ok, dug through my notes from the last time this happened (with a 15.x update), and did this workaround Option 5: Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015. Right-click on the file “ThumbsUp.dll” and select Rename. Rename the file to “ThumbsUp.old”. This will disable the drawing of SketchUp thumbnails in Explorer. Did it to both 2015 & 2016. Rebooted, hopefully this will fix it going forward. If any Trimble employees are here, PLEASE FIX THIS Thanks, Glenn

@jasonwd said: ... the dialogue box should have appeared and I can't for the life of me find it anywhere... for this bit, did you try 'Reset Workspace' ??? for the stubborn dxf/dwg imports install Teigha File Converter.app convert the files manually to dxf or have a look at jimfoltz's plugin freedxf... it uses Teigha File Converter [same engine as SU Pro] but with different setting to recover more items... john

@dave r said: Try updating Internet Explorer and clear the temporary internet files. As for downloading directly from the web, choose the version you need to suit the SketchUp version. [attachment=0:3iypz9za]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.PNG<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3iypz9za] thanks Dave for fast reply For your information, i have update my Internet Explorer. I already clear the temporary internet files. The warehouse then can be open, but after few trial, it cannot connect to the webpage again. thanks for the tip of choosing the version, I am unaware of that features since i normally download at the main page i will download from the webpage as optional FYI another workaround i did is installing Sketchup Make 2016, just to use the warehouse from the program. but for that, i need to save the file as Sketchup 2014. I cannot directly copy and paste ETC: i did notice that Sketchup 2016 64bit can preview the file, which cannot be done on Sketchup 2014

Thanks very much! That is very helpful. There isn't any way to figure out which objects are images in outliner, is there? Or some other option to view them?

It's OK. I was mostly just trying to find out what's possible for the sake of discussion. It worked out. Thanks for the note.

I see what you're saying, deffo's not cool to change existing documents layering, but it probably is somehow linked. Send them a complaint e-mail, hopefully they can adjust the behavior so as to not change previously created documents' layering names.

@unknownuser said: For whatever reason some of my materials have been renamed. The names show up correctly when I hover over them, but when I select them the names have been changed. In my greys this has happened to four of them. I think you have those four materials already in the model, but you just somehow renamed them. Because if you have a renamed color in the model, when you hover over the color in the colors palette the name you see is the "original one", but when you click on it you see the name you assigned to that color in the model. This happens with all the materials. You can also spot that noticing the little white triangle on the icons.

As long as you know what you do you can combine those hiding possibilities as you like.

I have no real info - it is not documented - but would guess in some temp directory.

@hellnbak said: I followed your instructions and it seems to be working fine now. Not sure why it stopped working before. Although I suspect your advice about designing the component on a face and not on a group or component may have something to do with it. When you create a component, pay attention to the various option boxes in the dialog. If you created the component geometry inset on an adjacent face, the "glue to" behavior will get automatically set to "any" unless you set it to "none". Conversely, if you draw on a group or component, the glue to will be set to "none" unless you change it.

I can see both sides here. Likewise I find no problem myself in moving objects around to fit, or align with others using the various ref points that show up; however I have many customers who want to use sketchup, but are used to using AutoCAD or similar. In my experience snap references are biggest omission in SU world, and I struggle to change users over. They want to take my library, and insert products in precise locations easily, and perhaps with an orientation reference. Our product is very like meccano, or furniture, and could really benefit from this. I remember when I started SketchUp I had to purge my mind of most other CAD preconceptions; in here we all know that was the best move we ever made, but we have to convince the rest !

Have you got the second building textured with PNG materials. Have those PNG images transparency even if the part visible is opaque? If so, that may be your problem. If not, check styles, face settings, transparency (fast, normal, nicer) If not, check rendering settings under preferences, OpenGL.

Very surprised but happy to say. this time it only took 2 days! Hurray.

Have you ever clicked on a single face with a texture applied with the right button? Texture position? Right click on texture position while working with it and hit Reset position. It will reset scale and rotation.

I solved the problem and perhaps this will help others. Call the Keymark office in Boulder. They will take your credit card info over the phone and then once cleared, the tech support folks will send you the authorization code by email. Some additional info They are still working on BuildEdge and hope to release something next year.Although dont know what that means. Sketchucation is the site to find any updates. You can install it on two machines but you have to shut down one before you can start the other. So one machine in the office and one at home is ok povided you remember to shut down one before starting the other. Too complicated so I bought a second copy and dont have to remember to shut down before I go home.

Guys, you were both spot on! Dave: Magenta is indeed low. TIG: Trying to print black lines via an image editor in grayscale mode (applied both to the image and printer settings) didn't print anything. After a bit of fiddling with the printer's settings I realized that, trying to make the lines print in a fine resolution, I selected the printer's "Text & Image" print quality. That was the problem. Changing the print quality to just "Text" made it possible to print the lines in grayscale mode with no color involved. Thanks a lot folks!

@jenujacob said: Maybe its just me... Perhaps they made it so that it would tax your system resources only when u really need them.. Makes sense if think like that! Sent from my LG-D855 using Tapatalk That is indeed the intention, you build the scene based on settings that ensure fast lag free navigation, you then set up the animation and then you add all the filters/features you need, some even come with real-time on/off switches in case your GPU cannot handle it, which you only switch on in final render mode if that is the case. The ideal solution is to have a 5th or 6th generation i7 and a decent GPU with at least 6Gb ram for it all to work smooth in real time.

Another idea.... As you build your model work out the various sub structures as components. Example - wings, nose section, main fuselage, tail section etc. Assign each sub structure to it's own layer. When you want to work on a particular assembly , turn off layers for the other parts.

have you tried Texture Resizer? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=360679#p360679 john

use for lenz attribute LenZ =current("lenz") it will adjust first then become stable make X,y adjust to position, you have them set at a value, delete the = with Z, you could create a option to change its value or use =current("z")