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.

What exactly are the "post pro tools"? Google takes me to an audio editing software

Here is a direct comparison between the two versions. The first one is made with sketchup 2016 and vray 2, and the second one is made with sketchup 2017 and vray 3. Dont look at the quality of the render itself . It is just a test.
What I did:
Created my model and rendering with su2016-Vray2, saved the model and opened it with su2017 that has vray3. Had only to add transparency manually to transparent materials (glass). All the rest of the settings I did not touch. The resulting render is far worse than the one made with vray2. Look at the detail of the keyboard!! I noticed the saturation is much greater with the new Vray.
Can somebody explain to me what happened and how can I get at least the same looking render I did with vray 2?

Is there an extension that divides a face in multiple triangles? with maybe a settings option that lets us choose aproximate size or number of triangles. I found Facesplit but it has problems with complex faces, and with faces that are "U" shaped.
This with be extremely usefull since practicaly all 3d editing mash modeling plugins for sketchup work only with triangles and cannot be used if model is made of faces with more than 3 edges.

Thanks everyone for the reply. I updated my profile as suggested and uploaded part of the file so you can check it out and see what is the problem.
Thanks

fileScrambled.skp

I recieved a file like this. It's made of groups and not components When I explode everything geometry is fine but without explode everything is scrambled. When I use the orbit tool the objects go over one another, it seems as they are shifting positions, they seem to move. The same thing used to happen to me when I would import autocad files with blocks that had its origin point extremely far from the geometry of the block itself. When I would change the origin point in the CAD file the import would be fine. This is different because I'm not dealing with blocks/components but groups, and I just have this .skp file and it's the only version of this model I can get my hands on. Any suggestions?
Thanks

EDIT: I don't exactly understand why was this moved from "SU bugs" to "Newbie" forum, but ok...

So, there is no way to turn it off at least temporary?
So what would be the easiest way for somebody to connect two points that are almost on same axis? I'll try to explain myself better. I start drawing form point A and arrive at point B, but my snap on point isn't responding that well because I'm locked on the red axis and my B point is not on it, but just very close to it. And I cannot zoom more because of the well known sketchup zoom problem (objects disapearing when zooming too close because we enter into them I guess) How would you solve this problem?

for a while (5-6 min) that seemed to have resolved the the problem, than it crashed again ;(
So no solution yet, thanks anyway for trying

Sorry guys if this is the wrong section, but I don't know where else to search for help anymore and I am desperate. The file attached was created in SU8 and I'm also using vray (I don't know is that relevant. Anyway, everything was working fine for 3 days and than in the middle of rendering, and same minor modeling corrections, the file (and the pc) started crashing. I've tried everything. If u could check it out and post your opinions you would help me a lot. thanks
I'm working on winxp

hotel.skp

Solved it by setting the field of view to 1.00 degrees, and keeping the physical camera ON, but I've could have sworn I tried the same exact thing the other day without success... Mah, who knows what went wrong..

I know you need to turn off the physical camera, but when doing so, setting my scene in orthographic mode and rendering, the final image is not what is shown in the scene but zoomed in a lot, all I see is like a tenth of my image. If I zoom out in the scene and render it, nothing changes, I'm simply too "zoomed in"...
Any suggestions?