How do you change the language in SketchUp?
For SketchUp 2017 Make? What language do you want to change it to?
I want to de able to switch between Swedish and English sometimes when people help me in English and I’m not sure what it’s called in Swedish.
Cut and paste into Google translate does a reasonable effort to get an approximation in most European languages.
Klipp ut och klistra in i Google translate gör en rimlig insats för att få en approximation på de flesta europeiska språk.
Older versions required different installers, so you need to install the english version and name it differently, otherwise your current will be overwritten.
You can force the language by adding a -lang parameter to your shortcut that launches SketchUp, like -lang "en-US" or -lang "es"
But, you would need to have those language packs installed.
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but not on Mac, though… 
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Thank you very much for your contribution, my mom had needed to change the language from English to Spanish for months, and thanks to you I was able to change it, I hope you have a good weekend.
greetings from Argentina!
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I have problems finding langauge packs.
Is there a downlaod source for them?
No, there are no separate language packs you can download for Sketchup.
The currently supported versions (SU2021 as you mentioned in your forum profile is not supported anymore) you can download an installer from here, and you need to chose the language(s) during installation.
If you already installed one of 2022, 2023, 2024 version of Sketchup, download a corresponding fresh copy of installer above, right click on it and chose Run as administrator. Chose the installation language first then select the Chose Languages and features on the next screen…
For the previous versions - I don’t really remember which was the last - there was separate installer file by languages. You cant download them anymore from the official site.
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Thanks för the clarification!
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