The files are quite big. I got them from https://www.wuala.com/Olson/Photos/Optikz_360_Skies/. I discovered them while searching for HDRI images to enhance my skies in Kerkythea. A nice guy made a post on the Blender Artists site as a gift http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?224065-New-High-resolution-sky-pack-for-Blender.

I got 9 out of this list including:
brightday
cambridge
english
godrays
goodmorning
Nevada
clearday_1
clearday_2
Sunset

The last 3 are png files. I opened them in Photoshop and saved as jpegs just to keep the import list simple. But I don't think there is a problem with any of the image files at all because all of them imported successfully, just not all at the same time. The problem does not seem to be with any particular image, just which ones get imported last. But once an image gets flagged as invalid, I cannot import it anymore no matter how many images I purge from the model. I'm thinking of splitting the library up into 4 skies each since the size seems to be a problem for some reason I think.

(Not sure if you are the same person…) but Tommy shared a secret trick that they have probably built into SketchUp to work-around the issue. There is a registry key to flip the cursors correct:
%(#000000)[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SketchUp\SketchUp 2013\Preferences\FlipCursors = 1 (DWORD)]
https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/fN_Vp_dx-fQ/Ix-lVoEp0csJ

@nolamikey said:

...that Sketchup uses a third party library for its ACAD import capability, and that there was a bug in the Mac version of that library.

SU uses (as many other CAx apps) the Teigha Toolkit from the Open Design Alliance for exchanging DXF/DWG files. The support for embedded solids using the ACIS format (by Spatial, a Dassault division) may depend on the Teigha revision and platform.

SU2013 Win uses the Teigha version 3.3 (libs starting with "TD_"), recent is v3.9... time to update maybe for M2 😉

Norbert

@motley said:

i uploaded a jpg image into my scene and played around with some of its colours. when i export as a avi the texture that is still the original jpg jumps around like there is an earht quake. the same texture that i played witht the contrast with doesent do this?

why sketchup why do you do this?

i resolved the matter by applying the non jumping texture to all the materials but now im curious.

I have the same problem, with jumping textures in my animation exported from sketchup. I used mpeg-4 codec, 1920x1080 resolution, 25fps. Any solution somebody? Thank you very much.

What operating system are you using?

Thanks Dave
Best regards
Orchard

Yep. We've posted the new installers, but have yet to push the updater mechanism. We often wait a couple days to make sure things are stable in the wild before enabling the Help > Check for Update mechanism.

Regards,
Tyler

Hello again and thanks for your comments,
Elisei was right - some lines inside the group where on a different layer than the group itself.
After editing the lines towards the group layer, erasing worked as usual.
I don`remember to have a similar problem before.
Anyway, the layer status should have no influence, if a line is erasable or not.

thomthom , thanks for looking into it. I tried to reproduce this conflict but so far i wasn`t successful on this matter.
I will post the model, as soon as I have a similar case
Thanks again,
Uli

I can only reproduce it while Joint Push Pull is in the top bar second row down. If I take that out of the bar it does not happen. can someone try to reproduce this?

With current versions of SketchUp if should not be appearing unless you have absolutely every plugin under the sun loading at startup ans making commands. SketchUp has a top limit on the number of commands it can hold in it's head at any one time - a bit like a woman 😮 ...
When it gets full it starts dumping existing commands and there menu entries gray-out...
This limit was increased dramatically some years ago as more plugins came on the scene and more commands were getting used.
There have been no reports of 'gray-outs' for a long time...
BUT recently one or two tools have been published that deal with many 'commands' and it was suspected that they were inadvertently adding multiple copies of existing commands and thereby filling up SketchUp's limited brain... Once this was realized the tool's code were quickly reworked by their author and updates issued, there have been no 'gray-out' reports in recent weeks/months... Perhaps you have got early versions of some of these and so you need to update them urgently ?
The main suspected-culprit was Aerilius 'LaunchUp' and the two other suspects were the 'Toolbar' manager tools...

If you have bloated SketchUp with a surfeit of plugins then I suggest you get/use the 'SketchUcation Plugin Store' and its 'Managers' - the 'Plugins Manager' lets you easily disable plugins you rarely use, so on a restart of SketchUp they don't load... that way you can have a core set of plugins that always load and others that are usually disabled. The disabled ones can always be loaded using the manager - a permanent load adds it back into the core set, while a temporary load adds it to the available tools for that session only - on a restart it is again disabled... This way SketchUp starts up much quicker and your menus are not cluttered with rarely used tools...
The 'Plugin Store' let's you keep up to date with the latest versions of your favorite plugins too... 😉

The problem does not occur in sketchup 8! In 2013 it does!! And i have hardware acceleration On with an Nvidia gt540M, but SU does not seem to be using it, in the Details tab, it shows Intel HD graphics, I tried "Open with Graphics Processor > Nvidia " But to no avail...! Plz heLP !

@alan fraser said:

For what it's worth, I was trying out a roof-builder plugin a couple of months ago. It caused a bugsplat every time I tried to apply a material that had been added to my material libraries since its install.
Want to name and shame the culprit - it's the only way to get it fixed for future releases... 😕

sorry sapper545
no way to get to open it
maybe if you contact Trimble support ...

salud

Hi, I am currently building some dynamic components, "pcmoor", for building construction. I too have been frustrated, however I believe the problem is in editing independent of the main model. For example before reusing a previous component to build the next, copy within a main model, then make all parts unique, use the outliner to select all the sub components at once, then make unique. thus any changes will not effect similar components. Then if you want too place into another file. One day someone needs to write a book....interested?

cheers
Philip

@tig said:

Try running SketchUp as administrator [context-menu option on its selected icon].
This one off might then update the references/licensing etc ?

Thanks TIG for the suggestion. Didn't work. I am going to follow Dave's advice and not worry about it.

Thanks to all for your help.

Close this please.

Ken

Is there a bug report that addresses this? It's still a problem. Just try using the component for this item:

Samsung 55" LED LCD 240Hz TV (UN55B8000)

That " inch mark trips up the DC code. The temporary fix is to bring up that entity's info and remove the " character. That'll let the DC code continue.

Hi & thanks for your comments.

I'm running SU8 on windows 7/64bit.Both the work file .skp & .skb backup sit on my local desktop. I copied them there to avoid the autosave over the server but the 0.skp swap files are still being tried to save on the server, e.g. material library. Whenever my PC is stuck in autosave back to server I cut the VPN, a 0.skp warning appears and save manually.

Attached a screenshot of preferences > files. All linkes used to point to the server so I just changed models and export to the desktop - do you think that would help?

preferences_files.PNG

@ely862me said:

Might be some layer problem ...

There are no layers other than Layer0 (at least in the downloadable version - especially regards to deanlegg's comment here).

Also no disappearing and everything works fine here...

@thomthom said:

I generally find that parallel view often produce clipping glitches.

Thanks
It's good to know it's not a problem inherent to my machine.

Hi,
Does anyone have any further insights into this issue?

I have encountered a very similar problem:

This seems to be particular to Mac OSX, but it is happening in both SU7 & SU8. At first I noticed it for the toolbars of a plugin I am developing, but I also tested the Dynamic Components toolbar and the same thing happens. When the toolbar is moved to a horizontal position the tooltips stop appearing. If I move the toolbar back to vertical, then restart Sketchup, tooltips start appearing again.
I've trashed the preferences files and still the same thing is happening.
I've quarantined all my plugins and it still happens.

Any ideas?
This is really quite annoying as I want to be able to use tooltips for my plugin and horizontal toolbars are much more convenient.

thanks
Dave