Yes it did fix the problem. I'm wondering though: for setting the geolocation I go to File->Geo-location menu item, then add location, then select region, then grab. Is it the only possible way? Doing this I end up with a satellite image being imported in my scene, and I usually have to unlock and erase it -- not a big pain but I wonder if it's the only way. One more question: what is the default UTC in SketchUp? I think it was -8 or something? Thanks!

@Gaieus : please don't laugh at me but I thought TIG was being ironic, since I never used the geolocation feature and never even notice its menu voice
Thanks for explaining it so that I could fix the problem!

I'm still experiencing this issue and you can imagine how much it ruined my SketchUp experience Is anyone else facing it?

Hi, I did record a short video for showing the shadows bug I'm experiencing. I can't say exactly when it started but I'm sure the only thing that changed since when it was working is that I updated my Nvidia drivers (there's already a thread about issues connected to the latest Nvidia drivers). Here is the video (streaming hosted on my DropBox, I didn't want to upload it to YouTube or Vimeo):

SketchUp 8 shadows issue

I hope I'm showing the issue in a clear way. Any idea about what's going on? Do you think it's drivers related? I'm using Octane as renderer and other applications /games requiring the latest and most optimized Nvidia drivers, so downgrading is not an option. I'm getting used to working without shadows but it's a pain. My current drivers are the 285.62 WHQL and the rest of my specs are in my signature.

Thanks and have a nice time!

Hi mitcorb, I tried some of them and no one can produce proper result with the situation in the screenshots - they all break where the 3 edges meet. Pipe Along Path is not processing the request , it complains because the edges are not a valid path. It could be I did something wrong when using the plugins, or maybe none of them is intended for this scenario.

The best results I got are the ones using Follow Me on various sub-paths and then intersecting and cleaning the mesh, which is still a viable choice if the mesh is simple but it becomes a no-no when things get too much complicated!

Too bad, though I can see a lot of power in that plugin and I could buy it the same. Working on separate edges will create a lot of weird overlapping, just like with the vanilla follow-me.

I'll happily buy it if it will do what I need

Do you think it can also manage a situation like this one?

As you can see in the highlighted part some vertices of the structure are part of more than two egdes.

Thanks for the fast response Thomas! I'm going to give it a try and post my impressions.

Let's say I have a volume defined by edges only (I erased the faces) and that I want to make its edges solid. Is there a plugin for giving edges a thickness? It would be even better to be able of choosing the shape that is used for the extrusion. I know I could use the follow me bu tselecting the whole set of edges won't do and working on separate sub-paths would lead to a huge time waste and give overlapping meshes where the follow-me surfaces of different paths cross. Any idea guys?

@hellbank: thanks for the link. As I said earlier in this thread, I'm not a fan of the cloud; there's not a single cloud service out there that can give us a 100% safe service with total protection of our privacy and that can promise no outages or server issues. I simply don't trust the cloud for anything really confidential. That being said, using Dropbox for keeping my plugins and resources in sync between many machines is giving me no concerns in terms of outages (I still have local copies, it's the beauty of Dropbox) nor privacy ones (my plugins are downloded from the net, like many of my resources). I also use Dropbox for sharing files online (my tutorials, images, ect) and since I'm sharing them already, I don't care about "privacy" etc. I think putting confidential stuff online is always a risk and should be avoided as much as possible, no matter the platform we use (email, social network, cloud storage, etc). By the way, I really don't think Dropbox is less safe than GMail or any other Google service -- remember when Google pushed Buzz on the users making their provate contact lists visible to everyone else, also giving a frequency of contact indication? Well I'm glad SketchUp and YouTube are the only Google services I use