What are the OpenGL settings on the Pro version? Having Use Max Texture Size ticked on kills SU performance on large models.

@jasonwd said: ... the dialogue box should have appeared and I can't for the life of me find it anywhere... for this bit, did you try 'Reset Workspace' ??? for the stubborn dxf/dwg imports install Teigha File Converter.app convert the files manually to dxf or have a look at jimfoltz's plugin freedxf... it uses Teigha File Converter [same engine as SU Pro] but with different setting to recover more items... john

It's OK. I was mostly just trying to find out what's possible for the sake of discussion. It worked out. Thanks for the note.

@unknownuser said: For whatever reason some of my materials have been renamed. The names show up correctly when I hover over them, but when I select them the names have been changed. In my greys this has happened to four of them. I think you have those four materials already in the model, but you just somehow renamed them. Because if you have a renamed color in the model, when you hover over the color in the colors palette the name you see is the "original one", but when you click on it you see the name you assigned to that color in the model. This happens with all the materials. You can also spot that noticing the little white triangle on the icons.

@dukejazz said: How do they make a flat roof on a hollow Box? Filament printers can "bridge" a certain distance. Here's a video that shows how it's done. Pretty sweet! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b6hFFcLh_Q

I see what you're saying, deffo's not cool to change existing documents layering, but it probably is somehow linked. Send them a complaint e-mail, hopefully they can adjust the behavior so as to not change previously created documents' layering names.

Thanks very much! That is very helpful. There isn't any way to figure out which objects are images in outliner, is there? Or some other option to view them?

I have no real info - it is not documented - but would guess in some temp directory.

With the toolbar dialog open you can edit the native toolbars, so the most likely explanation is that you went to move the edit toolbar and simply dragged the move tool off. When making a custom toolbar you need to hit ctrl as you drag a tool to another toolbar, this leaves the original in place and makes a copy for the custom toolbar. And as you see there is always reset if you pull one off by mistake.

Have you got the second building textured with PNG materials. Have those PNG images transparency even if the part visible is opaque? If so, that may be your problem. If not, check styles, face settings, transparency (fast, normal, nicer) If not, check rendering settings under preferences, OpenGL.

I have a problem that was working and after a period of stop work .. Is it a solution to this problem?

http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-mobile-viewer?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonsq7NZKXonjHpfsX76e8tXKW%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATspmI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFTLTAMaNv0LgOXxA%3D

Very surprised but happy to say. this time it only took 2 days! Hurray.

@kimi kimi said: On previous versions SketchUp didn't force itself to go in front of other open programs. I mean, if I open a large file, it keeps popping up in front of my PDF viewer for example, or in front of another skp file, or whatever I use. It can be really annoying if you want to open 300 mb file, and it takes 10 minutes. You can't do anything else during that time basically. I just want it to load in the back and not force itself while I'm doing other stuff. I thought it was just me.

I installed and played with the Bezier Curves tool, so far so good, it is certainly a lot easier than how I was making the paths. The paths may not match available tubing u-bend radius' to fabricate from, but it provides the visual concept well perfectly! Thanks again for the guidance! My test manifold for tubing alignment using Bezier Curves attached to straight stubs.

I need to reiterate.......the software needs to be revised so the materials palette pops open when the paint tool is activated - like it used to do.

For sharper images go to Window/Preferences/OpenGl and check Use maximum texture size.