I have been away from SketchUp for a while. I just updated to SU 2026 and there is a feature that I am not familiar with. I see a toolbar for Point Cloud, however:
Iâm guessing itâs this, but Iâm on a Mac and have not seen this:
https://help.sketchup.com/en/scan-essentials-sketchup/point-cloud-manager
Can you not edit the toolbars like normally do?
I have been away from SketchUp for a while. I just updated to SU 2026 and there is a feature that I am not familiar with. I see a toolbar for Point Cloud, however:
Ok guys, I appreciate your replies but I do not see any options for removing the Point Cloud toolbar and I am still not understand what the tool really does/would do for me.
Ok, something is suddenly not working correctly for me here in the forum.
yeah, so when you launch the installer, by default, it has scan essential, vray and revit importer ticked. looks like you might not have unticked cloud essential, the point cloud tool. itâs part of studio.
a point cloud is, in short, a 3d scan made with a laser. it scans the position of many many small points, making a cloud.
go to your extension manager and disactivate trimble scan essentials in the home tab or even uninstall in the manage tab, itâll also remove its toolbar
So, is there a way to âundoâ that?
like that.
of you could even go to your plugin folder and remove it from there. I believe itâs called SU_PCP there
you can try this too
(thatâs what a quick search on the forum gave me)
IK guys, what does Scan Essentials have to do with Point Cloud?
I am wanting to remove the Point Cloud toolbar and its capabilities.
Scan Essentials is the extension that imports point clouds. You canât get away with removing the files from plugins, because they get reinstalled next time you open SketchUp.
To get rid of Scan Essentials you would run the installer again, and choose the top option to modify what is installed. Skip past the language options screen, and then in the regular installer screen uncheck the Scan Essentials box. Let the installer proceed, and all it will do is uninstall Scan Essentials. After that you can open SketchUp, and the point cloud toolbar should be gone.
Thank you very much. Now a very dumb question though. Sine I did the install by selecting the option to update 2025, what is the best way to âreinstallâ?
Download the installer from the sketchup website, make sure to run the installer as administrator, if you donât have an studio subscription do not select scan essentials, Revit importer and download automatically Vray.
An alternative to downloading the installer again is to use the Windows option to add or remove programs. Tap the Windows key and start typing âadd or removeâŚâ soon you will see the settings entry for Add or Remove. Choose that one.
In the window you see, type in 2026, to filter the list to ones with â2026â in the name. When you see SketchUp, click the dots, and choose Modify.
That will then open the copy of the installer that Windows had stashed away somewhere.
Does it bother you that this is visible as an option? You could always ignore it⌠like I do with 90% of the icons because I use keyboard shortcuts.
OK, I need to let everyone know that I finally got the issue resolved. Turned out that all I had to do was go to the Extension Manager and uninstall the plugin.
I appreciate all of the replies I got. 
No way !? 
incredible. who knew uninstalling extensions would uninstall extensions ? 
Just to let everyone know, here are some screen captures to show the steps I took:
However, now I went back a 2nd time and looked at the list of extensions, and it still shows the extension but now says that it is disabled.
Is there a way with these tools to actually uninstall the extension?
Scan essentials and Revit importer canât be removed from the extension manager, youâll have to download the installer and run it again as administrator, I donât remember right now if the option to not install this extensions is shown when you choose repair, if it doesnât youâll have to uninstall and reinstall it again, the option to not install scan essentials and Revit importer will appear for sure at some point during installation, it will also ask you if you want to download the Vray installer.
