Are you manually typing in the numbers? What if all you had to do was click where you want to anchor the label and where you want the text? Would that make it easy enough?

Within Applications, then Utilities, you should have a program called Activity monitor. Open this, then right click on the symbol in the dock and change the dock icon to "Show CPU usage". This is quite helpful to see what programs are maxing out your CPU at a glance. Also while you are within Activity Monitor, select "Memory" and look for "Swap used" at the bottom. If you are maxing out your RAM at any point, it will be using part of your hard drive as RAM. This keeps the computer running, but can slow down the computer massively. You can also get an idea as to what programs you can close to free up RAM. Some internet tabs - especially websites like Google Maps and YouTube can really eat into your RAM.

I think the "reverse" as you say, is there in the LO Document Setup. You can see all the SU files that are referenced in the LO file, unless I am missing something. I have wanted within SU, at least to be able to identify (and open or "go to") the LO files that are referencing a SU file. You have some good points, but I think this simple info would be a start.

For objects from manufactures in direct link inside a 3D Prog there is the incredible (free) PconPlanner : it has import/ export SKP format !

It works fine in v8. See this simple GIF made in v8... [click on it to play it...] [image: AX7s_SCF.gif] Something must be wrong with your installation. Try reinstalling SketchUp v8. What other tools are showing disabled [grayed] menu items ?

As a side note, displays with high-dpi have started emerging on Windows recently as well. We all need to keep up the pressure on Trimble to find ways to deal better with these new displays. But, I don't expect anything before SU 2016 regardless, so in the meantime we must do things like John suggests or just cope with the tiny display of items.

I know this will sound strange but go into the presences window in SketchUp and chane the OpenGL settings. Try turning Hardware accretion off. Quit and reopen LayOut. Then rerender the viewport and see if it fixes the problem.