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This Extension specifically made for SketchUp 2024.0. to allow to save to older SketchUp version. However should work in any older SketchUp. Tested only on Windows 11, at SketchUp 2024.0 (shortly in SketchUp 2023.1, SU2017 make) You will get A menu at File>Save to older SketchUp Version with 4 (5) submenu as well as a toolbar. You can assig shortcut to all. (You need to have a saved model opened to do so.)

Hovering over your mouse on menus/toolbar icons you will get some more information by the tooltip or the by Status bar text.

Save A Copy As version…(Select) You will be prompted to select the version of Sketchup you wan to save to the file. (The default value is “v6”, however after you select other one that will be a default/preselected, even you restart the program.) Then the Save dialog box will display, where you can select the folder to save and modify the file name if desired. Basically the file name will be the modelname{-v_xxxx}.skp according to the current file name and a previously selected version. You can see the version in a title of this dialog too.

Save A Copy As version: This will quickly - without any dialog - save a copy of your current model as a previously selected default version, beside the current model - to that folder where the current model located. The file name will be as mentioned above. You can see the version and the full path of the file in a tooltip and the status bar when hovering on a menu/toolbar.

Save actual model as version…(Select) Similar dialogs as the first one, but this will save the actual model as the desired older version. Does not make a copy, and does not add any suffix at the end of the file. This is the model on which you currently working on.

Save actual model as version: Again a quick - no dialog - save of the actual file as a previously selected version, but no suffix added, keeps the original name of the file. You can see the version and the full path of the file in a tooltip and the status bar when hovering on a menu/toolbar.

Tip: I coloured the last two icon as red, because I recommend to use the native V2024 format and just save an older version as a copy. (First two menu.)

Additional warning: My extension still uses SketchUp’s built-in save as function. So saving to an older version will be as good as SketchUp allows. Maybe it will be as good as it was in older versions, maybe the file saved in the older version causes unexpected behaviour. I have no influence on this. Read the SketchUp End of Support Policy article and understand for yourself.