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.

@tig said: It's probably foobar ! Did SketchUp make a .skb backup file in the same folder ? If so, try to rename with .skp on the end and try opening that. If it opens it'll be one save behind. Also look for an AutoSave_FileName.skp file and see if that works... been a while since i've had to resort to using the skb file. thanks for the suggestion and refreshing my memory!

Float cursor on rotation point and use arrow keys to change orientation. Once you've found your desired orientation then left click & rotate as per normal.

thanks guys! s4u looks a lot better as they remain solids. (of course there is this 20 dollar price hm hm...) any ideas for roof tile plugins?

Maybe you must adapt the size of the curtain square grid / size of the red part size...

Doublecad. Free. https://www.turbocad.com/content/doublecad-xt-v5 3D S: AutoDesk 3D Studio format. See #Rted40613 or #Rted61679. 3 DV: VRML Worlds (import only) ASAT: ACIS solid modeling file format for storing graphics as ASCII files. See #Rted53918 or #Rted19145. BM P: Bitmap format, DoubleCAD for Windows (export only). A bitmap is a representation of a graphic image consisting of rows and columns of dots. See #Rted38114. C GM: Computer Graphics Metafile. See #Rted88271. DAE: Collada files (export only). See #Rted32052. *D : DesignCAD (import only) DG N: Intergraph Standard file format. See #Rted15198 or #Rted13353. D WF: Drawing Web format. See #Rted88759. Import is automatic. D WG: AutoCAD native format for vector graphics. See #Rted63146 or #Rted53755. DX F: Drawing eXchange format, used by AutoCAD to interact with other applications. E PS: Encapsulated Post Script format. See #Rted96032 or #Rted69700 F CD: FastCAD DOS format (import only) FC W: FastCAD Windows format (import only). See #Rted51994. GIF: Raster graphic format (export only). See #Rted65451. G EO: VRML Worlds (import only) I GS: IGES format. See #Rted20977.

Meilleurs voeux Dave un peu en retard je dois dire Pour information mon problème a disparu avec la derniére version de true bend Encore Merci.

Yeah NTX! Sometimes one needs to review their workflow in detail, and it's a little much to ruminate on the forums.

I have EasyFind. I'll check out if it sees them.

Or use the eraser while holding shift to hide edges or ctrl to soften edges.

@rogalxxx said: related Q: on how many machines can I have SU 2019 installed at one time? Only on two machines and only one SketchUp can be active at the same time.

@elmer said: Well, I must apologize if I’m making things confused and convoluted to some, but they may not have read that other great thread: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/an-open-letter-to-trimble/87510?u=chippwalters and this one too: https://forums.sketchup.com/t/open-letter/88172 And yes, I am one of those old fart who think that the planet would be much better off if we weren't in a frenzy of consumption, always upgrading and trying to go desperately faster! Many softwares kindly offer a small checkbox to untick if you don't want to see the home screen appear at each new opening. I feel like an intrusive injonction the way the SketchUp Make starting screen ask me to say hello! Sorry to point it out, but it was not like that with Google SketchUp Free True also that being retired gives us plenty of time to complain and moan a little bit about the way things are going..... . Hi Elmer, no apologies required And reasonable complaints, but alas that seems to be the way things are going. Main thing is we have had years of Sketchup being owned by google that had a different objective, not entirely commercial. Unfortunately we will have to get used to Trimble or move on. I am not sure Trimble is reading the market correctly, but I may be wrong.