Newb Question about editing components
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I've been poking around here lately, and have come to a road block. What I want to know is why when I select a component sometimes the "outline" around the component is sometimes yellow or blue?
Thanks for the help.
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I may be wrong, but I think there was an early release of V6 that had a blue bounding box by default. Nobody liked it, so Google changed it back to yellow. It may be that some components created in that release change the style to blue.
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Well, I'm coming from the "Free ASU" so I may be able to give a more precise answer than Alan...
In the Pro version of SU (way back before it was made free at SU5) the default colour for the bounding box (or more exactly for anything selected) was yellow (and the front face - as well as the background - was white).
Now when Google obtained SU and made the free version (SU5) they also made a default style with ground and sky (to be more "natural" for "amateaurs") and the default face colour was also somewhat light brown on which the yellow does not appear very well (it blends in too much).
So for SU Free they made the bounding box blue by default.Yet you can change this in the Styles dropdown window > Edit tab > Modeling settings (the last, blue cube icon). The item to "customize" is called "selected".
Whenever you import any component into your existing model, the settings of the component will change to the settings of your current model so you need not worry about this too much.
As for me, though have become a "pro user" ever since, I kept my template that I had got(ten) used to when I started using SU Free some time in 2006.
There was an interesting discussion about whose preference is what regarding templates but I cannot find it anywhere.
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O0o, Thanks for the replies. It's nothing important I was just wondering because I keep seeing the two different colors.
Oh yeah, on this website,
http://sketchup.google.com/gsu6/download.htmlis that the link to download SU6 Pro for free?
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Yeah, you can download it there and install even upon your existing free version and get it to work (free) for eight working hours after which it will decently downgrade into the free version unless you pay purchase a license.
Basically only the 3d and 2d vector format export is an added funtion in the pro version currently - plus there is a presentational software called "LayOut" and lately "StyleBuilder" that are added to the pro version.
So only download and install it when you feel the need to try these functions out. If you are still at a stage of exploring the modeling functions of SU keep it for later...
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