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      drunkenmonk
      last edited by

      Hi guys, having the same problem. As soon as I 'grab' an area the 'add location' box stays, all the toolbars disappear and I stay in the 'add location' window, unless I exit, in which case nothing has been imported! I haven't made any updates since it was last working. Any suggestions?

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        Dave R
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        @drunkenmonk said:

        Hi guys, having the same problem.

        What operating system? Please complete your profile with OS and SU version.

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          drunkenmonk
          last edited by

          @dave r said:

          @drunkenmonk said:

          Hi guys, having the same problem.

          What operating system? Please complete your profile with OS and SU version.

          Sorry Dave, Its Windows 7 64-bit with SketchUp 8 Pro on my work PC. As I say nothing has changed that I know of since I was last using the Add Location tool about 2 weeks ago. The same problem with a colleagues as well so possibly a network problem?

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
            last edited by

            As I wrote before, Google made a change to Maps and it may have to do with their change.

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              Baydnina
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              I am having this recurrent problem on SU8, could anyone help?

              I have a Intel CoreTM i3, 32-bit OS running on Windows 7. Incidentally 9 i dont know if that is the reason), about 3 months back, i loaded the soapskinbubble plugin for a job.

              Now i notice that while modelling, unlike before, I am not able to Geo-locate a site on a Google terrain. After selecting a region when i give the 'grab' command, the map stays put and does not transfer itself on the SU plane.

              Tried reinstalling SU8, but after installation & during the 1st run, it gives a pop-up warning that 'OPEN GL REGISTRY HAS BEEN SET TO DEFAULT'.

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              • sketch3d.deS Offline
                sketch3d.de
                last edited by

                @baydnina said:

                I am having this recurrent problem on SU8, could anyone help?

                the last SketchUp 8 Maintenance Release 5 should fix this.

                @baydnina said:

                Tried reinstalling SU8, but after installation & during the 1st run, it gives a pop-up warning that 'OPEN GL REGISTRY HAS BEEN SET TO DEFAULT'.

                checkt that the option "Windows > Preferences > OpenGL > Use Hardware Acceleration" is enabled. If not the OpenGL display output acceleration by the graphics processor of the video card is not used = screen transformations as rotating, moving, zooming etc. are much slower.

                hth,
                Norbert

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                  ysmetan
                  last edited by

                  Hello,

                  I am new to the forum, so hi everyone.

                  I am having trouble adding a geo-location to my model in sketch up 8. Im using a Mac. After I click on 'Grab' the screen crops the image but just stays there and doesn't add the image to the model like it should.
                  Do I need to re-install Sketchup, is that the answer?
                  Any help would be appreciated.

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                  • sketch3d.deS Offline
                    sketch3d.de
                    last edited by

                    @ysmetan said:

                    Do I need to re-install Sketchup, is that the answer?

                    no, as Wo3Dan has already linked above (see 1st post of Tommy), if running Mac OS X v10.8 (and older) you need to edit the "SketchUp.DAT" file to the new geo location servers.

                    hth,
                    Norbert

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                      david008
                      last edited by

                      BuildingTopos From Sketchup to Revit:
                      After I hit the "select region", make the selected area as small as possible and hit "grab" it just goes back to the unselected region. And I have to close the popup window to proceed.
                      I have tried multiple times in different locations. Any suggestions? I have sketchup pro 8. I reinstalled it but that did not help.

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
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                        Why don't you have a read through the thread at the link Norbert posted, above? You might find the answer there.

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                          the_sloth
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                          So upgrading SU Pro 8 to a Trimble version from Google is the only way to fix this? Correct?

                          Running Google SketchUp Pro Version 8.0.11752
                          on a Win7 machine

                          Just curious because we are working on a shared license and I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
                            last edited by

                            @the_sloth said:

                            So upgrading SU Pro 8 to a Trimble version from Google is the only way to fix this? Correct?

                            Running Google SketchUp Pro Version 8.0.11752
                            on a Win7 machine

                            Just curious because we are working on a shared license and I don't want to mess anything up. Thanks

                            That's not the fix that was outlined above. Read Norbert's post and follow up the link he posted.

                            SU8 is no longer supported though so you might want to update anyway.

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                              the_sloth
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                              @dave r said:

                              That's not the fix that was outlined above. Read Norbert's post and follow up the link he posted.

                              SU8 is no longer supported though so you might want to update anyway.

                              Oh, I should have mentioned that in my previous post. I did ensure hardware acceleration was enabled under OpenGL as a first step. Just to close the loop for others' information, I upgraded from ver. 8.0.11752 to ver. 8.0.16846. The problem was fixed and our shared network licensing was not affected. Thanks for the help.

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