That's bad, I am sorry. Hopefully it will be recovered...

@unknownuser said:

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in this case, i didn't scale up..
wondering if jim did anything else to the skp prior to outer shell?

I don't remember, but it's possible. However, I just tried it again, this time scalingup 10x and Outershell cleared the inner geometry again. And you are correct, the final piece is not a Solid when using this method for reasons Jeff has indicated.

Is your display driver up to date?

Does this happen with all models? Is this one located far (more than a kilometer or two) from the SU model origin point?

Anssi

Jim, that's like my problem with "save animation" that refuses to work on one of my machines. At least you have a "work around". Sometimes I loose minimized windows under the task bar, but those can be found.

@chiefwoodworker said:

Gai's solution may be more general but does require creating the shape away from the part. On the other hand, it is always good to have several workarounds.

Well what I did was to temporarily group your face (until I moved away) then exploded it. So you can actually make the profile "in situ" initially.

I have received a response from the SU team; they were able to reproduce the error and comfirmed the bug:

"Thank you for your note. I've opened your file and was able to reproduce
the crash when draping on the two scenerios you provided where the drape
was onto exploded geometry. When draping onto a grouped surface it would
work fine and if I grouped the geometry on your two "exploded target"
sections those would also drape fine. The issue seems to be specific to
what you're draping on and whether or not its a group when I perform the
operation in SketchUp 8."

It seems to me that if you group the "target" object it helps... sometimes.

ok I think it has something to do with the right click bug because it works now that I restarted... phew that scared me.

It's not in v6 (I still have it). As far as I remember, it was introduced in v7.1 but indeed has been there for a while.

Hi guys,

The problem in this case is figuring out where the 'new' toolbar should be added. I don't have my PC in front of me at the moment, but I think new Ruby toolbars are added at the start of the toolbars, not at the end. On the other thread on this subject (over at our help forum) a suggestion was made that new Ruby toolbars should be floated on first load to avoid this.

john
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bump same issue here.

Tried using the cleanup plugin from ThomThom, thinking it may be due to the complexity of the model.
It really is not that complicated, Just some lattice work for a steel structure.

Other models with similar geometry have come in without the error report.

What is this attributed to. Texture, polycount or some other miscellaneous sketch up fail.

bring on revision 9.

Bring back the old way of getting places from Google Earth. (from the Earth UI) it was easier to navigate to locations that are out bush and not
on a road.

Yes, this is a known bug but will hopefully get fixed soon.

Hi Jeff!

Thanks for the reply!

I realized this as I started mucking about with the rubies - I guess I'll have to patch the rubies myself to fix this! Thanks for the heads up though!

// Olle

I reported it to Google ages ago when v8 was in diapers.
I haven't heard that they've fixed it... 😒

Thanks for responding. I'm a kitchen designer and a very experienced SU user. I use it 4-5 hrs a day for the last 5 years.
All that being said, it's working now, 6 hours later. Nothing has changed except the time. I have no idea what is different or what happened.
Do you think it could be operating system issue?
When this all began,I checked the copy/paste function in a Word doc and it was fine.
Anyway, thanks again for trying to help-whatever you did, it worked!

Thanks Jeff, sorted. And Gaieus too!

Imported files can also be "fixed" - there's just a couple of things to take care:

when importing, check out the import options and make sure NOT to preserve drawing origin. While there, make sure to import with the correct scales finally if the imported group has its origin somewhere etremely out - it can happen if there is some reference geometry there in the original CAD file - delete that geometry, explode the group and while everything is selected, regroup again.
Always a good way to use Zoom extents (Shift+Z) to see how "large" your model is. If you seem to zoom out too far away, there is some problematic geometry somewhere. Press Ctrl+A to select all and see what is highlighted blue (beside your model) to identify the culprit.

Tom, I understand your frustration as a service provider, but I wouldn't want the State buy new cars just because the old ones don't have a video camera providing a view backing up. Aren't the Brit's currently climbing out of one of the worlds worst economic turn downs? Hope you can "hang in there" until things get better.

I've posted to the RenderIN website as well this issue is a complete problem for windows users. Has RenderIN made a fix for this to anyones knowledge?

It's moved to the Styles window.

yeah 😄 reinstall. i donwloaded it from sketchup.google.com to be sure