How do I prevent crashing every time I choose a texture?

[ateliernab]

@mark_in_seattle

but for the rest of us it is just Trimble business as usual.

mac os. mac os’s business. trimble didn’t break it.

you’re using a version on an OS that doesn’t support it, those are the risks.

@mark_in_seattle

I was considering updating to SU-2024 but when I read in the forums how much grief users of Apple silicon are having with the newest SU versions it makes me regret I didn’t learn AutoCAD years ago and just use it on a PC in the corner of the office.

you can use sketchup on a pc in the corner of the office too. and autocad on a mac, if you want. and most apple silicon issues are in fact mac os issues : if you were to get a brand new M4 machine today, it would come with sequoia, unsupported until v25. SU24 works fine with sequoia, but you can expect a couple bits here and there that will act oddly.

but at least it deosn’t crash whenever you touch the bucket tool.

[francisquitof]

@mark_in_seattle

when I read in the forums how much grief users of Apple silicon are having with the newest SU versions it makes me regret

I’m using sketchup 2024 with the latest MacOS on an M1 Max MacBook Pro and it works perfectly fine, it’s even faster since it uses apple’s native API, Metal, all the other versions use an old version of OpenGL.

[mark_in_seattle]

I appreciate your post. And glad SU seems now to work well on Apple Silicon for users.

Apple developers having accomplished much good work early on, are now a sad group, which is why one of the few stellar software development teams purchased by Apple: Final Cut Pro Studio, accepted Apple’s offer only if their existing management team stayed in place and they remained in their existing location far away from Apple’s corporate meddling.

My friend, an award winning database architect, who worked at Apple Cupertino in the 1980’s told me that Job’s had to fire 600+ developers working on the Apple successor to OS9 after 6+ years of Ivy Tower navel gazing with no significant code to show for the time wasted. Jobs ended up buying Apples OS from his old firm Next: Next-Step, for this reason and others.

Entrenched tech monopolies seem to walk this path: initially innovative and brilliant … then not so much. I agree that Trimble has a thankless task working with Apple and the MacOS. For myself I built a Hackintosh with 64gigs RAM using the well regarded Opencore methodology, which is stable and fast.

Just frustrated that Trimble seems, to outsiders like myself, with each new version, overly focused on adding a small number of new features, but not fixing a large number of annoyances/bugs in the code base. I would be more willing to purchase a perpetual license to new useful SU versions, but not a subscription. Just my personal preference. I gladly pay $1200/year for SkyCiv a FEA (Finite Element Analysis - structural engineering) online service, because their server farm can run my model analysis so much faster and also maintain the enormous code required. Like Adobe, the value add from Trimble works on a case by case basis for some users, but not others.

[francisquitof]

@mark_in_seattle

Jobs ended up buying Apples OS from his old firm Next: Next-Step, for this reason and others

That’s not true, Jobs left apple in 1985; in the 90’s apple was going through their biggest crisis, they acquired Next, a company created by Jobs when he left apple, because they needed an OS. That’s how Jobs returned to apple, and in less than a year after his return he became interim CEO and a few months later he took over and rebuilt the company almost from scratch.