Catastrophe, me and Bill going dumb

ken · 28 Apr 2008, 01:10

Well it started when I tried to open a folder and I had an application program error trying to use Window Explorer and it ended up with a unreadable hard drive, to finally a new computer. More to the story here, but I am sure the short version is enough.

Darn. I had backed up a couple of days earlier, and didn’t following my instincts to back up again before trying to fix this problem. So I lost some work I can redo. However, I didn’t realize how many programs I had gotten off the Internet. Darn, now replacing these programs is going to be costly. I have learned to keep better track of the buying, serial numbers and activation codes of these program.

So I bought a new computer and seem to be up and running again, except one little problem.

Now when I make a selection in Sketchup, the edges are dark blue and not yellow and I’ll be darned if I can find the area to change the color of a selected edge from blue to yellow.

Any help would be appreciated.

On to another note, I read somewhere an operating system shell that you could put onto a stick drive and access you hard drive. The computer would boot off the stick drive allowing you access to the hard drive.

Thanks in advance.

mike d · 28 Apr 2008, 01:22

ken
you set the selected edge color in the style dialog
goto edit tab in the styles dialog and it is under modeling box

mike d

ken · 28 Apr 2008, 15:52

@mike d said:

ken
you set the selected edge color in the style dialog
goto edit tab in the styles dialog and it is under modeling box

mike d

Thanks Mike

It took me sometime to figure it out, even with you suggestion. Got it now.

Thanks for the help.

plot-paris · 29 Apr 2008, 07:30

oh, by the way:
how can I change the selected face's colour? my old laptop at home doesnt show them at all anymore (hope that is not because of his honourable age ). I vaguely remember having changed that setting (years ago) on another system. but I can't remember where.

Alan Fraser · 29 Apr 2008, 08:07

The colour of the selected face is a half-tone dotted version of the same colour that you choose for selected lines/bounding boxes. It's altered using the same control in Styles.

plot-paris · 29 Apr 2008, 13:00

ah, I see. so blue may not be the ideal colour if you (like me at the moment) work with an old and fairly bad laptop screen - violet and blue are too much alike.

thanks for the info, Alan