Paste in Place Grayed out Bug

goonhilly

I have been doing some tutorials or exerices using Bonnie Roskes Books and have run up against a problem which may be a "bug" or it maybe something that I have done with Sketchup Pro 7.

I have a model which comprises a simple group object of bolt and nut and my steps that I have taken are:

Select / double-click the group (to edit it)
Select the nut at one end, and use Ctrl+X to cut it
Click outside the group to close it
Use Edit / Paste in Place – and it’s grayed out?

I am not doing anything other than the above steps and would like to know if there is a settings file that I can check for my shortcut settings that maybe over ridden by other ruby scripts.

I have some but not many eg

Left click hide
make faces.
3 Irender Nxt Beta
Ocean Ext
5.Su2kt.rb

I may have one or two others but is there a file such as an "ini" file that lists stuff that is loaded by user that may give a clue as to why my "paste in place" is grayed out.

Chris Fullmer

That is interesting. Can you do a regular paste?

Idid not think that the paste in place was done with Ruby, but I suppose it couold be ruby. Try removing all your plugins and see if it helps. If not, you couold also reinstall Sketchup.

Chris

goonhilly

No I am not able to do a regular paste and had thought of reinstalling.
I was hoping to sort this out without that necessity by seening if there is a solution

In other apps paste,edit and paste in place are ok.

In Sk7 a simple cut and paste dont work well the cut works but not the paste part let alone a paste in place

thanks for your post

the other idea i was looking at was to insert a short cut into preferences and was looking at a suitable short cut to use? see if that works.

Gaieus

Hi Nigel (again). It is indeed a very strange issue. I'm pretty sure that a shortcut wouldn't help because it only lets you access an existing function and if it doesn't work... (BTW I use Shift+Ctrl+V for Paste in place and it turned out that many other users found this particular shortcut "logical" - or at least handy).

Well, what you can do is try to remove all your plugins first but yes, I also doubt it's some plugin collision. Maybe the ultimate solution is really a reinstall.

I'm moving your topic to the bug reports subforum under sketchup discussions

thomthom

Does this always happen? Or just in that model?

goonhilly

I have found out that when I am using sketchup without Locklizard Safeguard Secure Viewer open it work OK but when this software is running and dragged over to the other screen (dual screen Vista setup) I get this problem.
Running thru some exercises using this reader to work throu Sk7basics book is or appears to be the issue. Dont know why but at least when the reader is closed and not running the cut and paste and paste in place operate normally.
I tried a reinstall and found that it worked but then as soon as I opened Locklizard my paste etc was greyed out and when closed it works ok.

Dave R

What about other applications such as a word processor? Does copy and paste work with them with LockLizard running? I'm guessing that LockLizard is preventing applications from accessing the clipboard. Possibly on the Copy operation. If nothing is being copied, there'd be nothing to paste and Paste or Paste in Place would be greyed out.

thomthom

At the office we found that one particular model caused menu items to be disabled. Initially a few would be disabled, but then more and more. It'd return to normal when I clicked outside any geometry - in empty model space - deselecting whatever was selected. This happened on SU6 & 7 and on SU fresh plain SU installations.

Dave R

ThomThom, that's an interesting point. A couple of weeks ago or maybe it was last week, I have CRS, someone sent me a model in which something they were trying to do wouldn't work. I think it was plugin related. I copied the geometry to a new SKP session and it worked just fine.

thomthom

@dave r said:

ThomThom, that's an interesting point. A couple of weeks ago or maybe it was last week, I have CRS, someone sent me a model in which something they were trying to do wouldn't work. I think it was plugin related. I copied the geometry to a new SKP session and it worked just fine.

That didn't work for me. I tried it on several machines. If I kept right-clicking on selected geometry it's slowly start disabling menu items. Very odd.