I am not sure why sketchup does not like faces with too many sides. Modifications on such a face takes forever. A single face with 65K edges is on the too much side. You can always add redundant softened planar edges to divide the whole face to faces with each one having manageable number of faces.

Hummmm I was sort of hoping that someone might have a script (ruby or otherwise) that would shut the darn thing off.

You're right. It's about 95% crap. I knew that when Google purchased SU, that it would loose some class. I mean, for god's sake, I've now got smiling laughing utterly ridiculous icons dancing on this page. Maybe that's okay if you're modeling for the kiddie sandbox.

It's way I stopped visiting the forums, stopped, just about everything related to Google.

@kalli said:

...but damned if i can upload a sample!!!)

If you would like to upload a sample see here:

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