https://forums.sketchup.com/t/attribute-doesnt-update/104741/2

My script was a clunky idea, fraught with issues. I don't recommend it for use

I should have added that you may need to grab the bottom edge of the panel and pull it down to expose the button. Apologies! On checking, it would seem that the entity info tray panel is the only one (panel with expander button) where the said button is not located at the top of the panel and will therefore not always be visible.

One more for the list. https://danieltal.com/

OK. I think I get what you want. You want to lock components and groups that have the same layer tag. It wouldn't actually be that the layer tag is locked since that doesn't really make any sense. Since it would be the groups and components that are getting locked, why not look in Outliner? There you can see what's locked and what isn't.

@bob_cp said: Yea, all my models use ridiculous textures. I use shaded at times, but the file sizes are pretty large. Why do you need such large textures? I need them for rendering but I use Thea render. It allows us to have a high resolution texture in the material while it is able to generate a low resolution texture for use in the Sketchup material. I also need them for photogrammetry and terrain data, but I also use Thea to reduce their size. Thea will use textures stored in disk ,that do not weight on SketchUp model.

@duanekemp said: Is there an update on this information.... new tools that transforms triangles into a pure quad mesh? ThomThoms plugin 'CleanUp³' is capable of connecting co-planar faces, for a further processing ThomThoms 'SubD' might be worth a look too. There are several tools available which should be able to remesh triangles to quads as e.g. the commercial 'ZBrush' or '3D-Coat' as well as free 'Instant Meshes' or good ol' 'Meshlab'. btw, resurrecting 10 year old threads should be avoided, just post a new thread instead.

The mapping should be done in Sketchup. "Relative" is the right option. What's wrong with the first image? The texture is stretched a bit in one direction, because you made it square. But besides that it looks ok to me.

Could another program be stealing focus and the press of the wheel brings it back to SU?

Found TTs "Transformation Inspector" which seems to do something alike. First showing the transformation matrix and second giving the opportunity to change values, eg. swapping a "-1" for a flipped object with a "1" - resulting in a reset. Seems like its only possible for one group/component at a time.. IF I was able to globally set the "-1" to "1" (flip along the green axis) I guess Id be totally fine already - in this particular case. (Strange enough flipped geometry from SU does not come in negatively scale on that axis only, but on all axis.. Don't know if this is relevant or not though..)

@gd3design said: Here is my workflow:... thank you very much for your answer - first I have to understand step by step what you recommend and consider how and with which means I can implement your suggestions - so for example I still can't understand that Vray (which is not in our use) might be able to be helpful here... Hopefully i was clear above - my question is how to extract pure model data from any IFC file. In a current case I was able to import a 90 mb ifc file which grows in SkUp to 500 mb skp file which for me is no longer editable unfortunately I often don't have any influence on files which will be made available... Regards

I don't think this can be done 'on the fly' as you have found. However, the following should work (on PC). From the pattern palette, paint a surface with the required pattern. Select the surface and from the right click menu select 'Texture/Edit Texture Image'. I have Gimp as my preferred image editor, other editors will probably be a different sequence. When Gimp has loaded the selected texture go to the 'Image' dropdown menu and make sure 'Mode' is set to RGB. Select the pixels to change and then select the 'Bucket Fill' tool. Set the fill colour to your desired colour and fill the selected pixels. Export the image, with a new name, to a suitable folder for further use. Back in SU, create a new material from the saved, altered image. It will now appear in the 'In Model' materials palette. If you wish to use it in other models complete a 'Save As' and save as an SKM file, again to a suitable folder. You could add it to the shipped SU patterns but it would be lost if you had to do a re-install I believe.

Thanks Dtr but I need a T&G tex without the slight gaps between the boards, no problem though I was able to find one that looks OK on that SUp textures site.

Can you share the SKP file so we can see what you've got? That would eliminate the guesswork. Maybe all you need to do is turn off Section Fill. Toggle it off in the Section toolbar... [image: KjvK_Screenshot-9_6_20191_18_01PM.png] ...or turn it off in the Styles Edit section... [image: WhTv_Screenshot-9_6_20191_18_23PM.png] ...or turn it off in the View menu. Remember to update the style after editing it.

Good news! Thanks for the update.

Can you show us exactly what you've got so far and what you are trying to achieve. The exact process will depend on what you want. If you are trying to use Follow Me to sweep a profile around a cylinder, that's one thing. If you want to draw a path that doesn't just go around the cylinder (maybe changes direction on the cylinder, for example) that would be a different process. One thing you might look at is Fredo6's Tools on Surface. in the Sketchucation Extension Store.

The following works great - thanks - I'll my update the profile @dave r said: double click with Select on the face you want to keep, keyboard shortcut for Copy, triple click on it to select all attached, hit Delete, Edit>Paste in place. Assign a keyboard shortcut for Paste in place to make it faster. Alternatively, use a right to left selection box around the geometry you wish to remove making sure you don't select the face or its bounding edges. Hit Delete.

If you mean, how do you ensure SketchUp is properly install, then you can Repair it... Whilst logged into Windows as your normal user-account, ensure SketchUp is closed. Find the SketchUp installer's exe file - usually in your Downloads folder. Select its icon, right-click > context-menu > "Run as administrator" When prompted choose "Repair" [for a new installation choose "Install"] When it completes restart SketchUp... Doing the repair should leave any customization as it is - e.g. installed Plugins. All folder/file permissions should have been reset properly. The one exception is any customized preferences - like LibFredo's - if these were made with bad permissions by an earlier badly installed SketchUp it can cause issues - there are separate instructions for this in that Extension's thread... you simply delete its prefs folder and SketchUp recreates it with proper permissions. Installing SketchUp in any other way - e.g. by double-clicking its installer exe file to "Run" it will lead to all kinds of unexpected issues, often centering on bad file permissions and unsaved settings across sessions etc... Having admin-powers is NOT the same as using "Run as administrator" on the installer's exe file.

What graphics card? Are you printing directly or exporting a PDF?

@tig said: As I explained... The MAC OS Mojave is only compatible with SketchUp v2018 or newer. So your SketchUp v2015 is too old to run successfully on your current MAC OS ! You might be able to install v2015 and then install extensions from RBZ files, but chances are it won't work properly... as you have found out. well, thank you very much for your time! now, i know what to do!