Sketchup 7.1 bugs

tfdesign · 3 Oct 2009, 17:34

I attempted to answer your other post. "I think you're mis-understanding angle snap", Barry snapped.

Yes, I probably am. I need to spend some more time with the manual (well Aidan Chopra's manual. Absolutely Brilliant Aidan! ). It's crazy but I trained using Solidworks, but I'm finding relearning SketchUp a bit of a tough one!! (probably because there is no history).

We're getting there

Thanks for the reply, Barry.

Tom

bjanzen · 5 Oct 2009, 13:53

No problem... it does depend on what you're coming from to understand some of the things about SketchUp. When I started, I was not accustomed to being able to modify things after the second click (via the Measurements box / VCB). But after you get into SketchUp, it's a real joy to use, as displayed by my many feeble attempts at humor and fun.

So I'm guessing a typical SketchUp user would draw a line, select it, select the rotate tool, click on one end, click on the other end, hold down option (I'm on Mac) to copy move, rotate a bit and then type "45" and return and have 2 lines, same length, 45º angle.

b

tim · 7 Oct 2009, 19:58

I've had a couple of very odd SUpro crashes in the last few days; no crashlog, no report to Apple, just .... gone. The Console shows
05-10-09 6:30:29 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] ([0x0-0x2c02c].com.google.sketchuppro7[296]) Exited with exit code: 1
which isn't so very helpful.

Interestingly Layout has done the same thing a couple of times
06-10-09 6:47:59 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[121] ([0x0-0x3af3af].com.google.LayOut[7913]) Exited with exit code: 1
Possibly associated with theLO crash are some messages about Intrinsic Alchemy v3.2 Beta-0903

I haven't been doing anything different to my normal work, the machine hasn't changed in recent days (no hardware alterations, no updates loaded etc) and it's all been running pretty well generally.

bishopski · 7 Oct 2009, 21:10

@markozeta said:

I can't select a section plane once I put it in my model!

Help!

I've got the same problem.

I can get around it by grouping everything together, adding the section plane, selecting all then subtracting everything bar the plane, but it's not ideal

anglaret · 10 Oct 2009, 07:22

I notice that color selection from the drawing does not work regularly.
I am working in 2D and alt-click in paint select everything but the chosen square and do not recuparate the color from the square beside
Selection does not work so well also when selecting between two lines side by side
Marc

anglaret · 10 Oct 2009, 08:05

Precision on the selection tool
When I work with a jpeg under my drawing (in 2D)the color picking select only the jpeg,
even covered with a colored rectangle above.
Marc

anglaret · 10 Oct 2009, 08:24

Another problem
Dimensions have blown out all over the sheet
Marc

tfdesign · 10 Oct 2009, 09:32

Just thought I'd add, that trashing the preferences in Mac OS X, has cured quite a few upgrade 'problems'. I don't know how one would go about this though in Windows. Sorry.

TIG · 12 Oct 2009, 09:06

I think there's a bug in Sketchup 7.1 and the use of 'Engineering' Units [always feet].
If you change to 'Decimal' Units [feet] it works fine. Also any other units format also works properly too...

BUT with Units set to Engineering Feet with a negative Z it does a 'round' to an integer and does a double negative to boot, when data is taken from the -ve Z point: it's reported wrongly as a length/length.to_s e.g. --20' instead of -20.5'.

anglaret · 12 Oct 2009, 19:07

Tiger

Thanks for help, but I am in decimeter precisiion 0; I tried all other units
with re-starting SU without success.
I tried hardware acceleration off too without results.

Marc

Aerilius · 13 Oct 2009, 14:13

Has someone else found this: in the Windows version, Sketchup does not update the title bar of the window after loading another file. For example you start SU and it opens the standard template "untitled", you go to file -> open ... and open model.skp, but it still shows "untitled" in the titlebar.

SU7.1, WinXP SP3

Anssi · 13 Oct 2009, 18:19

@aerilius said:

Has someone else found this: in the Windows version, Sketchup does not update the title bar of the window after loading another file. For example you start SU and it opens the standard template "untitled", you go to file -> open ... and open model.skp, but it still shows "untitled" in the titlebar.

SU7.1, WinXP SP3

It works all right for me.

Anssi

TriciaS · 15 Oct 2009, 17:34

@bishopski said:

@markozeta said:

I can't select a section plane once I put it in my model!

Help!

I've got the same problem.

I can get around it by grouping everything together, adding the section plane, selecting all then subtracting everything bar the plane, but it's not ideal

Hi,

I'm interested in getting more details on this issue. Do you see it with all models (e.g. if you create a box and add a section plane will you be unable to select the section plane?). If so, as an experiment, does turning off hardware acceleration cause the issue to go away?

Thanks in advance,

Tricia
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TriciaS · 15 Oct 2009, 17:54

@anglaret said:

Precision on the selection tool
When I work with a jpeg under my drawing (in 2D)the color picking select only the jpeg,
even covered with a colored rectangle above.
Marc

Hi Marc,

Not sure I see this one. Is it possible to post a model that shows it? In the first maintenance release of 7.1, we are going to address the fact that selection (which includes sampling materials) is not as precise as it used to be. I'm testing the candidate release now and would like to make sure this issue is fixed.

Thanks in advance!

Tricia
Google

TriciaS · 15 Oct 2009, 18:02

@tig said:

I think there's a bug in Sketchup 7.1 and the use of 'Engineering' Units [always feet].
If you change to 'Decimal' Units [feet] it works fine. Also any other units format also works properly too...

BUT with Units set to Engineering Feet with a negative Z it does a 'round' to an integer and does a double negative to boot, when data is taken from the -ve Z point: it's reported wrongly as a length/length.to_s e.g. --20' instead of -20.5'.

Hi TIG,

Right you are - this is a bug that has been reported by others as well. It is not new to 7.1 but it is on our radar. I'll make a note in the bug that it you reported it as well.

Best regards,

Tricia

John Sayers · 23 Oct 2009, 09:36

I've found that the guides remain grey even if you change the global colour (I prefer bright pink) - they also don't change to yellow when selected so you can't select them!

Ah - problem solved - so you must have the Model Axes selected to get the guides to work properly!! when you switch off axes you switch off guides. I never thought of the guides as axes.

frv · 23 Oct 2009, 23:03

Am I doing something wrong or is it 7.1
I am changing the width and or height of a texture in the color-edit material panel but nothing happens. I can not imagine its a bug not seen before. I a must be doing something wrong.
I am on OSX Leopard.
Any help is apreciated much.
Francois

frv · 23 Oct 2009, 23:22

Just deleted my p.list preference file and started up again and its all fine again. I can now change the dimensions of textures effectively again. Have no idea what caused the preferences to become corrupted.

frv · 24 Oct 2009, 00:20

and the bug is now back again. Somehow the settings for the width and height of a texture does not work anymore. I never had a problem with this on SU 6.
I am on a Macbookpro, OSX 10.5.8
Francois

driven · 28 Oct 2009, 02:44

According to Apple Support (Ireland) and the 'Genius' at the apple store my MacBook's ATI Radeon X1600 is dead and needs replacing.

Problems started while using SU7 with OSX 10.5.7 and only got worse with SU7.1 and 10.5.8.

As well as most the symptoms described in these posts, I started having lots of bugsplats, freezes and crashes.

Problems also showed up in other software and Safari 4 and then Finder.

Thinking it was something I had added (alfa/beta software, rubies, etc.) I did a cull on my system, rebuilt permissions did a clean instal eventually ending up with a striped down 10.4 and a virginal SU7.1 and xTools as my only content.

I mean NO documents, NO images, nothing except the problem, which may confirm Apples opinion.

However, everything works in 'Safe Mode' and has done all the way thru, which is why I think it's something to do with quartz extreme drivers.

These are turned off in 'Safe Mode' and my glitches and crashes go away.

Anyone else on a Mac want to try 'safe mode' and let me know if it stops your problems?

P.S. I have also been using also QuartzDebug (in xTools) to turn on/off Quartz extreme for SU but it doesn't completely eliminate problems.