Open an older Sketchup model in Sketchup Web (free)

[doug4]

I have a lot of Sketchup files (saved on my computer) from when Sketchup was free.
I want to open some of them and make changes and re-save them.

I’ve tried uploading to 3D warehouse and then downloading but this doesn’t seem to work (maybe because I am using the free Web based Sketchup version??)

How do I access my old drawings now?

[mihai.s]

SketchUp is still free, under the same name, SketchUp Make, as in the last 6 years, and it can open, modify and save the older files.

[Aerilius]

@doug4

when Sketchup was free.

( Sketchup is still free (as in beer)…)

@doug4

I want to open some of them and make changes and re-save them.

Have you tried that? The Web version should open all old files SketchUp 3–2018 and saves to SketchUp 2017.1.

@doug4

but this doesn’t seem to work

Why do you come to the conclusion it does not seem to work?
(By not telling that you hide the problem from us that you want to be solved.)

[DanRathbun]

There are topics with “purty pictures” in the SketchUp for Web categories that explain how to drag and drop files from your computer into the Trimble Connect panel of SketchUp for Web.

How do I open models from Pro into Shop?

Why should SketchUp not disallow its customers to reuse their own files and refuse them all their rights and needs? As in SketchUp Pro, you find the file functions in the top left menu (which just looks a bit different). As a customer you probably have already a Trimble account although even free users can create one for free. I remember at one time I could open local files without logging in to Trimble Connect. I am also wondering why you can find under the “open” icon (or the “folde…

Using own components in web version

You can use the same folder system you used for the desktop version of SketchUp. The students can access that folder by clicking on the folder icon and then Insert. Click on the computer icon to access the folder on their computer. Or drag and drop from the computer to SketchUp. [Screenshot%20-%203_16_2018%20%2C%2010_03_23%20AM]

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