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    • B Offline
      bjanzen
      last edited by

      Sorry, I had to wait until I knew this posted before saying more:

      Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

      favicon

      (sketchup.google.com)

      We're working on a fix for this, but basically Google Earth -> Get Current View and Google Earth -> Place Model (PPC only) are having issues. I'm also noticing slowness (give it 2 minutes) on bringing up "Share Model" that may be Safari 3.0.4 related. We'll hunt that one down, but please share anything you notice. Thanks.

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      • bradB Offline
        brad
        last edited by

        Hi All,

        Please, anything you find with Leopard start a new thread. I'd hate for issues to get buried.

        Thank you.

        Brad
        SketchUp QA

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        • A Offline
          alexander
          last edited by

          well Brad, we can alway's bump the post or make it sticky for a while..

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          • T Offline
            tim
            last edited by

            @bjanzen said:

            Oh, one other thing: let the indexing run and complete before making any conclusions. Especially on a MacBook.

            Yah, this was well after all indexing had finished, and not during a TimeMachine run either.

            I did some more tests with very simple models (like a single square) and the delay was much much less though still much longer than one would expect. I also did some extra post-install cleanups like erasing old caches just in case. No effect on my current model which is not exactly extravagantly large at only 7000 lines 3000 faces in 56 component instances. Simply click-selecting works just fine for individual components/groups/faces etc as does shift-select.

            Activity monitor showed SU never exceeding 0.8% cpu whilst taking it's time (about 10 sec) to do the drag-select, with a period when 'spindump' took 15%.

            My MacBook is a 1.83GHz /2Gb / GMA950-64Mb /60Gb model. Mostly the SU performance is really pretty amazing for such a cheap machine. Bit different to when I was writing my own CAD systems in '81 on a NatSemi 16032 based box I built myself! How time flies...

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            • Mike LuceyM Offline
              Mike Lucey
              last edited by

              Dylan was right! I got the delivery on Tuesday evening and have now loaded Leopard.
              I'm now exploring all the new features and particularly like Time Machine.

              The new Dock is also well thought out and a
              great time saver. I'm having difficulty with
              a couple of pre-installed applications. Afloat, a program that I was using quite a lot is not running the way it used to but I'll keeping playing with it, hopefully it will work out.

              I haven't noticed any problems with SketchUp as
              yet so all would appear to be well enough, fingers cross.

              Just hear that Apple have sold over 2,000,000 copies of Leopard in the first two days!!! Now let me see, where is that calculator? Ah yes, $258,000,000 .... I imagine Apple shareholders will be happy πŸ˜†

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                Jody posted this link over the Groups:
                http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=79634

                Just FYI (I'm a WinXP user)
                πŸ˜„

                Gai...

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                  dylan
                  last edited by

                  Great news Mike!!

                  Have fun playing πŸ˜„

                  http://dmdarchitecture.co.uk/

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                  • B Offline
                    bjanzen
                    last edited by

                    We know you're an XP user, Gaieus, because I posted that link 5 posts ahead of yours... must... tune.... out.... crazy.... Mac.... users.... πŸ˜‰. But thanks for thinking of us, and thanks for all your work in the community of SketchUp!

                    Barry
                    Google Department of Redundancy Department

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Ah, Barry, surely I'm not reading all the way this topic every time (Mike is in here anyway if you guys are planning to do some naughty things) so I was just glad to see this link and paste it in here...

                      Sigh... I was too late, man...
                      πŸ˜„

                      Gai...

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                      • EdsonE Offline
                        Edson
                        last edited by

                        mike,

                        regarding new releases of Mac OS i prefer to act like i do with recently opened restaurants: let them setlle down and iron out all the wrinkles. after all the app companies have upgraded their apps to the new system then i jump in. i have no beta tester adventurousness in this regard.

                        i have had enough with little conflicts and incompatibilities during my time: my entry in the mac world was under system 7!

                        edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre β€’ brasil
                        http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                          spirp
                          last edited by

                          @tim said:

                          Also had long periods of beachball after rotating a fairly simple component (a cupboard door) - not a problem in the actual rotation which was perfectly smooth, but after finishing the operation.

                          I'm using a new MacBook, and as Tim said, everything seems to work except for the beachballing after selection/rotation. I tried turning off hardware acceleration, and from what I can tell that helped - selection and rotation works without beachballing, and everything else runs as smooth as one could expect without hardware acceleration.

                          // Olle

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                            tim
                            last edited by

                            Hmm, yes, turning off hardware acceleration certainly avoids the massive delay when drag-selecting but it noticeably slows down almost everything else for me!

                            But it certainly provides some useful forensic info to help the guys find out where the real problem lies.

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                            • Mike LuceyM Offline
                              Mike Lucey
                              last edited by

                              Well so far so good. Overall I think its an improvement.
                              The new Dock features are proving a great time saver.

                              However I could not get Afloat to work. I contacted the
                              author and he tell me that a Leopard version should be
                              available in January. If anyone knows of a similar Mac
                              program I would appreciate advise.

                              Mike

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                Guys I have split the selection bug off this thread and moved to the Bug Reports subfolder for better attention by the Google Team (and as was requested by Barry or Brad somewhere above). Here is the link to the new thread.

                                I hope you don't mind...

                                Gai...

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