How to resize Icon Sizes in Sketchup?
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Good Day All,
I need to re-scale tool bar ICONS in Sketchup, what I did was pick the ruby plug-in Icon in the developers folder... I saw an "Icon 8", "Icon-16", "Icon-32".... So since I needed it to be twice the size, I did a Save-as of the Icon 32, and called it "Icon 64" and scaled it up 200%. Then saved it to the save developer folder. Here is where it is WAY over my head... How does Sketchup "KNOW" to pick the 8 or 16 or 32 image? Do I (A) save old Icon-32 as Icon-32X and rename my created "Icon-64" to Icon 32 and Sketchup will pick this? Or is it better to find the code and add the "Icon 64" to the list? (Might me too tricky if the code is not "easy to read, like OLD (basic or fortran) all the newer stuff is out of my abilities at the moment? Any words of wisdom would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks for your time.
Mattee -
SketchUp has 2 toolbar icon sizes. Small or Large.
The code in the extension dictates which icon to display when the user has either Large Toolbar Icons on/off
The size variations you see in the extension folder is because older SketchUp versions used 16px or 24 px. Newer versions of SketchUp handle larger icon sizes to show correctly on high DPI screens.
You can't increase the icon to larger than the setting SketchUp sets for a toolbar icon.
If you want larger icons you need set the Large Toolbar Icons to ON and that's the largest you will see in the UI.
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Thanks Rich, all the Sketchup Icons in "Large" choice come in fine, it's only the developer extension plugin files that come out 1/2 size (While in "Large" mode). I was "guessing" the largest icon each developer has for choices, lets say 24x24 would link to the "Large" button choice? So if I save the "original" 24x24 icon as something else, I could just make a new icon 48x48 and call it 24x24, and the developers extension would now pick this? I just wanted to make sure it's worth trying, as sometimes little experiments can create really big problems!
Thanks, Mattee -
As long as the replacement has the same name you should be fine.
The code calls the image.png to load as the toolbar icon so keeping the replacement named the same will replace it.
This will get overwritten if the extension gets an update though
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Thanks Rich !!!! tried it and it worked, swapped the 24x24 image with a 64x64 image, looks great!
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@shravanivanteru said:
SketchUp 8 is a 3D-modeling program previously known as Google Sketchup. The program is available in a fully functional free version as well as a Pro version that adds more features. SketchUp is particularly useful if your business deals a lot with the accurate modeling of objects, such as in the architectural or design fields. Apart from creating your own components, the software also includes pre-built models that you can resize to fit your needs. Newly created components can be re-sized with the Tape Measure tool while pre-built components, or those imported from a component file, are altered with the scale tool.
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@juju said:
@shravanivanteru said:
SketchUp 8 is a 3D-modeling program previously known as Google Sketchup. The program is available in a fully functional free version as well as a Pro version that adds more features. SketchUp is particularly useful if your business deals a lot with the accurate modeling of objects, such as in the architectural or design fields. Apart from creating your own components, the software also includes pre-built models that you can resize to fit your needs. Newly created components can be re-sized with the Tape Measure tool while pre-built components, or those imported from a component file, are altered with the scale tool.
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