I am having this same issue with my new Mac. Late 2010 MacBook Pro with Geforce GT330M 512mb video card.

Unable to fully access the features of the Entity Info box when any line based element is chosen. One can "tab" to the part of the window one cannot see to change a value (such as the number of segments of a circle) and modify the value there and have it take effect.

One can use the size handle feature to increase the window width but cannot increase the vertical size to be able to view the rest of the window.

I have restarted SU. Restarted the computer. Reinstalled SketchUp. Reinstalled the Mac OS using the combo update. To no avail. My old Mac Powerbook has none of these issues, despite having a paltry 128mb of video ram.

I have submitted a bug report, if anyone else is having this issue please send one in as well. I suspect it is a function of the video card in these particular computers relative to the way this window routine is written.

I have also noticed issues with the way the other windows expand under the other panes versus flowing them downward as a group and errors in them staying docked/stuck together.

Thanks

Solved!!!!

Great thanks man 😄

I have 27" and 15" dual screen and sometimes i rotate the big one... When i put it vertical, m'y smooth window appeared in the middle of my 15" screen (where it was not before rotation!)
😍

@thomthom said:

hmmm... so when you use thet Layer Drop downbox it change the active layer? The Layers Toolbar? (I never use that) or the Entity Info?

Yes. But only after I made copies of the components and moved them. Then, while they were still selected I used the Layer Dropdown box to place them on a different layer and got this strange behavior.

If I select the original three components and use the Layers Dropdown box to place them on a different layer it works fine.

Or, if you sneeze. 💚

@jgb said:

So that means the .SKB file is the file from the PREVIOUS manual save. ❓

Correct.

@jgb said:

Then howcum my SU directory does not contain an .SKB file for each of the .SKP files??

Maybe you unticked "Create Backup" from Preferences > General ?

One thing I've learned about the Follow-Me tool is to be very selective of where I start the face on the line to be followed.

If I have a perfect circle or arc to follow, it really does not matter. 99 out of 100, the face is perched on a line segments vertex.

But IF the line depicts a non circular CLOSED curve, it seems to matter where on the line the face is perched. It almost always has to be perpendicular to and ON the line, NOT at a vertex.
If the curve is open, then perch the face at the start of the line; but it must be perpendicular to that start line segment.

Doing that has reduced the anomalous results dramatically.

Isn't the "reset workspace" inside the "preferences" window?

Have you tried re-installing it?

Seems to be working again - without needing updating, so a server side issue?

Excellent!

Brilliant!, the model is workable now. I'll keep you posted about the success / failure of 'reloading' the model in the original scene. Then exporting to Google.

Thanks.

@watkins said:

Can this thread be re-labelled as SU bug?

Moved to the bugs subforum.

Thanks Gai. This really sucks because they are not matching up once I import a second one. I did not have this problem last month with a location less than a mile away from this site. Grrr indeed.

Yep. Happened to me, too.
There's a suggestion for Macs in the Google help forum (Gaieus was there, too)
"To anyone else searching for this, go to user->library->preferences and delete all com.google files."

I'm using SU Pro 8.0.4811 + numerous rubies on Win 7 64 bit
A quick search for this string (com.google) gave no direct matches, but some with "com80-kh.google" - which look like some sort of licence or authorisation file so I'm reluctant to kill'em.

If its relevant, I'm using Firefox as browser, but there's a feral IE somewhere there too.

SU version 8 has the Foreground Photo feature in PhotoMatch that makes the model look like the image overlay covers it. What baffles people is that the controls for this behaviour are not in the Match Photo dialog but in the Styles window>Edit>bottom of the Modeling settings tab.

Anssi

@mitcorb said:

I suspect that porting it through Revit reset the origins/axes of the offending geometry

So it does. Revit, although it doesn't use OpenGL, is almost as bad at large coordinates as SU. When Solo imported the DWG file and then re-exported the view, the origin was set at the Revit model origin, not the one in the DWG.

Anssi

yeah i am... that is a broken down one 🤣

ill break it down more. gonna carry on tomorrow. thanks for your help

Perhaps on the other ones, Google is using some internal optimizations to trim your model's vertex count. Maybe it can't do that on this one.

One optimization might be to convert a rectangular face with several polys to two triangles, if they all have the same color or texture information. If you colored those polys differently this time around, then Google can't reduce the poly count anymore.

@anssi said:

Are you quoting the price of AutoCad LT? The viewing application Autodesk DWG TrueView IS free,
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=6703438&DCMP=ILC-DWG-PUV
( I noticed that they are advertising for LT on the right of the page, while the "Download now" button on the left, in the text column is much smaller...clever businessmen?)
Anssi

Thanks Anssi! I got caught myself in that marketing trap, I guess... Now I downloaded the free version.

yes it works...

One down,

but it handles, xray oddly when exporting tiff.... with transparency on...

john

Hey all,

I fixed it ith the elp of the support guys at SU.

I turned OFF the hardware acceleration and it fixed it immediately.
I have an old computer with a crappy integrated GPU that i know does not support openGL fully.

Its amazing how fast the CAD model is without GPU !

Hi guys. Thanks for the links Jim. I checked them out. Very cool. Gotta try some of this stuff as soon as someone links to a physics Ruby for MORE TIME 💚

@unknownuser said:

What is the source of that animation that you show above?
Hey mitcorb. Sorry it took a while to get back here. Too many irons in the fire. 💚 But here ya go....

http://fireuser.com/articles/solids_vs_surface_modeling_what_and_why_you_need_to_know/

I did some more research though, and I'm curious about NURBS now. I recently purchased a new i7/975 computer and am in the process of researching GPU's for SLI as my motherboard is an EVGA 3xSLI Classified. I want to get into Rendering stuff, but lack of $$$$$ keeps getting in the way. 💚 In the meantime I'm researching which way to go for Sketchup/Rendering vs $$$$$ vs 2x or 3x GPU's vs overkill vs budget. 😆

I'm actually holding off on downloading anymore plugs for Sketchup untill I get my new computer GPU upgraded and my apps loaded. Which may be a while. So, for now I just have to keep modeling simple stuff on my old P4. Well, enough babbling. Time to get to work. Thanks guys.

fitZ