@anssi said:

@pep75 said:

Sorry guys...I'm breaking into this discussion...but has anyone experienced the diffenrence with SU and a SSD??? Does a SSD boost the performance of SU?

Thank you!!!

I don't remember where (probably here) I picked it up, but I seem to know that OpenGL (the thing that drives the SU display) does not support multiple graphics cards, so SSD benefits only DirectX, that is mainly used by games.

Anssi

Hmmm... not exactly that - the guy is probably talking about hard drives and not display cards (solid state drives). Also, OpenGL can run too, over multiple cards - using a Fx3800 or better card. Application dependent, however.

Thanks guys. Some info about this problem:

1- There are no text saved at all, on any of Xml files;
2- The problem isn't only about the text - some imported images disappears too, and the LO shows a red "X" on screen over those objects;
3- If I have some 4 or 5 objects from one or more big sketchup models, and some images and text, the problem occurs when activating the "hybrid" rendering on those objects - then some bitmap images "disappears" from screen - next time to try open the file, and LO shows this message then exit: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library - Runtime Error! - Program: (empty) - This application requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information". Even the debug window do not shows up.

The system is a XP64 still Sp2, with several GB of Ram, and LO never uses more that 1.5 GB.

Interesting, but there are no text in the Xml files (including the pageX.xml) - three hours of work simply vanished. If I cannot find the text searching on the Xml files, where is it? Can I send a 30+MB file?

What happened: after about three hours working on the file, an imported image disappeared from screen - I assumed was some memory error (this is a 32 bit app...), and saved/restarted Windows. After that, the file do not open anymore. Interesting too, the autobackup shows it is from three hours back, but I saved the work several times this period.

I think the text isn't there anymore - I searched the Xml files, and found some text, but not the big ones. All the Xml is Ascii, and if there was any text, this must appear some sort. But, nothing's there.

The problem is related with the "hybrid" rendering of the sketches - the quality improvement of the drawing is great, but LO have trouble with this feature.

Sketchup people, where's my text???????

Hi Gaieus, very thanks for the tip - I was navigating on the file without notice that this is a zip file. So.. the trouble is that I inserted all text by hand on the Layout... (I know what stup* thing I done...) I still cannot find any info about my text on the Xml files.

Any tips anyone?

Very thanks again.

The 30+MB Layout file was saved well, as was the backup file. But booth do not open - Layout 2 or 2.1 just crashes when opening the files. The backup do not render all objects, and the text disappears. Is there a way to retrieve just the texts of the file? Maybe with some kind of editor? This situation is just a nightmare.

Thanks for any help.

Hi all people and sketchup gurus - probably this is a newbie question, but I cant find a solution, so this could be of importance to others. I need to import a dwg file with level curves, and need to make a terrain in Sketchup. The problem is, the file is ginormous. How can I optimize and simplify the dwg, reducing the complexity and improving the (sometimes) hand-made curves, also reducing the polys? Thank you very much for any suggestion on any free app to do this.

Core i7 920 ou Q9650 ???? (Well, both without overclock). Does anyone have experiences, benchmarks, opinions?

I think it's a bug - the concept (the logic, the algorithm) of this function is wrong.

Oh, that's so true! Every model done (finished or not..) and the model folder is full with every step imaginable of the entire "development history" - for now, a manual process. This autosave configuration is a must have, but I think that it must be integrated with Sketchup.

And yes, I too think that crashes are related to certain operations when saving, like plugins.