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    • F Offline
      furrod1
      last edited by

      In one of my models, whenever I creat an object at the origin, another phantom object appears. See attached file. In this case, I created a rectangle and the circular object appeared. The circular object has no edge lines, just a surface. It disrupts the edge lines and surface of the rectangle. The rectangle can not be rid of the effect of the phantom object by any sort of editing.

      Any idea what this is and how can I remove it?


      google sketchup phantom object.JPG

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        Your view is upside down πŸ˜•
        The Z/blue solid axis line should be up...
        However, I suspect it might be a graphics-card issue.
        What's your card?
        Have you updated the drivers?
        Is Sketchup allowed to adjust the cards settings in the card control-panel?
        What 'OpenGL' settings do you have in Preferences?
        Try some permutations of these to see what that does...
        πŸ˜•

        TIG

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        • F Offline
          furrod1
          last edited by

          @tig said:

          Your view is upside down πŸ˜•
          The Z/blue solid axis line should be up...
          However, I suspect it might be a graphics-card issue.
          What's your card?
          Have you updated the drivers?
          Is Sketchup allowed to adjust the cards settings in the card control-panel?
          What 'OpenGL' settings do you have in Preferences?
          Try some permutations of these to see what that does...
          πŸ˜•

          ATI Radeon X1300PRO
          Drivers updated
          I don't see anything in the ATI control panel that would allow or disallow a program from adjusting the card settings.
          OpenGL - Use hardware acceleration

          Perhaps "phantom" isn't the most accurate term for this object since it will affect other objects and there is entity info for it. See new attached file.

          It's invisible until another object is drawn over it, and it won't go away.


          google sketchup phantom object2.JPG

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
            last edited by

            If you temporarily disable Hardware Acceleration in Preferences - does it go away then? If it does then it is a graphic card issue. I've found ATI card to produce strange glitches in OpenGL applications such as SketchUp.

            Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              It's still upside down in your latest view.

              Why don't you post the SKP so we can look at it to see if its something in the SketchUp file. It probably is a graphics card issue, though.

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              • F Offline
                furrod1
                last edited by

                Tried turning off hardware accel. No change.
                Here is the file.


                SKETCHUP GLITCH.skp

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  I'm not seeing the same thing you showed. I do see you have a bunch of hidden lines, though.

                  Glitch.png

                  glitch2.png

                  I guess I don't know what you are doing but it looks like it's kind of sloppy to me.

                  Etaoin Shrdlu

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    There's simply some hidden geometry there. Go to view menu and turn on hidden geometry. Now you can select and delete it.

                    Gai...

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                    • TIGT Offline
                      TIG Moderator
                      last edited by

                      That hidden geometry around the origin is interacting with your new geometry and whilst the edges stay hidden new faces are forming and magically appearing.
                      As has been said - do some tidying up...

                      TIG

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