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]

Attached?

ok... it was this Faucet Component 6340_v2 deleting it fixed the error.

What graphics card do you have , had trouble any other programs, Mac Pro , IMac ,Mac book pro ?

Suggest you go to the Microsoft Download Center and make sure you have all updates for all VC runtimes installed. The manifest for Sketchup indicates it is linked against the MSVC version 8 runtime, (perhaps called 2005. After version 6, they began referring to them generally by the release year, as it made more sense to end users.) It should not hurt to install or update other runtimes on your machine (2008, 2010, etc.)

Even the textures seem to vary from app to app. That cameraman model is almost entirely vertex-painted, but I used the standard metallic texture on part of the rig. That doesn't display either in Deep Exploration. You can see it listed at the right hand side of my graphic, but it's not assigned to any face. PS Somebody in Boulder needs to learn how to spell corrugated, too.

Another workaround I have used is to group the face, so that I guess it then replaces the stray edge, and then it will Pushpull. But,it is always frustrating when your flow is interrupted. The cntrl/alt key worked fine, but drawing the line as Sonder suggested sounds like a great idea as well. Thanks again

Thanks for the reply.... Glad I'm not the only one with this prob...

Do you have other possible codecs ? I managed the max 30 fps OK with Cinepac Radius Codec [but PC though]

Thanks to all. Problem solved. This was indeed a monitor problem. Dan

Thanks! I hope they get this worked out soon, I'm stuck modeling on my PC only!

cheers! registry hacks-r-us! did the trick. i did report it as a bug to Google so hopefully this make the adjustment in the next patch or version. so... the Google bug people pointed me to a feature: in the preferences -> work space is a button to "reset work space"

Thank you for all the advice. Will try the plugin removal first and see what happens.

There must be something wrong. Also Martin reported some bugs... http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=382229#p382229

Thanks Tig, Partial selecting would certainly help...but it does seem like a recent problem....Ive been using this function constantly since it was first introduced way back in version? without much trouble.

Very similar problems have happened in the past, too. See this current issue here for instance.