@blackdogsketch said:

Just flipped over to 2022 Pro.

Please update your profile to show that. Thanks!

If you let me know your email I can search for the crash reports.

Have a look and see if your RAM is running out. If it is - make sure you close all internet tabs, photoshop and as many other programs as you can.

Also try and reduce the size of the SketchUp window to as small as possible while the file is opening - to the size of a postage stamp if possible.

This reduces the demand on the computer and has helped me open files in the past that were too large. Then after it has fully loaded, you can gradually increase the size of the window and trim some of the file size out by clearing out some of the model and re-saving the file.

No ideas or thoughts on this? I'm dead in the water.

aha- got it. All good...thanks!

Nothing, huh?

@box said:

Your preferences dialog is appearing off screen, have you recently changed your monitor layout?

Go Window/Preference to get the focus on the dialog, then hit alt and space together, then m, then tap any arrow key once and without clicking anything, move the mouse around until the preferences dialog appears on the screen.
While you have it there go to Workspace and hit the reset workspace button.

Holy mackerel...you are a life-saver! Yes, we had been adjusting monitor layouts recently.
Thank you so much!

Then I won't redistribute them. I guess legally if he did not explicitly allow redistribution, it is not allowed. Still, just removing all plugins distributed over years without leaving a note is pure anti-social behavior in my book.

why not continue at the according thread?

did you have installed under another user account than the used one?

Try if running SU by "r-click > Run as Admin" once helps already.

Actually it is quite true.

I have favorite component directories that I can't delete. No option... Still a bug. If the directory no longer exists we should be able to delete it from favorites. Period. Having them persist and junk up the list is a bug.

And yes Sketchup has other bugs they have not addressed. For instance the use of "/u" in directory file paths that breaks dynamic components. Pretty much makes dynamic components useless for anyone on windows who uses the "/Users" file directory, which is most everyone...

That bug has also been around for years...

Thanks for the thought, but that is not the case here.
It happens on both my setups, one which runs two monitors, and one that is a single.

save regularly and use File >> Revert to 'jump' back to that last save...

no other way I know of, unless your writing your own ruby scripts...

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@blackdogsketch said:

... It doesn't seem that YOU are doing it to reduce image export time.

if it was too me...

overall, you reduce the export time mainly by splitting out the shadows from the textures and any raster line work...

here's a realtime export of a simple model...

ignore the fact it's crammed so small for the gif, the shadows were 4000px wide, line work 2000 and 3000 texture 2000

ignore the plugin resizing the window, I just added my code in it to save some time coding...

I also used a vivid background because I was doing all the post in code and it made it easier...

but the principle is the same for manually making these...

have x number of style and one scene per view...

for each scene export an image, sized depending on the style... i.e. shadow style was biggest because I wanted the most control over it...

you may need to cmodel by DaveR

john

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@blackdogsketch said:

So when I disable hardware acceleration, is the GPU still doing all the graphics export work?

no, the rendering is then done in software by the CPU. Depending on the horsepower of the CPU this may not be much slower (or faster) than the GPU, especially in connection with integrated/shared low-end solutions like the intelHD series of many notebooks.

Thanks guys

"why buying a lame/old graphics card today?

if disabling "Window > Preferences > OpenGL > Use Hardware Acceleration" fixes the problem, the OGL support of the used video driver and/or the OGL performance of the used GPU is flaky. Drop the card and buy something capable as e.g. a GTX 960 (or better) ...besides the case is to small or the PSU to weak."

I'm not the IT guy at work. The IT department purchases and installs hardware. I'm no expert on computers or graphics cards. What do you mean "the case is too small or the PSU too weak"?