It's called clipping. It often happens when the camera is set to Parallel Projection and the camera is incorrectly placed. It can also happen when there is geometry at a vast distance from the rest of the model or the model is a long way from the origin.
If you save the file with clipping visible, we should be able to see it if you'd share the file. That would be a good way to get an exact answer and fix.
I don't know of anything specifically but you might try searching the 3D Warehouse. I guess the things I've done with it are for clients and not assemblies I'd be at liberty to share.
Which 2021 version are you using?
Are you holding Ctrl? In 2021 it's a tap and release to activate it.
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@unknownuser said:
I have SU 2019 and 2020 still on the machine. Could this be a problem?
Not really.
Next step: Follow TIG's instructions at the following post.
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=73674#p670214
Repairing the installation as I described won't affect extensions or toolbars. Unless you go into the wrong areas and make changes in the Registry Editor, you won't have any effect on them either.
@Last is gone and the new owners view Sketchup just as a business.
The discount deal to subscribe is pretty good if the new features are really needed but you will be just a subscriber and with no feedback option like in the beginning.
IMO
If your most current SU does the job just keep your perpetual or free license and then you can use all your favorite plugins as well.
There is no way to be certain that the subscription versions will support your plugins in any case.
Even SU 8 with all the super plugins that there are is very powerful and complete for most modeling.
Sketchup in the beginning was and still is the best conceptual modeling program that one could hope for but is not a Cad program and Layout is not either.
For Cad and production drawings Give Turbocad Deluxe a look.
It is very configurable and icons for all functions with user definable keystrokes too.
It has Model space/Paper space/xref and underlay PDF features.
Also will import/export Sketchup/Acad/Dxf/Stl and more.
Very affordable too.
Sketchup 2018 is a good stopping point as even old legacy plugins and all of my favorites still work properly.
dtrarch
I suppose it gets more complicated with the subscription and I'm not sure what will happen to 2020 when I update to 2021 since both would be under the subscription license.
To be honest I don't know why I keep those old versions installed. well, it comes in handy once in a great while when I need to create screen shots from older versions for instruction. I'd never go back to using those older versions for my day to day work, though.
@juju said:
If you go to the link DaveR provided, you will be redirected to your local reseller.
In the case of CalypsoArt, his "local reseller" is Trimble. He would end up in the right place for renewing his license.
I assigned a shortcut for " view/rendering/edge/by axis " as ALT + X so i can turn on or off the colors of the object's axis, so in this way, i know where to dimension any object. < X,Y >
I rarely, if ever, use those functions.
If I need to upload something to the warehouse I clean it up first, which is done in a separate model file. Same thing if I download anything from the warehouse, clean it up first in a separate file before I use it in my model.
It's Eneroth's - called
https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/eneroth-legacy-save
It lets you save your model as an earlier SketchUp version.
It doesn't overwrite the default 'save' option.
But you can set a shortcut to it, and use that in lieu of the native tool...
