Sketch-up Pro 2017 and 2018 will not open

any error messages?

the 3 common reasons are:

1.) incompatible graphics card driver, i.e. OpenGL support not compliant => update
2.) incompatible plugins/extensions => udpate/disable*
3.) Win: wrong or missing prerequisites (= MS runtime libraries) => install SU again by “r-click > Run as Admin” or install the libs manually one by one (point #5).

*disable: start SU from the command line with the “\DisableRubyAPI” flag… or rename/move the plugins folder.