SketchUp 7.1 (Free) seems to have just BROKEN (?)

Ray Bruman

All of a sudden, things that worked yesterday don't.
I'll try to describe it from recent memory.
I tried to add another piece of 3D Text.
When I pressed the "Place" button, SU never came back
with the usual cursor and "outline" of the text to be placed.
After clicking, no 3D Text was visible.
The cursor, however, remained in the form of the Move cursor,
and began revealing inference points when hovering.
Clicking on the Pan tool gave me the Orbit cursor instead.
I attempted several more times to create 3D Text. Fail!

Performance was noticeably slow during all this and I
became alarmed. I managed to close the new version of
my file and exit SU, but even restarting it didn't fix SU.

Jim

Hi Ray,

First try to turn off Use Fast-Feedback in the Window > Preferences > OpenGL dialog tab; then restart Sketchup.

I can't even open most files with this option turned on.

Ray Bruman

OK, I tried that.
On Mac OSX, it's SketchUp > Preferences > Open GL

and I have only checked "Hardware Acceleration."

3D Text still refuses to place text.

Instead, the cursor changes to the "Move" cursor, and interestingly,
so does the hint window, explaining how to set a Move point.

The 3DText command seems to have forgotten what it was doing
and quietly slunk away backstage somewhere.

Incidentally, another 3D Text bug persists; the font choice keeps
coming back as Italic even after I have changed it back to Regular
innumerable times in recent weeks.

I don't know if these bugs occur only in Mac versions.

I am beginning to wonder how people manage to use SketchUp,
at least with the parameters I have. Any other OSX-6 users having these
problems?

Ray

Gaieus

Hi Ray,

Does it do it in any model of yours? Like when you start a new one for instance?
I am wondering if there is not a clipping plane somewhere. What is your FOV set to in that model? (Select the Zoom tol and press the shift button and start dragging it up and down on the screen with the left mouse button pressed). Also what if you toggle between perspective and parallel projections?