Mac interface; toolbar customizing and docking instruments, – Function Requests

The API help exists to place tooltips on toolbar icons, however it’s as much as the creator of an extension to create and set the tooltips. I agree this needs to be obligatory however at present it isn’t,

TOTALLY agree. SU on Mac (M1+Massive Sur) with a number of displays is just like the wild west. Let me save my workspace format so any window I’ve open on any display (and desktop/House) REMEMBERS the place it’s and obediently stays there when waking from sleep or opens there when SU begins. Not tough to do, certainly. Within the meantime, any apps or extensions that can do the job? I used to be Magnet and BetterTouchTool however up to now, nothing does this.

I entire heartedly agree, I exploit a Mac laptop computer at residence and a PC at work and have by no means fairly understood this anomaly both. Having simply up to date to 2021 (been utilizing SU since @Final), I assumed this type of factor would have been sorted by now. On the finish of the day it’s about performance not in regards to the platform. As to why I can’t dock Supplies (colors) to the opposite palettes, who is aware of. Given this was initially posted in Nov 2019 I don’t have a lot hope that this will probably be addressed by Trimble very quickly. Which is a really actual disgrace. However they’ve given us a brand new brand so our subscriptions are being put to good use!

The way in which that Skechup on the MAC offers with extensions is completely garbage – clearly the MAC UI was by no means meant to cope with a programme that may add large numbers of additional buttons (on-top of the unique programme interface) A Attainable answer can be a brand new pallet for mac customers that collects all of the buttons from put in exensions into one place – or simply make it like it’s on the PC which is approach higher. TRIMBLE PLEASE SORT THIS AS IT IS A REAL MESS ON A MAC (versus a PC). Thanks

completely agree with this remark

It’s November 2022, appears that is nonetheless an issue, nobody addressed this. Completely annoying each time I shut and relaunch su, the pallets exploded in all places.

January 2023…
Simply modified from PC to Mac and discovering it actually laborious… no aspect bar… issues with the toolbar icons
Is there an answer?

There’s no approach so as to add docked toolbars however you can create one thing much like the Default Tray (what I presume you might be calling a “aspect bar”.) The home windows may be stacked collectively and moved over to the aspect to form of seem like the tray. After I used SketchUp on each PC and Mac which was earlier than the Default Tray was launched, I might simply make the mannequin window simply slender sufficient so I might maintain the utility home windows over to the aspect. This can be a screenshot from my setup of SU2015 on the PC. It was comparable on the mac aside from the toolbars.

The opposite answer can be to return to PC.

I’d prefer to see the two interfaces unified, it’s fairly uncommon to see such a big deviation in setup between the identical program on 3 platforms.
I take a look at the net and that i.Pad variations as a potential route that we might see MacOs and Home windows going near in future.

It’s to laborious although, as make a giant change will upset some individuals and please others.

Here’s a Mac setup much like what Dave confirmed. The Supplies tray would be the greatest distinction, on Mac it makes use of the usual system Colours palette.

Thanks, I’ve achieved what you steered and I assume it’ll need to do for now.
By the best way, I requested chatGPT and it gave me a unsuitable reply… there isn’t a “Look” tab on SketchUp so far as I do know.

This instance on a mac interface doesn’t deal with the issue – the extra you employ extensions often – the tougher it will get to organise the pallets. On the PC screenshot instance all of the extensions pallets are neatly to the aspect or high of the principle view display. On a mac this can be a TOTAL MESS – to the diploma that I’ve considered operating parallels on my mac so I can run sketchup on a PC platform. However that is off-putting because it seams loopy to have to do that simply to get some management over all of the floating pallets you get once you set up an extension or two. This and the system color pallet that may’t be docked (and simply floats) must be sorted as soon as and for all – see how Vectorworks does it. I’ve been a utilizing sketchup on a mac for not less than 10 years – nonetheless by no means sorted. Most likely as a result of all of the crew at sketchup don’t ever consumer take a look at the usage of extensions on a mac solely on a PC (the place all the pieces appears to be like hunky dory).

It’s my understanding that a lot of the SketchUp’s crew makes use of Mac…

I exploit a Mac extension referred to as Keep:

https://cordlessdog.com/keep/

Information window areas. It won’t work as you would like in your case as I believe it may possibly solely save 1 state per app – and presently I solely want it to handle resetting when my mac sleeps and the second monitor powers down.

I used Moom after I jumped between laptop computer and screens, it’d do what you need.

The three folks that mannequin for the YouTube SketchUp Dwell periods (12pm Colorado time, most Fridays) continuously are utilizing extensions, and are modeling on Macs. The strategy they take is to solely present the palettes for the extensions they might want to use that session.