Hi. I could not find the answer in the SketchUp help center, not in YouTube, not in the official SketchUp forums.. Nowhere! But I found it after trial and error. So I'll write it here. Maybe I'll rediscover this post myself some years from now, when I've forgotten about it (has happened before): In SU for Mac, when you first open a model and want to edit a material, you press B to open the Material Editor. Now, press the "Brick" tab and then the house to see the "Colors in model". Now click on the material in the model to select it, while pressing Cmd. If this is the first time you're going to edit this material in the current session, the "Colors in model" window will automatically scroll itself so the material you selected is visible... Among 20 other similar ones, and only identified by a faint baby blue outline. Strain your eyes a little bit to find it, and double-click on it to enter the edit mode. Yup. So many steps just to be granted the privilege of editing the material. Now, in the current "brick" tab you can only edit the texture. To edit the color, pick any of the other tabs. If you hit "close" you're out of the edit mode. If you don't, you can keep editing other materials by just Cmd + clicking on the scene. Now, if you have already edited this material before in the current session, and you have already exited Edit mode, the "colors in model" window will not automatically scroll to it and select it... It will just stay where it is. Yup. It's not gonna help you at all to find the material in the window. It won't even place the faint baby blue halo around it. Weirdly, opening Safari, googling "how to get rid of SketchUp" and then returning does help. Now it does scroll to the material and place the faint, ghostly halo around it, so you can double-click to edit it. You can also do this: Double click on ANY material in the "colors in model" window to enter Edit mode, and THEN use the eyedropper (Cmd + click) to actually select the material you really want to edit. I'm still not giving up on SketchUp for Mac.

For close inspection zooming try switching perspective camera off. For zooming out far turn it on. I have an alt+p shortcut and am constantly switching between both.

JPP is the best one! Projections by Didier has also a push pull multiple but less sophisticated! PS I suppose that you have seen that : When you have made one JPP simple or multiple you have just to make a double click on the following surface one by one for have the same JPP! Look also Architect Tools by Thomthom for the DWG files inside SketchUp! It has functions for automatically create buildings from the DWG!

Do it with lines, and then use TIGs C-point at vertex plugin to generate points at endpoints

That's good to know. Thanks for the update.

In fact my error was to "Import" the file and not "Open"! (cube of the first post who was not a component) So it was automatically transformed in a componnent! (doh of the day for me) In fact seems you are not obliged to Edit the Component! Just Erase the Geolocalisation and save file seems sufficient... or maybe not if many different localisations are possible in a same file? Thanks for have found the trick!

@jql said: If a component has a material applied that material always overrides the default material both on back and front faces. Thanks, JQL, you may be right. Have a good weekend!

i have same problem.... http://saidgank.blogspot.com/2017/03/cara-mengatasi-not-responding-pada-SKETCHUP.html my sketchup always not responding

I can see that might be a problem to have the box checked when there's no watermark. It may be expecting to save an image which it can't find.

@rich o brien said: I find the viewport display for that in designer to reflect the render output in Thea. And because of the difference in how metal appears in SD spec/gloss as compared to Thea it's an uphill battle. For straight up non-metals it's fine though. True! PBR roughness/metalic is the way to go with Thea, however Spec/Gloss might be useful for other engines, that's why I posted.

And when you curvate it with Fredo Scale! (random rectangles are made with the tricky Protrude by Jim) [image: 9GOx_GIF_lattice.gif]

Please ignore that last bit I am viewing this on my phone and just realised the lines have been added by yourself.

Has there been any headway made with the mac toolbar situation? Has someone come up with a plugin that helps or is there now a way to group together the separate toolbars (the top custom toolbar line just isn't enough)

@juju said: Isn't Skalp supposed to manage that automatically? I think so, but I don't use it. What I'm trying to say is that the perspective scene probably derived directly from a scene where the plan layers were active and that's maybe why they are also active on the new scene.

@rich o brien said: does that mean WrapR failed to meet your high expectations? You set the bar high with Wrap-R.. that's what I meant.. And the Wrapit video I was referring to was 8 years old...so that might be a fair benchmark to begin with...

It's not a SketchUp bug, though.

Thanks!

@srx said: You could rotate the screen if your monitor has a pivot Or lay on your side.

For me Save as component (once you've set it where it goes in the master model)works well. .. as noted above. Just be aware of anything you do with the axes for that component.

I've been looking for an answer to this issue, and this post is as close as I could get. How can I show the volume of a component in the Component Attributes window? It seems to be available in Attribute Reporting and in the Entity Info window, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to the CA window. Once I have the volume, I hope to calculate a cost for that volume. I have the cost per a determined UOM and can figure out how to convert it. Thanks