@hellnbak

Try this forum mate........ http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=27&sid=7e8d4a3ac6b1bc824589aa19030be21e

Oh jeez, turns out I already have it installed. Now that's embarrassing 😳 Now all I gotta do is figure out how to use it. I'm not too hopeful, but I'm gonna give it my best shot. Thanks, happy holidays!

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@box said:

Segments. There is always a limit to the number of segments Sketchup can deal with. There is also an unfortunate lack of good error messages built into sketchup.
10000 segments of a single continuous 'curve' will tend to crash sketchup without a bugsplat.
Your question appears to show that 6000 segments is the limit on a follow me before it gives you an error that is somewhat meaningless.

Thanks for going to all the trouble, some very useful information for myself and probably others. Very much appreciated 👍 👍 👍

And you're right about the 'somewhat meaningless' error messages. It might as well have said 'This ain't gonna work, but we're not gonna tell you why'

All of those look pretty darn good!

Glad you got a result Steve, best to you and yours. Keep rockin' on mate.

@tig said:

Clearly there's a SketchUp god that's taken a dislike to you personally !
Watch out for thunderbolts...
😲

😆

JIM!!!!!

So good to see you here! How are you doing? Have you fully recovered from that fall and head injury? And what have you been up to? I sure hope you have been creating more fantastic SU models. You have way too much talent to not be. If you have I would love to see them, and I know everybody here would also.

Yeah, I know what you mean about having to crawl around under the mower, and paying dearly for it afterwards. I probably have mine raised maybe ten inches or so, and have been under it countless times trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with it. And of course you never have the tool you need once you manage to get down there. Between that and having to use my push mower to do the lawn, I'm lucky to crawl back to the house at night. Say, you wouldn't consider loaning me that zero-turn for a while, would you? Just for a couple of years.

I actually figured out a way to slap together a quick and dirty version of my stand, just to get me thru this current problem. And then, after I figured out what I would need to do, I realized that there would be no way to get the damned mower up there. If it had power to the rear wheels there wouldn't be a problem to solve! Just another example of how my brain is constantly falling short of the mark. Very frustrating 😕

So you think I should take my show on the road and jump the shark, huh. Wasn't Caesars Palace the one where the video showed his body being totally mangled in slow motion? That was gruesome. I may need to pass on that.

Well, again, it's so good to see you here again. Try not to be a stranger. I hope this current craziness is not affecting you too badly. Personally I have painted over my door with lamb's blood, just to cover all the bases. You never know.

Steve

@bep said:

"So, at this point the spring has tension and the red part has made contact with the pin, and further movement of the handle will begin to slide the blade out of its contact. Right?"
[highlight=#ff4040:2cbrobxo]Yes![/highlight:2cbrobxo]

"But, just to keep my reputation as a royal pain-in-the-butt alive, I do have a question -- To keep the spring from just raising the blade with the arm, there would have to be tension, or pressure, that holds the blade in place until the arm raises the blade far enuf that it can break free and snap up, right?"
[highlight=#ff4040:2cbrobxo]Yes!, the pressure should ensure for enough friction wen the spring gets loaded to prevent the blade from sliding out of the contact fingers
Whit this design the "red part" slides the blade out off the contact fingers.
Then at some point the blade snaps away from the contact fingers[/highlight:2cbrobxo]

But, while every blade switch that I have found uses a contact that is formed into a sort of spring shape to ensure good contact with the blade this beast seems to have relatively thick "arms" that stick straight up, and I don't see how they can provide the spring action to ensure good contact, let alone provide enuf pressure against the blade to prevent it from just moving up with arm.
[highlight=#ff4040:2cbrobxo]They somehow can get enough contact pressure wih this design, without enough contact pressure the contact resistance would be to high, and the switch could burn/melt at that place.[/highlight:2cbrobxo]

"Also can't figure out why they would go to the trouble of cutting the contact down the middle like that. Does that have something to do with it?"
[highlight=#ff4040:2cbrobxo]Yes, this is done to ensure a big enough good contact area, to keep the contact resistance as low as possible
Wider fingers would be more difficult to get them plane to the switch blade[/highlight:2cbrobxo]

About your drawing.
A part of the blade and the top of the fingers should be slightly rounded, to let the blade slide in easier.

Some things to read up on the switch topic:
https://phasetophase.nl/kalenders/kalender_2009.html (translate with google)
https://ecprops.com/products/knife_switches/knife_switches.html
http://0330de8.netsolhost.com/test/html/products/knife-switch.php

Together we have 4 active brain cells 😄

Hopefully the move to your new home goes very well.

Hey Bep,

Really appreciate all the time and effort you have put into setting me straight on this. But for now everything has taken a back seat to other higher-priority things in my life.
Again, many thanks.

Steve

SOLVED (or rather "good results without understanding" 😉 )
Uninstall, manual deleting folders from appdata etc., installing english version 64,
(installing PL version did not help, but english was working OK)
then i've installed polish version 64.

Everything is OK EXEPT kbd shortcuts, wchich dissapeared 😉
MAc

PS1: No, It was 100% SUMake 2017, working OK about 2 months. (I use SU from ver 7, and I kbow differences between Make and pro-demo) - but it was 1st what i chcecked 😉

PS2
I tried web-based "Free". It's a kind of nightmare.
BTW - I have plugins I've paid for. Something is not fair... Not good way...

@juju said:

@hellnbak said:

I've got everything almost ready to install a new C drive (Samsung 850 Pro, my SSD of choice), I'll tackle that this afternoon.

Good choice on the SSD! Please tell me it is the PCIE version and not the SATA version, it's much quicker.

No, I'm just sticking with the SATA version. Yes, the PCIE is much faster, but it's speed that I don't really need. I do no gaming or anything like that. Just old-fart stuff 😉

TIG,

I bow to your expertise, and will reinstall SU at some point. For now it is working well, no more SKB's, no problems.

I still do not understand why, of the many times and many computers I have installed SU on over the years, without using "run as administrator", it did not cause problems with these installs. I am not questioning the wisdom or correctness of your advice and recommendations, I'm certainly not qualified to do that. I just like to understand the whys and wherefores of things when I can. I guess I could just chalk it up to being lucky, but that's just not the way things go for me 😒

Again, thanks

Steve

From the rest of the geo, it seems unlikely but...

Are the edges connecting to a third face behind? Like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Uug8U6G.png

@dave r said:

I think the trays are a great idea and wouldn't want to go back to the old way. I was setting up SketchUp for years with the utility windows stacked on the right outside of the drawing window so the tray thing mimics my old setup with the added benefit of a little more toolbar space across the top. I found it incredibly annoying to have the windows covering the modeling space. Keeping them outside the modeling space eliminates that.

+1

I don't know if you guys are using make or pro, but every new version of Sketchup, even if it doesn't bring a whole new set of features, represented a significant improvement for me, mainly because of Layout, but still an improvement that I can appreciate.

Well I finally got around to trying this fix

2017-02-03_221211.png
and it worked!

Set my values at 60 and now even my largest model can be worked with no problems.

Unfortunately I had already reset the laptop back to the original factory settings in anticipation of selling it, which meant that I had to do all the updates again (a real pain in the butt), and copy almost 700GB worth of data over to it (including my 369GB Sketchup Stuff folder). Now I get to do all the fine-tuning (again). Fun time.

See what trouble you caused me, Rich? 😉

Yeah. You nailed it.

The smoothing issue is very apparent when using radial bend in FredoScale. Simply entering edit mode nukes the strange appearance.

I tried that with this flickering issue but it didn't work.

@hellnbak said:

Thanks Jim, but if that's the one I came across when I was researching this question, didn't it have a problem working on any version prior to 2016? Or maybe I'm thinking of something else.

I don't think so since I never released my extension. I just tried it and it works fine in SketchUp 2015.

Some serious hours work there impressive.

Nothing, eh? Well, that's ok, I solved it myself.

@dou said:

I use skt.2015 pro and in the left end of the opening welcome there is a box to disable or enable this option.
I notice that you have a sketchup make version and there is no box!

That is one minor difference between Pro and Make.

LOL!!!!! I really would like to know who is giving a thumbs down on my comment. What's your problem?!? So do you think it is totally normal that such bugs are not being fixed anymore these days? One of the most basic "features" of a software that used to work perfectly fine over the last years?
LOL... this world is really screwed up.