I opened your file Wo3Dan and tried it out but didn't see any issues...

Glad it's not just me, Paul. Might tell Trimblers about it.

No not that at all, Rich. Now its the red axis playing up...

RedAxis.wmv

Ah, that was it....

I had Geo-location set to Ireland.

Working again now...!!!

Hey guys, take a look at this screen video I just exported. This has been happening to me for a little while now and it's really giving me the pips!!!!

Red axis inference works as does the blue but green just can't be found...

Is anyone seeing this issue as well?

InferencingAlongGreenAxis.wmv

Thanks for doing this, TIG. very much appreciated; as always.....

@pixero said:

You could try opening it in a texteditor. I use Notepad++.
Set the language to Ruby and try to find the lines described by TIG.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Pixero but I'm likely to blow it up....

Hi Sam, I note above you said you haven't considered converting this plugin for metric use and TIG has outlined how to 'metricate' it. I'm a little unsure how this is done; Do I try and open the script and edit it? A little risky given I nothing about coding....

Cheers.

@jql said:

Beware that linestyles in Sketchup isn't available.

If you transform an edge or curve into a 2D tool's dashed line, for instance, it will plot nicelly but it will become a group with several faces that look like dashes instead of an edge. You'll never be able to export it as a line.

Tig can do wonders and circumvent many Sketchup limitations with his plugins, but he cannot force sketchup to suddenly have linestyles assigned to edges.

Agreed, JQL. SketchUp really needs custom linetypes. Fullstop!!

Thanks Dave, it appears you're viewing in raster mode?

Be good to see what you output you're getting, ntxdave. Would you mind posting a screenshot of how it comes out in Layout?

@baz said:

Beautiful bikes, takes me back to my bikie days.

Mee too, Baz although I rode a Duc.... miss it nowadays.

Sorry to hear you were feeling down on your milestone birthday, Baz! Gee 65; I hope I get there....

Forget the puppy or cat; head down and guzzle a few beers at Pony Fish Island bar my fav when I come down to Melbourne. For those of you who don't know Pony Fish is a bar built on the pier of a footbridge over the Yarra river.

And if the sea levels rise just walk back up to the bridge.....

Yes it is a good point, Brett although the text box you refer too is actually a bounding box which I assume works a little differently. Annoying all the same.

Cheers for the overview, Rich. Might have to look at what InDesign can do for my work. So many bloody programs from renderers, image editors, work processors... so days I just want to pick up a pen!

Ditto...

@richard said:

So in the end mate, there is a bigger world out there that function could be sourced from to reduce some rather time consuming workarounds.

So with InDeisgn, Rich you don't keep all your similar elements on a particular layer? Like:

Linework
Dimensions
Text
Symbols
Etc..

If you were to work in a CAD program again (heaven forbid!! ) would you not want to group these elements together?

Maybe rather than a modifier key, we need to actually have it as a preferences setting...?

@jql said:

@utiler said:

My screen space surrounding the page is filled with things I want to use for that particular series of drawings. [see attached] How easy would it be if all of those things [text, lines, fills, yarda, yarda] could bring their layer properties with them when sampled?

I do exactly the same thing you do... almost actually. My reference objects are at the top and left of the paper sheet, as when you change paper size it stretches down and right...

Of course, smarty pants!!

I would have expected most functions requiring a particular style would be put on the same layer, Rich. Think Text, linework, symbols, fills, etc. Isn't all your body text on the same layer so you can isolate it if you want? If so, the layer hierarchy should be set in your template and never change [or very rarely].
If I want to sample my general dimension style I'll want them all to be on the same layer so I can control them. Again, that layer will be located in order of building up the final image....

The same goes for Scrapbook for that matter. God knows why you can apply a layer to something in your scrapbook file them when it comes into your drawing space it doesn't bring that info with it???

My screen space surrounding the page is filled with things I want to use for that particular series of drawings. [see attached] How easy would it be if all of those things [text, lines, fills, yarda, yarda] could bring their layer properties with them when sampled?