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  • SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro, 64-bit only, from SketchUp 2017 to 2021)

  • Maxwell Render 5

  • Windows Windows 7 and up

  • Mac OSX 10.12 and up

Installation

You can download the installer from your account at the portal, from the “My Downloads” section.

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Windows

  1. Unzip the downloaded zip file to your Desktop.

  2. Double-click the installer (Maxwell_for_SketchUp-x.x.x.exe) file.

  3. Choose the desired SketchUp versions and Maxwell Render if it's not installed yet and then click Install.

Mac OSX

  1. Double-click the downloaded .dmg installer file (Maxwell_for_SketchUp-x.x.x_osx.dmg).

  2. Double-click the icon to install the required version of Maxwell Render if it's not installed already and follow the instructions.

  3. Double-click the icon to install Maxwell for SketchUp.

  4. Choose the desired SketchUp versions and click Install.

Uninstallation

Windows

  1. Open Windows Control Panel > Apps.

  2. Uninstall the desired versions of Maxwell for SketchUp.

  3. Optionally, use the Plugin Files section below to confirm the plugin's files have been removed.

Mac OSX

  1. Double-click the installer (Maxwell_for_SketchUp-x.x.x.dmg) file.

  2. Double-click the Maxwell for SketchUp icon

  3. Choose the desired SketchUp versions and click Uninstall.

  4. Optionally, use the Plugin Files section below to confirm the plugin's files have been removed.

Plugin Version

The plugin supports running in one of two modes: Demo or Licensed, with the determination of which depending on the type of license found at start-up (with the plugin first checking for a Maxwell Render Suite license, then a Standalone Maxwell for SketchUp license). If no license is found, the plugin will run in unlicensed mode, in which resolution is restricted, and the Production render engine is not available.

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  • /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/<SketchUp version>/SketchUp/Plugins

Note: the ~/Library folder may be hidden by default; to locate it in Finder, use Go > Go to Folder, type ~/Library, and click Go.

Other Issues

Very rarely, but more than a couple of times now, it has been reported that upon opening one of the plugin windows, all that is seen in the window is a message stating "This page requires CSS! Please ensure that you have not disabled styles in your browser." Each time this has been reported, it has been found that Dreamweaver has been installed on the machine, and that it has erroneously altered the registry, adversely affecting how web page files (in this case, .css files) are handled by the browser when they are located on the local file system, as they are in a SketchUp plugin.

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In order to fix the issue, it is necessary to fix the registry, which may be able to be done using these steps:

  1. Go to the page for NirSoft's FileTypesMan and download the x64 version (assuming you are using a 64-bit OS).

  2. Unzip the downloaded package and run the FileTypesMan.exe application.

  3. Once the list of file types has been populated, scroll down to the .css entry.

Here, we will be looking at the MIME Type column for the .css extension, which should be set to text/css. If it is not, you should double-click the line, and set the MIME Type back to text/css. After doing so, and restarting SketchUp, the browser windows should load the plugin's user interface as expected. As you can see, it is not necessarily Dreamweaver which will have done this, but that has been the case when we've had it reported.

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