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    Aroundthebend
    last edited by 5 Oct 2014, 00:19

    Here is one other screen shot with Finder viewed in Icon mode. The 4th file looks great in this mode. Thanks again slbaumgartner for his Ruby script and QL file for the Mac OS πŸ‘ .

    P.S. I've just spotted my typo in the file names ❗


    Thumnail-Test.jpg

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      slbaumgartner
      last edited by 5 Oct 2014, 23:31

      @aroundthebend said:

      Here is one other screen shot with Finder viewed in Icon mode. The 4th file looks great in this mode. Thanks again slbaumgartner for his Ruby script and QL file for the Mac OS πŸ‘ .

      P.S. I've just spotted my typo in the file names ❗

      You are welcome! I notice that the checkbox to save a custom icon disappeared some time after SU version 8. But my stuff still works through SU 2014.

      Steve

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        hh_berlin
        last edited by 13 Oct 2014, 15:36

        Just installed it - you did a great job... thank you so much.

        can't believe, that sketchup does not handle that...

        scrolling and zooming is disgusting since sketchup 8 on apple...

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          moghamdi
          last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 17:07

          I have installed it, but it is not working.
          I have Sketchup 2014/ OS 10.9.5.

          I attached pictures to show you the location that I put the them in.


          Quicklook.png


          plugin .png

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            driven
            last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 17:18

            you probably need to reset qlmanage and Finder...

            qlmanage -r && killall Finder
            

            copy paste into Terminal.app

            learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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              moghamdi
              last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 18:33

              it is working now.

              Thank you guys for your support.

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              • K Offline
                Krisidious
                last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 18:56

                2015 Sketchup re-enables thumbnails.

                By: Kristoff Rand
                Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                  driven
                  last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 19:05

                  @krisidious said:

                  2015 Sketchup re-enables thumbnails.

                  not on a mac, it doesn't...

                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                    Krisidious
                    last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 19:26

                    Sorry, time to get a PC I guess...

                    By: Kristoff Rand
                    Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      pbacot
                      last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 19:32

                      SU development ignores the Mac interface as a rule.

                      MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                        driven
                        last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 21:07

                        IMHO... the SU team support mac far more than our user numbers warrant.

                        Back On Topic: I actually prefer adding my own icons independently of "Save" and have a plugin that does this...

                        john

                        learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                          pbacot
                          last edited by 4 Nov 2014, 22:22

                          Not IMO. Compared to what? They haven't dropped the platform altogether, that's true.

                          MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                            xxtiny
                            last edited by 17 Mar 2015, 03:03

                            Does this work in sketchup 2015 windows 7 . I've been having the same problem with file preview.

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                              steveclayton
                              last edited by 22 Apr 2015, 17:54

                              For Mac

                              Download GraphicConverter: http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/download/
                              Select: Download now (from Switch.ch)

                              Once you open the Free version of GraphicConverter, File/Open and find the folder, where you have placed all your Sketchup files. Under EDIT / Select All

                              Now at the bottom click on (Create Preview) This will change all πŸ˜› the Sketchup logo(s) into it's graphic thumbnail.

                              Note: It will not launch the graphic icon, unless you are in Sketchup.

                              Open Sketchup and (Open File). You should see the Thumbnails, and these icons will launch. πŸ˜„

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                                kevsterman
                                last edited by 6 Dec 2015, 15:59

                                @steveclayton said:

                                For Mac

                                Download GraphicConverter: http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/download/
                                Select: Download now (from Switch.ch)

                                Once you open the Free version of GraphicConverter, File/Open and find the folder, where you have placed all your Sketchup files. Under EDIT / Select All

                                Now at the bottom click on (Create Preview) This will change all πŸ˜› the Sketchup logo(s) into it's graphic thumbnail.

                                Note: It will not launch the graphic icon, unless you are in Sketchup.

                                Open Sketchup and (Open File). You should see the Thumbnails, and these icons will launch. πŸ˜„

                                Steve, I could kiss you! I've been wanting to be able to see thumbnails of my SU files since I got my mac 4 years ago. Thank you so much for this tip! 😎

                                "Avoid keeping more than 3 items on your desk that you can't fit into your mouth."

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                                • Lemoyne ArchitectL Offline
                                  Lemoyne Architect
                                  last edited by 8 Dec 2015, 15:34

                                  @kevsterman said:

                                  Steve, I could kiss you! I've been wanting to be able to see thumbnails of my SU files since I got my mac 4 years ago. Thank you so much for this tip! 😎

                                  +Eleventy! No idea why SU doesn’t bother to support this. I’ve missed it ever since it was dropped.

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                                    bflmpsvz
                                    last edited by 4 Feb 2016, 11:14

                                    @pibuz said:

                                    "regsvr32 thumbsup.dll" and press "return".

                                    Great! It works!
                                    My situation:
                                    Windows XP 32 bit
                                    installed Sketchup 8 and Sketchup 6 (version 6 installed later than 8 only for AutoCAD DWG files import, but not very usable BTW).
                                    Only for .skp files made in version 6 thumbnails were visible.
                                    Now I see all .skp files thumbnails!!! 😎 πŸ‘

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                                      Aris
                                      last edited by 12 Feb 2016, 20:39

                                      hello guys,
                                      windows 10
                                      sketchup 2016,
                                      adobe bridge cs6
                                      still no thumbnails....
                                      explorer shows thumbnails perfectly but in bridge it's only icons... any suggestions?
                                      https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0gm7K44QqcQ/Vr5DyzQSPyI/AAAAAAAAKCE/zqGzMWXngE0/s642-Ic42/thumbnails.jpg

                                      Not a native speaker, point out my spelling (or other) mistakes, I won't be offended!!!

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                                        GuruMonkey
                                        last edited by 27 Feb 2017, 14:26

                                        does this work for windows 10?

                                        i'm using SU make 2015, but i have 2016 too just to be able to open and re-save in 2015 friendly format. Does anyone else do that? I can't be bothered to set everything how i like it from scratch every year... and i preferred autonomy of size and location of entity info and layers, etc...

                                        i'm just a tad scared of anything in the registry as it's way over my head, so advice appreciated in advance of tinkering.

                                        Thanks
                                        mike

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                                          rombout
                                          last edited by 14 Apr 2017, 15:07

                                          @slbaumgartner said:

                                          @driven said:

                                          @geomp said:

                                          What's the best solution for Mac?

                                          check out Jeff's earlier post, GraphicConvertor.app is still the best solution I'm aware of...

                                          john

                                          As a new Mac convert, I was frustrated by the lack of QuickLook thumbnails for SketchUp files, and worse, on my Mac QuickLook tried to treat the file as text, taking a long time and then displaying a huge amount of useless hexadecimal data. So I decided to see if there was a simple solution. Here's what I came up with.

                                          First of all, although SketchUp saves a PNG format thumbnail inside each file (containing the last view you had open), and has Ruby API calls to generate thumbnails, these images are only 128 pixels wide. For a model of even modest complexity, this makes the image so distorted and blurry that it is useless. So, the first requirement was to create a better image for the file. To do this, I wrote the little Ruby plugin attached. It creates an observer that causes SketchUp to save a jpeg image of the current view each time you save a file. I set the image to 800x600 at a moderate level of compression to make it big and clear enough to see but not gigantic in size. You can easily edit the Ruby if you want a different size. The image has the same base name as the SketchUp file but with extension ".pv.jpg". There is a delay to export the image as you save a file; depending on the complexity of the model you might or might not notice.

                                          Second, I wrote a little QuickLook generator, also attached, that looks for the image to go with a SketchUp file and tells the system to use it as a thumbnail. SketchUp does not (at this time) register its own UTI for its files, so OS X creates a dynamic UTI for them. I put the dynamic UTIs for skp and skb files in the info.plist for this generator. I am led to believe that these should be the same on all Macs, so hopefully they will work for everyone. With this generator, the thumbnail image is displayed for any file that has one and the SketchUp icon for files that do not.

                                          To implement my system, copy the Ruby plugin into your plugins directory (~/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins) and copy the QuickLook generator into ~/Library/QuickLook. Note: by default the Finder hides your Library folder, but you can get there using the Go->Go To Folder menu in Finder. Also, you may need to restart the QuickLook system by rebooting or, if you are bolder, running qlmanage -r in a terminal window.

                                          Despite the name of the generator, it actually creates a thumbnail, not a preview. After working on this it struck me that given a well-detailed thumbnail, there was really no need for a preview. If you want to go beyond the thumbnail, you can just open the file in SketchUp.

                                          As I mentioned, I am new to Mac, so I don't know all the ins and outs of making this portable. I compiled the generator on a MacBook Pro under Mountain Lion, and I am not sure whether it will work on a non-Intel Mac or on an older version of the OS, as I have access to neither. If it won't run on your system, PM me and I'll be happy to send you the source code.

                                          Steve

                                          Thanks a lot! it works already, as i now see thumbnails in the system. Im not sure what the quicklooks does, cause it already worked without a restart. Im using 10.11.6

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