My SketchUp has started not wanting to zoom right. When I scroll with the wheel it will zoom in for a couple of scrolls and then it jumps to somewhere else.
It is doing this with all models and it does it even when there is something as simple as just a box. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can try before I reinstall SketchUp?
Try with another mouse. It might be as simple as that, a broken mouse.
Reinstalling seems quite drastic to me.
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Make sure the cursor does not wander onto empty space as you zoom.
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I hope it is not the mouse, this is a pretty new mouse. I will have to see if I still have my old one.
the cursor is not wandering because I am having to orbit just a little bit everytime I want to zoom, so I keep the cursor right on what I am trying to zoom into. The only way I can make any progress on a zoom right now is orbit just a little bit, zoom, orbit just a little bit and then zoom, saving every time. Then when it zoom out somewhere, I close and open the last saved that has me as close as I have gotten.
Are you working on something tiny?
Or something very far from the model origin?
what’s the brand / model of your mouse ? some mice have a side scroll that can be force zooming when trying to orbit, I don’t see why other mice wouldn’t do the exact opposite…
I am trying to modify a 3 inch gear on a mangle. But anywhere on the model if I try to zoom I get the same problem.
The mangle is set on the model origin, so the gear is between 2 and 3 feet from the origin
I’d be very wary about reinstalling Make 2017 unless you have a perfect install disc.
I have been reinstalling my Make 2017 on computers for years
Try scaling up by 100 or even 1000, and see if that helps…
It helps avoiding the tiny edge problem too.
It’s not the 90s anymore, Guido…
I had to scale up the gear and the mangle but it worked. I never thought of zooming as being affected by the tiny problem. And I did not even think of a 3 inch gear as being tiny
No problems then!
SketchUp was made for architectual models. So house-like sizes. 3 inch is not a problem but I’m guessing you are working on a small part of that gear, and that’s where you come close too being too tiny to work on..
If this is for 3D printing you could model in meters as if they were millimeters or inches.
And read this post about “the Dave method”:
I knew the edges on a 3 inch gear would be tiny but I was trying to zoom in on the whole thing and it would not let me without jumping off somewhere. I knew about the tiny problem and I use the Dave Method a lot. I just did not consider that zooming in on something would need the Dave Method, now I know.
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It is not for 3D printing, I am just making a model of a house and its furnishings
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