I went into the settings for Mystic Thumb and discovered it had a "file overide" enabled. Unchecking it made SU2014 to open skp by default.

At the suggestion of someone else here, I've used WizMouse to manage that scrolling function.

thank you I will give it a go

@mwm5053 said: And one more thing using modifier keys like command and option aren't allowed. I'm on a Mac by the way. That palette issue within SU since day 1 for me, easy workaround in System Preferences. Does need modifier keys though. Can toggle all the different toolbars...plus your shortcuts show in menu in case your memory slips I would be surprised if you can't use modifiers for keystrokes with that exotic mouse. [image: Untitled - SketchUp Pro at 8.08.48 AM.png]

You might want to watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsRRLCAOm8 and there are several plugins around for UV mapping http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=tt_uv_toolkit http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=UVtools http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=57270

Thanks guys, I'll try and see what happens.

@jiminy-billy-bob said: I think you missed something. In a layer-based workflow, the layers are only used to manage the geometry visibility. That's what you do with hidden geometry and scenes. But navigating in the group/comps hierachy is still done the same way: Using outliner if you like it, or double-clicking if you don't. Layers have nothing to do with navigating in the geometry and how it is nested. They're just a matter of controling its visibility. I understand your point. At the moment I only have to name all my groups and components (everything is on layer 0) and drag them into the right 'tree'. You're suggesting to use layers for controlling the visibility and, if I would like to avoid more double-clicking, use naming as well for quick picking in the outliner. That could get messy when re-arranging objects etc. I rather wish if the original problem could be fixed somehow: being able to control the visibility of nested groupsin scenes.

Well, nothing has fixed it, and since no one else seems to be experiencing the same problem I have to assume it's something unique to my computer. I'm about due for a clean install of my OS on a new HD (solid state this time) so hopefully that will take care of it. If not, it will just become one of many things in life that I will have to live with. Thanks for your suggestions

Hi I get the "importer not found" message as well. I have Sketchup Pro 8 and I'm running Mavericks 10.9 on a MacBook Pro. I've checked the plugins where you indicated and only find 11 plugins. They do not include importer for Autocad or dwg files and there is no KMZ importer either. Please help. I'm not an IT savvy guy. Cheers swell01 @bjanzen said: The palettes is a known thing (we've fixed in a future version). The importer not found is strange. It worked for me just as it did in Mountain Lion. Perhaps repairing permissions, or confirming that it actually is located at /Applications/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp.app/Contents/PlugIns I have 14 plugins in that directory. Do other importers work - e.g. KMZ (Google Earth) would probably be the easiest to test. -b

That's fantastic. Thanks a lot, Dave!

Jim's "Add Layer" lets you do this: http://sketchucation.com/plugin/832-jf_add_layer I embedded this in Layers Panel: http://sketchucation.com/plugin/751-layers_panel (Hold down the "add layer" button, it will pop up a menu)

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I finally found a texture solution (95% ok) to depicting gear teeth visually, but not in tooth detail. Which is all I need for this model. It is not perfect, especially for bevel gears, but can be made to look reasonable. This does not mean I don't want to know why the crashes happened, but I'm posting a trial ring with the texture applied, in case anyone needs to depict gears. This way I can show gears with a bare minimum of lines drawn, and maintain solidity. As an added bonus, I can make them straight gears or (in this case) helical bevel gears by simply rotating the texture in situ. TIG's "TextureRotate.rb" Select the material "Gear Teeth" and edit it. By adjusting the aspect ratio you can adjust the gear tooth pitch. Best to break the aspect ratio link to do that. Visual (Non 3D) depiction of gears by texture.

@matt.gordon320 said: ...and is there any way to get it back? you can remove the whole OGL key of SU v2014 from the Windows registry by executing the attached REG file (see archive). Exit SU before doing this, launching SU then the OGL defaults should be restored. hth, Norbert SU v2014 only

Glad to help... Make sure to come back and show us when you're done.

I always have this question in my head: If I have a very good video card, will the GPU calculate the geometry instead the CPU? I currently have a note with a i7 3632QM, and a intel HD4000, no dedicated video card. When dealing with very large models the GPU are using very little power while the CPU is full. I understand that the CPU is dealing with all the geometry and the GPU with texture etc. In this case i no longer need a better GPU. But if the GPU deals with geometry in very good cards its great news.

Okay. Thanks guys. I am using 2 monitors. I'll check around and try to find it.

Thanks Dave! all good

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I decided to create layers for the section planes that can be turned on and off. FYI, the model I'm working has many rotated angles and the section planes seem to obscure things because they are not parallel or perpendicular to other section planes. Doug

thanks for your suggestions. I lowered all texture resolutions to 4000x4000 (there was only one bigger than 2500) but this doesn't make a difference.