Wouldn't Mystic Thumbs or MooTools 3D Browser do this easier?

Maybe not the best but very easy SimLab Composer Animation

Why not save them as pdf. Open them in Acrobat Reader and print them to fit on 8 1/2 x 11. Jeff

There's cutlist, used by a lot of woodworkers that could perhaps help you.

Thanks Dan, I hadn't noticed that behaviour before. Initially being only interested in getting a couple of components into the model it wasn't an issue and I would always have the proxies in the model to check that the swap worked ok. Looking at this again it looks like the components are all loaded into the file in turn. When I repeat ThomThom's text as below only Comp4 gets deleted if not required to replace comp3 (being the last to be loaded). Comp2 get left behind. newDef = model.definitions.load("J:/Comp2.skp") oldDef = model.definitions['Comp1'] oldDef.instances.each{|old_inst|old_inst.definition=newDef t = old_inst.transformation ents = old_inst.parent.entities ents.add_instance(newDef, t) old_inst.erase! } newDef = model.definitions.load("J:/Comp4.skp") oldDef = model.definitions['Comp3'] oldDef.instances.each{|old_inst|old_inst.definition=newDef t = old_inst.transformation ents = old_inst.parent.entities ents.add_instance(newDef, t) old_inst.erase! }

Moved the thread to the Developer's forum. We have reorganized so that the Plugin section is only a list of plugins you can download and use.

ah! thanks (duh on my part) Make Unique only works with 1 face selected, correct? Is there a plugin or method to do make multiple selections unique at once? (I'm experimenting with these threads) Creating an Arch -- http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=21847 UV Toolkit -- http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=18992

Simply exporting them to file - say 'myshortcuts.dat' makes a list as a text file thus. [Accelerators] Count=64 0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool: 0 0 0 L selectLineTool: 0 0 0 E selectEraseTool: 0 0 0 C selectCircleTool: 0 0 0 A selectArcTool: 0 0 0 M selectMoveTool: ... The 0 0 0 fields represents modifier keys Ctrl/Alt/Shift, so 0 0 0 H editHide: 0 0 1 H Edit/Unhide/All ###shift This is used to Import your setting in the Preferences window. To ensure that they over-write any pre-existing ones you really need to edit the Windows Registry [ - be verycareful!]... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Sketchup7\Settings Num_Shortcuts = REG_DWORD = 64 [or total of list length] Shortcut_1 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 Space selectSelectionTool:" Shortcut_2 = REG_SZ = "0 0 0 L selectLineTool:" etc... You would 'empty' the 'Settings' prior to re-importing new ones ? Don't try this unless you know what you are doing... else= If you did then you could [with SUp closed] use a batch file to clear the Registry's '...\Settings' entries and then use those saved in the 'myshortcuts.dat' etc to remake those entries to suit... An alternative way to get a list of shortcuts is using the Ruby Console command: myshortcuts_array=Sketchup.get_shortcuts which returns an array of tab delimited shortcuts - e.g. ["Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All", "Ctrl+C\tEdit/Copy", ...] You could manipulate each entry in that array and puts it into an external file [ myshortcuts_file="...\\myshortcuts.dat" ?] - this is equivalent to Exporting your current shortcut settings from Preferences - e.g. "Ctrl+A\tEdit/Select All" >>becomes***>> "1 0 0 A Edit/Select All" ###becomes 'simplied' - the testing and pattern matching is 'cod' here == it's NOT real code ! text=myshortcuts_array[i] ctrl = "1 " if text.includes "Ctrl" else ctrl = "0 " alt = "1 " if text.includes "Alt" else alt = "0 " shift = "1 " if text.includes "Shift" else shift = "0 " key = text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[0] command = " " + text.split("+")[1].split("\t")[1] line = ctrl+alt+shift+key+command myshortcuts_file.puts(line) ### You could make the script auto-run on close and always keep a list of your current shortcuts ? You could then reimport them as desired using Preferences/Import or using a Registry batch-file lash-up... Hope there're a few ideas there...

Thanks for the quick response and tips. small steps for now... I try what you said