dewey-1 wrote: Did you use SketchUp Pro 7 or 8?
Can you export to sat file?

It is SketchUp 8 free version.
There is no export to sat in it.

See my own Schrader valve model, created from scratch in Sketchup. I have no experience with other CAD program, so I like it!
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... revstart=0

dewey-1 wrote:Click "View", then check "Hidden Geometry" and you should get the lines you are asking for.

Sure, but there are 5546 edges in your schrader-valve model. Setting manually entity info for each of them, it would be very ineffective...

I am talking about the particular model. When I make a simple cylinder in Sketchup, if I see it perpendicularly to its axis, it's hard to say if I see cylinder, cube or even rectangle. But with lines collateral to axis, it is much better. I could let explode the whole model and make all lines visibl...

Hello, dewey-1! Your sketchup models, like http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=5df040fef62a81b78b92e236cf9045a7&prevstart=0 has interesting style of 2-1-2-1.. visible lines on curved surfaces, which seems to me better than all lines "soft" and "smooth". Would you reveal please how do ...