How do I remove the "horizon" in Sketchup?

[Roger Farmer]

Another simple question:

When I start Sketchup, there is apparently a "horizon" with blue sky above and a yellow-green "earth" below divided horizontally across my screen. Removing the axes doesn't remove this "horizon." How can I get rid of this and start with simply a blank white screen?

Thanks for any response.

[Joe Wood]

Roger, go to Window>Model Info>Colors, then uncheck Sky and ground.

[Dave Richards]

Roger, go to Window>Model Info>Colors and uncheck the boxes for ground and sky. You can make the background colors whatever you want by clicking on the colored square and adjusting the color.

[Dave Richards]

Joe won again.

[Roger Farmer]

Thanks, Dave and Joe. I knew it was simple but didn't know where to find it. (I'm just starting to use Sketchup, obviously!)

One final question:

Is there any way to make the background color completely white? When I try to use the color wheel to adjust the color of the background, I am always just slightly non-white - just a little brownish or greenish. On the "Model Info" screen, there is an apparently pure white on the "Face Front" color, but I can't get this color into the "Background" apparently because I can't get my cursor in the correct spot on the color wheel.

Thanks again for your help.

[Todd Burch]

Roger, on the Choose Color dialog, do the drop down to change from "Color Wheel" to RGB or one of the others. Then, set all values to 255 for R, G & B.

Todd

[Aaron Beaver]

I do what Todd suggested but I use the sliders and just slide it all the way to the right I believe.

[Roger Farmer]

Thanks Todd, that worked. I have now downloaded the SketchUp User Manual (over 9 MB in PDF format) so I hope to be able to find some of these answers myself. Thanks again.