I am new to sketch up free, and am finding it extremely frustrating. Everytime I go to do something, it seems like the SU website loses itself, and needs to recover. This causes the page to relaunch, which takes so much time. Also it just seems like it takes forever to do anything, i.e. saving. Am I doing something wrong, or is something I am missing. Almost un-usable in its current state.
Also, in my previous life with SU, I was able to set the template to woodworking, inches, but I can’t seem to find this now…
What version of Windows are you using? What browser? What is your graphics card?
As for setting up a template, you can do it after a fashion. Create a new file and set the units as you wish under Model Info. Then save that file to your Trimble Connect account. When you want to start a new project, open that file but save the project with a new name to avoid overwriting it.
integrated graphics subsystems are never recommendable for 3D modeling, switch to something capable (= performance, mature OpenGL support) if you can, e.g. a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (or better).
