In image editors the little gray squares indicate transparency. Share the image you have so we can see exactly what you've got.

@ntxdave said in Transparent SU Logo:

I want to use it in a SketchUp file that has a background.

Do you mean as a watermark?

I pried this one out of SketchUp 2026. It has the gray squares in the image editor but those pixels are transparent.

There are many examples in which SketchUp files, especially larger ones, have been fatally corrupted when they've been saved directly to an external drive location. In many cases the data winds up being replaced with zeroes. Often all of the data is replaced with zeroes.

The general adice is to work on the file while it is saved directly to an internal drive. If you need the file to be on a server drive or out in the cloud, copy it to that location after a successful save to the internal drive.

Also, you should be regularly purging unused content from your models, keeping material file sizes reasonable, and keeping polygon counts under control.

Illustrating what TIG described.

Sounds like you didn't update the style before updating the scenes. Section display is a style setting. If you change anything related to sections you must update the style or create a new one in order for the change to be remembered. If you've made a change to the style and haven't update it, the thumbnail for the style will show the curved arrows.

If you don't update the style before creating or updating a scene you should get this warning.

When you get it you need to make a decision. Either save as a new style or update the selected style. Don't just choose Create a new style every time you get it because you may wind up with a bunch of identical styles which makes file management harder. But if you choose to Update the selected style the change will be applied to all of the other scenes that use the style.

If you aren't seeing this warning then at some point you must have selected the Do nothing option and ticked the box to prevent this warning from showing up. You should re-enable the warning since it appears you aren't managing the style changes on your own.

Have you tried contacting the author to see if they can send you the file?

How did you try to install it?

@Gus-R said in Delete Used Components:

Dave, by used I mean existing components. I do use purge unused by I wanted to get rid of a bunch of cabinet pulls.

OK. So you could have used the process I described, right clicking on the component thumbnail and selecting Delete. Would be faster than digging though Outliner, especially if the components are nested in groups or larger components.

Where do you want to delete them from? What do you mean by "used components"? If there are instances of them in the model space but you don't want them, go into the In Model Components panel. Right click on the component's thumbnail and choose Delete. That will remove all instances of the component from the model space. If there are no instances of the components in the model space, open the Details menu (black button to the right of the drop down list field) and click on Purge Unused.

@FlorinAp that's exactly the same as it's been on Mac forever. The developers have indicated that vector import is on their roadmap.

SketchUp 2026 on Winodws imports PDF files natively. No need for an extension.

@panixia said in Help with plugin:

is definitely not the best for textured models tho.

I know that. I was only responding to the OP's comment that SketchUp 2017 won't import .stl files. I agree that other formats would likely be better.

@Jspro said in Help with plugin:

my experience is sketchup (2017) will only accept and recognize a SKP file

That's not correct. You can import .stl files into SketchUp 2017.

Presumably you have Blender since you have a Blender file. Open the file in Blender and export a .stl file as Rich suggests. Then use File>Import in SketchUp to import the file.

@Mvmcneil ahh ... Good that you got it sorted. Two different extensions and two different licenses. Both a good to have, though.

Are you sure you are trying to activate RoundCorner and not Fredo Corner?

The developers haven't have made any changes to SketchUp 2021 since late in 2021. The .3ds exporter in SketchUp 2021 wouldn't have been changed, either. You can be certain that the developers won't be looking at the exporter in old, unsupported versions of SketchUp.

Maybe there's something in your model that is resulting in the slow down. You could share the .skp file. We could try the export in the current version and see what happens.

@onzki said in Export to .3ds takes forever:

I’m using 2021 Pro

Your profile says you are using SketchUp 2024. Do you get a different export result with that version?

A compound steam engine directs the exhaust steam from the first cylinder (smallest one) into the next cylinder which is larger. In the case of a triple expansion engine, a third cylinder (largest of the three) gets the steam from the second cylinder. This works because the steam still has energy to expand after the first and second cylinders. It does require the cylinders get progressively larger.

Thanks. No scavenger system for the exhaust. It's just dumped out into the room. On the other hand it's only compressed air going in.

Here's a little boxer engine intended to run on compressed air. For reference, the large gear is about 50mm dia.

Like usual I haven't added screws