Windows 10 has a Windows 7 compatible mode

The information you give below …

… shows that you instead bought SketchUp Pro 2015 (or an earlier version) and received the maintenance upgrade to SketchUp 2016 Pro.

But you never kept your support and maintenance account up to date …

… so the 240 dollars is the M&S plan for 2 yearly fees you missed paying, so as to bring your plan up current.

If you wait too long, your privilege to “catch up” expires and you will need to purchase a whole new license from scratch.

See:

In your other thread, I began my suggestion (that you may be entitled to upgrade to v2017) with the phrase “If You did”, which referred to if you actual had purchased SketchUp Pro 2016.

But as you did not, the suggestion was flawed by the information given. Ie “garbage in > garbage out”.

(I’ll add a note to that post to correct the misinformation.)


https://help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup/older-release-notes#release-notes-2016 says:

Support for El Capitan and Windows 10

Our QA team has smashed and banged on these new operating systems enough to say that SketchUp 2016 is fully compatible with Apple’s El Capitan and Microsoft’s Windows 10.

It is more likely that SketchUp 2016 has an issue with some Win10 drivers. I’d suspect graphics.
Updating the graphics drivers, or switching off “Use fast feedback” in SketchUp’s OpenGL preferences will often fix the issues (especially if SketchUp must use Intel integrated graphics.)

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