Just in case anyone else has tried everything to get SU to recognize a valid license without success...

From Trimble support:

"The user might be having an issue with the formatting in their email program (like outlook) changing the dash to a "bash" which looks the same but SketchUp doesn't recognize it. Try typing it in vs copy/paste. Also, try pasting the whole license into the Advanced window."

This information does not appear on the Licensing Troubleshooting page, go figure.

In my case the email was fine. However I printed the email as a PDF which must be where the dash turned into a bashtard

FYI:
After my network re-config. I tried to reinstall and authorize SU.
It kept saying invalid licence.

Finally got this from Trimble:

"The user might be having an issue with the formatting in their email program (like outlook) changing the dash to a "bash" which looks the same, (my emphasis,) but SketchUp doesn't recognize it. Try typing it in vs copy/paste. Also, try pasting the whole license into the Advanced window."

Might have saved me a few hours of frustration if this info was to appear on the licensing t/shoot page

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DOH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

@box said:

As for the other it's a bit of an ongoing saga that I can't go into just now.

C'mon. Gives us a bit of an idea....

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

Sorry Box, I meant 'DOH', not 'DUH'.

Thanks Box for activating my brain.
Did a restore and all is well.

Tho' doesn't resolve the issue of getting SU to recognize a new connection on the same Puter .
To be revisited.

Typical, is it not, I can go days without needing CAD, then today had to embarrass myself with 2 clients when I couldn't send em drawings.

PS: How be the glass lam sculpture? All tickety boo?

@baz said:

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

no work amigo.
will do a restart...

Restart W7,
LAN PCI Adapter enabled.
Still 'Oops!"

I will try a 'Restore point'

@baz said:

@box said:

Baz try re enabling the lan connection. License info/connection can be thrown by that.

DUH! I would have thought of that eventually.
Wait one...

no work amigo.
will do a restart...

Fired up SU this morn and got this...
"This SketchUp pro licence was created on a different computer and will not work here"
Well of course it was not.

Googled Trimble support, Faq said to remove licence and reapply.

But got this...
"Oops... That didn't look like a valid licence"
It was tho.

Contacted my reseller in OZ, Building point, very helpful and concerned. They consider that my license has been hi-jacked.
Quote: "From what I can tell so far your license is still active somewhere."

One more thing...
Possibly a red herring, but recently acquired NBN and had to install a USB wireless adapter in my office computer. Last night, after several days of connection problems between the adapter and the modem in the house, I disabled the LAN adapter in Device manager, (which was now redundant, but had been enabled up until then.)
This fixed my WAN problem, but could it all be connected somehow?
Did the LAN connection I disabled somehow spoof SU into thinking I was on a different Puter?

Building Point is trying to sort this but I have lost a whole day so far with deadlines whizzing past.

You guys have any ideas?
Baz

@dave r said:

Seamless seems to be more important than realistic.

Not to me.

FYI. The 'eBook' link appears to be broken...

Congrats on the new job.
Checkout the special interests/woodworking part of the forum. Lots of good stuff.
And have a look at DaveR's posts, he is the woodworking guru around here.
For example:
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=183%26amp;t=64609

Got it, thanks. BTW, you still thinking of putting together a wood texture package for sale?

Nice, texture looks like an Aussie timber; Myrtle Beech.
Remind me again please how you get the lines in the render?

try tigs selection hide/show. and you can assign shortcut keys.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=161963#p161963

This has been discussed many times on the forum, the short answer is, so far, no.
The best workaround I know of is to explode every group and component down to single entities, this makes the model pretty much useless for modification.

There are some developments in converting Skps to view only formats. IE; WebGl.
I don't know much about this.

@stinkie said:

:mrgreen:

Exactly.

@box said:

I'm so confused now as I woke up to this image.

I will now have to go to to sleep with this image. Thanks so much.

Thanks for the thumbs up Stinkie, after 9 months I figured I must have been blackballed.

@stinkie said:

@ Baz:

Fun at the Vatican:

Something out of a 'Good versus Evil' movie perhaps?
With a bit of makeup, Trump could be the 'Joker'.

(Doesn't know how to wear a tie either).

@box said:

I'll give you the secret code Baz, to the gaffer tape holding down the fancy plastic tarp. And the magic spanner that will allow you to take the finger tight scaffold clamp off the corner so you don't have to jump the fence.

Excellent, I will wear my hard hat and an old 'Access all areas' pass from a Moomba parade from 10 years ago.

BTW, did you know that Moomba means 'Up your bum' in Aboriginal. Not 'let's get together and have fun' as promoted by the organizers.