Hello, I am trying to import a DEM into SU Pro 2015 (MacBook Pro, OS Yosemite) and am having difficulties. I downloaded elevation data from web-site (search for "Mntopo' web site) in the form of a DEM. The resulting files were of extensions .bil, .hdr, .xml,.....I had no luck importing. I tried downloading from the same web site in a different format , the extensions were different (and many). Still, I had no luck importing. Any suggestions? I am trying to create a 3D model of a wetland mitigation site. Thank you! Best, Jeff

Hello! I also use a mac. Tooltips are extremely annoying if not implemented properly. The delay in sketchup is extremely annoying. If you take the mouse focus to another palette and back you have to wait another 10 seconds. There is no way to list materials(in the mat palette) in a text format(only icon)so you have to wait every time you go to the model window and back. Please give us the ability to turn them on or off in a prefences button. Even GIMP does this. The ideal situation for SU would be pressing a key while hovering, only if I need the tooltip. I also use Painter and they are on all the time, popping up with useless info 90% of the time, covering up what I actually need to see or click on. Maybe the people at Sketchucation can get thru to Trimble! I have posted the Mac issues at least 20 times and I don't even get a response. A note to developers: Please don't turn them on all the time to compensate, unless you give us a way to turn them off. I will have to pay for another shrink visit! A 2-3 second delay is OK if this is the only option. The hotkey on mouse hover is the best solution. If you use 4-5 programs as a designer, Arch, etc. Icons become worthless. Who can remember which icon is what in which program. The only option for a professional is text lists or icon and text. I need speed not pretty icons. In closing, having been 3D modeling for 20 years now, Sketchup is still my fav 3d surface modeler. The Mac version needs a little work, Though.

Well, it also could be that I have a bad installation of 2015. It's had some strange problems with 2015 on this computer that are not present on my other computers (I haven't checked to see if this particular problem is one of them, yeah, I'm lazy and dain bramaged and probably shouldn't have posted this thread until I had done so) and this computer (my main one) has other problems that hopefully will go away when I rebuild it with parts I received yesterday and, jeez, this sentence is really dragging on, as is my life, so I'll go away now. Have a nice Thanksgiving TIG, just read your post as I was about to post this. Thanks very much for the info, sounds like it will take care of the problem.

Thanks for the reply. Will add Mac to future posts.

Glad you got it... you'll notice color on screen works in more places, but is affected by things like bounding box and such. color in object should be more precise to other materials. it's a good way to get your wood to match a door or what not.

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It's a good guess and I've tried it... No luck.

Is there a plugins folder in the proper location? Have you tried a fresh install with the 2015 update?

good deal...

I did get thrupaint...havent quite got it mastered though. Need to read the instructions:) Just for the heck of it, I tried using the followmeandkeep plugin even though it is a straight forward follow me situation and so far the materials are staying oriented correctly around corners...not sure why that would be, but it works. p

You can try to rebuild your Windows icon cache (in Vista, Win7, Win8) - worked for me with missing icons in the start menu (Win7): Close and save anything that you are working on. This command will kill explorer and restart the computer when completed. Open the command prompt (cmd) In the command prompt, Copy and paste each command line below exactly as is one at a time and press enter after each command. WARNING: The last command will restart the computer, so be sure to close and save anything that you are working on first. ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F DEL "%localappdata%\IconCache.db" /A shutdown /r /f /t 00 The IconCache.db file has now been rebuilt.

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goodmorning sketchucation, Thanks a lot for the guides. i appreciate it a lot, thank you,

@box said: You can get problems with the origin from a cad file even when it seems to be in the right place. I recently fixed a DWG that was causing clipping that the user was adamant that the origin was correct. I checked and in this case it had been imported with retain origin intact ticked, so when I looked for it the true origin of the dwg was 69,000 miles from the SU origin. The times I have a problem were with files I created in SU. I do not import other files, they have a lol been my creations.

I'm not sure if i understand your question and your problem. But i think - depending on your groundplan and details - simply one or two components.

usually fredo's topo shaper + trhu paint (quad mapping metod) lead to better results. i strongly suggest to give it a try..

Thanks jeff for your efforts. I know there is lots of layers, and also I tried moving everything to a Layer0 which is sketchup default layer I believe but nothing changed in that model that you tried. Well I realize something I'm not sure about it but, SU automatically smooths some edges I think? I mean each Height Level (contours) was COMPONENT when I imported from autocad anyway, yesterday I exploded them to make it GROUP to get rid of components, and to make it just single geometry. Maybe that causes such behaviour like this.. Now I think, SU changes or soften some edges in every "make component/explode" situation in bigger geometries, models. [image: http://thisiso.com/su/ss4.png] This is the model that Im talking about. I didnt tried on this before, shame for me If you still interesting you may check this model with unexploded height contours components. Looks like problem solved spontaneously for me . fyi, this 2nd model that I upload have much more edges than other. Thanks for your time.

Maybe if you back up the question I have is about how to best organize my model. I'm not really yet fluent with outliner and layers and the best way to show varying model options to clients. I'm modelling my house and playing with new walls. I'll look up some youtubes on it.

Thanks for confirming they didn't move to the Pro version or something silly like that. Reinstalled as admin this time. Now they're back. Thanks!