@dave r said:

@aiden said:

Just a note - if by "integrated GPU" you mean an on-board GPU, my RTX card...

Sorry. I missed your RTX card and I was working with someone else at the same time who has an integrated GPU.

Of course - no problem. I appreciate the time you've spent helping. Wish it could have been an easy fix. Its weird to have so much horsepower but be limping along as if I were using an i3 from five years ago. I reinstalled Sketchup. Downloaded an even more up-to-date driver(game ready this time). Also disabled all plugins - and still no better. So strange. Meanwhile my coworker is flying along on the old 1080 GTX workstation.

@panixia said:

@aiden said:

Perhaps the RTX cards have an issue here?

I would suggest to check into the Nvidia control panel (you can find in the context menu if you right click on an empty space in your Windows desktop bakcground), go to application specific settings, scroll the drop down menu to select Sketchup 2021 and make sure that's using the 3090 and NOT the integrated gpu.

Thanks - I checked and it is set to use the RTX card. Really baffling.
My 3090 does great with other applications that are 3D intensive.

@dave r said:

@aiden said:

My Coworker is using 2 GTX 1080 cards, running on driver version 528.49

A solid graphics card with good OpenGL support. The Nvidia GeForce and GTX-series graphics cards have always been recommended for SketchUp. Integrated GPUs such as the ones you are using have never been recommended because they historically have poor OpenGL support and because they are using CPU RAM instead of dedicated RAM for graphics processing.Based on the GPUs your coworker's computer would be a better choice for SketchUp.

Just a note - if by "integrated GPU" you mean an on-board GPU, my RTX card is a dedicated separate unit like my coworker's GPU, using a PCI Express slot on the motherboard. The RTX 3090 is a fairly powerful unit with 24GB dedicated ram.
Did I rightly understand what you meant by "Integrated GPU"?

Second note - updated to newest driver (Studio) and still have very poor performance - but in fairness to Tools On Surface - my performance is slower in every aspect than my coworker's machine.

Perhaps the RTX cards have an issue here? I appreciate your time looking into this with me Dave.

@aiden said:

My Coworker is using 2 GTX 1080 cards, running on driver version 528.49

I am now downloading the latest drivers. Will let you know if it helps.

My Coworker is using 2 GTX 1080 cards, running on driver version 528.49

@dave r said:

@aiden said:

I'm running on a very powerful workstation with lots of ram ...

Still SketchUp 2018? What graphics card? Can you share you simple model?

Hi Dave - thanks for your response - Here's more specific info:

Sketchup Pro 2021, 21.1.299 (classic perpetual license)
Intel Core i9 10900K, 3.7GHz, 64GB ram,
Windows 10 Pro. RTX 3090, (528.02 driver)

LibFredo6 13.9a, Tools on Surface 2.5a. Fresh install.

The plugin works fine on my workstation in a model with very little geometry.

It also works fine on the somewhat less powerful workstation of my coworker,
who is working on an identical copy of the file I am working on. (???)
He is using a slightly older copy of Sketchup Pro 21.0.391. (Subscription plan)

When I draw a line on even a very simple surface, Tools on surface takes an enormous amount of time to complete the task. I'm running on a very powerful workstation with lots of ram, and the last test I ran had only two faces. Any idea what causes this behavior?

I purchased the plugin -
thank you for making it.

I really want to use it on a very large model I am building, but when I click on the Ghost Studio icon, nothing happens.

I now have the same problem with the FredoTools launcher and other launchers you made.

Your thoughts?

@tig said:

So why not make a copy of the 'lumber-size' txt file and add in some 'inch' lumber sizes you'd like to use?
You could always press Didier Bur to make an 'inch' version

I did try that - but any value with a decimal breaks the extension. Every imperial sized dimensional lumber dimension needs a decimal to be properly represented in metric units.

@gullfo said:

i added some code to mine so values larger than 2x6 in the lumber class so it subtracts 0.75 instead of 0.5. i think it would be best to modify the metric version to support both plus some other tweaks..

I agree, there are other aspects of the metric version that are valuable - the reporting functionality and the ability to adjust lumber sizes with a simple table.