@ashscott said:

It appears this is a resolution issue with the 3000x2000 display on the Surface Pro.

Dropping the display resolution to 1920 x 1200 makes things significantly better.

I'm running Win10 now with SU 2016 (1920x1200 desktop monitor) and I am getting all kinds of point snapping errors. I've tried adjusting all of the drawing settings in various ways and I still have an issue where when I go to draw a new line, Sketchup decides to start the line from either some random point in space or from a parallel line I don't have my cursor anywhere near. The only way to get rid of this random point so that I can draw the line from where I want it to begin (i.e. another endpoint, line, etc.) I have to start drawing from the Sketchup supplied "random start point", then hit escape to clear the bogus start point.

I've been using Sketchup professionaly for 7 years and haven't had this issue once before. It's getting really annoying very quickly.

@blackdogsketch said:

@tuna1957 said:

blackdogsketch, no expert but do a lot of line overlay stuff for presentation boards. maybe I can offer some help.

1 - enabling transparency when exporting a 2d graphic only applies transparency to empty areas of the view. all objects still retain their color. to get transparent image I export my line style image, open in Gimp and run the "color to alpha" operation. wipes out all the white so I can overlay on my other images. I'm sure PhotoShop has a similar function.

So if I have a line drawing of a circle, the area outside the perimeter will retain transparency but the area inside will be a "color"? Interesting...OK, thanks for the tip. I'll tell the PS person about this.

In Photoshop just have your artist set the exported line graphics on a layer to Multiply. Problem solved assuming they just want the linework? Same goes for shadows, sketchy styles, etc.

I haven't run into this sketchy export issue you've had either. I generally export my Sketchup layers at 4000px wide and then scale up to 150ppi in Photoshop before I begin an illustration. Hope that helps.