tlilley

@mruseless: Me, too. I had assumed the other posters had upgraded from IE :-)

I offered an analysis of the problem in the comments on this post:

http://finewoodworking.taunton.com/item/2505/an-important-setup-step-for-woodworkers#comments

However, I haven't tested it (and, uh, won't test it ;-)) in IE.

If it's IE that's the problem, then you may all ignore my previous commentary on the matter ;-)

The "three lines at the top" were supposed to look like this:

<link rel="Stylesheet" href="/assets/css/styles.css?20080701" />
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="/assets/css/print.css?20080701" media="print" />
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="/assets/css/themes/blogs/Forest_Green.css?20080701" />

Sorry for the oops.

@Killenwood: Based on my own experiments, I wonder if the authors of comments describing printing problems (which I've now seen attached to several of your posts,) mean "the article plus all of the comments," when they say "I tried to print the article and only got one page."

I just printed a longer post as a test:

http://finewoodworking.taunton.com/item/2364/creating-a-project-plan-in-sketchup

This came out to nine (9) pages, and all of them came out of my printer :-)

The comments are specifically disabled by directives in the stylesheet associated with printing on these blog pages. If you look in the source for these pages, you'll see these three lines toward the top:





The middle line, ending with media="print", is the "culprit," but by design. The designers of the site assume (as is reasonable on many sites) that visitors are interested in printing the article itself, not a million "me, too!" comments (which isn't the case here, but is on many other sites, sadly.)

It should be easy for your web team to add a "print with comments" link which would use a style designed to include printable versions of the comments, as well. There is an article describing one approach on A List Apart:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/

Hope this helps...

May I suggest sprinkling occasional extra "power user-isms" into posts to assist those still learning SKP? For example, this post's "creating the plys" step would be a perfect place to sneak in the "/n" VCB shortcut, to avoid any nasty ply thickness mental math :-)

For veneered plywood:

0) Create a rectangle defining an edge of the plywood sheet.
1) Draw a line across that plywood edge rectangle to define the top veneer ply.
2) Select that line.
3) Select the "Move (m)" command.
4) Hold down the Control key and drag the new line copy to a position defining the bottom veneer ply (i.e., copy the top veneer line to where the bottom veneer line should go.)
5) Before selecting any other objects, commands, etc., type "/5" to create both the new line for the bottom veneer ply, and 4 additional evenly spaced lines between it and the original line.

This will give you two (2) veneer plies and five (5) uniform interior plies, for a total of seven (7) plies. The only measurements you need to know are the thickness of the sheet, and the thickness of the veneer.

For plywood with uniform plies throughout (i.e., no veneer):

0) Create a rectangle defining an edge of the plywood sheet.
1) Delete the bottom line of the rectangle.
2) Select the top line of the rectangle.
3) Select the "Move (m)" command.
4) Hold down the Control key and drag the new line copy to the bottom of the rectangle, replacing the deleted bottom line. It should snap into place, closing the rectangle and making it a "surface" again, instead of a mere collection of lines.
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5) Before selecting any other objects, commands, etc., type "/5" to create both the new line for the bottom of the rectangle, and 4 additional evenly spaced lines between it and the top line.

This will give you five (5) uniform plies. The only measurement you need to know is the thickness of the sheet.

I don't have SKP installed on this machine, so I'm kinda doing this from memory, but I'm pretty sure these sequences work ;-)

There's a nice tutorial video of the "/n" VCB shortcut here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBUVOTF-hEs