I was using Opera to see the forums

yesterday, when I used waterfox (waterfoxproject.org)
I saw the sketchucation home page but just the header and footer for the forums and a HUGE empty space in between.
so here's what I did
I have adblocker - whitelisted sketchucation.com and buysellads.com
I have ghostery - whitelisted the above
avast .. (firewall AND malware settings whitelisted the above)
I disabled "https everywhere" for this site

I updated my java this morning

then a browser cache clear and POOF! fixed

I know this is probably old news for most of you - but just in case someone else needs the info in one place.. there it is.

Thanks to TIG for pointing me here to read up.

The one thread for adblockers. there was a suggestion to go messing around in the hosts file in the system 32 directories - scary.. glad the above worked for me.

ah.. okiedokie - I realized that I was treading in off topic waters ..
I have both adblocker and ghostery disabled for all of sketchucation.com - didn't know about the buysellads.com site.
If adding that one to my exceptions list doesn't work, I'll toddle down the hall to browser land
thanks TIG

It is waterfox - waterfoxproject.org - I think it's got it's toes under the mozilla umbrella--
very similar to firefox though, but for 64 bit programming
I do a pretty good system clean every week - Sundays.. adv care, wise 365, avast, spybot and cCleaner - so my cache is cleaned regularly.

It's been a health issue.. thanks again
while I'm asking things that have probably been asked before...any ideas why I can't see the forum pages with the waterfox browser? All I get is the header... I had to use opera to get here.

thanks - I hadn't been here in ages - did a search and didn't find what I was looking for

I had been using sk-8.something - quite happy with my large toolbar down the left hand side of my screen - might anyone know how to get it back over there? I really prefer more vertical real estate than I currently have
thanks
Opal

ok.. thanks and windows 7 ult

tested several of those suggestions.. seems I have an issue with scaling. Immediately after scale operation (fredoscale) splat - with or without components.. with or without purging.
might be time to check for plugin updates

thanks

Here's what I am doing
load one component for scaling.
draw a rectangle
delete componant
scale one side of that rectangle
pick ANY other tool.. and I mean just choose it. Select.. move..push/pull, even zoom extends and
splat

5x now! It's making me crazy

windows 7 ult..

thanks.. will try

I hoped I fixed the system to never have to run as admin.. took ownership of everything.. turned off UAC, unhid sys files.. etc but will give it a shot

did not work.. will not install

I did find an older version 8.03something that does work or I'd have nothing

I had to do an OS reinstall and have been trying to get all my stuff put back cleanly instead of from an OLD backup hard drive.
I downloaded the installer and tried more than once to install the program and this is my error message.

An error occurred while attempting to create the directory: C:\programdata\microsoft\windows\startmenu

so.. I went and looked - that directory already exists

anyone have any thoughts on what to do to get the program to install?

and while I'm asking things.. this disable adblocker to restore my plugin folder.. I've disabled adblock plus on sketchucation.com and am still getting the banner telling me to disable. Pages have been refreshed.. not sure what else to do there either.

and they walk among us.. and vote too ahhhhhhh

would putting part of the model on a different layer and hiding it help to get only one surface's verts?

geeze.. almost didn't find her

@mitcorb said:

Hi, ThomThom:
I just finished trolling through this entire thread, and I know I am missing something. In my first experiments with the tool, I make a random selection on the model and test the Gizmo. I orbit to the other side and see that I have also made a selection on the back side and deformed this in the same way. I thought there was a technique to select only that visible to the camera?

pokes nose in Unless something has changed, right click on the tool bar.. ignore backfaces, or access the controls from the tools menu.. same selection, ignore backfaces

done and TY

grovels before greatness

wooohoo! will auto update grab it or is it a manual install?

Ty.. downloaded latest version of sketchup.. rebuilding plugins folder

just me or is the link on the first page misdirecting to another place?