Working on a model of a starship both exterior and interior..bout the size of an Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer...and for the record..I get this problem even on upscaled items from time to time too. It's always with two curved faces intersecting. Sometimes it happens..sometimes it doesn't.

So are you guys telling me the SU can't handle highly detailed work in 1:1? If that's the case then it is what it is but I find it odd the software would be written to be worked on in larger than life scales.

So does anyone have any suggestions other than "make it bigger"?

Guys..I appreciate the suggestions..but I'm working in simple 1:1 ratios. I'm not creating "tiny" objects. I'm creating normal size models. I'm quite open to the likelihood I'm doing something incorrectly..but modeling in a larger than 1:1 scale messes up the light bounces in Thea. The issue happens often when I do an extrusion of a curved faced into another curved face.

So I am a bit OCD with my models and I am wonder first:

Why does Sketchup create so many very tiny errors (missing faces or intersect lines that won't set in) in geometry during "intersects" (especially with two curved faces? Is there anything I can do to prevent this?

Second, I tend to spend sometimes, embarrassingly hours healing geometry that constitutes less than a square inch of area to prevent those irritating light leaks and "wrinkles" in a render...Am I alone here?

I get this error when saving..the only thing that cures it is to save the skp file under a new name..that works for a while then eventually the save error returns on that new file as well..

So I can't save a file anymore without getting this damn error and it's driving me to drink...anyone know how to solve this?..I've searched this forum and Google and nothing...I've seen CFileException 3 errors discussed but not this variation of it...

@driven said:

there are two flavours of 'not responding'...

if one core of your CPU is maxed out, then waiting can eventually end...

if there is minimal CPU usage, something has probably gone wrong and waiting won't help...

john

Can you elaborate? CPU% for locked up SU Window is around 29%

So I was using the scale tool on a very small area which SU apparently didn't care for and it went to the white screen not responding spinning wheel of doom mode.

Yes I am familiar with why this happens and I have everything set to minimize the issue..I had auto save off because on large models it's a serious hindrance to workflow and I usually save every time I begin a new sequence but forgot this time..worked for hours today and forgot to save and now white screen...

My question is how long should I wait before giving up and accepting I lost my work today and force close the program to start from where I began this morning...all over again?

So far it's been about 30 mins...any hope it will wake up?

I often find myself dealing with SU automatically generating "hidden lines" on properly squared faces after I do an intersect. Does anyone know why this happens? Is it a bug or is this supposed to occur? It drives me crazy as it causes "unsoftened" areas to appear especially on curved faces. For those that don't know a "hidden line" is different than a "softened" line. A softened line is a longer dash pattern then hidden lines.

So I'm working on a model and one thing I like to do is model just one half of my project, typically the left half, then copy the half, paste it into the window, flip it, then put it together to make the full model..I have never had an issue with this..Now just today this stopped working properly. When I copy an item..any item..and paste it back into sketchup, the pasted item/group/component is pasting in rolled 90 degrees on the green axis and 90 degrees on the red axis vs. pasting back in in the same axis position of the copied group. What the heck is going on? I tried resetting the main axis which did nothing. I notice when I make the copied group a component, the axis of the new component is not aligned to the master axis and is rolled 90 as described above...I'm going out of my mind with this...

Anybody have any ideas? How do I reset the copy/paste axis?

EDIT: I found the problem, though I don't really understand it...I'm using a 2D template to model off of that is behind the model..If I copy the model without making sure I select only the model without any of the template things work normally...weird..

Is there any setting in Sketchup that will prevent a texture from being subdivided and misaligned on a curved face? I am working on a shuttle design that does not have a flat face on the entire model and I would love to texture it without having to go into a face/poly, align the texture then copy/paste that alignment on the thousands of face/polys on the model.

Is that feature in SU Pro? Because in my text window the drop down has only regular as a choice.