I try to get rid of some tool palletes I close them off leaving only large tool set pallete opened. After I relaunch sketchup some of them goes back. This happens with skalp, keyshot and some other tool palletes.
Anyone knows how to fix that so they stay closed?
I use Sketchup 2016 on Mac. Not sure if that’s a case for windows.
Did you remove the palettes by closing them, or by going to View->Palettes and unchecking them? If the former, SketchUp might be remembering the view settings from the last time you selected in the View menu and restoring based on them.
Just tried both ways and none of them works. Palettes still pops up next time I run sketchup.
Is it specific ones? Some plugins have been incorrectly written to always open. If they are always the same ones it would help to know what they are. If it is random then that means something else.
Have tried to open/close other ones, after relaunching sketchup they stay closed, so it is not random. It must be something with specific plugins, here are plugins that stay opened in my case:
1001bit-tools
LightUp
Keyshot6
LumenRT
I know that I have a few extension toolbars that come up every time, if they are enables (Soap Skin, Primitives, and a few others). I believe that their creators have the ability to set the toolbar to come up when SketchUp starts. With these extensions, the only way to get them NOT to show up on start is to disable them through the Preferences window, then turn them bak on when you need them.
In my experience loading 3 renderer plugins at the same time on a mac can lead to hidden issues…
most will run ‘observers’ in the background and they can slow everything else down…
I would suggest turning them off in Preferences >> Extensions and only turn them on when you need one…
this will also stop the toolbars appearing except when your actually using them…
the same could be done for 1001 unless you use it all the time…
john
So 8 years on, this problem still exists. How do I stop SU from opening tool pallets at start. Can’t it remember my workspace? Is there a way to do this?
That’s true for built-in tool palettes, but not necessarily for extension palettes. The state of a palette when SketchUp starts up depends on how the developer coded the extension. They can respect the state from the last quit, or the code can force them open every time. This is a one-line code change that has been discussed repeatedly; there is little excuse for extension developers not to do it right!
Right now I have two (was three, but one of them wasn’t encrypted so I fixed it). I won’t name them, but the shame is that one of them isn’t free and the author hasn’t fixed it even though I reported this issue. It’s a PITA to have to turn them off every time!
Having suffered crashes and losses of work, I save every time I do something. So that’s not it. The tool pallets that I have closed, and then saved, return next time I open SU.
AFAIK, it does not work this way on Windows platform. The PrivatePreferences.json file is only saved (with the current interface environment) when SketchUp itself successfully closes. If SketchUp were to crash, then no such save will take place.
This has led me to always do interface changes (toolbars, trays and panels) with an empty model and then close SketchUp normally so that the changes are saved into the preferences file(s).