Hey guys,
I just updated to v2026 and ran the plugin updates (the Migrate Extensions feature is pretty slick—nice job, Trimble).
However, after the update, a bunch of toolbars appeared. When I closed them, they came back again the next time I started SketchUp.
What’s the correct way to prevent this from happening? When I close a toolbar, I’d like it to stay closed between sessions.
It uses to happen a few times, like 3 or 4 in my case, then sketchup remembers the toolbars that you don’t have activated when you close the program and everything goes back to normal, on windows, on Mac it takes longer for some reason.
Extension developers could be the culprit for this toolbar visibility issue.
Many developers still use toolbar.show instead of toolbar.restore, and that’s what causes toolbars to pop up every time SketchUp starts, even if you’ve closed them before.
# Incorrect
toolbar.show # Forces toolbar to appear every time
This is how developers should deal with toolbar visibility…
toolbar.get_last_state == TB_NEVER_SHOWN ? toolbar.show : toolbar.restore
I suspect SketchUp might not be responsible for this issue to happen, but maybe they can enforce developers to adopt the code above and if not then the extensibility team should not approve the extension.
What I’ve found (Windows) is that toolbar positions/visibility doesn’t get saved until the current file is saved.
What I do when I’m either installing a new plugin or performing the annual ’dance of the toolbars’ is save a file called xx.skp to my desktop whenever I’ve got things ‘just right’. I can trash the file later or overwrite it as I know anything called xx is junk.
Two things to be aware of.
Sketchup will/should remember the toolbar positions of the last closed workspace. Often people will set things up and close an instance but forget they have another open in the background, that background one will still be active and remembered.
The other main reason for toolbar issues on windows, apart from poor choices by the developer, is lack of permissions in the operating system. This can happen when sketchup is installed without admin privileges. For many people it isn’t an issue, but strange things can happen on some systems.
To that end it is best to install using the Run as Admin option. If you didn’t install this way you can repair the install.
Find the installer .exe, probably in your downloads folder, select it, right click and choose Run as Administrator, follow the prompts an d choose Repair when given the option, follow the prompts. Once done reboot PC, open one instance of sketchup, set toolbars, close sketchup. Open sketchup and check toolbar positions.
Issue resloved.
Hi sir
may i know how you resolved the tools bar issue?
Many Thanks
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