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    • O Offline
      otb designworks
      last edited by

      I am running the most recent Sketchup Pro, on a Mac with Snow Leopard and everything has been perfect for as long as I can remember.

      Fire up SU today and my entity info dialogue box is oddly truncated, even if I have it expanded, and it never shows the volume information.

      Tried restarting the computer to no avail. Downloaded the free version and everything was fine, so I think something must have gone wonky on my install. My mirror backup hard-drive SU has the same issue.

      Thoughts? Really annoying as I am on the hook for getting a bunch of cubic yardage info to a GC this morning.

      Thanks

      Cheers, Chuck

      OTB Designworks is on Youtube

      6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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      • O Offline
        otb designworks
        last edited by

        Tried deleting the preference file with no luck.

        The entity info box shows the first two text fields, and so shows square footages/linear footages, but it won't show the third field with volume

        annoying me right now!


        Screen shot 2012-08-03 at , Aug 03, 7.03.00 AM.png


        Screen shot 2012-08-03 at , Aug 03, 7.03.09 AM.png


        Screen shot 2012-08-03 at , Aug 03, 7.03.20 AM.png

        Cheers, Chuck

        OTB Designworks is on Youtube

        6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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        • thomthomT Offline
          thomthom
          last edited by

          DragHandle.png

          Drag the size-gripper to resize the window.

          Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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          • O Offline
            otb designworks
            last edited by

            @thomthom said:

            [attachment=0:3vq0rtpj]<!-- ia0 -->DragHandle.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3vq0rtpj]

            Drag the size-gripper to resize the window.

            Yeah, I tried that. It would just expand horizontally and not vertically.

            Ended up trashing everything to do with sketchup 8, re-downloaded the most recent version, transferred my application support files from my mirror drive, and rebuilt my preferences. a nice wasted hour, but at least it is working again.

            Cheers, Chuck

            OTB Designworks is on Youtube

            6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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            • bazB Offline
              baz
              last edited by

              Had the same problem but discovered that the 'volume' option is only available on groups or comps in their unedited but selected mode. In other words, if you enter edit mode in a group or comp the volume option is unavailable even if you select everything, which I think is counter intuitive.
              I'm not sure that is what was happening with Chuck though.

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                The reason is that the volume field only appears for solids and "solids" are only (otherwise) solid groups or components in SU. That's the "definition" of solids here (not definition by word but by programming).

                Gai...

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                • O Offline
                  otb designworks
                  last edited by

                  No, this was a definite window clipping issue.

                  I could see that the window had expanded to show the volume field, but I just couldn't see the last bit of the window, no matter what I did.

                  This was/is a big, for sure.

                  Cheers, Chuck

                  OTB Designworks is on Youtube

                  6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
                    last edited by

                    Next time try resetting the workspace.

                    Reset.png

                    This happened to me recently, too. This fixed the problem. πŸ˜‰

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                    • O Offline
                      otb designworks
                      last edited by

                      That never crossed my mind; I will definitely try that next time.

                      Thanks Dave

                      Cheers, Chuck

                      OTB Designworks is on Youtube

                      6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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                      • C Offline
                        caleb
                        last edited by

                        I have this same issue- Resetting workspace doesn't fix it... Reinstalling SketchUp ... Getting sick of mac

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                        • jeff hammondJ Offline
                          jeff hammond
                          last edited by

                          @caleb said:

                          I have this same issue- Resetting workspace doesn't fix it... Reinstalling SketchUp ... Getting sick of mac

                          do you mind showing another app on mac that does this?

                          dotdotdot

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                          • R Offline
                            ryaneiferd
                            last edited by

                            I had the same issue. Dave, your suggestion worked for me.

                            Thank you!

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                            • C Offline
                              Campbell Architecture
                              last edited by

                              Had this problem on 2014 pro also, put up with it for ages. then found 'reset workspace', so simple.. doh.. I worked for me

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                              • J Offline
                                jjccchhhh
                                last edited by

                                @dave r said:

                                Next time try resetting the workspace.

                                [attachment=0:3ig1rkuu]<!-- ia0 -->Reset.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3ig1rkuu]

                                This happened to me recently, too. This fixed the problem. πŸ˜‰

                                thanks, it worked for me

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