well.

I trashed the utilities plugin and got rid of the load error message i included in my original post.

i've tried re-installing the plugin.

i ran repair permissions in my disk utility.

all without success. not sure how to proceed at this point, but thank you everyone for your suggestions and ideas. will report back if i solve my problem. till then back to 8.

so I tried disabling podium to no avail. I had an issue with podium when switching over to 2013. Sketchup did not recognize the plugin when put in the user library(Mac issue here), but did when it was placed in the hard drive library.

I am loathe to uninstall 8 at the moment as it was working fine and I feel I might need to revert to it if I can not satisfactorily resolve this issue with 2013.

I do indeed have podium installed. I had both plugins installed in 8 and did not have a conflict at that time.

thank you for the responses.

I was using the classic bezier to 'trace' the curve from a .png image i had imported and scaled. It has happened about 20 times today(i believe this is the first time i have used the bz tools since updating). A couple of times i have been able to draw a curve or two before crashing other times it crashes before a line is completely drawn. I encountered this problem in trying to create the first face of a drawing so it is really not a large or complicated file by any means. i seem to be able to use fredoscale and other plug-ins and extensions fine. I did try disabling the bz tools in the plugin store tool, then quiting and re-enabling after re-starting without success.

I end up with the window saying a report will be sent to apple. the details are quite long - i could copy and paste them if this would help understanding the situation i happily would.

please let me know what other information would be helpful in resolving this situation.

thanks again

topic says it all. I heeded the advice of the forums and did a fresh install of all plug-ins after 'upgrading' to 2013. thanks to sketchucation for the pluginstore(quite genius and what a help). Any suggestions or thoughts on the BZ tools problem. I have also installed fredotools.

One odd thing which i have no idea if it is related i started getting this window today when opening sketchup

hi all,

i am hoping someone can help me out with the following issue i am having with advanced camera tools.
i am able to set and manipulate the camera fine, but when i want to export the view as a jpeg it does not have the aspect ratio bars or the camera info in the lower left hand corner. am i missing something painfully obvious? - it wouldn't be the first time.

thanks

nels3131