The messages could make things clearer. Yes, there is an update available. The PluginStore or Fredo's own check will tell you so. And yes, you can download and install the extension update. But until you purchase and install a license (done via an item on the Fredo Corner menu), the updated extension will not run. It seems that the days of incredibly powerful but free extensions are starting to fade away.

Good deal.

Maybe this will help someone else...seems the context menu does not show up if you have groups within groups. I extracted the inner groups (Table Top & Table Cloth) so they appear at the top level of the outliner heirarchy as follows. Here is a concrete example that didnt work MyModel TableGroup -> Table Top -> Table Cloth I exploded the TableGroup and the menu appears MyModel -> Table Top -> Table Cloth

Translated by Google: @unknownuser said: As shown in the attached file, when you click the download plugin button, you are prompted to install the app. What app should I install? Save the .rbz file to your Downloads folder. Then go to the Window menu in SketchUp and select the Extension Manager. At the bottom click Install Extension. Navigate to where you saved the file, select it and choose Open. What version of SketchUp are you really using? Your profile says 2019 Free/Make which is impossible. Since this is not a bug, I've moved it from the Bugs category.

There's nothing wrong with 6000 pixel-wide image exports. That's often what I do. As for setting the text correctly, you'll need to experiment a little to get the size you want in the image export. I don't know what size you should set because I don't know how big you want the text to appear. There is no way to set lineweight in SketchUp. There never has been. You can do that in LayOut, though and you can use Hybrid rendering so the lines in LayOut are vector lines and will generally be crisper in the exports. (Keep in mind that edges and text will become rasterized in image exports. If you export a PDF from LayOut that won't happen.) And if you use LayOut's Text, Label, and Dimension tools, you can set font size, lineweight for leaders and dimension lines and other properties to get what you want. You'll also be looking at paper space in LayOut so you can easily compare the size of the text with the overall dimensions of the exported image.

Most welcome mate. It opened easily enough in Turbocad.

right on Dave.

Dave Thanks. Well, I found the problem. The screen was not maximized to the fullest. It looked like it filled the total screen area, but When I made the screen smaller, it still behaved the same way. I went to ver 2020, made the screen smaller and it incorrectly behaved like version 2021. Then I made the screen full screen in 2020, and it behaved correctly. Went to 2021. Made the screen smaller than full scale. And now it works. Again, thanks for the help.

You can install the stl import export tool from the extension warehouse, the one created by the sketchup team, and that will export correctly. Once installed look for a different export option in the file menu.

What kind of detail do you need for bolts? I can't imagine you need to model threads or other find detail. You can probably make all the bolt components you need from scratch in short order. You might also find something useful in the 3D Warehouse. I prefer to make my own so I can control the amount of detail and the way they insert into my models. As for the exploded views, there are a couple of old plugins that will move the groups/components in your model away from each other. One is a French one called Exploded View and there's another one from Smustard. I'm not sure about their compatibility with the newest SketchUp versions. This is also something I prefer to do myself. I find it easier and faster to create exploded views that work using the Move tool and Select.

@dave r said: It's not uncommon for third party extension and application makers to update their products for a new version of software. It's different when all of that stuff comes from in house because it is typically all updated before the release. For future updates you might consider waiting a couple of weeks to allow those third parties to test and issue their updates. FWIW, if you haven't already done so, you should install the SCF Extension (go to Resources at the top of the forum page and click on Plugin Store Download, download the extension and install it via Install Extension in the Extension Manager.) Then use it to install extensions that you get from Sketchucation. It will help you ensure you have the most recent versions of your extensions installed and it'll keep a list (bundle) of those extensions so you can install them automatically if you move to a new computer or when you update to the next version of SketchUp. thanks for the quick reply. that's what i love about SU, so many little nice surprises and plugins that help alot.

Cotty it's one of the downsides of the forum spam filtering, new posters need to have their early posts moderated, which can delay the time from posting to being seen. I had already answered it at Sketchup before this one got through moderation. So it's not really a double post in the true sense. I saw it and should have mentioned it was solved already before Tig replied. I will strive to do better.

Yeah, I had the same thing, wanted to run 2021 in trial mode until I felt comfortable with it, but couldn't (it may be the classic ID10T problem?) so ended up upgrading my 2020 perpetual license to 2021 perpetual, so I guess I'm stuck with 2021 whether I like it or not.

Because it's one of Fredo's tools you also need to download/install his LibFredo... Restart SketchUp afterwards to sync things...

@pbacot said: I assign the light components (the rendering object that defines the light -- not the model of the fixture) to a separate layer. For day scenes that layer would be hidden. It's not entirely interactive, as for live rendering or video. Something like that would be special feature of the rendering software, I think. Maybe TwinMotion does this? Hi pbacot, Thank you for your reply, I checked about twinmotion, looks like this the answer of my question, I will download and try it, if they have a free version or trial version

CURIC 2021 compatible plugins were just released this morning. (edit: nevermind - i just installed and they are not working....all kinds of load errors) (edited edit: I emailed Curic the errors and updated package was promptly uploaded. All good now. Tag folders - I have been dying for this feature for a while...now if they could just switch the name 'tag' back to 'layer'.... As far as the new logos.....see pic below... [image: kNxh_c4d.jpg]

Fredo reported this a while ago. With recent versions if you have a reference set up for an entity etc and it gets recreated - e.g. during an explode - the reference changes and so there's an error as some code finds an invalid reference. Most developers have now trapped for this in their code - e.g. setting a reference to an entity does not persist after an operation like explode, so you need to grep the result of the explode to re-collect the object[s] to re-find that entity - using persistent-id or a custom attribute assigned to the entity... In older versions an explode etc did not destroy the reference to an entity, so your code could reference it inside a group and find it again after the explode... the persistent-id changes broke this and a workaround is needed, as explained. I suspect that the old DC code has not been fully updated to avoid the 'delete entity' reference messages... It's a straightforward fix to trap for it - but SketchUp seems unwilling to devote much time to DCs - they have new fish to fry...

Here too, good luck mate.

@hornoxx said: ... how about this? http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=72962 Thank you so much!!! It worked perfect.