Does anyone know why Sketch Up just randomly crashes? Version 6 was always stable, and now I have 8,and it stinks! I don't know what Trimble did to it, but they really messed it up. Sketch Up 8 crashes on both my Mac and PC, both running different processors, graphic cards on operating systems, so I know it is not my hardware. The version on my Mac is pro, and the PC version is basic (free). Even the plugins are different between both machines, so I know it is not a code conflict or unstable plugins. I have uninstalled and reinstalled, I have removed plugins that may have been problematic, and I have made my models as uncomplicated as possible. I used to be able to create massive, complex models and now I am lucky if I can get 15 minutes of continuous use. It crashes when I move geometry, save a file, open a file, run a plugin or even just draw a line. Furthermore, the "bugsplat" thing is useless, as its suggestions are always either update Sketch Up, add a line a code for layer 0 in Ruby, or "sorry, no information available" - useless. I need real solutions - so if anyone has any, I would love to hear them!
-Sean
thanks so much for your feedback, I am glad you like these images. There are another 16 renders of this space - I just sent out the CD to my web designer yesterday, so hopefully they will be on my website by week's end. Mike D - I have posted to the Artlantis site, and they have added some of my images to their gallery, but thanks so much for the suggestion. As for the computer that I use - it is a Mac G5 running OSX with a Intel Xeon processor - it is on loan to me from a very good friend. Even with all that power, it still gets bogged down from time to time. For large models like this one, I have to break it up in Sketch Up, and then piece it back together in Artlantis. Usually, after that point, everything works fine. I would also invite you guys (and anyone else that may be interested) to visit my blog at: 
