When I apply color to drawn object the color on the screen it is not the same color as selected
It had always worked before, but lately it is really off compared the selected color
Example: I select Color A08 (Dark Brown) RGB 102,0,0 and paint a surface, and color appears on the object
as a Dark Blue (compares in appearance to I08 Dark Blue, that’s what I see on the object)
And its across the whole selection of colors; Colors and Named-Colors
Its like a translation error or alias effecting selected color vs ‘painted’ color
The fact that this is recent and you are using a SketchUp version that hasn’t changed in more than 4 years makes it clear that it’s not a Sketchup issue. Probably the problem comes from a graphics driver update that was included in a Windows update. You might go to the GPU manufacturer’s website and download their most recent drivers and install those.
If your Windows 10 is 64 bit, is there a reason for you to not use SketchUp Make 2017? It may not help with the current problem, but could well have some improvements over 2016.
If you reinstall or install new, make sure you right click on the installer and choose Run as administrator.
If this is just your hobby, you could do as Colin suggested and switch to SketchUp 2017 Make. If this is for your work, you really need to be using SketchUp Pro and 2021 is the current version.
DaveR, Removed SU Make 2016 and SU Make 2017 installed, sigh!
Now all I have to do is setup all my preferences…again!
Instead of problem solving, its the old (faster) problem avoidance technique!
Bottom line, the problem was not resolved, just start over with a new tool, again…
BTW, is there a way to ‘personalize’ SU Make 2017 so that I can reload it and then restore it to my configuration? Is there such a thing? Say, how SU remembers what/how my workspace is set?
Different graphics pipeline. The graphics drivers continued getting updates while you were sticking with, by software standards, ancient software. Kind of like getting a new car and finding out you can’t play your 8-track tapes anymore.
Each major version of SketchUp installs as a separate program. You could have left 2016 installed.
The old tool didn’t change but the environment it was being used in did.
You can set up your toolbars as desired and they should stay where you put them. If you had any extensions installed in SU2016 you can install those again fresh from their sources to make sure you have the current versions. If you had made your own template in SU2016 and you didn’t do a real thorough job of removing SU2016, you should be able to get the template although it might be easier just to make it fresh.
Actually, the SU Make 2016 Install/Removal tool left my template right where it found it; I just had to copy it over to the appropriate SU Make 2017 folder.
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