Many thanks for all your suggestions, the more I use SU it seems as if jiggling is a key feature of using it When I run into seemingly insurmountable problems it does take some of the fun out of it so some ocassional assistance is crucial to my SU development. Many thanks.

I got it sorted in the end by adjusting where I placed the rotation axis and then moving it into place.

when I find the way to edit or cut sections off an imported model I will be one step further. - 'edit' Got it! right click on the selection and edit component. Now we're cooking with gas..

Such is life.

Thanks for your help
teepee

Hi, I'm a newbie!

Hope you nice folks can help me get the most out of SketchUp. What an amazing tool.

I want to copy a road component down a line but it seems that the component snaps offline, resulting in a row of slightly skewed road sections.

Which is very irritating.

As is a host of other things I can't do yet but one thing at a time.

Thx