Thanks Dave, yes that is exactly what I mean. The trouble I'm having is that I have this large image that I want to be a vector drawing, and layout is struggling to deal with the size of it (I'm aware I'm probably not using layout for it's intended use, but, I'm an artist!). I have done it before where I have rendered sections in Layout and then pieced them together afterwards, but because of the perspective, I'm struggling to do that for this piece.

When I've made a clipping mask in Layout, before rendering, is it possible to detach this section so that it isn't masking, but it's its own entity?

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your answers, and sorry for not being clear! I'll try and explain again.

I have a scene saved in SKP, and the view is in perspective. I know I can click my scene and come back to this saved camera angle whenever I need to. My scene depicts a very large building. I want to zoom into an area of this, but I want the camera to stay at the same angle as I have it set at before zooming in.

What I think I want to do, is set the camera up, but then almost treat the image as a parallel projection or 2D image, letting me zoom in and out without changing the way anything looks.

Does that make any more sense?!

Thanks!

When viewing a scene in perspective, is it possible to pan & zoom around that scene ( by which I mean to zoom into certain areas), without it adjusting the camera position/viewing angle?

Ok great, thank you!

If I have the style set to vector - is layout able to do this in perspective?

As in, if I have 3 cubes going backwards as in the picture, could I have the first cube with a line thickness of say 2pt and the back cube have a thickness of 0.5pt, without having to do it manually?

Thanks!

Pilou, you are right! haha, thank you!

Thanks for reply sfto1, but yes, that is what I've already tried! I have actually found a plugin called Eneroth Axonometric Projection which does what I need, but it only works for line drawings so isn't any good for rendering...

I am looking to render a model with a sort of false perspective. I want to see the front of the building flat on, but also see the side of the building like in parallel projection. I also want to tilt it upwards so I can see the roof. If you see the cube below only the verticals are straight, the horizontals aren't. Is there a way I can set sketchup to this kind of view?

Hope that makes sense, sorry for the lack of technical terms!

Sky

Yes, and that is only a third of it! The original design was all grey, but now my boss has changed his mind!! haha!

I have made a rather complex model, see image below. It is coloured in the default material. I now however want to project a textured image onto it. I know I have gone around this in slightly the wrong way, but as you can imagine, this image is made up of several groups and components, all of which have several groups and components nestled inside each other.

Is there an easy way I can make everything have the projected image on it? Or do I need to go into the components further down inside and repaint them? I have tried editing the component at the top of the stack and adding the texture, but it only applies it to whatever is not grouped into other places.

I know I can edit the material and add a texture image in the paint bucket tool bar, but it isn't projected.

Hope that all makes sense - my technical terms aren't great I know!

Any help gratefully received! Thanks sketchup users!