Thank you ThomThom! What a Newbie I am! lol

Sometimes you are stuck with a large model and can't reduce the dimensions of it, especially when modeling cities. Try hitting zoom extents, then re zoom back in. Zoom extents re defines the near and far clipping planes and often helps solve the problem for a while.

@tig said: @rv1974 Please complete your profile details so that we might know your version OS, etc... TIG means your profile so you need not repeat it every time someone needs it for help...

Sorry. I should have provided more info. I have a large city model that I'm working on. I have layers, I'm purging unused, and I'm keeping texture sizes down. There is a lot of texture however, and the model is quite large. When SketchUp crashes, an error message comes up that says: "SketchUp has crashed unexpectedly. See report for more details." The reason the file is so large is probably geometry. Thanks, Avraham

If you have it split into parts and are wary of giving it to 'everyone' on the open forum, you can PM it to some of us, OR PM one of us for an email address you can send the ZIP[s] to...

Well I made a mistake, it is the 0.skb file that has the error message. However TIG I think you have the answer, I do use a USB drive to save my models, since I work at the house and on the road. Maybe it will go away like it did the last time. I guess there is no clear cut answer, so I will live with the error. So thanks all for your help. Ken

Amen!

Hi Chris, thanks for the tip, I'll try it. Charly

still vanishes with vray not loaded in...im totally baffled by this. never had this issue before!

Sounds like a Windoze system problem... Does it only occur with SKP files ? If so try reinstalling SketchUp... Otherwise you must try some 'system tool' fixes [beyond the scope of this forum ]

Maybe there not enough place for input ?

Also... the Simlab .fbx importer (90$) mentioned in this thread just converts geometry, no materials. So it is not more useful than the DWG importer in Sketchup which is free. Since 2011 Revit version,Autodesk changed the way it writes Collada and FBX files, so they only can be read by Autodesk products. Way to gooooooooooooooo Autodesk

Hi, bntheman: Thanks for replying, and, heh, reaffirming that at least I could help in some small way. I wish you good fortune hereforward. I suspect that would be the latest maintenance release, but I am not sure if it addresses any sandbox issues. However, if you got it to install ok, then chances are good you won't see any problems.

What import unit did you use? The SketchUp Pro importer doesn't recognize the unit that has been used in the model you try to import, but you will have to provide the information yourself, via the Import Options that are hidden behind the Options button on the Import File dialog box. If you are inadvertently importing the model in millimeters or centimeters instead of Feet or Meters, it might result to too small faces that SU is unable to fill. An Imageshack image does not tell us much about the original DWG file so if you could post that there might be more to be learned from it. Anssi

The auto-loading of Ivy's components was discussed... I can't find the 'fix' either... Perhaps in the morning I'll remember what/where it was... It can't be that awkward to move the auto-loading for the 'startup' into the 'first-use' of the tool...

Never mind. Not working properly now... weird. Will test some more.

You are right Thomthom. It did occur to me that it might be glued but when I checked it wasn't glued. I probably right clicked on some other component in there and didn't notice...

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reinstalling the current version of Sage didn't fix it either...

Deleted Sketchup Pro 8 from the desktop XP machine. Re-downloaded Pro 8 and when the toolbars began reloading they were covering a large portion of the screen. I'm thinking now that the toolbar background was covering the whole screen not allowing me to see the design screen behind it. The whole screen was the same color as the background on the toolbars, Bryce or the female version could not be seen on the screen. Don't know how the size of the toolbars changed like they did. Sheesh