LICENSING ISSUES

Gaieus

Hi Brad,

Definitely start chasing your vendor. He's supposed to issue the license. Not a big deal: four lines in an email.

GreenToaster

Not a big deal: four lines in an email.

I sent the four lines in an email.

They sent an automated reply indicating they're so busy, it may take five business days to respond to my email inquiry. Based on my transaction thus far, it appears that Academic Superstore doesn't run a very high quality operation.

Gaieus

The four lines I mentioned should be sent from them...

Indeed it's annoying that they aren't too busy when ripping your credit card off only when they should provid the serice on their side.

plot-paris

strange thing happened to me: I bought an Educational license for SketchUp 7 some months ago. it worked perfectly fine. yesterday I installed Windows 7 RC1. I installed SketchUp, but now the license doesn't work anymore.
every time I enter the license information it and hit enter, it simply tells me that I have got four hundred and something minutes left for evaluation...

any idea why that is?

solo

Are you using Vista? if yes try running as administrator, I had a similar issue.

plot-paris

fantastic. that did the trick. should have thought of that. thanks a lot, Solo!

Gaieus

@plot-paris said:

yesterday I installed Windows 7 RC1

@solo said:

Are you using Vista?

Anyway, from this point of view (as Win 7 can be considered a "tweaked Vista" they probably work the same way.

plot-paris

thats why many call Windows 7 "Vista as it should have been"

but honestly, it is quite a bit faster than Vista. and more reliable. and less power consuming. I even experienced that SketchUp starts up a lot quicker with Win7. and the screen getting all white when you execute a complex process and then try to use the mouse doesn't happen as often anymore...

Gaieus

So it goes blank when you try to use the mouse?
Fortunately using the mouse is a rare occasion in SU

plot-paris

oh no, I didn't make myself clear there. it doesn't go blank.

in the past I quite often experienced the SketchUp screen going white when you try to use the mouse while a complex process is running (e.g. running sandbox tool on a huge dxf file). now with Win 7 that doesn't happen anymore... or at least not that often

Gaieus

I was just joking, Jakob.

BTW glad you see you back (a bit more often?)

plot-paris

thanks. haven't had much time lately to drop by. its the final semestre for me and I am rather busy. will of course post some images once my first ideas are on paper/SketchUp, to get your opinion.

kwistenbiebel

@plot-paris said:

thanks. haven't had much time lately to drop by. its the final semestre for me and I am rather busy. will of course post some images once my first ideas are on paper/SketchUp, to get your opinion.

Good luck Jakob
And please come back afterwards as this place needs spicing up.
For a moment I thought you had abandoned SU and went to a better meadow.

plot-paris

thank you, kwistenbiebel.
just came back from a one week trip to Amsterdam. and in many hours of brooding (quite relaxed on the sun lit cobblestone streets of the city centre) I got some ideas for dear old SketchUp. sometimes, when the limitations become painful, I start looking for something else. but I always come back in the end