Sorry, it was not yourimage but Imageshack. It loads extremely slowly (probably also depending on geographical location) or for some, it does not load at all. Then if it loads, it gets embedded in that website where eventually it displays very small... Anyway, best is to attach it straight here (below the text area you type your message). This also have the advantage that it will remain here (unlike images of some people who delete them from time to time on external sources). Your tip of closing SU and reopening sounds interesting; next time I'll try (I also have more than enough toolbars - in 5 rows above my SU screen).

This is killing me... The fact that I can right click a material, means I can't "forcefully remove" a material (and convert existing faces to default). Well, I can actually right click, but after freezing for about 10 seconds, the context menu appears and disappears really fast before I can click... It only seems to be a problem with "large" models.

@gaieus said: Could you share that file, please? here a few of texture i would like to add. im add new folder for each material.so it can be more neat per folder. Like brick folder, tile folder.why some of the material can be add/save and sometimes it wont? do i have to use and save it the project 1st before i quit the app? coz last nite i try to make folder for my material it can be save and when i open it now my material is there.( after i render it using the material i just added.) confuse here [image: E2Zp_brick_01.jpg] [image: 0sVv_green-small_crop_hom.jpg]

Thanks for your replies. I updated my drivers to the latest and so far I'm not experiencing those jitters since. I just installed it over the old one without deleting anything. This is a quote from the Nvidia site- "Q: Do I need to uninstall my older driver first? A: No. It used to be the case that an uninstall was first required. Today the recommended method is to overinstall the newer driver on top of your older driver. This will allow you to maintain any current NVIDIA Control Panel settings or profiles." I did that and all seems well. So yeah, if I experience anything wrong, I can easily revert back.

With v8 there's a Preferences setting to allow you to preselect a face then PushPull that - useful if that face is in a recess... I can't reproduce your problem no matter what I do

YES! thank you a lot. the x-coordinate was somewhere near to alpha centauri....... thanx a lot, the show goes on! regards stan

Ahh, thanks.

If it has the same name then the original version isn't overwritten by 'import'. BUT you can 'Reload' it simply by selecting a placed instance [or it's icon in the model tab of the Component Browser] and select that right-click menu item; if it's not the the same folder as it was originally you'll have to navigate to it... A 'Reload' will then update all instances of the originally imported component with the current version in the external SKP file...

I am having this same issue with my new Mac. Late 2010 MacBook Pro with Geforce GT330M 512mb video card. Unable to fully access the features of the Entity Info box when any line based element is chosen. One can "tab" to the part of the window one cannot see to change a value (such as the number of segments of a circle) and modify the value there and have it take effect. One can use the size handle feature to increase the window width but cannot increase the vertical size to be able to view the rest of the window. I have restarted SU. Restarted the computer. Reinstalled SketchUp. Reinstalled the Mac OS using the combo update. To no avail. My old Mac Powerbook has none of these issues, despite having a paltry 128mb of video ram. I have submitted a bug report, if anyone else is having this issue please send one in as well. I suspect it is a function of the video card in these particular computers relative to the way this window routine is written. I have also noticed issues with the way the other windows expand under the other panes versus flowing them downward as a group and errors in them staying docked/stuck together. Thanks

Solved!!!! Great thanks man I have 27" and 15" dual screen and sometimes i rotate the big one... When i put it vertical, m'y smooth window appeared in the middle of my 15" screen (where it was not before rotation!)

@thomthom said: hmmm... so when you use thet Layer Drop downbox it change the active layer? The Layers Toolbar? (I never use that) or the Entity Info? Yes. But only after I made copies of the components and moved them. Then, while they were still selected I used the Layer Dropdown box to place them on a different layer and got this strange behavior. If I select the original three components and use the Layers Dropdown box to place them on a different layer it works fine.

Or, if you sneeze.

@jgb said: So that means the .SKB file is the file from the PREVIOUS manual save. Correct. @jgb said: Then howcum my SU directory does not contain an .SKB file for each of the .SKP files?? Maybe you unticked "Create Backup" from Preferences > General ?

One thing I've learned about the Follow-Me tool is to be very selective of where I start the face on the line to be followed. If I have a perfect circle or arc to follow, it really does not matter. 99 out of 100, the face is perched on a line segments vertex. But IF the line depicts a non circular CLOSED curve, it seems to matter where on the line the face is perched. It almost always has to be perpendicular to and ON the line, NOT at a vertex. If the curve is open, then perch the face at the start of the line; but it must be perpendicular to that start line segment. Doing that has reduced the anomalous results dramatically.

Isn't the "reset workspace" inside the "preferences" window? Have you tried re-installing it?

Seems to be working again - without needing updating, so a server side issue? Excellent!

Brilliant!, the model is workable now. I'll keep you posted about the success / failure of 'reloading' the model in the original scene. Then exporting to Google. Thanks.

@watkins said: Can this thread be re-labelled as SU bug? Moved to the bugs subforum.

Thanks Gai. This really sucks because they are not matching up once I import a second one. I did not have this problem last month with a location less than a mile away from this site. Grrr indeed.

Yep. Happened to me, too. There's a suggestion for Macs in the Google help forum (Gaieus was there, too) "To anyone else searching for this, go to user->library->preferences and delete all com.google files." I'm using SU Pro 8.0.4811 + numerous rubies on Win 7 64 bit A quick search for this string (com.google) gave no direct matches, but some with "com80-kh.google" - which look like some sort of licence or authorisation file so I'm reluctant to kill'em. If its relevant, I'm using Firefox as browser, but there's a feral IE somewhere there too.