Fortunately there is an easy fix (see above), unless you have modeled with the axis off.

Thanks for trying JuJu. I can't imagine giving SU the boot for Revit. Once you have a system down that you know, I simply haven't seen anything that competes. I'm still a one man show and just completed 6 custom complex homes in 5 months....all either started construction or in the building department for permit review. There is no software I know of, that could allow me to achieve that. Granted it was a very busy 5 months!

Each of these projects had between 60-80 sheets and included multiple renderings, animation, kubity model etc.

If any of you are attending basecamp, I have some significant updates to share, along with my process for detailing.

Nick

In the scenes manager, make sure "visible layers" is checked, select the layers you want visible, then update, then save. If not, each scene changes with the current layer selection.

Dave is spot on. It's all in the styles and which style is used for particular scenes.

Agreed, that is a really big .skp file. Most of mine are in the 40-70 mb size.

Like TIG says. If your goal is to have a level ridge, then your eave will be sloped. If your goal is to have a level eave, then your ridge will be sloped. If your goal is to have a level ridge and eave, your walls need to straighten or you need to frame it in a parabolic which is what you got in your result, which is very expensive and difficult to frame.

I use clipping masks for all my sections, elevations and interior elevations. It works perfectly. You can assign the mask a line style as well which works great for interior elevations.

I had a quick look. I noticed that inside the wall group layer 1-walls - the outer wall you had it structured as a group in side an overall group which is redundent. I can't explain the exact reason why, but when I exploded the outer wall inner group, re-linked the file the outer walls do show in vector.

Thanks folks!.

Yes you can. I've been doing it for years and it works exceptionally well. Matt Donley and I co-authored a book on my process. You can see it here http://www.sketchupbook.com

@greatoe said:

A work around is, in your sketchup model, delete the section plane, add a new section plane to the same location of the old one, update your scene, save the sketchup file, then update model reference in Layout and all will be good.

If you use Layout to draw construction drawings, just like me, you will have many section planes (like 50+), then this will be a very hard labour.

Worse is, if you continue modeling in Sketchup, especially if you add new layers and new scenes, the 'lost line' problem will probably come out again and you have to re-assign the section planes again.

This is a prime example of why I use multiple models. 50+ sections are unworkable and really slow things down.