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      Tahty
      last edited by

      Hi everyone,
      First of all I want to say that I'm a week old to sketchup and have learned a lot from the tutorials and the forums online...It also help me to solve some problems I had...So thank you all for making sketchup user friendly...
      Unfortunately, I'm having some problems running sketchup 7 on leopard 10.5.7. First it was running very slow and connection failed a lot, so I found a forum dated from 2007 saying that I need to unckeck the "use hardware acceleration" option and that did the trick then... Now I finished creating all the models I need for my interior design project (created furniture in diff files so I could store it and use it again) and imported all into what is supposed to be the final piece, and sketchup is running soooo slow is impossible to work on it... all tools are delaying by at lest 30 seconds...
      I found another forum dated from 2007 as well stating something about a bug btw su and leopard. There, is a fix that says that it would work for whom is running mac 10.5.6 so I'm not sure if I should download it... I tried anyway to see what happens and now I have the thawUp folder on my computer but doesn't really know where to install it...didn't find that info on the forum.
      Can anyone tell me how to make sketchup run smoothly on my computer?
      And please, speak baby sketchup...I have run thru some forums I had no idea what they were talking about...
      Thanks a lot in advance...

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        FoXar
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        Hi there, I'm working on a Mac to, never had problems with SU,
        first, what are your mac's specs? Second, how big is the SU file, and third could you provide a picture of the model?
        The biggest chance IMO is that the model is to big for SU the handle, as it's quite a low end engine.

        Cheers,
        FoXar ^^

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          honoluludesktop
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          Don't know about Mac's but on a PC, if you remove hardware acceleration the screen will slow to a crawl on all except small models.

          If you can't update your driver, or install a better graphics adapter, one work around may be to build parts of your model as components (saving them as separate files), then you can work on portions of your model, only putting them together in the end.

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            Identity4
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            Yes, what kind of macintosh do you have? I noticed that Sketchup will run just fine on my 20" aluminum imac, but very slowly and poorly on my 13" white plastic macbook. I know it can be very sensitive to the macbook graphics.

            -=Identity 4=-

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