SketchUp - Taking time out to think?

Mr S

Hi,

Whilst working in SketchUp over the last few weeks I have been experiencing some weird behaviour.
I can be working away when for no obvious reason the screen "locks" and the hour glass cursor appears.
Similar to how SketchUp behaves when exporting a 2D image.
It is as if the program has decided that I have taken an action that requires it to do some serious calculations.
This is happening every five or ten minutes and each "lock-up" can last for about 10-30 seconds.
It then returns to normal.
The complexity of the scene is not the problem. (It's a simple scene).
I have the latest version of SketchUp.
I have the latest certified graphic drivers.
I have a decent spec computer system

Does anyone have any ideas on this.
It is starting to irritate me like mad!

Regards
Mr S

solo

The hourglass thing is 'autosave', in preferences you can disable it from autosaving.

mike d

solo
that is what i was going to suggest but you beat me to it

thanks
mike d

Mr S

Thanks for the quick response guys.
I'll try that out now.
Seems obvious now that you have pointed it out!

Regards
Mr S

Chris Fullmer

I have some excessively long autosave times when using very detailed files and also when working on a slow network connection inside our office. Turning it off or down to 15 minutes has kept me sane Smile

Chris

Mr S

Hi,

I am also working in an office and control of my workstation is mostly in the hands of the IT guys.
However, lots of good tips there concerning Defender which I will look in to with my home computer.
I didn't know it was also capable of "good housekeeping" with regards to redundant files etc. Thanks.

It does seem that the autosave feature was the real culprit.
I have altered it to save every 30 minutes.
I always manually save anyway every 10 minutes or so, saving the files with incremental file names (001, 002, etc).
Yes, I could be described as paranoid!

Thanks again for all the help offered.
It's what makes this place special.

Regards
Mr S

Cyberdactyl

Heh, I've even grown to use my 30 minute autosaves to alert me to how long I've been working at a model.

P: Cyberdactyl