All of a sudden when I try to move an object it is jumping around and not going to where I want it. I turned off the length units snapping and that did not work. I must have pushed a hotkey or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated! I researched other answers as well and most seem to lead …

I’d probably start by trying zoom extents to see if there’s a bit off in the distance. Shep

How about a recent change to your video card or it’s drivers?

ummmm…I haven’t done anything that I know of.

Since you’re on a Mac you automatically get video driver updates with other OS updates if there are any. Since you have an AMD Radeon card which are known for their less than ideal support for OpenGL, it could be a GPU driver issue. You might try turning off Hardware Acceleration in Preferences>Ope…

So here is what is going on. I had turned off the length unit snapping, then saved it. That worked once, then it started snapping again to a set length. (I had put one in there as a test) It is snapping to that length even though it is not turned on?! I tried quitting SU and restarting, I tried rest…

Can you post an example SKP file that does it?

I may be totally wrong here… but… when I was really new with Sketchup and I had trouble moving objects exactly where I wanted to, it was due to 2 reasons. When you move an object, I found out it was best to first have the object selected, then click your mouse when it is away from all objects so …

I’ll try. I’ve never done that before!

Moving an Object is jumping around

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DMB September 1, 2016, 1:22pm 3

I looked…nothing hanging out there.

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Moving an Object is jumping around

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