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@dave r said:
The handles would need to be lifted a fair amount to open the switches. This would prevent the switch from being accidentally opened. When it does disconnect it would be instantaneous.
Yes, but the handles would have to be raised the same amount in either configuration, with the same instantaneous disconnect. My question is why they felt it was necessary to include all the extra stuff, when as far as I can tell it serves absolutely no useful purpose.
I've modeled several knife switches for various models, they're usually pretty straight-forward, but this one baffles me. I cannot figure out the purpose of all the extra parts and pieces, what the heck the springs are there for, etc. It reminds me of what the government would come up with when asked to design one.
Anyhow, just thought I would throw it out here and see if some of you much more knowledgeable people might shed some light on this. I'm probably just overlooking something obvious, but hey, you never know 'till you ask.
It's not essential for the model that I understand this, but I do like to figure out things if at all possible.
Seems like they could have simplified the construction and achieved the same result --
Thanks Box
I was hoping that was the situation. Guess I can just keep chuggin' along.
BTW, I hate Trimble. They obviously do not care about the people using their program, just their bottom line.
Thanks Liam
So what does this mean for me. I definitely will not be upgrading to Pro (especially if they are trying to force me to), I won't even update from Make 2015, it has all I need (yeah, my needs are pretty simple).
Why does everything have to turn to crap??
Just got this message when opening Sketchup (Make) 2015
Any idea what this means?
Also, when I go to Trimble's web page, I cannot find any reference to Make at all, only Pro.
Are they trying to push everyone to buy Pro?
Tremendous modeling and attention to detail.
So what are you using for reference? I'm assuming you have something more than the two photos at the beginning of this post. Just curious.
Never mind, just Googled it and there seems to be a ton of reference material for this beauty.
Looking forward to seeing this project develop.
Dave,
Beautiful work 
BTW, I'll give you five bucks for a copy of all your texture libraries (mainly the wood stuff, I really suck at wood stuff and can never find what I need anywhere online).
I'm talking cash!
Steve
Welcome to the forums, Guillaume! Looking forward to seeing some of your work here.
Wow, can't imagine the amount of research that went into this! Makes my efforts seem so insignificant.
I'm not sure I understand what appears to be an ice sculpture at 21:45. But then I understand very little about pretty much anything nowadays 
Nice, but I picture a wizard's den as dark and moody, not bright and cheerful. But hey, that's just me 
From one Steve to another, I must say that this is one of the most impressive pieces of work I have seen here on the forums. You, sir, are an artist!
@juju said:
@hellnbak said:
I've got everything almost ready to install a new C drive (Samsung 850 Pro, my SSD of choice), I'll tackle that this afternoon.
Good choice on the SSD! Please tell me it is the PCIE version and not the SATA version, it's much quicker.
No, I'm just sticking with the SATA version. Yes, the PCIE is much faster, but it's speed that I don't really need. I do no gaming or anything like that. Just old-fart stuff
Well, just out of curiosity I uninstalled 2015, then (I thought) reinstalled it. The thumbnails were fine, but the program itself was driving me nuts. Finally I realized that I had mistakenly installed 2017 
So, uninstalled that and then installed 2015. Thumbnails are still fine.
I'm going to install a new C drive anyway, for various reasons.
@juju said:
@hellnbak said:
@juju said:
Try re-doing the file association, take a look a this post of mine.
I'd love to take a look at it, but for some reason it says that I'm not authorized...
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that is strange, seeing you are a premium member, maybe contact Rich O'Brien to take a look...
I'll quote my post below:
"Presumably you're on a Windows 10 machine?Find any SKP file, right click on it, go to "open with", select choose another app, under other options select more apps, scroll to the bottom and select "look for another app on the PC, navigate to SketchUp 2017 EXE file location, select open.
That should do the trick."
Even if you're on an earlier Windows OS, much the same process would apply.
Thanks juju,
Actually I had already done that (Win 7 Pro), and the only difference was that the thumbnails went from looking like this....
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to this...
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The thumbnails are my only real concern. Even tho for whatever reason it gives me the option of opening the file in either 2013 or 2015, if I just double click on the file it opens with 2015 just fine. So there's no real problem there, but I need to see the thumbnails.
I've got everything almost ready to install a new C drive (Samsung 850 Pro, my SSD of choice), I'll tackle that this afternoon.
I really appreciate your help with this.
Steve
Well, doesn't matter, I've decided to replace my C drive and start everything from scratch. Something I do every now and then, and it's overdue. Looks like the next few days are spoken for 