This will be an issue with the drivers for your graphics card. What is the graphics card? Try updating its drivers. @d7man2000 said: The problem is SketchUp 2017 doesn't have an option to uncheck hardware acceleration like in the older version. No. Due to the new graphics pipeline used by SketchUp 2017 there is no option to turn off Hardware Acceleration. SketchUp 2017 does not have an option to use the software rendering like older versions. @d7man2000 said: not sure how to disable hardware acceleration. You can't. You need to make sure your graphics card is up to the task of supporting OpenGL3.0 or you will find it difficult to use SU2017. @d7man2000 said: I am attaching print screens of older and SketchUp 2017 OpenGL settings where hardware acceleration options is missing. Thanks. As before, it's not missing. Since there's option to do software rendering, it's not an option to turn off Hardware Acceleration. The fact that you needed to turn off Hardware Acceleration in the past implies that your GPU or its drivers haven't been suitable from before SU2017. Now you'll need to deal with that instead of pushing the rendering off on the CPU. Read the Release Notes and System Requirements.

Thanks guys, theres a few alternatives and I'll look at each. Not to discount Unity but I suspect that it will end up being influenced by the fact that I have friends with a good knowledge of both Unreal Engine and Blender which will likely give me a boost and save time.

Curious, i have the same guidelines dashLines for SU 16 & SU 17 ! In SU 17 section cut of a group guideline is translated! [image: Kn3k_trimed.jpg]

@tuna1957 said: major duh moment for me. gotten so use to using vertex tools forgot the simple way. sdmitch curious why the alt key comes into play ? just checked on my mac, left to right selection and move tool gets me there..... is it a windows thing ? The up or down arrow would achieve the same but the Alt key is what I thought of first.

Draw a rectangle as an "extrude line(s)" by Projections by Didier Bur can help in critical positions! [image: mZMg_GIF_rectangles.gif]

Fredo tools has one who draw points of existing segments! Can be also useful!

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=clf_arc_centerpoint_finder

Thanks my badness - I'm very sorry for that. My dear Dave!!!!!! You're great advanced user but I'm not good. I hesitate me like I'm miss understanding that. I don't know what does it have work for axis. I AM VERY SORRY! I'm shy because I maybe hesitate for that. I need keep cool and I learn more and I understand what do I work with SketchUp. Since Google SketchUp I try and I use with Source Modelling but it is very old and it is unusable now. And PlayUp for Unity, Unreal Engine, Cry Engine and other for now. Nothing Source Engine 1 and 2 so sad. That is why I forget many knowledges of SketchUp. Now I restore my knowledges back. Why do they need many unlimited extensions and plugins. Now I understand with shape blender now. Thanks very much // Edit where is plugin like 2 marked lines into own mark or I follow other curving lines? Like fence from start is down floor to end is up floor? PS: I found "Weld" I thought line and curve marry together than own - I found it. Thanks! Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QoACAonoec [/quote] Thnx Pilou. This one looks interesting!

Very likely it has to with the material size relative to the size of the object you are texturing. Could you upload an example SKP file that shows this so we can take a look and give you some help?

There is no help for that. Best way is to redraw the face. Somehow it got corrupted. Sketchup sometimes, works in mysterious ways.

The lttle cube with a shadow is not a Plugin! It'a native function of the Tools Bar Shadows of SketchUp for enable / Disable Shadows (from Location & Month / Day hours) Flowify can work with or without Shadows! Better if you post your SKP file (save as format "V 6") for a more large audience! Put also the adress of the video! From your alert message seems it's the "2 lines connection" who are missing! Here the concept : make the groups like this Group 1 = surface (Whitout hole) can be anything but "four sides" Group 2 = (2 straight lines) Group 3 = entiere wall (whithout hole) Group 4 = G1 + G2 + G3 Group 5 = flat window (or any volume) not obliged to be pasted to the surface! You select all Call Flowify "Projected window" is drawn (or any 3D volume) Here 2 examples : with a flat window (on the right, with a simple box on the left up corner) [image: Flowify.jpg] This are surfaces 4 sides fine working with Flowify! [image: fODf_surfaces_4sides.jpg] This surface will not work with Flowify! [image: 08NP_surface_4sides1.jpg]

Thank you for your help!

oh wow! i dint know selecting some thing would effect the preference menu! thanks a lot!

You may just want to draw visible edges--so the floor faces would not reach to the outside walls- they would stop at the interior face of wall. Unless you are making a structural model,leave structure as empty "inside" space. Even with a structural model, you can hide the layer with the innards of the wall and floors for exterior scenes. Hide lines as suggested. This can sometimes be hard to manage--you find lines showing in scenes you didn't want them or sometimes the perpendicular face attached to the hidden edge shows through in some views. In the course of drawing the line might become visible again accidentally. Even with thin offset (like 1" for siding), the printed or exported view can look OK--it is often just the on-screen SU view that shows the bleed-through. Even in LayOut. Not a problem in most renderings as well.

Thanks again TIG. I had a look at edges helper but I don't think there's anything there (at least that I can understand!). I posted http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43152833/sketchup-model-collada-three-js-no-edges. Maybe it's more a Threejs oriented question.

I thought the video was clear. For laying out use the tape tool and the protractor.

Can you orbit, pan or anything during this 10 seconds? Is the computer completely frozen (you can't exit SketchUp during this locked period?)

The clue is in the message. When you downloaded the SketchUcation toolset you did so as a member of SCF, using your name and your login 'password'. When you first use the SCF toolset you should be prompted to enter that name and password [i.e. exactly matching what you've entered when joining SCF]. Assuming these match, they should then be stored on your computer, and thereafter it's reused so you won't be prompted unless you log-out of its dialog ! You only need to login and password once in the dialog. The dialog is not directly connected to SCF at that point. Assuming you use the same name and password... Thereafter it should no longer prompt you for log-in details...

I've added more info at that link