Posts made by countryman

10.6.3

I create some text - unrelated to the model. I want to enlarge it. I select the text. I rt-click to get Entity Info. I select Font. I go to the new window to select font size 18 and BINGO..crash. Consistently. I have tried disabling OpenGL hardware acceleration but no change. Mac OS X 10.6

Thanks for the welcome. Will check OpenGL although as it is a new Mac I'd have hoped that these issues were long sorted...I found posts about this going back to 2008.

Re reference manual...you've proved my point! Take X-Ray, for example. It doesn't appear anywhere obvious that I can see in that guide. I found it in the Google SketchUp 7 Quick Reference guide under Face Style. But Face Style doesn't appear in the Reference Guide either. Nor could I see Dynamic Components. They are probably there but filed away under something completely different and that is one of my gripes from a new users' perspective....the lack of consistency in presentation and naming/filing of information. I tried searching for X-Ray in Google but then you get many posts with questions that I don't even begin to comprehend.

Using the Search Bar in the Reference Guide does yield results but again proves my point re inconsistency. Putting in x-ray and clicking on the first link takes you to the Styles Browser Face panel. Now is that the same as Face Style? It is. So why not name it the same as the Quick Reference Card?

Hi..I came across this excellent site while searching for woodworking tips and tricks.

I have a couple of questions.....I'm running a Mac Intel (new model) 10.6 and SU keeps on crashing on me. My models are very very simple 2D drawings of a window.

Is there a link to the Sketch-up tools anywhere? One comes across answers in the threads and these may mention a tool that you haven't used...eg x-ray (at least I think it's a tool). It would be great to have a window open on a link where you could go straight to it and look up -x-ray and where it is in the toolset menus and what it briefly does.

Thanks guys