changed the render setting..Now I'm able to flick through my pages with no problems....Thanks alot and sorry for taking long to reply

@andybot said:

Not being a Mac person - does it come in as vector or as raster? If it's vector, it may make it worth looking into...

raster

Thanks, will check out both plugins