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    • H Offline
      hh_berlin
      last edited by

      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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      • M Offline
        moghamdi
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        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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        • D Offline
          driven
          last edited by

          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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          • M Offline
            moghamdi
            last edited by

            it is working now.

            Thank you guys for your support.

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            • KrisidiousK Offline
              Krisidious
              last edited by

              2015 Sketchup re-enables thumbnails.

              By: Kristoff Rand
              Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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              • D Offline
                driven
                last edited by

                @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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                • KrisidiousK Offline
                  Krisidious
                  last edited by

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

                  By: Kristoff Rand
                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                  • pbacotP Offline
                    pbacot
                    last edited by

                    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

                      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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                      • pbacotP Offline
                        pbacot
                        last edited by

                        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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                        • X Offline
                          xxtiny
                          last edited by

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

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                          • S Offline
                            steveclayton
                            last edited by

                            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

                              @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

                                @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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                                • B Offline
                                  bflmpsvz
                                  last edited by

                                  @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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                                  • ArisA Offline
                                    Aris
                                    last edited by

                                    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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                                    • G Offline
                                      GuruMonkey
                                      last edited by

                                      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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                                      • romboutR Offline
                                        rombout
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • romboutR Offline
                                          rombout
                                          last edited by

                                          It just to work a while back but now im just seeing the icons aside of the SketchUp file. he files them self show the regular su icon. Not sure why it stopped working

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                                          • romboutR Offline
                                            rombout
                                            last edited by

                                            Does anyone have the quicklook function working on OSX under El Capitan?

                                            On mavericks it worked but with El Capitan the thumbnails arent set to the file

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