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    • KrisidiousK Offline
      Krisidious
      last edited by

      @hellnbak said:

      Hey Kris,

      It only has a problem with large models. Well, not large really, but a lot of edges and faces. Here are the error msgs -

      trying going to preferences and seeing if your opengl is set to use hardware. I bet your opengl is too old.


      hardware.JPG

      By: Kristoff Rand
      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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      • hellnbakH Offline
        hellnbak
        last edited by

        No, I do have hardware acceleration checked.
        2014-11-07_150931.png
        I just don't have a very good graphics card in my laptop. It does have both onboard graphics and a separate NVIDIA graphics card, but unfortunately it's soldered right to the motherboard, so no chance of upgrading the bugger.
        I would consider upgrading to a more capable laptop, but to be perfectly honest my laptop just isn't that important to me. I've been building my own computers for many years, and the idea of having something that I can't take apart and play with and upgrade the hell out of it really turned me off, but SAM's had a really good deal on this one (a Dell Inspiron N7110) so I figured I'd give it a shot, just for something to do at the coffee shops besides reading. BTW, I never, ever connect to the internet while I'm away from home, I don't use WIFI for anything, too slow and WAY too insecure. Here at home I use a hard wired router and modem, with the router plugged into a remote controlled outlet. That way with just a click I can connect to the internet for as long as I need to and then immediately disconnect. Minimizes my chances of the bad guys finding me 😆
        But anyhow, I wan't expecting much, but I was pleasantly surprised how well it did work with SU, although it was very sluggish with the larger models.
        Well, now it's no longer sluggish (with 2015) and works pretty darn good, except for the handful of larger models I have.
        So I'll live with it and be thankful that it works so well now the majority of my models. If I feel the need to work on one of the big ones I'll just wait till I get home.
        Wow, this is turning into a book, don't know why I'm rambling so much except I'm really really tired, been building some ramps to store my good vehicle in the barn for the winter. I hate Michigan, I hate lake-effect snow, and I just don't understand why, with today's technology, they can't come up with a cost-effective, non-corrosive alternative to using massive amount of salt on the roads.
        Jeez, rambling again.
        Thanks for your efforts with this, much appreciated.
        Have a good one.

        "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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        • BoxB Offline
          Box
          last edited by

          Make sure you have set SU to work with the Nvidia, I have a laptop with two cards and when you don't force it to use the better card it gets lazy.

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          • hellnbakH Offline
            hellnbak
            last edited by

            @box said:

            Make sure you have set SU to work with the Nvidia, I have a laptop with two cards and when you don't force it to use the better card it gets lazy.

            Thanks Box,

            Yeah, I don't let it use the crappy (well, crappier) onboard graphics
            2014-11-07_163241.png

            "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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            • BoxB Offline
              Box
              last edited by

              Should that be saying Google?

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              • hellnbakH Offline
                hellnbak
                last edited by

                @box said:

                Should that be saying Google?

                Ummm....not sure what you mean. Oh wait, you mean since SU is no longer a Google program.
                Well, I selected 2015 from the options, and for whatever reason that's the way it displays it
                2014-11-07_170420.png

                "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                • hellnbakH Offline
                  hellnbak
                  last edited by

                  It will open the large models, even do the shadow ok, but when I try to rotate it, it will let me do it maybe a couple of times, and then it crashes. I wait a good amount of time between the moves to let the cpu settle down.

                  Bottom line - it's a crappy low-end graphics card and I'm asking it to do things it's just not up to doing. Whaddya gonna do 😆

                  "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                  • hellnbakH Offline
                    hellnbak
                    last edited by

                    I've got a VW graphics card and I'm trying to drive it like a Ferrari

                    "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                      Krisidious
                      last edited by

                      I was suggesting that you turn off hardware acceleration. that way you won't be trying to use the videocard as much. it will work with "software acceleration".

                      Might try it.

                      By: Kristoff Rand
                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                      • hellnbakH Offline
                        hellnbak
                        last edited by

                        @krisidious said:

                        I was suggesting that you turn off hardware acceleration. that way you won't be trying to use the videocard as much. it will work with "software acceleration".

                        Might try it.

                        Oh.
                        Well, I tried it - the model looked like absolute crap, but tried shadows anyway, waited about 4 minutes (Shadow Setting - not responding), finally had to use Task Manager to shut it down.
                        Hey, it was worth a shot, right?

                        "Politicians are just like diapers -- they need to be changed often, and for the same reason"

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                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                          Krisidious
                          last edited by

                          yeah... damn. where's the SU Crew. this just sounds odd to me.

                          By: Kristoff Rand
                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                          • G Offline
                            glenn
                            last edited by

                            Thank you Trimble Sketchup team.
                            2015 Pro is working well for me. It’s stable & fast, not sure if that has to do with bug fixes (from 2014) or 64bit?
                            Also, thanks for not messing with the UI. I use sizer to set the window to specific size for post-processing in Photoshop. I was able to on the fly change from 2014 to 2015. Which worked out great since I had a couple of large SU files that needed exporting to png.
                            Thanks,
                            Glenn

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                            • tt_suT Offline
                              tt_su
                              last edited by

                              @glenn said:

                              It’s stable & fast, not sure if that has to do with bug fixes (from 2014) or 64bit?

                              That would be the number of bug fixes we did unrelated to 64bit. 😄

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                              • J Offline
                                jpalm32
                                last edited by

                                Not for VISTA Ultra 64?? So Sad

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                                • S Offline
                                  sawhack
                                  last edited by

                                  my Sketchup 2015-2016 wishlist is to integrate sketchup with BIM with parametric object so when imported to Archicad or Revit export will be no problem. 😄

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                                  • KrisidiousK Offline
                                    Krisidious
                                    last edited by

                                    SU now has the IFC classifier system. It should work with Revit. Check it out.

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                                    Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                    • KrisidiousK Offline
                                      Krisidious
                                      last edited by

                                      Is the ability to dock toolbars on the side new or have I just been missing it all this time?

                                      By: Kristoff Rand
                                      Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                      • bazB Offline
                                        baz
                                        last edited by

                                        @krisidious said:

                                        Is the ability to dock toolbars on the side new or have I just been missing it all this time?

                                        Fraid so... 😒

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                                        • BoxB Offline
                                          Box
                                          last edited by

                                          In a couple of years I'll tell you you can dock them at the bottom too.

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                                          • KrisidiousK Offline
                                            Krisidious
                                            last edited by

                                            I hang my head in shame... 😞

                                            By: Kristoff Rand
                                            Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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