Lets face it, 99.9% of the content in 3D Warehouse is pure ■■■■ when you are looking for components to use in your own projects. A lot of models are great if you just want to look at them but many aren’t even that. Add 20 third party cars to your car park or 30 chairs to your office and even a top n…

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[image] eneroth3: it still isn’t possible to directly drag download links from a proper browser into SketchUp for fast downloads into the model What do you mean by this? I usually download models from inside Chrome, then drag the file (once it’s finished downloading) from the bottom of the br…

She was referring to using SketchUp, Window->3D Warehouse and searching from there. That saves you from getting the wrong version, and gives you the option of immediately inserting or saving to disk.

Until around 2016 you could use your real browser with proper tabs, history etc (not the embedded one) to find models, and then drag the download link directly into the SketchUp viewport to download and place the component. Then something changed with the website so you couldn’t do this, but had to …

? I tried 2015 and it doesn’t work… but now, on any version 2014+, you should be able to drag the URL from the browser into the Search bar, go to the model, and download. -b

I’d argue lots == 1 plus hitting return key, 2 if you count having to open 3D Warehouse.

Plus two shortcuts for copying the url. All these commands are totally redundant and in no way self explanatory.

Drag the url, just like you’d drag into SketchUp window. In your original post, you said “drag the download link directly into the SketchUp viewport”. Now instead of dragging into SketchUp, you drag into SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse search bar and hit enter.

Dragging the download link is 1 step. To use the embedded 3D warehouse (after finding a model in a proper browser with history, tabs and the like) you have to: Copy the URL Click File Select 3D Warehouse Select Get Models Wait (this could even count as 2 steps because how distracting it is to y…

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eneroth3 February 4, 2019, 9:23pm 12

It works but it still requires a lot of extra clicks. Previously you could easily pick a model and load it right away. Now you have to take de-tours.

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