Did you sort it out, Brett??

Yes, like JQL says multi-views are the wa yto go when you work out how too but for the time being it should work. Highlight your reference file in LO and toggle back to raster. Then toggle back to Vector and see what happens. At times that function in LO just needs resetting when styles have been changed....

Also, be careful of unintentionally applying a colour / texture to a section plane. I've done this before and because when you select a section plane it doesn't show an assigned colour in Entity Info, you'll never know it has been coloured unless you apply the default to it.

Quick video here to explain. It's a trick for young players....

LINEWORK IN LO.wmv

Brett, see the attached video.

What you need to be careful of is applying colours to groups and components. I have seen a tutorial on this somewhere so I'll see if I can dig it up for you.

You'll notice you have coloured the wall groups in the concrete texture rather than painting the faces. This is where the problem is.

I changed the colour back to the default SU front / back face colour and updated the Layout file and wha la!

The vid is a little over the limit for here so download it from my Dropbox here:

Dropbox - File Deleted - Simplify your life

(www.dropbox.com)

Here you go, mate.

I;m just doing a quick video to show you what was wrong in your model... will post soon.

@brettsichellodesign said:

It is really annoying. I try and get round it by having all sketchup 'viewports' in a locked layer. This means you can't double click into them.

That's exactly what you should do. I import any Su reference on a layer called 'SketchUp Imports' and lock it unless I need to manipulate the viewport. That way working over the top of it is a breeze...

I think I might know what your issues is, Brett. Can you post your model here and I'll have a look.

This has happened to me before.

Hi Brett, are your external walls in SU in a group?

@richard said:

@utiler said:

Must be the beer we drink Rich that creates such a steady hand!

Or the excess of it causing a limit to "straight" lines only!!! And none of that crappy U.S. beer!

Nah, they certainly don't know how to brew a decent beer...

Must be the beer we drink Rich that creates such a steady hand!

Very, very low ceilings in there, Gary!! I'd be like a caged lion and I'm only 5'6"!!

Hi Guys, not sure how many of you use Gmail as your link to the business work; I have for a number of years and rarely have issues with it.

I started looking for extensions a few years ago to push Gmail's usability a little more into GTD direction seeing I'm a sole practitioner I don't have people to orgainse my day for me.

I've trialed a number of these that I found:

Todoist [www.gmail.todoist.com/overview]
Hiver [www.hiverhq.com]
Boomerang [www.boomeranggamil.com]
ActiveInbox ]www.activeinboxhq.com]
Right Inbox [www.rightinbox.com/]

For me the most important thing was to have an easy reminder system of tagging emails, creating task and reminders so that nothing gets forgotten. Also, having mobile support was a huge advantage.

The best extension I found that ticked the most boxes was ActiveInbox. Reasonably price and full of features.

Give it a try if you're a gmail user and want more of it. I'd be surprised if it didn't make a serious difference to your daily productivity....

Oh, and I have no affiliation with any of the above extensions; just appreciate the wood work that has gone into building these timesavers and though you guys should know about what's out there.

Thanks mate I'll give them a go.

I quite like that!! Could you share the SU file? I've tried making dashed lines with Profile Builder too but never perfect...

Ditto!! Nice of you to share, mate!!

nice work, Pilou!!!

Neat little project, Baz. How big was the bucket?

Looks way too laborious for my liking....

@box said:

Believe or not Thomthom, they do. They've gotten very draconian around here since I was away.
Much rather be over there.

They certainly have, Box. In Queensland they've started serving last drinks at 2am!!!!

Ok, I should have troubleshot a bit; It seems to be ok in a new model.....