Hi okapi, yup these are on my todo list.

Except you mention translating styles to layers - there was a previous discussion on the forum here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3790.1

And the consensus from that discussion seemed to be that layers were kind of a vestigial feature in SketchUp and not really regularly used, so it would be better to transfer styles in MoI as material assignments in SketchUp, not as layer assignments. Does that approach make sense?

- Michael

Thanks for the feedback.
I am not a heavy Sketchup user.
It seems to me though that almost all the Sketchup 3d models that we receive, from different clients, are organized via layers.
The best I guess would be to have an option to choose whether styles are translated as layers or materials, (and names as layers, if styles are chosen to be translated as materials)?

Anyway, I think the main thing is that moi objects that have overlapping edges are not welded together in sketchup,
and that you can somehow choose objects by a material / layer / style assignment.

Hi okapi,

> (and names as layers, if styles are chosen to be translated as materials)?

So if each object in MoI was exported to be a group in SketchUp, wouldn't it make sense for the object name in MoI to become the group name in SketchUp as well instead of trying to make layers out of the object names?

That just seems like it would match well...

- Michael

Yes it's better to make "named group" because there is in Sketchup an "Outliner" where all named's goups are visible in a list of text!

If you have thousand of objects , that will be curious to make one Layer by object :)
Why not by styles or colors as option