Thanks Fredo, I was obviously looking in the wrong place. this doesn't happen with my desktop PC so it might be a quirk of this laptop.

I'll do some more digging and use your comments as a checklist. Thank you for your expertise and patience in the matter.

never mind it fixed itself!

Thanks a lot Rich! ..I am reporting because it was different since not a long time ago! They must have changed a bit somewhere, unconscius that they were causing this (little) drawback. I was wondering if the behaviour could be switched back

Did you try Animator? I've used it in the past to animate shadows over time. [image: 7gKxMQs.png] Click image below to play... [image: JKI1_shadow.gif]

Thanks again!

I thought either yourself or Dave R would answer....geneous....thank you

Just a stab in the dark: the camera orientation is different in the render vs the su screenshot you posted. If you orbit to align the two, does anything show up in SketchUp?

That's true. 2016 is just running 98% perfectly for me on Linux. 2020 has gold rating on Wine compat. layer. I have to try on my Win8 lap. how 2017 feels.

When you click on a link to Download an extension, do that - download it as an RBZ file onto your computer. When it's downloaded use the Extension Manager within SketchUp to install its contents for you - as Dave explained. Do not try to open the RBZ file with SketchUp - that will not work: it must be installed, NOT opened.

I am using Windows 11 and no trouble using SketchUp Make 2017 what so ever, even just yesterday I was using SketchUp straight for 7 hours with only a mother nature break and getting coffee, never a problem. The finished model I was working on was only: Materials: 10 Polygons: 30,208 File Size: 6MB But that was after running CleanUp3, so even more polygons. But my laptop is only 3 years old, so maybe more stable in Windows 11, and compatibility with SketchUp Make 2017 may be better. SO I have no idea why its happening to you, sorry. SketchUp Make 2017 for Hobbyists RULEZ

Thanks, Dave It worked. I'm Signed in I appreciate your help! john

@horsinho said: Hi everyone, Not sure if this is the best place to ask (please move the thread if it isn't), but I'd like to know if there's a forum or website similar to Fivver focused in 3-D modeling. Or if there isn't a specific website, a place that has a section fully dedicated to 3-D modeling requests. I'm just a hobbyist, but once in a while I'm asked to design a room and I need to make some specific objects, for example a sofa, a massage chair, or something of that kind, and I wouldn't mind paying a few bucks to someone for that task. My hand dexterity is very low (health problems), and I can model a cabinet or something similar relatively easy, but organic modeling, with lots of curves, is much harder for me. I'm not a professional, so I wouldn't expect perfection, and I actually never used Fivver or anything similar so I'm not really sure how it works, but as I wrote above it'd be very nice if I could give this type of work on someone that probably would do this type of thing 10x faster than me. Thanks in advance for all comments and suggestions. actually, Fivver is a good place to start. I found A LOT of helpful guys there work on your inquiry thoroughly

After reading a similar post in another forum, I looked at the open GL settings, turned off fast feedback and ok, then went back in and turned it on again. And the colour went back to normal. Something about true colour Thankyou for your efforts

This is true for all SketchUp tools that are context-sensitive: they won't show up in the shortcuts editor unless the appropriate context is activated, e.g. by selecting an edge, face, group, or component.

@simoneast said: I've also been encountering this annoying bug recently, in SketchUp Make 2017. When you change the axes inside a group, even using the axes tool, it resets upon saving. Exit group edit mode before saving so the change gets written to the group definition.[image: X8cv_axis.gif] Making a component in the first place instead of making a group would give you the option to set the axes and origin where you want it as well as other benefits you don't get with a group.

@unknownuser said: I have SU 2019 and 2020 still on the machine. Could this be a problem? Not really. Next step: Follow TIG's instructions at the following post. https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=73674#p670214

If you select just the edges that you want to connect, turn them in to a group, then draw an edge(or an arc/curve) on each end to bridge to gap to create 'closed geometry', you could then use Soap Skin & Bubble and get a mesh created. You could also use Curviloft: Select just the edges that you want to connect, turn them in to a group, run 'BZ Polyline Segmentor' to create equal segments on both edges, then run Curviloft to bridge the gap.

https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7166529?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en Share folders in Google Drive

@gd3design said: Sure thing. If you run into to one of those more complicated examples, just share a skp file and I'll be happy to take a look and let you know if there are any better workarounds I know of or plugins that could help in a different situation. Cheers! GD Thank you very much for your help and time brother. I will keep it in mind.