Finally! It has taken me 24 hours of disabling and enabling everything I can, numerous restarts, cache clearances etc, and the thing that finally worked was to enable my VPN and set it to a US server, suddenly all my problems were solved! I've no idea why this worked but it did and I'm not going to question it in case I jinx it

There's a few options... Transmutr - https://lindale.io/transmutr Skimp - https://skimp4sketchup.com/ Fluid Importer - https://www.fluidinteractive.com/products/sketchup-extensions/fluidimporter/ Universal Importer - https://sketchucation.com/plugin/2275-universal_importer ...the best, that's another discussion. Fluid is fast though. All can be trialed and the last is free but donating to author is good karma

EUREKA! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! But not rid of me - sorry. Pretty sure something else will crop up, but for now... and the deadline for this project (just the first component) is for a two o'clock meeting tomorrow. I think I'll be SAFE! PS: Finished the Illuminati Symposium R O Brien. [image: O6wb_Screenshot2022-07-19at7.20.03pm.png] [image: v14B_Forum.png]

I guess we get into workflows that work and plug away. Have a great weekend. Hopefully it's nicer there than it is here. d

Thank you. Still nothing in my email or spam. I'll contact support

@blackdogsketch said: Just flipped over to 2022 Pro. Please update your profile to show that. Thanks!

There was no reason to remove SketchUp from your computer(s). Have you actually gone into your Trimble Connect account management and deauthorized the devices? Try that. Go into your Products page and under SketchUp click on Manage Devices. Choose Deauthorized. [image: vJ5P_Screenshot-11_15_202210_22_16AM.png] No matter how much you think they are targeting you, they aren't and this is not about greed.

Not at the moment. Sorry.

@cstewart said: @dave r said: What extension exactly? What exact version of SketchUp 8? Version 8.0.15158. So with that version you'll need to do as TIG indicated and download the .rbz file, change the extension to .zip, extract the contents maintaining the file structure and then add that into the Plugins folder. Then quit and restart SketchUp. It's too bad you didn't update to the latest version when you had the chance. Installing extensions was made much easier as TIG described. Please complete your forum profile with SketchUp version, operating system, etc. That information helps us help you.

Awesome! Thanks TIG

Hi everyone, The problem got solved magically. My friend has managed to open the file somehow. I do not know what has worked. Thank you! Lena

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@correy said: I'm assuming tags are the new layers? Yes. Layers are now called Tags. As with Layers, tags are applied to the groups/components in the model. @correy said: I was just trying to show a two scene animation of a tenon entering a mortise. Same as a drawer in and out. Will give it a go, mahalo. Good deal.

Very likely the windows are opening off screen. First thing to try is Window>Preferences>Workspace and click on Reset Workspace.

It also sounds like you've assigned tags to geometry (edges and faces) which is not good practice. Only objects (components, groups, labels, and dimensions) should get tags. Edges and faces should be created AND remain untagged.

@borisbeaulant I was unaware of that huge detail (sub-groups). This might be a great solution for me. Thank you Boris, thank you OCL.

If the groups are solids you might not need to union them in the first place. Often, as long at the groups are solids and touching the printer will treat them as a single object. Export an stl file and see what the slicer thinks of it. If you do have to combine them, I would be inclined to just explode the groups instead of using the Union tool. Make the groups so once you have them all exploded you can make a single solid group. As for the holes, you're running into the tiny faces issue. Avoid that by working at a larger scale. When I'm modeling for 3D printing I set the Units to meters and do my modeling entering the dimensions as if inches or millimeters are meters. Then I export the .stl in meters and upload to the slicer in millimeters or inches as appropriate. Here's an example. [image: cZW4_Screenshot-7_3_20229_28_11AM.png] [image: jjAM_Screenshot-7_3_20229_30_25AM.png] Another example. Again modeled in meters but this time with multiple solids in SketchUp. [image: xQle_Screenshot-7_3_20229_46_46AM.png] And ready to print with import units in inches. [image: tlji_Screenshot-7_3_20229_46_17AM.png]

Glad it works out for the better for you.