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    Google....give us back our back button[SOLVED]

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      Insitebuilders
      last edited by

      Couldn't stand it any more and my 30 day trial for RPTools is running out, so I revisited this thread to see if Google ever popped their collectives out of the sand to offer a solution. Still no word I see...

      The Google SkUp team must be really up against a wall. Kind of sad...maybe the old @Last crew will come out of retirement someday and pick up the pieces...

      ITMT, one more vote for some kind of action...

      /Dennis
      http://insitebuilders.com

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        remus
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        A lot of the @last developers are now working for google πŸ˜‰

        http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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          Insitebuilders
          last edited by

          True, but the hearts and souls are gone... πŸ˜’

          /D

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            Jaycephus
            last edited by

            @fossa said:

            Is it just me or is the lack of a back button on the components window really unhandy.

            It's officially not just you. Six months of no Back button. 😠

            I think they sacrificed it to the god of the vertex for more polygon handling speed.

            Proof that programming by means of ritual sacrifice does not work...

            well, except when the sacrifice is your own life, your wife, your family, your health... πŸ˜›

            Anyway, the spirit of the original @Last guys is now truly gone, IMO.


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              CameronVan
              last edited by

              Well if this is a petition then add my name to the list.

              Bring back the back.

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                Tobobo
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                Running late but sounding great

                Me too

                Toby

                Philippians 4:13

                I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

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                  shamos
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                  i found a good and very simple interim solution
                  im using the windows explorer. i choose thumbnails and just drag&drop the components into the sketchup window.
                  works for me just fine
                  πŸ‘
                  a.t.

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                    Insitebuilders
                    last edited by

                    Whoa, that's like genius, I'll try it....thanks shamos.

                    /D

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                      kevsterman
                      last edited by

                      @shamos said:

                      i found a good and very simple interim solution
                      im using the windows explorer. i choose thumbnails and just drag&drop the components into the sketchup window.
                      works for me just fine
                      πŸ‘
                      a.t.

                      I'd love to be able to do that but I can't see a preview image in my thumbnails which is really annoying 😒

                      "Avoid keeping more than 3 items on your desk that you can't fit into your mouth."

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                        Insitebuilders
                        last edited by

                        Not sure why that would happen. In Views, are you seeing Thumbnails or Icons in Windows Explorer? Different settings...

                        This idea has allowed a complete reorganization of my components (100s) and much faster multiple drag and drop imports into a model.

                        Thx again

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                          thomthom
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                          @insitebuilders said:

                          Not sure why that would happen. In Views, are you seeing Thumbnails or Icons in Windows Explorer? Different settings...

                          This idea has allowed a complete reorganization of my components (100s) and much faster multiple drag and drop imports into a model.

                          Thx again

                          I think that 64bit system doesn't display the preview. Could be that.

                          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                            Jaycephus
                            last edited by

                            @kevsterman said:

                            @shamos said:

                            i found a good and very simple interim solution
                            im using the windows explorer. i choose thumbnails and just drag&drop the components into the sketchup window.
                            works for me just fine
                            πŸ‘
                            a.t.

                            I'd love to be able to do that but I can't see a preview image in my thumbnails which is really annoying 😒

                            I had that problem on Vista Ultimate 64. If you open Explorer and go to Tools, Folder Options, View Tab, there should be a setting for turning on image previewing. Unlike XP, Vista doesn't have a 'Thumbnail' view. You just set the size of the icons, and they will be the image preview, if you have the correct option turned on.


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                              kevsterman
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                              I've tried everything to get my thumbnails to show the component but nothing has worked. See this thread, http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16015

                              As Thomthom said, I think its just a problem with Vista (one of many!)

                              "Avoid keeping more than 3 items on your desk that you can't fit into your mouth."

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                                thomthom
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                                @kevsterman said:

                                I've tried everything to get my thumbnails to show the component but nothing has worked. See this thread, http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=16015

                                As Thomthom said, I think its just a problem with Vista (one of many!)

                                No, not Vista - 64bit Windows. My 32bit Vista display .skp thumbs just fine, but my windows7 64bit doesn't. I expect hat XP 64bit also fails to display thumbs.

                                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  chango70
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                                  You can just drag and drop from adobe bridge. Simple as.

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                                    Jackson
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                                    Side by side installs of SU7 and any previous version can screw up skp thumbnails in XP, the same probably applies for other MS OS's. I haven't worked out the "logic" behind this bug as it affects some skp files, but not others. You'd think it would be skp files saved in the previous version format that wouldn't display as thumbnails (or vice versa), but it's not as simple as that; it appears to affect skp files at random regardless of version format.

                                    Jackson

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                                      CadFather
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                                      bump......

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                                        jessejames
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                                        Still not a peep from Google on this? What gives? Most of the well known people here and at Google groups, not to mention blogs all over WWW have been complaining about this.

                                        SketchUp 8 is coming Google, could you please just do a copy/paste from the previous code so we can get our back button?

                                        Always sleep with a loaded gun under your pillow!

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                                          solo
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                                          I believe they are watching, let's wait for the next version and see.

                                          http://www.solos-art.com

                                          If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                            jessejames
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                                            @solo said:

                                            I believe they are watching, let's wait for the next version and see.

                                            Good point Solo, we should give them the benefit of the doubt here and wait for SU8...

                                            Always sleep with a loaded gun under your pillow!

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