@joelm3dm said: I don't know what you mean by "upper right icon" ... but I am talking only about the SKB icons. SKP should remain thumbnails. There is a registry tweak for this. Darn right there is a registry tweak for it. There's a reg tweak for everything on a Windows machine. It's really comparable to brain surgery, except on a computer it isn't guesswork, it's absolutely mathematical precision and guessing gets you a fouled machine. It's 2019 now and I have a similar problem, except my .skb files are the ones showing a small representation of the model as the icon, and my .skp files show the generic Sketchup icon. Want to swap that situation, and KNOW there's a fix, just don't have the same technical fortitude as I did back in the 90's to find the problem. Anyone know what the fix is? Not afraid of the registry, if that's what it takes, but not finding much insight from other users at the moment. And yes I'm averse to installing unnecessary third party browsers, etc, simply to view a thumbnail/icon as it should appear, when the problem can be fixed internally within Windows. Sketchup Pro 2018 Windows 10 64bit

Please complete your profile so we know your OS and SketchUp version. It looks like the "Solar North" tool's orange marker, which indicated where north is set in the model. It's an Extension available from the EWH... https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/solar-north It has a Toolbar which allows you to set the angle, show/hide its marker etc... The orange marker looks unusually 'high'. If you switch on the Axes in View are they logically located ? If you have changed them, then hover over one and choose 'Reset Axes from the context-menu. It's normal to have the origin placed somewhere logical like at the model's lowest level, and on a corner... Probably best to switch all Layers ON and View>Hidden-Geometry On, then select all and move the model to the axes' origin...

@millerjx said: Restarting fixed the problem. no further issue. thanks When you installed SketchUp 2019, did you right click on the installer file and choose Run as administrator or did you do something else?

Maybe Profil Builder will be a cool tool for that! minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aBH_EHqXHQ

Il y a aussi la solution d'importer le SKP dans le Free PConPlanner! Puis d'exporter en OBJ!

Thanks Dave...…..continual learning process.

Got a reply finally. They don't know why. It's been forwarded to the 'appropriate teams'.

The panorama file output is a new option in the Renderer that I used - Brighter3D so I don't think the plugins would affect anything but I'll have a look-thanks.

I am setting up a folder under /documents so that it can be accessed from what ever version I am using. Do not want to lock it into any particular version. I have some materials set up that way as well. After some looking around, I think that strange color may have been in a component I inheritance from someone else.

@rogalxxx said: my try with su and fotosketcher. As a vray 3.6 user I got screwed by chaosgrop and now I can use my old su18 with vray or my new 2019 without it. I have a subscription plan until dec 2020. Can't really sell my 3.6 without paying for license transfer fee which is 100E. Either way, I'm ditching vray. Clients don't really appreciate the photorealism and the amount of work put into it. So I'm sticking with su+fotosketcher for now and starting experiment with blender, Hi hows the experimentation with blender going? I have exported a sketchup model (Colada.Dae into blender, worked perfectly including textures, nice! was feeling good........then thought I would give Evee a go............tumbleweed...............watched youtube tutorials........tumbleweed...... Was designed for smarter heads than mine I think. Could you perhaps give me a link to the tree you used in your drawing? They were what I was looking for. Oh for what it is worth, I found that putting in false construction lines and mixing in the "Fineliner pen" style made it look a lot more "sketchy" Cheers

Curviloft is very simple too.

you can download the latest version 2015 x32/x64 from our SUP download archive, ENglish (and DE) only.

If the text is all different components, you could use Subtract from either the native Solid Tools or better, Eneroth Solid Tools or you could create the text without extrusion and without fill. Place the components where you need them on the face.... [image: kRge_Screenshot-3_7_20197_48_35AM.png] ...and explode the text components. Then use Push/Pull to pull up the face surrounding the text leaving the text itself recessed. You would need to also hit inside the closed letters and numbers although you could use Joint Push/Pull if you wanted. [image: BBSE_Screenshot-3_7_20197_51_11AM.png]

I also think it is an interesting topic I am a structural technician and I have been using Sketchup for over ten years but it is not my primary Cad package this is due I think two reasons in the structural field one is the packages that are available like Revit, Advance steel, autocad and Solidworks these engines are design for engineering based drafting and it is hard for Sketchup to compete. Secondly I think it is down to cost, in the engineering Field there is a definite desire for companies to do the bear minimum when I comes to documentation to the point at some places draftsman are regarded as a necessary evil. Although I believe this is defiantly a false economy when you take into account the RFIs from site there is still the perception of increased profit. It is down to the presentation of the documents and this is were sketchup comes into its own especially details were you can easily build up a library details. If you look at the standard of Nick Sonders documents and Dave Zachary on the engineering side. I also do a lot of presentations on buildability issues of a project where sketchup Is a great at live presentations. I think other things you have to take into account are the job size, BIM and at what level, learning curve of staff, saying that I have use sketchup on some massive projects were it handle very large models as good if not better than some of the aforementioned. I should also mention on some of the larger projects I have worked on there is a perception that sketchup is only a free toy 3D package (until I put them straight)

@dave r said: I use the CutList extension and it reports the bottom level components only so there's no need to explode parent components at all. I do not need to report. I use the Assemblage plugin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GbwPRm7qxg

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Happy to help. I was mostly using Outliner to show how deep I was going in to the nested component. As long as you don't need the material or already have it saved in a local collection, deleting the material from In Model is a great way to unpaint things no matter what the material is applied to. Sometimes I get models from other people that are so screwed up, deleting the materials is the easiest way to deal them.

@pixero said: Well...the most annoying thing is that they are trying to force us to go into subscription. Hiding away the permanent license where barely anyone can see it. If you've been keeping up with your annual maintenance and support, it doesn't matter because you would get the Classic license anyway. They've only added another option for new commercial SketchUp users to get into SketchUp. A few years before I retired from my last job I got a SketchUp Pro license to use at work. Due to the price and the way my employer's purchasing system was set up, I had to go through a process to get a purchase order created and an account established with Trimble before I could get the license. If the subscription option had been available I could have paid for it with my corporate credit card. Instead of taking several days and involving several different people in Purchasing (which added to the cost of the license) I could have had the license within a minute or two of completing the form on the SketchUp site and the corporate credit card bill would have been paid automatically.

The fabulous free PCon Planner makes that automatically (SAT --> SKP)

Leftie here.. I don't see no special benefits (for lefties) in your concrete table. Consider using NumPad heavily. Don't hesitate to alter the shortcuts- it'd boost productivity over 9000%. In order to work on other PC just put preferences file on cloud.