Ok, attached is the scene. I had to remake it quickly because i trashed the other one. I added a pre-made Sketchup person component to the scene thinking that maybe it was my custom people and trees causing the issue, but the even the Sketchup component wouldn't receive shadows until I exploded it (which isn't an option for me). Thanks for help. RC Shadow.Test.skp

Hi Jeff, The process of deleting the folder and put a new'd done, and to no avail. I went to the radical process, reinstalled SU. Ok now this. Thank you all.

The only other thing I can think of that might cause this, may be Firmware write-cache handling by the IDE of the harddrives themselves. To change this you would need to run an OEM utility downloaded from the harddrive manufacturer's website.

I've never come across this...but frequently come across the opposite...edges unsoftening. From comments here, it seems to be the same cause...an object being left selected for a while, while you're busy with other stuff. It usually happens if I copy/paste from one file to another and forget to immediately deselect the geometry in the intial file after copying. It doesn't need the soften edges dialog open; that's not involved if you are merely opening a file to copy a section of it. The mere action of leaving an object selected is enough.

My statement maybe off the mark above but I perfer turning off openGL and to use the smaller DirectX8 My machine seem to run faster. Shetchup dosn't need much of a graphics support. "OpenGL has always been better in the professional graphics market than DirectX, while DirectX is used mostly for computer games. Currently both OpenGL and DirectX have a large enough overlap in functionality that either could be used for most common purposes, with the operating system itself often being the primary criterion dictating which is used, with DirectX the common choice on Windows, and OpenGL being used on nearly everything else. Some esoteric applications still divide the applicability of the two APIs:" Now Troobleshooting Safe mode doesn't use the NVIDIA driver or nor DirectX9c , so modeling would be slower and the infomation will be helpful. See if it stable there? Try tweaking your NVIDIA control panel to tune-up sketchup (turn on/off openGL) Old programs like sketchup can use DirectX8 or DirectX9c if installed Right click, SketchUp.exe - properties - compatibility - xp The frame work you may have loaded is MS thus work better with DirectX For OpenGL 3.0 DirectX10 need to be loaded to pc . [image: yw28_pic_0063.jpg] Win7-64bit more buggier than 32 bit I went to SketchUp Help Forum and found this Welcome to the Google SketchUp Help Forum http://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/sketchup pc Sketchup 8 Very unstable on my system By jimminy121212 - 9 posts - 35 views - updated Mar 29 (16 hours ago) SketchUp Version: 8 "Win7-64bit SP1, 2.13 GHz Intel Xeon, nVidia Quadro 2000, 12 GB Ram I am experiencing crashes all the time on my system. It often seems to do with panning, especially when inside a group or component or just after closing one or the other, though not always. I would say it just seems generally unstable and buggy on this computer. My toolbars and menus won't stay put either. Every time I open SU I have to realign everything". "SketchUp Pro does provide technical support. Go to Help > Contact us and fill out the technical support form. The support staff would be the ones who can interpret the splats". "You write that your model is getting large. There are some techniques to help you manage larger models" https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/faster. "Try tweaking your NVIDIA control panel" https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/problems/gpu#TOC-Graphics-card-control-panel-tune-up. "Something could be conflicting with SU which causes the program to crash. I personally had a mouse driver become corrupted over time and end up causing nasty problems with SU. I remember another nasty crash problem being attributed to a printer driver for someone else. Some SU plugin may cause problems. Troubleshooting crashes without knowing knowing where to begin poking around is a bit of a crap shot. To help isolate system conflicts try running SU in clean boot, keeping note of running processes. I've used HijackThis to record a log of running processes. If the problem still occurs in clean boot, try safe mode and record the running processes for comparison with the running processes in normal mode and clean boot. Safe mode doesn't use the NVIDIA driver, so modeling would be slow." just trying to help.

Have you tried updating your graphic card driver?

Sounds like a bug.. you'd think it would be safer to use a timstamp in the name of the "temp" skb file.

You are showing your version (beneath your avatar,) as: 8.0.4810 which is SU 8.0M1 Sketchup 8.0 was updated to M2, Released 12/1/2011, and has build number: 8.0.11751 on Mac. For specific information on the release, see the Release Notes page.

Well, the problem with drape for me was all the triangulation in the drape skinning where the road rose either above or below the adjacent sculpted terrain, and the vertices in the drape did not coincide in the least with the vertices in the terrain.

The Boss has always right! But modify a Dynamic Component is some dangerous without some experience of that! @unknownuser said: but stil a bug Absolutly not! Just a disfunction (false code) of the bench! A bug inside the bench yes!

My way works for me. Do you use a Style that has Profiles set [say at 2] for the current exported scene [I think you must have, as the dialog's option ought to be 'grayed-out' otherwise ?]. Also why aren't you exporting Full-Size [1:1] - I can't see any logic in other ratios - you model in the SKP and in a DWG with 1 file-unit == 1 world-unit [in 'model-space' at least]. My profile's polyline thickness is set to a few mm, BUT it's overridden by 'auto' being checked anyway. On a MAC you don't seem to have 'version' choices for the DWG file's format These are the only differences I can see... If you mimic my settings as near as you can do you get any improvement? ...

@cheneymax said: On another note...what would be the best forum to post a Maxwell for Sketchup question (It's another error ) Thanks again, Max I think Jason and myself both scan the extensions forum on a regular basis for maxwell questions -Brodie

@toddwilli said: I have searched the forums for info on this problem, but found nothing since 2009! Anyone got any good ideas? If this was a known problem back in ver 6, why has it not been solved by ver 8? Thanks for any help. Its was/is a known problem, so much so, that an entire application was created to solve this problem, it's called LayOut.

well i did send in an error report and i think i asked for a t-shirt but have not heard back from them yet. im still holding onto hope that ill get some sort of reply

Hi Dave, On a Windows system this is generally the sign of incompatible OpenGL support from the video card/driver. We usually test it by turning off hardware acceleration under Preferences (this is in the SketchUp menu on the Mac as I believe) > OpenGL settings. Now I understand that Macs work differently and your hardware support (video driver) is included in the OS (or something) and maybe you do not even have this option (?) Anyway, if you do, can you check if it seems to "fix" it?

copied out what i needed and pasted into a new drawing and this strange behavior disappeared. so, very likely something with the CAD import... but i brought over 3-4 groups of CAD lines. thanks for the help.

I have no idea what happened, but everything was working fine on the MBP. I now believe something was wrong with the file. However, I returned the MBP and got a 21.5" iMac. 2.7 GHz, i5 quad with the 6770, 512 MB GPU. Wow, what a machine! I haven't had a desktop in decades and this is real treat for me. SU is blisteringly fast on this thing. Cheers!

Your link goes to the "Red carpet club" so no-one without a Twilight license will be able to read it.

I agree with Dan; I'd much rather it was unchecked by default. It's far more preferable to see a gradually thinning shadow than one that periodically jumps and loses all contact with the object that's supposed to be casting it. This just looks weird. [image: 26aO_shad_thumb.jpg]

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