I am writing because I am nearing the end of my rope and desperately need help. I have spent a considerable amount of time verifying that my platform is properly configured , that I have the correct video drivers and the hardware, especially the drive is functioning correctly. I also know about the dreaded clipping and mathematical precision problem. BTW, it seems that expecting people to scale models that would normally use units in mm is unacceptable. Regarding the clipping problem. I have heard that OpenGL is being blamed for the clipping problems. I would point out there are a huge number of applications which use OpenGL and don't suffer from this problem. Applications should not require users to make these kinds of consessions just so the program works correctly.
Corrupted geometry: The geometry gets corrupted at the drop of a hat and the tools required to fix are not available. I am trying to skin a set of closed contours. The contour curves have been checked to ensure they have no breaks, overlaps, needle eyes, ultra short segments, etc. Merely selecting the curves breaks these curves so they are no longer continuous, necessitating they they be "welded" to restore them. Something is wrong here. Sketchup seems to ask frequently if it is ok to fix my model. In some cases I loose geometry and it is exceptionally hard to reconstruct, especially if it is located on the convex surface of an object. Anyone know what is going here? Overall, I keep kicking myself for buying this app. Things like these are killing me because experience has shown that it is faster to go back and rebuild certain parts of the model from scratch rather than to try and fix the damaged model.
Lost geometry: Quite a few times I have run into the situation where I will hide geometry and it disappears. I know the geometry is there, but there is no way I can find to make visible again. I have tried Unhide All, Selecting in the area where it is located, turning on X-Ray viewing model, turning on Hidden Lines, incantations to no avail. This seems really bad. Geometry inside a group cannot be seen (it is close enough, and big enough that it should been visible. The solution that I came up with is to export/import the file in .dwg format and immediately selecting the now visible geometry and I have the geometry back. Anyone know why this is happening?
Autosave: I am working with a 10 MB model. I frequently save my work in order to minimize the time lost when I get a Bug Splat. When I save the file using Ctrl-S, the save usually take about 2 seconds. However, when SketchUp autosave determines that the works needs to be saved, it takes several minutes to save the same file. Any ideas which this happens?
Bug Splats: This software is really unstable 5-10 Bug Splats per day. Not as many with initial release of 2014 as with recent update of 2014. I have done reinstalls of Windows, and SketchUp and have and crashes persist. I know in order to fix bugs you need screen shots, core dumps and files. I am happy to provide them. What are people using to capture screens so they can send in a better explanation of a particular problem? I use a number of design applications and I never have crash problems.
Any help that can be provided to the above would sincerely be appreciated.