That's helped a lot! Thanks so much!

Hi I get the "importer not found" message as well. I have Sketchup Pro 8 and I'm running Mavericks 10.9 on a MacBook Pro. I've checked the plugins where you indicated and only find 11 plugins. They do not include importer for Autocad or dwg files and there is no KMZ importer either. Please help. I'm not an IT savvy guy. Cheers swell01 @bjanzen said: The palettes is a known thing (we've fixed in a future version). The importer not found is strange. It worked for me just as it did in Mountain Lion. Perhaps repairing permissions, or confirming that it actually is located at /Applications/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp.app/Contents/PlugIns I have 14 plugins in that directory. Do other importers work - e.g. KMZ (Google Earth) would probably be the easiest to test. -b

Ah! Thanks so much! Not quite there yet, but at least I know what I need to do from here! [image: DaveTake2.jpg] I'll definitely check out that plugin. I seem to be collecting plugins these days. -Fa

can you post an skp file (save as V6) for see if it's your file or other thing!

Yup, we were fine thanks. No flooding at all over here. I've got quite a few friends up in Lyons. I had a chance to go up there and help dig some homes out of the mud - what a mess! Its going to take some serious work to get that town up and running again.

You're welcome. Just giving back to this forum, whatever I can, whenever I can! You were only the ideal victim JQL

Before you go to the trouble of redrawing it, just check the textures opacity. Select the texture and hit the edit tab, down the bottom you can adjust the opacity, that might fix it for you.