@kyleboyd said: My machine has a NVIDIA Quadro FX 1700 - as far as Hardware Acceleration, I'm pretty clueless when it comes to that (I would love to know more, just haven't taken the time to learn). I attached a screen shot of that as well, but I suspect it may not be useful. I was thinking of the Hardware Acceleration setting in SketchUp itself: [image: LsLG_Hardware.png] @kyleboyd said: Unfortunately I'm not able to upload the model to a public thread such as this one, I'm sure that would be the most helpful thing to do. You can send it to me directly if you're comfortable with that. Then we'd know if it's a model or system issue.

Thanks for the tip Jeff. Been banging my head for the past hour trying to fix these callouts. Grouping worked. I should always know to check here first!!

@rich o brien said: Thomthom has a Batch Registry command thing that clear the reg Worked like a charm. Just have to reset the toolbar positions and I think I'm good to go. There must have been several 100 toolbar positions in the registry and deleting them by hand would have been tedious. Been working on some rather massive skp files here and I think the crashes and bug splats were the cause. Thanks Rich and ThomThom!

I second TIG's question why you're removing the Susan definition? Why is that essential for the plugin to work?

yes i am purging before saving,.One other thing two of us often work on and swap between models, the other guy is working on windows, we use drop box and work on different parts of the model ( not at the same time), could that have any bearing.....?

That hidden geometry around the origin is interacting with your new geometry and whilst the edges stay hidden new faces are forming and magically appearing. As has been said - do some tidying up...

Ahh very tricky : must make a little training before fluent result! It's a pity that this midlle dont' exist by default!

Hi, Dylan: First thing to check would be your graphics card. Is it integrated on the motherboard? Intel integrated graphics processors historically do not perform as well as discrete, separate graphics processors. However, this may not be the problem. I was just mentioning this as a possible issue. Some mobile processors do have the capability for Skecthup and OpenGL. For instance this TabletPC has a Mobile Intel 915GM/GMS, 910GML Express Chipset Family.

@tig said: If it is indeed the 'CW15Auto.dll' file that is somehow corrupted/infected - as Csaba's link [finally] suggests - then I don't know how you go about fixing it... That thread does not suggest this... most of the people posting in that thread are "grasping at straws". This 'CW15Auto.dll' file, is specific to the OP's application, called "SONAR". The one guy that KNOWS what is going on... it seems, cannot be understood by most of the other readers and posters. The issue is that the MSVC 2005 runtime redistributable needs to be updated by the SketchUp installer, but the original msi installer packages have been removed (deleted by the user.) The originals must be there so that they can first do an uninstall, before the newer version can do it's install. It's a major headache, I have first-hand experience with, because I did not think I needed the MSVC msi packages anylonger, and manually deleted (what I thought were temporary installer folders,) in the root directory of my drive. Now I cannot update (or actually uninstall,) any of the Visual Studio Languages. I either need to wipe the drive, and re-install everything... or spend a day or two, manually cleaning up files and the registry, to put the machine back into a pre-install state. (Or.. I may try what this post suggests... manually re-creating the installer directory and copying a good msi file from my mother's XP machine.)

Ok, than you can see what I`ve debugged in the folder picture. Physics is on of the last one i renamed so lest see how it goes. Thank you so much for your time Thomas. May it rain cookies on you forever. If we should ever meet, I`ll buy you a pint. EDIT 21.06 Seems that SU-physics was the troublemaker here. That is a little sad cause i really like it Then again it is much better to have a working SU Thanks again Thomas. [image: xLe0_cookies.jpg]

This fixes the issue perfectly. Hopefully this is a bug that will get addressed by Trimble.

Open outliner from the menus-window an select group in the pannel window It's that way in 6,7,8,m2,m3 and ver 32 and 64

Upgrade to the latest release: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=45516

There also a handy plugin from Liquid98 called "Boolean Helper" that gives you a couple of new toolbar buttons for very quickly scaling up and down - there's a choice of scale factors, and it even automatically zooms to make sure you can see everything when the size changes. DOWNLOAD LINK

I was trying trial version and Layout seems to be very useful... Thanks for your help.

My model would not export some surfaces to Google Earth .kmz Turned out that only certain colours were failing to export. They were all renamed colours, appearing in my "In Model" colour set. I tried updating to Sketchup 8.0.11752, and renaming the colours again, but it didn't work. Tried "fixing" the problem in the model-info menu but that didn't work. Thanks to your hint, I edited the RBG by one notch and it fixed the problem. Don't know why or how my colours got corrupted.

@bogmusic said: Yes, I am getting them at start-up roughly 60% of the time My problem with this cleared up on it's own without me doing anything. Go figure.

Your absolutely right Rich I've always been aware that my card is not up to par but it's the hole unit that needs upgrading I'm just not sure which way to go.I can make complicated models but I have to keep away from using textures. Thanks again for your help

Malcolm, although I am not a hardware expert, I doubt that that chipset fully supports OpenGL (the 3D rendering engine behind SU). What happens if you disable hardware acceleration under Window > Preferences > OpenGL settings in SketchUp?