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

hi&thanks for this great patch! i got pretty frustrated to see that my old p4 pc running sketchup on winxp easily outperforms my macbook due to the mentioned freezes... disabling fast feedback only did not help. if i disable hw acceleration, the freezes vanish. but of course you get visibly better performance using the patch. (btw, rotating large structures without hw accel on the mac looks about as "smooth" as with hw accel on the mentioned pc with geforce fx 5200 go) details: Video chipset: GMA X3100 Model Name: MacBook Model Identifier: MacBook4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: MB41.00C1.B00 SMC Version (system): 1.31f0 running SketchUp 7 (7.0.10938) on Mac OS X 10.5.8 i wonder if 10.6 works any better - according to http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/opengl/capabilities/ opengl implementetion has been worked on since 10.5.8 (version 2.0 for gma x3100 and 1.4 for gma 950 instead of 1.2 for both in leopard). regards peter

I got Win7 and a nVidia 8800GT card - works great. Smooth as anything. Pretty sure it's a hardware/driver issue.

Would be cool but it's hell distorted as well, isn't it? (I'll move the topic to the bug reports - leaving a "fascinating" shadow topic here - if you don't mind )

Ok Im an idoit I didnt turn off AVG and Win fire wall. After that it downloaded fine.

@mark carrabbio said: Attached are some of the errors. With regard to the problem of the Windows Installer being unable to write to C:\Config.msi... I know this issue has been quiet for a while, but I was searching about this earlier today and found a hint that may be helpful, so I wanted to share it. There are some forums where people have suggested that this error is a result of the MSI service not being registered properly. To see if that's the case, you could try the following procedure and then retry the operation that was failing. On the “Start” menu, choose “Run”. In the “Open” box, type “msiexec /unreg”, and hit ENTER. On the “Start” menu, hit “Run”. In the “Open” box, type “msiexec /regserver”, and hit ENTER. That will re-register the MSI server, possibly repairing the error.

Check your XP - we turn off HW Acceleration for certain cards on PC. If that's the case, do the same for Mac. b

Or maybe one of the coders was a Pirate!?

Hi Tamás, I don't use Win 7 but what I'd suspect, maybe your memory is not too much either. I know that Vista is rather memory hungry and though Win 7 is said to be a smoother OS, I doubt that they have tweaked it too much in the direction of using less RAM. What Remus says - autosaving - sounds reasonable and maybe some more memory would help with this issue. Ha nem gond, közben hozzáadtalak a magyar felhasználói csoporthoz, ha "odalent" a Magyar Fórumon is körül akarnál nézni.

Its obviously not that easy to fix, then.

Cabu, I have a laptop with the same video card and I don't have this issue. If it locks up and turning off hardware acceleration "seems" to fix the problem, it is only a sign of your video card (or in this case, rather your video driver) being the problem. You should try to find a more up-to-date video driver and update your existing one since working with HW acceleration off will definitely slow down your SU especially noticeably with bigger models.

If you are upgrading or downgrading, do not copy the Plugins or Tools folders over between versions - Ruby files in the wrong version of SU are a frequent source of bugsplats. When you uninstalled before reinstalling, did you check what files and folders the uninstall had left behind, and delete those "manually"? Also, are you using Windows Vista? There have been problems with the SU Startup application that do not appear if you open SU by double-clicking on a SKP model in Explorer. Anssi

The WindowServer is dead.... long live the WindowServer! b