That's funny. I'm guessing its a bug. I'll look into it on Monday

I use QuickTime for this. Its only $20 for the full pro version. So its not free, but its not super expensive either. Its extremely easy to use and makes high quality videos without messing up the color.

Oh I should fix that, I am in the Boulder area now (up in Longmont).

That is how I've been wandering around the city as well. People have been giving me a lot of dirty looks...

Just kidding. I don't own a surfboard anymore. I just saw a shot of the SketchUp office on the news. Our building looks fine, but 1/4 of the office park we are a part of is now a part of the Boulder Creek.

I don't think that we normally get rain this time of year, not real rain. We've been getting afternoon thunderstorms that might dump for 30 minutes or so, then its all clear skies again. This rain is apparently very abnormal.

I can say that so far everyone I've heard of from the office is doing well enough. Many have had a few inches of water in the basements or crawl spaces, some have had it much worse with water and mud many feet deep (over a meter deep) flowing through the house.

Most of Boulder is closed, as is Longmont, Nederland, Lyons, Estes Park, etc, etc. Emergency teams are asking that people just stay off the roads and stay home, its too dangerous out there for now.

<guessing> It could be a Flash issue. You might open Internet Explorer and go update/install flash. There is a chance that might work.

Oh good, I'll go give Patrick a big hug for you in the morning.

Chris

Where do you live? (what country?) and who did you buy the license from? Was it in the US? Or in another country?

Yeah, that is odd. When you switch to perspective, it jumps waaaaaay out, which indicates that the parallel camera is position super far away from the geometry, but is somehow zoomed in super close. Its that distance between the camera object and the model that is causing the problem. I'm not sure how you got it into that state, but I'm glad you've got a fix.

Do you run any plugins that might affect the cameras? Any renderers or camera tools or anything?

Chris

nope, not yet. It never showed for me either, I had to click on it to follow the link.

I think people have pretty good success with getting SU to run under WINE. I've never seen anyone try CentOS. Good luck!

Yup that helps, thanks Frank. I'll look into it.

That's odd. Does it do it on its own, or is it only after you have used the plugin in a model?

Yes, what you're trying to do should be possible. All ruby scripts get loaded when SU starts.

The problem with the shapebender example though is that shapebender requires human interaction. It could be tweaked to work without human interaction though, if you could programmatically define what it needs to be run (a straight line, an object to bend, and a curved line to use as the bending template), write that into the script, and then make sure your base model had all those elements in it.

I'm not quite sure I understand, but I think I might have something helpful.

Find the dot product of the face's normal and the x_axis. If its a positive number, then the face normal is in the positive x range. Do the same for the y and z (if you need z). Try this code snippet, it will tell you if the face normal is pointing in a positive or negative x,y,z direction. Or it will tell you if the face normal is perpendicular to the model x,y, or z axis.

face=Sketchup.active_model.selection[0]
norm = face.normal
dot_products = {}
dot_products["x"] = norm.dot(X_AXIS)
dot_products["y"] = norm.dot(Y_AXIS)
dot_products["z"] = norm.dot(Z_AXIS)

dot_products.each do |key, value|

case 
  when value < 0
    puts "#{key} direction is a negative direction"
  when value == 0 
    puts "#{key} direction is perpendicular to the #{key} axis"
  when value > 0
    puts "#{key} direction is a positive direction"
 end
end

Very interesting Mario and Jeff. There is a good example between the two of you, Mario has all his ruby toolbars close every time he closes SU, Jeff does not. I can't see it either, but we keep getting reports of it from users and developers. At this point, we can't figure out how to make it reproducible and I'm having a hard time tracking it down. Driven has done some good background investigation into it, as it affects him as well. But so far it is still eluding us

Those 2 toolbars are ruby extensions. They just ship with the product. Does everyone in this thread see them disappear after closing SU? We are starting to get a few complaints of this, but I can't reproduce it. For me, they are always on or off, depending how I left them the last time I had SU open.

So is it common that the DC, Sandbox, Advanced Camera tools, and Photo textures toolbars always turn themselves off on your macs?

Chris

And whe it crashes, are you getting the bugsplat message popup? Or does it shut down completely and never prompt you to submit a crash report?

If you are submitting a report, would you mind telling me what name or email address you are submitting on that report? (You can PM it to me if its information you don't want shown publicly).

Thanks!

Chris

That is peculiar. And yes, the model I downloaded from your link is saving quite fast on my machine as well.

Glad it has sorted itself out, sorry for the previous difficulties though,

Chris

Hi Neil, I would recommend rolling back your video card driver (perhaps to a version that's 6-12 months old).

Does this crash happen on all models, or just a specific model?