Thank you again. As per your suggestion (as my Downloads Folder is empty), I downloaded the SU2019 Installer (to my Desktop), ran the Repair function as Administrator, then rebooted, arranged Tool Bars, inserted a simple model. I then saved as a template and opened another instance of SU. This did not remedy the problem. Shall I try uninstalling, then reinstalling SU as Administrator?

@freebs said: Do I have the video for you. This guy - "Winning with Sketchup" - is by far the best sketchup-in-the-real-world teacher I've found on the net to date. He's clear, succint and shows you which plugins he uses. Most are those we already have, but used well as part of an excellent workflow. He's a pro that actually uses Sketchup. This helped me do almost exactly what you're trying for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4tGgOFQJQ&t=602s Also see these ones (2-part series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWjVrL0oetQ&t=330s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T6xe3z0SEo Cheers, Brett. Thanks for the links! That's exactly SSB video I was thinking of!

With the method of the Extrude Tools By Tig Bezier Splines Trick is drawing curves on a rectangular surface (here the image) or a simple rectangle then erase the unwanted...or like follow a Copy / Move! you can use only 3 curves (so make 2 clicks on the second curve - here it's 4 curves) Extrude Tools [image: VCf2_extruc.jpg] https://youtu.be/0lmLHyhTIBM

@george said: Before setting up your scenes... Window > Model Info > Animation > Disable Scene Transitions. Each scene will then retain its individual North setting... sorry George - somehow I missed your so helpful contribution - thanks for that and yes, that's exactly how it finally works now Thanks to all again and hopefully I'll really remember it this time

Sorry mate, I just wonder what the point of duplicating all my files is all about. This has only happened in 2019 and only really since the .3 edition, nothing like this before and I do not appreciate the mucking about. The idea of putting the files on drive 'D' is to save memory on drive 'C', it is an internal hdd direct to the mother board. BTW, the answer is no. Having moved my files to the 'C' drive I still cannot import SKP. I think I must be getting two tuesday's this week. I hope only two anyway.

No. SketchUp does not have an automation interface on Mac or on Windows. The nearest thing is an external utility that simulates keypresses, but that isn't really what you want.

Hello, It's an old post but as i've the same question than Tommyg101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNdn1EzzIUA does anybody know of anything similar ? Thanks

The source for the terrain and imagery is not free since Google took their toys and went home. Now that it is a premium service and hobbyists using SketchUp Make, such as yourself, aren't paying for it, they don't get access to that data.

@mtno said: :ecstatic: Did I miss SU 2020? Most users ever online was 1859 on Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:53 pm Based on your profile, you missed SU2019, too. You ought to hang around here more often.

I have no advice to offer but I wish you well. I hope you find something that works for you.

From Google Translate: @unknownuser said: Please tell me which plug-in is needed to calculate the materials of the ventilated facade? Please provide more specific information. Upload your SketchUp model file or at least an image showing what you are trying to do. Which version of SketchUp are you using? Your profile says you are using 2018 Free/Make but there is no such version. The correct information will help us help you.

This did not work to me. Tried everything, I can't get two toolbars to stick where the hell I put them.......

Thanks, glad to help

A Group of entities can have the same 'Instance' name as any other group of (different) entities. The Group instance name will not be unique unlike a Component. You can name your new spline instance with the same name as the original. Place the new version where you want and just delete the old one. That would be my take if you only need to replace a few instances. Not sure if there would be any other way to do it other than the Component option but of course that would not allow unique numbering/naming. Hope I have interpreted your query correctly, I so often don't!

I think you're wanting to make SketchUp behave like Revit/AutoCAD but it works differently. SketchUp needs to group geometry to keep them apart. Without groups/components you would end up with a model that is impossible to work with since edges and faces would be glued together into a gigantic messy mesh. I have been working with SketchUp since 2000 and in the past I also tried to put loose geometry to different layers but since they are connected there WILL be problems. Having all geometry on Layer0 and putting groups and components to different layers is what works best in SketchUp. As a side note, I have found that SketchUp somehow is much faster if you have grouped geometry versus loose geometry. Here is my current best workflow Revit to SketchUp: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=68000&hilit=+Revit

@pixero said: Wow. I use Fredo box stretch frequently but didn't know you could move the scaling "plane". That makes it even better. I guess we learn something every day... You are right. I didn't know this neither. That's why I never dared to put "level of SketchUp - ADVANCED".

@kalban said: So i tested it now with a new template, made from one of SU default templates. Problem still exist. So i'm guessing next step is to look at extensions, and see if one of them are to blame. Do that, yes. Sometimes one has no option other than to manually search for an item which is to blame. 1. Last week for example I experienced a weird behaviour within one file made with some graphics editor program. I made 10-15 files each 50-100 MB heavy (which my computer can work with). But one of them had only about 30 MB and four pages (for printing). Unlike others which could be opened in a few seconds this one always took several minutes. Weird. And when editing one of those pages - I got a terrible slowdown. Just one of those pages. I couldn't find any solution online. It looked as that page somehow restricted amount of RAM asigned to the file. Or who knows what. Anyway, things were settled out this way: I created a fresh file. Made four pages, copied items from problematic file one by one or grouped. And when I started copied items from the problematic page all were copied with no problem except one small jpg image. Just imagine, 600x400px 100KB image didn't behave nicely, but instead created huge problems and slowed me down considerably. So instead of copied it from that file, I found it on my computer, imported into the new file, resized it there, placed as it should be and that was it. Now that file and everything in it behave normally. No weird acting anymore. So sometimes even something really small can cause big problems. 2. Or look what happened to me once when working with some face-me trees in SketchUp: https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=63003 During rotation - some trees rotated normally, but some didn't. No one exactly knew why - but eventually, I exploded that tree species component and made a fresh face-me component from exploded parts, put component instances in correct places (luckily I had marks) and now all of them behaved like good guys this time. Exploding and reasembling helped in my case. 3. I hope you will find the guilty guy in your case soon. And tell us what was it.

wow - and thanks for this lines representation which is a really nice option (for me updating is like fashion - lots of room for improvements )

Thanks the the replies. I have made a new topic, where i try to solve a different issue, that will make this topic irrelevant if it can be solved. The other topic i the reason i made this topic. i hope it makes sense. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=71964

Hi Dave R #1 For me as an Architect I have stopped the upgrade at SU 2018 and happy to pay for maintenance only. The things that make SU so special are the add-ons that that actually make it a more complete and usable tool. The important issue for me is to keep the Legacy plugins still working that are core to my long term use with SU. As Trimble changes modes Sketchup just becomes a different program system but only marginally better in function The good old bread and butter scripts just stop working and are only fixed at random. Thanks for all your good and generous help for the walking wounded in Sketchup. You are well remembered. [image: 4ahC_CRADLE.jpg]