I am not seeing this myself with SU 2026.0 on Win 11. Also, the folders named "Materials" in %ProgramData% and %AppData% should only contain subfolders and not skm files.

yeah, not a fan of live components. as a "component factory" it has value, but for many of us doing complex work where dynamic components can be rapidly adjusted, scaled, etc. the DC need a lot of love which it's not getting. what would also be nice - letting non-pro users use DC but no option to peek inside or adjust anything other than exposed parameters. but i'm thinking somewhere someone got the idea of the potential for charging people to generate a "live component" and download it - voila! instant money maker... eeerrghh.

it's less the risk of updates and more that it's forcing the program data folders to be rebuilt EVERY F'ING TIME i double click on an skp file. and it's ignoring both the preference settings AND the manual edits on the private preferences json file (and as a note, the private file does not have any thing other than my appdata folders for the materials and material browser, styles and style browser, and component and component browser) so there is some special magic happening to "helpfully fix" my install every time. this is not the behaviour in the 2024 version nor the earlier 2025. so someone changed the behaviour, adding things like "would you like to purge your model before saving? it can help improve performance" -- i get it. there are people who will f-up their basic installation so "self-healing" can be useful. but simply ignoring or overriding my settings (used for years mind you) is problematic. please fix this.

Exactly, I don't know how that impacts DC creation. But I figure they didn't really consider simple planes as 'dynamic'. I prefer ProfileBuilder for these trimsheet type of assemblies.

@Rich-O-Brien no worries. i replied just to document the steps in case anyone was experiencing it...

This is a known issue and the developers are aware of it and working on a solution. Hopefully they'll get it fixed in time for the first maintenance release.

@Rich-O-Brien Sketchucation test file.skp Yep, both options, drag and drop and upload icon are available now. Cheers.

My model would not export some surfaces to Google Earth .kmz Turned out that only certain colours were failing to export. They were all renamed colours, appearing in my "In Model" colour set. I tried updating to Sketchup 8.0.11752, and renaming the colours again, but it didn't work. Tried "fixing" the problem in the model-info menu but that didn't work. Thanks to your hint, I edited the RBG by one notch and it fixed the problem. Don't know why or how my colours got corrupted.

cheers! registry hacks-r-us! did the trick. i did report it as a bug to Google so hopefully this make the adjustment in the next patch or version. so... the Google bug people pointed me to a feature: in the preferences -> work space is a button to "reset work space"

it does not work in the ruby command, not sure why, I do not see any changes in sketchup 2020. I got groups with nested groups at one level and I am trying to explode all nested groups and leave a single group level

@sasrabirawa said: Thanks.. it works very well, but we need to detour... I've sent the problem to Google, hope they will fix it in the next update Gulfo had already reported this to them a week ago. The bug was reported before then as well and hopefully will be fixed in the maintenance release.

yes, i spent some time trying to identify a better solution but currently none exist... so i thought i'd leave this information here in case other folks ran into it...