“Old vs new graphics engine”. I think the new graphics engine is only in Sketchup 2025? Maybe I’m incorrect there. Under SU prefs, I’m not seeing a choice from which to select.
The SU version I’m using is Version 23.1.341, according to the “About” menu.
Since the crashing / hanging is seems to be something that builds over time, it’s not feasible to disable half my extensions and wait for a crash. They are an integral part of my workflow. Would I test for an hour? A day? A month?
What will happen, as it has happened many times over many years of use, is that having just reinstalled yesterday, along with the extensions I use almost daily, is that SU will probably work just fine for a certain period of time. A week, maybe a month.
Then, it will hang with some action I’m initiating, that I’ve initiated many times already without incident. Sometimes I do think that I am trying to move too fast and I’m not giving the app enough time to complete the last thing I did before doing the next thing.
It will then start hanging more frequently (“app not responding”), I’ll start force quitting more frequently. Sometimes, if I walk away for 15 minutes, the hang will “self correct”. But, I can’t just walk away from working all that often in the hopes that whatever is going on will resolve itself.
When I force quit, I will then reopen SU then quit again. Sometimes it crashes on quit. So, I open / quit again, repeating as often as necessary, until I get a “clean” quit. Then I’ll open again and go back to work.
I don’t know that this does anything useful.
Interestingly, this most recent spate of hangs I traced to TIG’s(?) Section Cut Face plug in. A plug in that I have used constantly over the years without a single incident. I uninstalled, downloaded a fresh version from Sketchucation (same version # I had been using), and was able to go back to working.
I honestly don’t know what to think, Mike. I only know that all of this is causing me to fall further and further behind on the information my clients are relying on me to provide to them. And, as I tell them that I’m (again) having software issues, I become concerned about their confidence in my work. As do I.
I appreciate your input. At the end of the day, I’m losing confidence in being able to run a business using Sketchup to illustrate plan and construction issues I find in their project’s plans.