I think the technique Dave uses works better for small models (or at least, with a small amount of compos). I usually get models from clients (imported from Revit) and basically I get thousands of compos in a file and it takes ages just to create thumbnails( not to mention thousands with similar names), and I name all my own components beginning with “00” just to set them on the top of the list.
I still get some errors when trying to ‘save as’. The first time I do it after opening a file, it works. Then the next times, it doesn’t… Veeeery strange. Anyway, I prefer to save as 2018 compos so I can still see the thumbnails in windows anyway… Cheers.
@colin , can we get an update when this bug will be fixed?
Save As for components is fundamental for us and it’s still buggy since 2021 was released!
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I can’t give any estimates for when there will be an update to SketchUp. I remember the problem being worked on, but I’m not sure of its current state.
@trent may be able to say with more certainty whether it is something that has been taken care of.
SU-Pro-2021 MacOS (2021-0-392-128) does not save revisions to my components thru the right-click save-as feature pathway after the first and only use of a component save-as cycle. I must quit SU, restart it and then I get one and only one component “save-as”. Are you kidding me ? What an embarrassing mess. As a retired developer having designed and coded embedded systems in 1978, I do not expect any software to be even close to perfect, however such a fundamental flaw allowed to exist for months after months is beyond the pale.
Components are fundamental to any serious CAD work and SU has in my experience always had more “issues” with the components interface than any other aspect of the software. My SU crashes are 90% involved with the components window …etc … YMMV.
There is a recent and very important SU community effort to get Trimble to improve Layout, which I heartily endorse, however if Trimble can not solve a now months long huge bug in the component related codebase which causes SU to pretend to save your updated component but doesn’t actually do a save then Trimble software development can not be expected to do anything helpful for the SU community. We should refer to Trimble in the future as Tri-dobe.
In contrast my experience with SkyCiv FEA stress analysis software has been exemplary. This small Australian company has an excellent product and still busts their behinds supporting customers with issues as they occur often issuing fixes the same day and sincerely apologizing for the inconvenience to their customers ! Contrast this with do nothing but count the subscription money Trimble… sad.
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I wonder if some extension is causing the trouble? Can you disable all extensions, quit and restart SketchUp, and try the sequence again?
Usually, when a bug does not get fixed, it’s because they can’t reproduce it.
A lot of bug fixes aren’t even noticed by the average user.
That said, is your profile correct? I have been trying to reproduce this also, but run out of ‘luck’ thusfar.
Maybe it’s just a read/write permission issue?
Does opening the second part of the components panel with the ‘in model ‘ collection and the other with the located folder of the components has any issues?
So update the component, then drag the updated component in the other collection.
Does it fail?
I do know that materials lists do not get updated immediately, but I haven’t seen this with components.
Thank you for the suggestion, I will disable some plugins working backwards from the most recently added … and report back.
I hit this bug in SU 2021 - from around Jan/Feb of this year. Save As on a component did nothing - apart from the first time saving it - or occasionally when saving to a new folder.
Upgrading to SU 2021 latest (21.1.332) did resolve it for me.
Got this bug yesterday also…
I have the last update of 2021 installed so it seems it never got fixed in that year…
What a dogs breakfast SU is becoming !