Locking Flyouts
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Hi,
I have tried searching for an answer but having come back to Sketchup after a 2 year absence I am having to re-learn what little I knew before. I am a little more determined this time.
My question is I am finding it very frustrating to have to keep opening the 'Components', 'Layers', 'Entity Info' Flyouts. Is there a way of locking these well used dialogue boxes to the side of the screen. I have assigned keyboard short-cuts to keep opening these windows but there must be a way of getting them to stick open in the Workspace??
Happy Christmas to you all.
Regards,
Andrew -
Yeah, just don't close them! They don't close on their own.
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You can also roll them up into little bars.
Maybe someday SU will address this and build a PS type UI
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They hired a guy just before they went to Google? or sometime after they were at Google who was on the Adobe UI team. I was very hopeful that he would help develop a new UI for SU. I guess it never happened and I think he stayed with Google.
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I guess I must be inadvertently closing them because they stay visible sometimes for a while. The key words are 'inadvertently closing'. I will try and figure out how I am doing this. My point is why can't they be locked to avoid the "inadvertent closing".
Also, I haven't discovered how to roll them up. That would be great. I thought I was reasonably proficient with computers but comments coming back are suggesting otherwise.
Soon be Christmas!
Regards,
Andrew -
I keep my drawing window slightly narrower than my screen and leave the additional windows outside. They stay there unless inadvertently closed.
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Clicking on any flyout's top-bar rolls that flyout up.
Any other flyouts that you have 'stuck' to the bottom of the rolled-up one will move to suit.You can simply move one flyout below another one's bottom edge, until it sticks [links] to it.
To un-stick [un-link] a flyout just drag it sideways...
Clicking its 'X-cross' closes it...
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OK
Getting there. Roll ups useful.
I will persevere.Many thanks,
Andrew -
Please, what OS are you using? These windows especially suck on MacOS. Session to session, things get screwed up. What I do in session is stack /stick my windows together. Single click to collapse most of them. Set a proper width and stick to the right side. Then if I press the green button on the main window, it adjusts into the remaining space.
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@dave r said:
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I keep my drawing window slightly narrower than my screen and leave the additional windows outside. They stay there unless inadvertently closed.
That has to be about the single best tip I have seen. It is like working in ACAD with the properties dialogue box open. I was fully amazed when I hit 'save toolbar position' closed SU and opened it up again and the flyouts were still in same position
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