Hi All

I have referred in the past to Dave Richards video on 'mitered moldings' where he uses a cutting plane to create the miter on a molding. I always forget how to do it and need to refer back to the video. It is now unavailable on the 'design-click-build' site for some reason. Does anybody know where I can find it?

My current issue is I'm trying to draw raked or angled walls. One end of the room is 8' tall and the other is 12' tall and there are some other interior walls as well. The only way I can think of how to do this is to draw all the walls at 12' and then use a cutting plane to slice the walls at the correct angle but I can't quite figure out how to do it. Using the trim function in the solid tools doesn't seem to work because it seems my walls (that I made a component) is not a solid. Any ideas on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

**Hi All

I completed a nice set of drawings in Layout recently and today the designer asked if she could get the drawings in a different scale. When I tried to rescale the drawings the dimensions seemed to follow but the text and other graphic notations that I added did not.
Is there a way to select all of these components (drawing, text and graphic notations, etc.)
and have them all resize to whatever scale I choose in the scale menu?

Thanks so much.**

Well, I just tried rebooting Sketchup for the second time and for some reason everything is fine now.
I have no idea what happened. Thanks for responding though. All the best DaveR!!

OK. I've just noticed that if I open a new document and draw a line that it doesn't show up at all!
Did I mistakenly change my line color or something?

Also, when I zoom in or out the lines reappear but as soon as I stop zooming the line go away again.

HI All

Something changed this morning and I can't figure out what I did.
When I'm viewing my model with textures or shading the lines disappear.
If I view the model in the hidden line, wireframe, back edges or x-ray
view the view goes completely white. See the screenshots below.

What did I do?

Thanks!

Duh! Thank you! That did the trick. Much appreciated.
Thanks goodness for screenshots.

Hi All

I am trying to install the LibFredo and FredoScale plugins but they do not appear in the plugins drop down menu.
I've searched the forums and done the following:

Installed the plugins in the correct spot: see screenshot:

Checked permissions: see screenshot:

Checked Sketchup/preferences/extensions: see screenshot:

I've run out of ideas. Any help is much appreciated!

Hi All

I'm having a problem: when I draw more than one line over a scene in Layout it creates
a white mask over the scene. What's the dealeo? I'm sure I must be missing something simple here.
I've tried drawing on the layer with the scene. I've tried locking the scene layer and drawing
lines on it's own layer. Can't figure it out.

Thanks in advance!

Hi All- I downloaded the sketchup style DRAUGHTSMAN by Eramirez from the styles collection 2011 at the 'sketchup artists' website.
http://www.sketchupartists.org/2011/02/styles-2011/
The shadows for his style shown on the webpage are a beige color but when I downloaded this style my shadows are the standard grey color.
Any idea how to change this?

Thanks

Thanks Dave- I have tried your suggestions and these are the problems I am having. I opened my template and clicked on the text icon in the toolbar. I entered text and then changed the font, saved the template and it worked. However, when I try this same method with the text box tool or the dimension tool it does not stick for some reason.
I also noticed that there is no option for text under the 'window' menu. As you suggested (since I'm on a Mac) I just right clicked on the text and chose 'font' and then 'show fonts'. Is there not supposed to be a 'text' window that I can dock with the other window toolbars similar to 'shape style' , 'dimension style' , 'sketchup model', 'pages', 'layers', etc...?
I really feel like I'm missing something here.

I can't seem to find good information on how to change the default font for use in Layout when you want to add text or dimensions.
I'm sure it's easy but I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks.

Thanks guys! That did the trick.

I have opened my Sketchup file in Layout and created a couple of pages using various scenes. I went back to my Sketchup model and created a new scene.
How can I get the new scene to be available in the layout document? Is there an 'update sketchup model' option?
Thanks for the help! This forum had been excellent.

I figured it out. For some reason the library folder was hidden. I opened the 'terminal' application and typed in: chflags nohidden ~/Library
That did the trick! It now shows up under the 'my name' folder. Hmmm.

For some reason I don't have a library folder in my 'my name' folder????

Hi All,

I can't find my LAYOUT folder on my Mac. I saw a previous thread where it was suggested to go to:
HD:Users:Library:Layout:Templates...etc
On my system this is what I have:
Macinstosh HD: Users: Shared Folder or 'My Name' folder with the house icon.
If I click on 'My Name' folder I have many folders to choose from such as Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc. but no option for 'Library'.
I have a presentation for work this afternoon and need to access the templates folder in the Layout
folder ASAP.
Thanks in advance!

Hi All,

I've made a template that I use all the time. If I make a few changes to it like changing the font or changing the style or maybe the toolbar, etc., how do I update that template without having to create a new one? I've searched around quite a bit but can't seam to find and answer.

Thanks