Generally, what do the plugins do?

...joe

This looks like a great product; will give it try soon.
...joe

I agree. I couldn't say it any better.

.... joe

Dave, after a few days of reflection and a memory dump, I owe you an apology. I was out of bounds in my remarks and you deserve better. I am trying to reflect on my though process and don't have good answer.
Of course, you are trying to help, much more than I do.

I am sorry. ..... joe

be specific

finally, an answer.

Box - that was excellent. I have to be more vigilant.

... joe

I have spent 20+ years as a systems programmer for large IBM systems. The first rule we learned when diagnose problems is what is different, what has changed ?
The problem in my case there were system changes with the cpu that were needed. if it was stated when the product was release, I missed it.
Where in the literature does it say run as admin.?
Dave, loose the attitude; I don't need it and I don't want it. If you want to maintain it, don't respond to my posts.

.... joe

like I said, I am a novice here and on a learning curve and will be I think for a long time. It was proven to be a local issue; obviously I don't know about the handshaking .

run as admin - why? this was installed without.
just trying to understand.

.... joe

doing a post analysis of this problem, why? What is peculiar about sketchup make 17 ?
Is it a newer version of ruby ?

...joe

success.
although I have been doing this a while, I am still a novice at this and probably at a lot of things.
on a lark I went to the official Amd site and downloaded their drivers( no charge).
Now I can make problems in make 17.
Thanks for pointing me .

...joe

Could this be a problem of drivers being out of date??????
I was cleaning out prefetch and temp files and notice crash report(s) in temp, opened it and notice ati radeon wordage in the pdf file. did a google on this. did an analysis of divers - says 8 outdated. they wanted $9.99 for an installed. passed.
will take this computer to a tech shop tomorrow.

...joe

well that did not work. I think the problem is with this computer, but what?
I downloaded and executed sketchup make 17 on someone else's computer with no issue. did not have to run as administer. have sketchup 15 running fine.
with task management running, the cpu max's out at 100% with 13,488k in memory. took down all unnecessary programs including IE.
I think I need to go for some expert help.

so, I have gotten no where with all my attempts. Where is - Run as administrator in the download segment?

I am having problems downloading make 2017 . had to have windows 7 reinstalled due to a virus problem. had all user programs installed, including sketchup make 15,tried to go to make 17 - no go. I get this msg: "There was a problem with your form submission. Please refresh the page and try again."
no matter what I try , same msg. it will let me installed sketchup pro. don't want pro now.
Is this a marketing plot ?
has anyone been successful in getting make 17?
If I goto sketchup.com/download, it installs,but when I try to execute, it just hangs.
What now?

...joe

thanks Dave.
you are correct.
I think sometimes I need a seeing-eye dog, maybe two.

...joe

yea, I know. I thought there is a site for older products. I can use a win7 32bit machine. there are third party products that converts the pararrel port to usb and onto 64bit, but I want this machine to be in an unaltered state.
Is sketchup15 make a 32bit product?

....joe

that was great but it only gives a partial solution.
Sketchup17 make is a 64 bit product, I need a 32bit product.

I built a small cnc(15"x15"x5") using mach3. Mach3 is 32bit system installed on a windows xp computer. So I am trying to use sketchup and g-code plugins on that machine. Where can I find sketchup15 make?

...joe

I am using - sketchup.com; what else is there?

I am trying to download sketchup17 make but I keep getting the error msg:

"There was a problem with your form submission. Please refresh the page and try again."

Been trying for two days and different computers.

Usually it's my doing, but this time I am at a lost.

What is the proper technique ?

.... joe

So what the dimensions of this room? 10' ceilings?

...... joe