Sketchup creates a duplicate icon (of the already pinned to taskbar icon) on the taskbar when I launch it. And it creates another one if I open another instance of Sketchup. It doesnt stack the icons together like it does with all the other programs (Excel, Chrome, ecc)
It started happening with older versions. I believe I first noticed it with sketchup 2019, and I've learnt to live with it, but now it seams I found the culprit. It's actually the Vray plugin. If I disable it, this doesn't happen any more. I find it strange that nobody is addressing this issue. Or is this just unique vray behaviour for my PCs.
I’ve tried deleting and recreating the pinned icons, pinning them from various locations, even from the .exe file located in the Program Files directory, and the behaviour remains the same. I also found some articles online that mention various ways to pin taskbar icons that are doing similar behaviour, but none of these posted solutions have managed to sort this issue out.

Anybody else noticed this?

@thomthom said:

@algorad88 said:

1st: to extrude with scale similar to the move tool by holding the Ctrl key?

Yes - in fact, it's already added to the upcoming v2.

Is this in the picture what you were talking about?

I just got vertex tools and was hoping this was already an option. IT is actually an extremely useful tool when modeling with quad geometry.

When do you plan to complete v2?

Don't get me wrong, I am extremely grateful for your efforts. Sketchup without your plugins would be half the program it is.

I know sketchup saves the last 100 actions, so if in an exceptional situation you need to go more than 100 steps back, you are screwed. Is there a way to increase this number? Maybe going into registry?
I'm asking since some of the plugins I use take up more than 1 action. It happens often with vray, after changing some settings, my geometry is practically not undo-able, since vray tends to take all the 100 steps available.

Actually I ve been working that way for more than 6 years. Never had a problem. For me saving and working directly within dropbox is a life saver since I work on multiple computers. Than you for giving me one more thing to worry about

Actually I found it. It was located in the folder that was set as my "Models" folder in the Preferences section. And it was named exactly as I thought: AutoSave_Untitled.skp

Guys, you probably guessed what happened to me from the title. I opened sketchup and started drawing and never saved the file. After maybe 5 hours my drawing crashed. Generally I find my autosaves in the folder where the file is located but this time, since I never saved the file, it was called untitled and now that it has crashed, can I find my autosave file somewhere? Or have I lost 5 hours of work?

Thanks

While editing a component, rest of the model loses all texture images. Is there a way to be inside a component and see the textures of the rest of the model. I use a jpg as a reference image. It's difficult to use it, if I don't see it

Thanks

EDIT: If I use an image instead of a material, it is visible, but still, I would like to know the answer if I would ever need it. I actualy dont use images in Sketchup. First thing I do when importing them into Sketvhup, I expload them. Images look and feel weird, they don't behave like all the other faces.

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to revert vray proxie to its initial sketchup geometry?
Let's say I had a tree component, turned it into a proxy, and purged the tree component. Now I have the proxy, but I cannot change the geometry of the tree in no way. If I would want to revert the proxy to normal skp geometry, would it be possible in some way?
Or to put it even more simple: can I convert .vrmesh file to .skp file?
Thanks

So this plugin was totally abandoned? It is a great shame. The idea was excellent. Strange that nobody has ever made a plugin for better material organization.

Tried the default render settings and wasnt able to make it ok. The image always looked too dark in some detail, as if the contrast was too high. Post rendering photo editing didn't help. Where it was most noticeable was the keyboard so I tested this on the keyboard alone, and here I noticed something weird. I realized that the problem were textured materials. After turning off Linear Workflow on these materials, it rendered as it should. Is this a known bug? Do all the materials with textures have to have linear workflow ticked off? Image of the tests attached.