On my Mac Studio M4, when I open a file, some of my extension toolbars load randomly across the screen. I have tried everything to correct this, but a reinstall is the only option I know left. Before I do, has anyone experienced this issue?
Everyone has experienced this issue (that uses extensions) and reinstall of SketchUp will not fix it. The extension toolbar visibility state is coded into the extension not SketchUp. It’s up to each extension writer to make sure their extension saves its toolbar visibility state and reloads in that same state on a new startup, instead of just defaulting to visible. Some do it, some don’t. Until that extension writer fixes their code the only solution is to disable the extension, but then you can’t use it.
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Just to be clear: SketchUp itself saves toolbar (palette on Mac) state (open/closed), size and position as SketchUp quits. The extension code doesn’t have to do anything to cause this to happen.
But, it is up to the extension code to tell SketchUp during initialization to restore this situation rather than just create and show the toolbar.
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I tested with Medeek Wall, which has a ton of palettes. If I open a new document, close whatever combinations of Wall palettes I like, and close SketchUp, it reopens with the palettes I wanted to show.
If doing those steps gives you back all of the palettes being visible again, it would be that particular extension’s author that could fix the issue.
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Here is my list of offenders, extensions who’s tool pallets I do not want to see and that annoyingly reload their tool pallets on every startup of SketchUp, but who’s functionally I use from time to time do I prefer not to disable. My workaround is to keep them all clustered in the center of the screen where I can quickly close them all every time I open SketchUp, which is not that often as it’s pretty much always running on my work machine, unless it’s crashing.
The sketchucation tool allows you to keep extensions disabled at startup and enable them when you need them, usually without needing to restart sketchup. It also has ‘Sets’ which allows you to group certain extensions as a Set and enable or disable them together.
It’s quite annoying for every Mac user, I also have placed them on a fixed position putting all the toolbars above each other so I can close them just by clicking on the same spot every time I open a new file. I don’t know why this doesn’t happen on windows and if it’s fixable from the sketchup side for future releases.