Help! I’ve been working on these house plans for a year and am trying to recover what I can. Last night while editing a group several groups/layers down in the hierarchy I hit the save button and it crashed while it was saving. Now when I try to copy and paste anything within a certain group level it will crash. It appears to do this when you copy and paste within 2 or more “layers” of depth (copy and paste a group within a group within a group). The issue occurred while I was working within the framing grouping.
Have tried:
-exporting and opening in a new computer
-going back to previous versions in the history when this wasn’t happening
-checked other models and have no issue
-isolating and deleting the group I was working on when the crash occurred
-exploding groups at various levels. This seems to work well to a point, but once you re-combine things into a new group is creates the same issue,
-copying and pasting groups at the lowest level to the highest level of the layer hierarchy
One thing that seems to work is to explode everything down to the most basic geometry of lines and faces, then recombine into a group. That would be fine (but an incredible amount of work) however even once I recombine them and then join it with another group that has undergone the same “cleaning” the same issue occurs which doesn’t make any sense. Anybody know how I might go about recovering this file??
Your file isn’t corrupted but there is currently an issue with the web ased SketchUp regarding working inside nested groups, especially when the nesting is three or more levels deep.
Looks like you’ve done a lot of modeling that is much more complex than it needs to be. I presume this is your house you’re designing?
Thanks for the response. There was definitely some clean up warranted and should have used more components as opposed to groups. Yes these are a draft of house plans to see how everything is going to fit. I have been working with these nested groups for a long time without issue until now. Any idea why going back to previous versions wouldn’t fix it?
You should also be using tags.And probably fewer levels of nesting.
This issue isn’t specific to your model. The issue is with the current version of SketchUp Free. It has been reported by a few others in the last few days. The developers are aware of it and will hopefully have a fix soon.
Awesome thanks for the insights. I will read up on tags and how to incorporate them into the model. Do you think if the system-wide bug is resolved it will fix my project or do you have any suggestions on how to save it just in case?
After the issue is fixed with SketchUp Free, you’ll find your model’s behavior returns to what you were expecting. No lasting problems. I have no way to know when the problem will be fixed but when you open SketchUp after it is fixed, you won’t have any problems.