Inferencing issues

kevsterman · 15 Sept 2008, 14:54

Since I got my new computer a couple of weeks ago my inferencing seems to have gone crazy. I've been using SU for some years and have always found inferencing very helpful. However since changing over to my Vista 64 bit computer I'm finding that my tools are inferencing in ways they never have before. For example, I want to move a group so I zoom in, use my move tool to grab a point on the group then zoom out, find the point I want to snap too, zoom in and try to click on the new point. But I can't because somehow the group is inferenced on one of the red/green/blues axis and will only move in that direction. So I have to cancel the move and try it all over again. Does that make sense? I've never encountered this before and its a real pain. Is it a vista issue?

Bep · 15 Sept 2008, 16:43

Hi,

check if you have tict "use hardware acceleration" at windows/preferences/openGL ,strange things hapen if you havent.

Bep van Malde

kevsterman · 15 Sept 2008, 16:59

Hi Bep,

Yes I've got that ticked already.

Chris Fullmer · 15 Sept 2008, 18:22

Almost sounds like you've run into a gluiing problem. Make sure the component is not glued by right clicking on it and select "unglue". It might no be that though.

Chris

kevsterman · 15 Sept 2008, 22:31

Its not that either Chris as this can happen with anything I try to move. I've tried to deliberately make it happen but haven't managed it yet so I've no idea what I do that sets it off.

sorgesu · 15 Sept 2008, 23:49

There are a number of known bugs with inferencing that surfaced in V6, they were fine in previous versions. Because I teach in many locations and the students are often on a variety of different computers I have found that the severity of the bug varies by the video card. Things work only slightly poorly on my computer whereas the same bug is much worse on another.
What is your video card?

thomthom · 16 Sept 2008, 07:17

Also, are your graphic card drivers up to date?

plot-paris · 16 Sept 2008, 12:34

on my laptop at home sometimes the little dot at the tip of the cursor vanishes, thus making it difficult to grab or drop things precisely at one point.
sometimes restarting SketchUp helps, sometimes it doesn't. but most of the time it vanishes after some 15 minutes ore so.

is that to be placed in the same category of graphic card problems?

Chris Fullmer · 16 Sept 2008, 16:55

I would guess yes.

Anssi · 16 Sept 2008, 17:22

Kevsterman,

You could also try turning off (unticking) Fast Feedback from the Preferences>OpenGL pane.

Also, some mouse drivers (like Logitech's or the Microsoft Intellipoint software) have not worked very well with many people, and the standard Windows driver seems to be more reliable.

Just fumbling

Anssi

kevsterman · 16 Sept 2008, 22:07

@unknownuser said:

What is your video card?

Its an Nvidia Geforce 9800 GX2. Is this one that severely affects the bug? All my drivers are up to date.

@unknownuser said:

You could also try turning off (unticking) Fast Feedback from the Preferences>OpenGL pane.

I'll check on this one and see if its ticked or not.

I appreciate everyones help.