Most annoying SU behavior
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I find it annoying that the program always opens with the line tool instead of the select arrow.
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@john sayers said:
I find it annoying that the program always opens with the line tool instead of the select arrow.
You need this [free] http://www.smustard.com/script/SelectAtStartup
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That's odd. It must be a PC thing because the Mac version (or my Mac version anyway) starts with the selection tool. A windows bug?
Edit; Is it something to do with how you've saved a template as? I always make my own template. Perhaps the default starts with the line tool, and making a template, to get rid of Sang, would leave you with the selection tool, which is then saved as a tool pref with the template?
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Tom, Not 100% sure, but I think he means when you select a skp from Sketchup.
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@tfdesign said:
That's odd. It must be a PC thing because the Mac version (or my Mac version anyway) starts with the selection tool. A windows bug?
Edit; Is it something to do with how you've saved a template as? I always make my own template. Perhaps the default starts with the line tool, and making a template, to get rid of Sang, would leave you with the selection tool, which is then saved as a tool pref with the template?
Are you sure you don't have a plugin installed that modifies this? because there is no option in SU nativly to set which tool SU should activate by default. It's hard-coded to the Pencil tool.
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@thomthom said:
Are you sure you don't have a plugin installed that modifies this? because there is no option in SU nativly to set which tool SU should activate by default. It's hard-coded to the Pencil tool.
Nope (I am 100% sure!).
To be honest, I've only got a couple of plugins installed, and that's not one of them. Try saving a template with a tool ready to use. It's just an idea.
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@tfdesign said:
Try saving a template with a tool ready to use. It's just an idea.
No - it's not model specific.
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Well I can't explain that at all.
But my default is always the select tool. 
edit, I'm still on 7.1 btw.
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Could be yet another one of SketchUp's "consistencies"...
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@thomthom said:
@tfdesign said:
That's odd. It must be a PC thing because the Mac version (or my Mac version anyway) starts with the selection tool. A windows bug?
Edit; Is it something to do with how you've saved a template as? I always make my own template. Perhaps the default starts with the line tool, and making a template, to get rid of Sang, would leave you with the selection tool, which is then saved as a tool pref with the template?
Are you sure you don't have a plugin installed that modifies this? because there is no option in SU nativly to set which tool SU should activate by default. It's hard-coded to the Pencil tool.
My Mac always opens with Selection tool, on 6,7 or 8. I don't have any plugins on 6.
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how about that. I just fired up my own Mac.
sigh why do they keep on doing things differently for the platforms.... -
It's a bug then? But for which platform? I can see the usefulness of SU starting with either tool.
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I wish it was the Select tool that was default, I use that more often than the pencil.
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I have used RickW's simple fix forever... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=281923#p281923
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When I first open Sketchup, even from selecting a skp, it defaults to the "Selection Tool". Once Sketchup is open, and when I open an file from File > Open, the file opens with the "Line Tool". Perhaps the confusion is simply circumstantial.
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must be a windows thing. :0
Thanks TIG for the script - works perfectly.
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@john sayers said:
I find it annoying that the program always opens with the line tool instead of the select arrow.
When I first started using SU 3 years ago with V6.0 on my PC, that was the very first thing I complained about in a previous forum.
I was directed to a Ruby plugin fix.But the select pointer SHOULD be the default startup pointer, not the line or any other construction tool.
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Unwanted lines that cause disappearing surfaces when deleted. As far as I can see the disappearance does not always relate to lines bounding areas. Sometimes it's because a surface I did NOT want was formed mysteriously.
I just know that I tried to do a table top, and eve3ry time I rotated the view I would find surfaces gone, surfaces appearing etc.
I actually find that5 creation of surfaces a nuisance: sometimes you just want lines.....this IS "SKETCH-up"
Colour me old fashioned and maybe I need that "paradigm", but I want to be able to create and delete surfaces as I require, not at the whim of the programme.
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Just found this out.....apparently SU doesn't like having to share resources with Adobe Reader. While I have one or more pdfs open SU doesn't want't to open. I have to close the pdfs and then it works and if I open pdfs again while it's open then both the open and save windows don't appear when I press the button.
This is new behaviour as I haven't noticed it until today. It might have something to do with the fact that I unistalled Adobe Reader X yesterday because it was unstable and reinstalled version 9.40 which works perfect...but now this happens........ugh software..... -
Re selection sets:
You could always save/update all your scenes without any layer visibility stored.
Then you make a few scenes with only the Layer visibility stored,
like L-All, L-NoPlans, L-NoModel and so on.
I do this all the time, as it saves a lot of time and frustrations when working on big projects with lots of layers, versions of dwg-imports etc.
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