So I am aware of the short comings with the iMac Pro 5k screens and line weights, end points etc…
I can live with that…and also aware of dumbing down the resolution of SKP etc…or bumping up line weights to compensate.
What I’m really interested in is when will we be able to get 3rd party extensions that have detailed sub menu windows and tool operations windows that are NOT minuscule on the 5k screens? The extension tool “icons” pallets are sized accordingly and match the native SKP icons…so there is a head scratcher going on here…
Do we have to reach out to the developers of the individual extensions and ask for 5k versions?
I have an iMac with a 5K screen, and I use some of @Fredo6’s wonderful extensions. Are you really using SketchUp 2018 (listed in your forum profile) when you see the tiny Fredo UI elements? For me, 2018 renders his UI elements at normal-ish size. On the other hand, SketchUp 2016 and earlier do not have “proper” support for high-resolution displays, which is good and bad in my opinion: the Fredo UI elements are tiny, but the appearance of model geometry edges is super-fine, which makes for an amazingly detailed drawing of a complex SketchUp model.
Starting in 2017 (I think), SketchUp added more support for high-resolution displays which was also good and bad: it allowed the Fredo UI elements to be bigger (good), but it also means that model geometry edges are drawn with heavier line thickness (bad).
Edited to add: I didn’t notice @Fredo6’s post right above mine when I was composing my post (silly me). I hadn’t previously been aware that the Fredo UI could be scaled on recent SketchUp versions! That’s nice.
I’m not a Ruby Console user…so you’ll have to guide me through any actions to take there…
Secondly…
The “Default Parameters” were set as you had shown, so I bumped it up to 2.0 under “High Resolution Screen Factor” and it made the palette larger, but the text remained the same ultra small.
…don’t know if this also may be contributing to my issue, but I am also not too familiar with the “best practice” way to update these extensions…my bad i know…but any help here would be welcomed…thanks
yes…I am still using SKP PRO 2018, as its a real pain to reload all the extensions. Unless I’m missing some trick or “way” to expedite the process…upgrading to SKP 2019 has not been a high priority, as i’m not in need of dashed lines lol
I tried @Fredo6 suggestions and was able to resize the palette, but the text remained ultra small, so I’m not out of the woods yet.
Thanks for your suggestions TDahl, maybe you could explain a simple or “correct” way to migrate existing extensions to SKP 2019.
Shoot…I don’t really understand even how to update the ones I have now…my bad, I know
Obviously before you do any further troubleshooting, you need to get those outdated extensions updated. The easiest way to do this is to install the SketchUcation Plugin Store and use it to install the various outdated extensions. If you had been using it all along, it would also let you know that there are SCF-hosted extensions that need to be updated and would do the updating for you.
Using the SketchUcation Plugin Store to install extensions from SketchUcation also results in a “bundle” that can be installed automatically when you upgrade.
Install extensions fresh from their source. Don’t simply copy them from an old version to a new one. As above, if you’d been using the Sketchucation Plugin Store, you could install extensions from there in the new version. When it is time for me to upgrade to SketchUp 2020, I’ll install the Sketchucation tool and then use it to install the bundle from 2019.
The Extension Warehouse has similar capability for extensions hosted there.
Updated the extension…results as shown.
Some type bigger sizes…others like “Edge Prop. Filter” & Borders, Corners & Inner Edges display smaller text…is that typical @Fredo6 ?? Thanks anyways for all the help.
thanks mate…got the updates sorted, don’t know why Firefox threw up the restricted access to the Sketchucation site…just another typical Friday issues i guess.
However, I still need to understand why UI.scale_factor returns 1.0 on your 5K monitor. Obviously, Sketchup itself is using a much higher scale factor for its own dialogs and toolbar. Maybe a bug…?
…you’re much more knowledgeable on those matters than I am mate. If there is anything more you’d like to see from my issue…just let me know.
I work professionally within the 3D design fields, and consider all software a time saving tool of the trade…I’ll be the first to admit I get easily frustrated when the “tool” behaves abnormally that I have to start peeling back the layers and explore the inner-workings to get a fix, or a solution. So for now its back to paid-work after my intensive lesson in understanding more of the intricacies of SKP and associated extensions. I really appreciate your help.
With regards to the UI.scale factor issue…it is weird for sure…even more so that once I up-sized the screen factor…it had the desired result on your pallet and some of the text but not ALL of the text…
