Thanks, easy fix!

I was using undo, multiple times in a row, and suddenly the icon vanished from the standard toolbar...guess it was tired of being pushed so much.

No toolbar modification I can find like in Layout where I can just add the icon/function back into the toolbar that I can see.

Anyone have a solution as to how I get the undo function back into the standard toolbar?

One thing I would definitely like to see is the ability to control the width of the fill in 'filled' dimension text in Layout, or to at least make the fill boundary closer to the length of the occupied text...perhaps extending beyond the ends of the dimension text by the same amount that the fill adds above and below the text, or slightly less even. Currently the fill boundary is superfluously extended beyond the ends of the dimension text, creating unnecessary blocking/overlapping of items in close proximity.

I use a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop now and then for Sketchup when I am traveling. The screen resolution defaults to 3200 X 1800, and with Windows 10, the recommended display scaling is 250%. At these settings, with Sketchup 2015, ALL icons scale equally, both native toolbar icons and plugin toolbar icons...they are small, but legible.
With Sketchup 2016, at the same resolution and display scaling, the native toolbar icons scale up nicely to a more reasonable size, however, the plugin toolbar icons are impossibly small. I've tried every combination of display resolution and display scaling I can think of and nothing gives me a congruent relationship between the native toolbar icons and the plugin toolbar icons.
I can report that there are two plugin toolbar icons I have that scale similarly to the native ones in 2016, and those are: Compo Spray, and BG_Sketchup Comments...I'm not sure what is in the coding of these plugins that causes the icons to scale correctly, but they do.
Any ideas on how to scale up the plugin toolbar icons?
While 2016 native toobar icon scaling is much better than 2015, the plugin toolbar icon scaling is definitely not.

Not sure what is going on here, but toggling of snap icon added to toolbar is not functioning as expected in Layout 2016. I place the snap icon as a button on my main toolbar, it normally toggles from the larger red horseshoe magnet (on) to the smaller greyscaled version (off).

Currently, if the icon is red (on) and I click on it, nothing happens, but as soon as I choose the 'arrange' tab on the main menu the icon immediately switches properly to the off position. This works the same way if the icon is originally showing the greyscaled (off) representation and I try and toggle it on, nothing switches until the 'arrange' tab is selected.

If I try and go through the arrange tab, and choose to toggle snap on or off in the menu drop down, again the snap icon on the tool bar does nothing until I select the 'arrange' tab once more. Somethin' ain't right.

We've used Layout successfully for years, this morning we've developed an issue where all layout files on our server announce that we do not have sufficient permissions when attempting to save. This is not happening with any other file type, only layout files. We've unloaded and re-loaded sketchup to no avail, checked all of the permissions settings, etc, etc. so weird. Any ideas?

I figured it out, and this may or may not apply to other Windows 8.1 users. If you use file preview in Windows explorer, then the .skp thumbnail seems to get locked in the process, Windows does not release it. When I tried to delete the accumulating .skb files, Explorer warned me that the files were open in COM surrogate, some kind of thumbnail jailhouse, since Explorer apparently does not trust thumbnailer code?? By simply turning off the file preview in Explorer, the .skb files could be deleted.

I also turned off the file preview in Explorer, when trying to insert a file into Layout, this seems to be a different process, as turning the preview off in Windows directly did not affect the Explorer file preview set-up when loaded by Layout. Not sure if there was a 'grab and hold' happening there also, but now all is well.

I have a file that refuses to update the .skp file on saving. What I do get is progressive .skb files, 01, 02, etc. in windows explorer, but the .skp file does not update, the time stamp remains the same. If I exit Sketchup, and then re-enter, when attempting to open the file I get a message that the file is locked by another user...there are no other users. My only choice is to reboot.

I tried making a new .skp file, then copying all of the entities from the misbehaving .skp file into the new .skp file, but the glitch comes over with the copy.

Any ideas?

You need to change one line of code at the end of some of Didier's scripts to work with 2014 and 2015, unfortunately I don't remember what that small change was. Message Tig, I think he suggested the easy fix.

Use Didier's Layer Manager, there is an icon "hide layers of selection" in the toobar...I use it all the time.

Fantastic! Thanks for the tip Dave, overall I really like the new functionality, and can see the time that was put into the upgrade of this feature. Knowing these subtle nuances is invaluable. Profile updated.

One behaviour I'm not ecstatic about is copying text. If I try and copy a leader and text box combination, the text box moves fine, but the attachment point of the leader does not release from it's original location. If I explode the text/leader group, and then re-group, it copies no problem...is this the new norm?

The offending plugin is eneroth 3D rotate. With associated . rb file removed, no layer loading issues.

Sorry for the late reply, was away for holidays.

OS is Windows 8.1 update 1
IE version is 11.0.9600.17239
SketchUp 2014 14.1.1282

The add layer functionality does not work when the dialogue opens blank.

Empty plugins folder, layers panel only, works. So time to start process of elimination, or do you have some well known offenders I could start the weeding out process with?

A little more information. Opened an skp file this morning, no layers. Unloaded and re-loaded layers panel, all good. Opened a second, different skp file, no layers in that one, then I decided to open the previous skp file, directly from the open skp file. Since the previous file was open on the desktop, Sketchup warned me "file is open, open read only blah blah", as soon is a picked no, to cancel the load of the previous file, boom, all of the layers in 'layers panel' loaded up in the currently open file, where they, just seconds ago, were unavailable.

Not sure if that helps figure out what could be going on.

I've had some strange behaviour creep in with layers panel recently. At least once a day, possibly more, the layers dialogue ends up blank, with no layers showing at all. When I chose the recent history dialogue, only one of multiple layers is restored. The only solution for me is to close Sketchup, remove both the jbb_layers_panel folder, and the jbb_layers_panel.rb, then reload Sketchup, and reinstall the .rbz file. Once that is done, all of the layers show up again...until the next sudden disappearance. I need to point out that the layers don't disappear from an .skp file that is currently open, only when opening an existing .skp file initially. The behaviour also repeats itself with the same .skp file over and over. In the last 3 days, I have had to unload/reload layers panel on the same .skp file on 4 separate file opening occasions. Any ideas?

Okay, nevermind. Did some looking, and apparently I've been living in the dark ages regarding control + mouse scroll functionality for about a zillion things.

Not sure if this is an intended function or not, but I accidently discovered today that holding down 'control' and scrolling causes the whole menu system to resize...that was unexpected, and very helpful. I can double the number of layers visible on the screen. Has this functionality always been there?

I'm just trying out this morning. First big issue I've noticed is that importing Sketchup model results in completely blacked out window, in both raster and hybrid styles, only when I switch to vector does the sketchup drawing become visible. I've tried various styles in Sketchup, as well as creating Scenes to see if that would affect the outcome..., no luck, everything imports black.

Any ideas? Video card driver possibly?

What I find quite amusing about this whole dialog is the amount of billable time that was sacrificed in order to rant about $33. When we first purchased ICG's Builder's Cad software in 1991, it was somewhere in the neighbourhood of $10,000, mind you, you did have this cool isometric view that was...wait for it...'shaded'.

If $33 is too much to pay for a full version upgrade, with free incremental version updates, then you're expecting a bit too much from the developer...unless of course, as a registered architect, you're only charging $1.81/hr. for your valuable time.

Just because there are incredibly generous contributors out there, like TIG, THOM THOM, FREDO, etc., a precedent is not established that says everything needs to be free, or it's a rip-off. According to what I've read prior, the version 1 software was used for 2 months...is it remotely tactful complaining about a usage fee of 55 cents/day?

Maybe the global economy is worse than I thought...