@rombout said: Did this project see the day light? It was released it the Plugin Store over 2 years ago... I am on longer updating it as SU v17 added it back into mac SU... +800 people have downloaded it with only a handful of issue... click the link to go to the thread... Add Icons john

If it's the connector you are after, there's no plugin to make them automatically. Possibly you'll find something suitable in the 3D Warehouse. Drawing that connector is not difficult, though. You should be able to get the specifications for the connector and for drilling the holes from the manufacturer.

Had a crazy week, but have been testing SU2017 on my MacBook for most of it. Not sure overall if it's slowed down compared to 2015: overall graphics seem smother, but with a bit of lag in some operations. Whether or not that bodes poorly for really large models I can't say. Bottom line is that it's still works fine for my needs, at least on mid-sized models (~35MB).

I think you can just right click one of your components and Select > Active with Selected Materials [image: selected materials.jpg]

I need to do this sort of thing frequently since I'm always making plans for furniture piece. I do use LayOut which makes it much easier but much of what I do you could do with Make. First, you need to make sure you are using layers appropriately so you can make parts invisible when you don't need to see for a given scene. You can make copies of the components and shift them off to another part of the model space to create other views like 3-views of parts and exploded views. Here's an example from a recent plan. [image: Screenshot - 4_12_2017 , 4_56_34 PM.png] Between layer management and camera position, I can show exactly what I want to show for each scene. It's much easier to fine tune the view in LayOut but in your case, export the scenes as images. Then import those images into your document. You can control the size of the images during import and you can use an image editor to crop the images if needed. FWIW, it is totally inappropriate to scale your model to make it look larger. You can zoom the camera to look at a smaller portion of the model if needed but don't use the Scale tool. That invites all sorts of problems including incorrectly displayed dimensions as you mentioned. BTW, doing this with SketchUp Make and some other document creation software such as MSWord is time consuming. Revisions are especially problematic. If your time has any value at all, you would be wise to spring for SketchUp Pro so you can use LayOut. In the grand scheme of things the cost is relatively minor compared to the time you'd save in making the plans so you can get to the shop and start building.

Just to explain more clearly: I made an aspen tree with aspen "leaf" level 3 components grouped together inside a level 2 "branch" component grouped together inside a level 1 "tree" component. Then I used the aspen tree component to make a birch tree in a new file. I replaced the Aspen leaf .tif texture with birch leaf .tif, and changed the branch shapes a bit. Then I make a new landscape file and insert the birch tree. Later I insert the aspen tree. However the Aspen leaf.tif texture is now replaced with the birch leaf .tif texture. It seems SketchUp remembers that the leaf level 3 component was the same. Changing the components and sub-component name before importing makes no difference. The only thing that helps is exploding the leaf component. This would be a nice solution, except the tree is much more complex than explained above, with tons of different level 3 leaf components, which are not easy to find. Also I modeled a handful of trees before discovering this problem. So, either a solution to the issue of help figuring out the logic behind this problem would be greatly appreciated.

If you have 3ds max installed you can install a plugin called SketchUp exporter for 3ds Max. With this you can convert your .max file to .skp file with all textures. For reference kindly check this link, http://www.simlab-soft.com/3d-plugins/SketchUp-from-3DS-main.aspx315

@rich o brien said: It would. But you'll learn nothing I will learn vertex tools. I will! It's an as cool plugin as the tune you put. And I really dig your simple aproach to painter. It's really effective!

This is an old topic, but this is how I managed this in SketchUp 2017 Pro: Download & install Jim's plugin from the link above. Modify the file name format as you demand, in the plugin's preferences. Re-assign Ctrl+S to the plugin's SaveAs command, in SketchUp's preferences. Now you can save an old-version copy of your work by pressing Ctrl+S. I needed this solution because I am exporting models from SketchUp to Unity3D, which only supports up to version 2015, whilst I am working in version 2017. This is super easy of a workaround but I hope this made it clear for you )))

It's pro only. It annoys me that generate report doesn't get area reports. Maybe I'm not getting it right, but I ditched it away since. Otherwise it's working rather well.

I get the same result.... Click to play... [image: jaggies.gif]

Thnx TIG for trying to help me. Yesterday I installed sketchup the way you suggested, sitting on a couch using the touchpad. After doing so, I opened Sketchup to see whether the issue was solved and it seemed to be functioning the way it should, finally! To be sure, I connected the mouse to the laptop and once again I was experiencing the delay issue with shortcuts. So it wasn't Sketchup nor the hardware which was causing the delay, but it turned out to be the mouse! Since it was functioning fine otherwise, I never even considered the mouse to be the problem. After reinstalling the mouse driver the problem was finally solved. It's so simple if you know where to look.... ) So PROBLEM SOLVED! Thnx for helping!

Here you go. No making components or subcomponents unque. Simply copied and assigned to the correct layers. [image: Closed] [image: Open] [image: Both layers on]

Okay that is kind of what I ended up doing except instead of rotating the tubes I just rotated the box beneath them Then extruded both tubes, intersected them with the model and then erased the parts sticking up and the top surface of the box circumscribed by the circles. Viola I now have two holes in the box at the same correct angle. Sorry I didn't figure this out sooner from you guys examples but, I just couldn't connect the dots on this one. Thanks for all your help though. I will definitely remember this the next time I need an angled hole in a surface.

@juju said: currently it costs you US $120 per year to stay current... $0.32 a day for Sketching Zen

I've been helping another user over on the Sketchup.com forum, and I had to get familiar with the source code for this extension to sort out the issues (I'm not the author). I fixed a couple of bugs that kept it from running on Mac (I don't have a Windows PC, so I don't know whether the fixes were also needed there). In this case the author obviously never tried running it on SU < 2016 so wasn't aware that the trap was mis-coded! TIG packaged my changes into the version on the SketchUcation plugin store.

To load a Ruby file SketchUp processes the source through 'eval'. That message is saying that some extension's Ruby file is so severely damaged that eval gave up. So, as TIG wrote, you will have to track down the culprit among your plugins/extensions.

Nope....that didn't work. I now have geo-locate mapped to " and it still pops up when I hit the space bar. Apparently from what i'm reading online this is a known problem with Mac. Somehow I inadvertently set the icon at the bottom left of the page so now I have to hit the tab bar 4x every time I open a project or start a new one. Ugh. Clem

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.