My drawing disappeared again. I was using the eraser on one line and the drawing went away. I think it has to do with when I erased the line the text that was anchored to. It moved off into Sketchup outer space so to speak. When that happens your drawing disappears because it becomes too small to s…

This is what I see when I open your file in 17Make or in 2021. Are you still using 17 make as your profile says or 19? I don’t see any distant geometry or labels and all view work fine, as does zoom extents. Should there be more? [Screen Shot 2021-04-24 at 9.51.20 AM]

There is one other view Landsailer drawing below those two. This is my view of the same drawing. [F3 retro]

To me it looks like you have drawn your vehicle flat on the red/blue plane. When you look at that from a plan view you will only see a line as you are looking at the flat faces from their end. But yes, version 2017 can have the label text pointing to nothing problem too.

Like EF and Anssi, I find it puzzling. You have several 2D drawings in a plane in a 3D model space. It shouldn’t be at all surprising that it disappears when you switch to the top or side views. [Screenshot - 4_24_2021 , 5_48_21 PM]

When I set up to draw I select camera front view. occasionally the drawings disappear randomly. Usually when an anchored text gets removed from the anchor point. Its very frustrating after I spend hours on a drawing and it vanishes. The only way I’ve been able to recover a drawing is to switch the …

Why are you only drawing 2D in a 3D modeling application? You could avoid the problems you are making by first, not creating the unanchored text and if you only want a 2D drawing, using a 2D drawing application instead of a 3D modeling app.

If your going to do a lot of 2D work in sketchUp, then you might as well make use of it’s natural drawing surface… which happens to be the Ground Plane, along the XY axis lines (Red/Green). Use the Standard View Top setting to align your orientation to this. Anything drawn in elevation has no natu…

I don’t need 3 d for what I do. I was not aware SU had a 2d application setting. Thanks to Jim D for showing me how to do that. I try to never do unanchored text. The drawings disappear randomly. It seems to happen when I use the eraser and accidently erase a line that the text is anchored to. It’s …

My drawing disappeared again. Help!

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jlsbfam April 24, 2021, 5:14pm 5

This is a discussion when it happened a few months ago. - Sketchup 17 drawings disappear - #9 by DaveR

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My drawing disappeared again. Help!

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