Have you tried updating your graphics drivers? looks liek it might be an openGL problem.

What Su7 version? The latest 7.1M1 release? Or an older version?
Also, what graphic card do you have?

BUG FIXED with Maintenance Release 1 (SketchUp 7.1.5803) ^-^

Yea, I just need to get a couple of other projects out of the way first.

Make sure you have your pointer over what you want to zoom in on. Quite often if you have your pointer over empty space it will zoom in "too fast" and "too far". Try that and see if it makes a difference. If not it could be a setting / graphic issue.

And welcome to the SCF.
http://www.manysmileys.com/files/R/Mb/sC/RMbsC28W33794092.gif

😄 Yea - forgot to get back to this thread.

Hi Bob,

This sounds like a similar that issue popped up with SketchUp 7.1. We're taking a close look and hope to have it fixed in the next SketchUp release.

Andriy,

I started with a blank new model, so there is no extra geometry. What I discovered while looking at it again was that the possible bug is related to the "use model extents" checkbox - it doesn't seem to be able to process objects smaller than about 300 mm or one foot. Unchecking that works, but the problem is that the white space visible around the model will print.

This has never been a problem for me, because as an architect I mostly deal with large objects, but I became aware of this when seeing the number of posts in SU-related forums asking the same "why does SU need xx pages to print my small part to 1:1 scale?" question that seems to bother especially woodworkers who need to print their templates from SU.

Anssi

This one is killing me! Can someone tell me how to back down from 7.1 to 7.0? CB.

Good news; I just realised that SU 7.1 fixed this problem. You get so used to seeing something that occasionally it takes a nudge to notice it has changed....

It makes for a nice improvement in my house plans, so thanks SketchUpGuys!

Mac users (as I have just learnt) have often used the VCB by highlighting it (clicking into it or using the tab to give focus).

Now with version 7.1, do not do it. With a rectangle for instance, just start drawing > type the values (into the "thin air") > hit Return/Enter.

Hi frv,

Is that part not grouped or inside a component by any chance? In this case, maybe that material is applied on group/component level. Try to paint the group/component also with the default material (this shouldn't affect any materials applied to the faces directly "inside").

There is a maintenance release on the way as I heard and hopefully most of the issues will be addressed there. I can't see many of what you list here however.

Got a screenshot list of your plugins folder?

Gaieus, thanks you for the suggestion. It worked! This is different than the way previous versions of sketchup have performed of my computers, but easy to adjust to. Thanks,

Turning off hardware acceleration should do the trick, just as Barry suggests.

I've found the following page from Apple really useful to see if a particular graphics card provides the necessary OpenGL 1.5 compliance that SketchUp requires:

http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/index.html

Since you're running OS X 10.5, it looks like the GMA950 only supports OpenGL version 1.2. On OS X 10.6, is supports OpenGL 1.4, which is better but not quite there.

Hi David,

It sounds like you're running into this issue:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=162724

In SketchUp 7.1, there's a known issue where SketchUp will ignore input to the Measurements box when you click or tab into the box prior to typing.

Cheers!

Thanks Aerilius I forgot I had maximum textures turned on and was using a 9MP image so that is probably the issue but I will check it soon and let you know. Great advice, thanks

Could you fix the problem? You can define the number of segments the first time you use the Pipe tool.

The new release on http://www.3skeng.com has a settings menue with the possiblility to define the number of segments.

Regards, Sebastian

@thomthom said:

Ah, the AudoCAD syndrome. I see that often at work.
I have the opposite, as I work with SU all the time and only once in a while use AutoCAD.

just save as dwg R2000 - than it works 😄

lg
Karin