So, it would REALLY be nice, if the developers of mac version of SU pro would clean up the toolbar customization AND the docking ability of all the window features (entity, components, layers, scenes, etc.) For the tool bar, you can use the customize toolbar feature, but it only allows one row of i…

totally agree with this comment

It’s November 2022, seems this is still a problem, no one addressed this. Absolutely annoying every time I close and relaunch su, the pallets exploded all over the place.

January 2023… Just changed from PC to Mac and finding it really hard… no side bar… problems with the toolbar icons Is there a solution?

There’s no way to add docked toolbars but you could create something similar to the Default Tray (what I presume you are calling a “side bar”.) The windows can be stacked together and moved over to the side to sort of look like the tray. When I used SketchUp on both PC and Mac which was before the D…

I’d like to see the 2 interfaces unified, it’s quite unusual to see such a large deviation in setup between the same program on 3 platforms. I look at the web and i.Pad versions as a possible direction that we could see MacOs and Windows going close to in future. It’s to hard though, as make a bi…

Thanks, I’ve done what you suggested and I guess it’ll have to do for now. By the way, I asked chatGPT and it gave me a wrong answer… there is no “Appearance” tab on SketchUp as far as I know.

This example on a mac interface does not address the problem - the more you use extensions regularly - the harder it gets to organise the pallets. On the PC screenshot example all the extensions pallets are neatly to the side or top of the main view screen. On a mac this is a TOTAL MESS - to the deg…

[image] JezGay: Probably because all the team at sketchup do not ever user test the use of extensions on a mac only on a PC It is my understanding that most of the SketchUp’s team uses Mac…

I use a Mac extension called Stay: https://cordlessdog.com/stay/ Records window locations. It might not work as you wish in your case as I think it can only save 1 state per app - and currently I only need it to manage resetting when my mac sleeps and the second monitor powers down. I used Moom w…

Mac interface; toolbar customizing and docking tools,

SketchUp Feature Requests

colin January 9, 2023, 9:33pm 51

Here is a Mac setup similar to what Dave showed. The Materials tray will be the biggest difference, on Mac it uses the standard system Colors palette.

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