I’m working with a model in SU2026. When I select parallel projection mode and then ‘TOP VIEW’ from standard views, the blue axis remains still visible and skewing off at an angle, as if I’m not aligned perpendicular with ground/red-green plane.
When I click through plan scenes saved early on from parallel/top view, it remains the same.
When I click on a surface I know was drawn on the model ground and should be perpendicular to blue and say “Align view” the blue axis still remains visible.
In all of the above scenarios the model content appears true and perpendicular to the camera view.
I had assumed I must have done something to accidentally modify the global axis of the model**… But the strange thing: when I open the file in Sketchup 2024 the blue axis disappears and plan view scenes display normally. Aligning to ground drawn faces also displays normally.
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**Any Ideas or explanations for what’s going on?
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Other possibly relevant points to mention:
When I open a fresh 2026 and perform the same parallel projection>top view, the axis behave as normal the blue axis disappearing into the page.
I originally stated this file in SketchUp 2024 and have come back to it months after to do more work after installing 2026. I have done a lot of work with many saves before noticing this so I can’t pin point a time when it occurred.
What does it show if you click on the Camera menu? Does the Parallel Projection appear checked?
If you right-click on one of the axes, is Reset active?
Is the model or any entities located very far from the origin?
I tried removing and re-adding the geo-location. Initially things stay the same but now when i right click an axis and go “reset” things actually change and blue disappears as it should. Solar north also resets to aim up with green.
However if i then click and open any of my saved plan view scenes it reverts back to how it was shown in my earlier screen shots. While still in that scene if I click top view nothing happens to the axis. So both camera and the global axis positions are obviously saved unique to each view.
don’t know how I would efficiently resent all my views without causing issues.
Question remains: Why does everything including all my scenes, and top view button align fine when i open the exact same file in 2024?
Thanks very much for that. Not my exact issue but there may well be a connection.
In my case the original geolocating would have happened a fair time ago in SketchUp 24. I only tried removing and readding the geolocation to a duplicate file as a part of this trouble shooting process to see what it would do. So its not as though I added a new 2026 geolocation and cause the problem originally if that makes sense. It must be something with how the global level axis are being read which has changed between 24 and 26.
I couldn’t see anything in the release notes that jumped out at me as related to this issue like a bug fix or otherwise. Can you point me to what you mean?
Axis orientation is saved with the scenes, so if you change it and it works as expected you have to update the scenes to reflect the change in the axis. Otherwise it remembers the previous one that was set when the scene was made.
I was running the new graphics engine in 2026 and old graphics engine in 2024.I’ve now tried:
Switching to old graphics engine in 2026 - problem resolves, axis aligned
Switching to the new graphics engine in 2024 - problem appears, blue axis visible
So we’ve isolated the problem to the graphics engine’s interpretation/presentation of the file, but I cant yet say its resolved.
Is this a known bug for files created before the new graphics engine? Or is there settings that need to be changed to correct it?
I’m yet to see any noticeable performance gains or other benefits to the new graphics engine, at least for my workflow where I’m not yet using any of the new graphic display modes. On the contrary, when I tested 2025 I experienced a lot of micro-lag orbiting in files that worked fine in 2024 (with classic engine) and also frequent bug crashes. Hence I waited till only recently to start using 2026. It has seemed to be a lot more stable and and doesn’t have the orbit lag issue.
What should I do with this axis issue - flag it to the devs? or just leave this thread unresolved and they might see it?
Hope it helps. Seems to be a minor bug but before I knew it was just the graphics engine it was worrying that my whole model might have become corrupted or out of square.
