Big White Blob
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Occasionally, when I'm working on a fairly complex model, the cursor for the Line tool turns into a large white square. The behavior of the tool doesn't change, and the normal SketchUp inferences and guides still apply. Nevertheless, the rogue square makes modeling harder and it's disconcerting to boot. Is this SketchUp's way of reminding me to save my work? A minor quirk with Mac OS X? Gremlins? Smurfs? (Oh, right. Can't be Smurfs because the square isn't blue.)
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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That doesn't sound like Sketchup hints. That sounds like hardware subterfuge. Taxing the graphics card? I don't know.
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Sounds like a graphics issue for sure. I have seen it on my previous work computer which had an integrated a graphics card with poor OpenGL support. Have you experimented with the OpenGL settings in SketchUp>Preferences?
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I get a similar problem at times on my Mac at work, an aging machine. I think it's a graphics card issue, occasionally I get relief by changing the open GL settings.
Bob Lang
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