I am VERY new to creating dynamic components and I am having trouble w/ a dynamic staircase. When I go to scale it and drag it down to increase number of stairs, I want the top step to stay in place. However, after re-sizing, the entire stair moves either up or down. If anyone can take a look and let me know what I am doing wrong, I would appreciate it. I am sure it is something simple.

When opening the file alone, the stair always snaps back to origin but when you import into existing drawing, that's when it moves around as you change size of stair.

Thanks in advance for help.

Stair - Dynamic Rise.skp

I am having a heck of a time trying to project the Scottish flag onto a waving surface. This worked fine for US Flag so I thought I was doing it correctly making sure that it is a projected image and unique texture. I have also tried S Korean Flag and S African flag and I get similar problem.

Sketchup file is attached as is image file that I am trying to project. Any suggestions?

Scotland Flag.skp

Thank you for all of your help and suggestions. With those suggestions, I think I have found a workaround to get it to work.

I already had PDFCreator on my computer and discovered that I can set it up so that it creates a jpg instead of a PDF like pbacot suggested. I also found VBA code so I can make a macro that will print all 50 (estimated) of the reports using PDF Creator and generate the JPGs of those reports. Then, the JPG of the report is linked into each respective Layout file.

A little sketchy way to do it but it seems to work. Woohoo! Thanks again for the help and counseling.

Yes, Microsoft Access can definitely export the report as a PDF. However, the Windows version of Layout cannot import a PDF. Access cannot export a report or query as any type of image file (jpg, bmp, tif, etc.) that Layout recognizes.

I will just continue banging my head into roadblocks.

I have a database that has one record that corresponds to a structure in Sketchup file. I have over 50 different structures that have a corresponding Sketchup/Layout file. Each of those records has an inventory of furnishings associated with it. Creating a macro that runs on exit that re-exports all of the queries to text files is easy.

I am on a PC and we don't have the option to import PDFs or that would be the solution. I am not sure why you Mac users have that option but we do not.

Can I just say UUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! Ok, I feel better. Thank you.

I am trying to avoid having to touch the exported file whether it's RTF or TXT because I would have to do it every time I changed something in database. When I insert a text file into Layout, it defaults at Arial (not a monospaced font) 10 point & the columnar format of the original information is lost.

Thanks for all of your help. I am transitioning from using TurboCad which could OLE link directly to queries to using Sketchup/Layout. The benefits of Sketchup/Layout over TurboCad definitely outweigh this issue but it's frustrating nonetheless.

I am working with over 50 different Layout files with 50 "linked" reports that come out of Access so I really need a method that is automatic. If I have to open each RTF file and manipulate every time I change something, the process becomes too inefficient to make sense.

When I export a text file out of Access or Excel, it comes into Layout single-spaced but the text is Arial 10 point font even though the original font is Courier New 8 point and the default font in Layout is Courier New 8 point.

I have a limited amount of space to place this exported information from Access so I need a single-spaced report in 6 or 8 point font size in a monospaced font to somewhat keep the tabular format of original report. So far, I am hitting walls.

I just upgraded to 2014 Pro a month ago. Profile is updated now.

I am trying to do a work-around since I cannot export information from MS Access report information directly into Layout as an OLE Object.

My method is to export the report as RTF file then insert the RTF file into Layout. It loses some of the formatting that I could do before in another CAD program when I was OLE linking but it's ok.

However, when the RTF is inserted into Layout, it shows up double-spaced. I then goto Text --> Spacing --> Custom --> Fixed and enter an exact line spacing so that the report information fits within space available. Unfortunately, after doing that, the text loses its link to the original RTF document. Any future changes to the RTF document does not change the text within the Layout document.

See images below to see how the report changes line spacing. Any idea how I can either have the text come into layout single spaced as it is when I open in any text editor or how I can maintain the link to the original RTF after I change the line spacing?

I need to place a structure into a location on a golf course. Unfortunately, there are not any existing structures in area to align the axis in Photo Match. Does anyone have any suggestions on something that I can put into the landscape before I take a picture that will allow me to determine the vanishing axis and scale in photo?

I am sure that many have done it, I just can't figure out the correct terms to Google to find a solution. Thank you in advance for help.