Greetings, I’ve been evaluating Sketchup Up Pro 2018 for the past two weeks. I’m learning and making progress but I have two issues so far. The second is the one of most concern. There appears to be an occasional issue with the circle tool. I’m experiencing stability issues. I am putting a 5/16"…

It might be that the circle tool had too few edges and made it look like a polygon ( essentially the circle tool is a polygon tool with many sides) when you invoke the circle tool you can type a number which will give you the side count…if you want a really smooth circle make this 30 to 70? dependi…

I’d suspect your crashes are being caused by your graphic card setup. The Intel cards are not generally very compatible with SU and the Display link adapter can cause problems. Check for the latest drivers for the Intel. Also, when installing it Sketchup, and many other programs, need to be install…

[image] Box: 5/16 is small hole and as such you may be running into issues of tiny edges Should one mention the Dave Method at this point?

Thank you for your help WRBC. To clarify, the issue was with selecting the tool, not drawing with it. The mouse cursor displayed as a hexagon for the polygon tool. If I tried to select the circle tool it didn’t “take;” the polygon tool remained selected. Thank you for the information on the circ…

Box, thank you for your reply and tips. It would make sense that the crashes are perhaps lower-level, driver related as there is no exception caught. My setup is very business software and coding oriented. Until this exercise with Sketchup, my work has included lightweight presentation graphics and…

[image] KentonHensley: Sketchup was installed as administrator Did you right click on the .exe and choose run as administrator? If you did great, if not do so and choose repair as the option.

[image] RLGL: Did you right click on the .exe and choose run as administrator? If you did great, if not do so and choose repair as the option. Yes, that’s correct,. I have a little more data on the instability. The USB docks I use (a Dell at work and DisplayLink at home) provide the adapters…

To be honest with you, I don’t think monitors are meant to be hot plugged. Try keeping them off when connecting.

[image] RLGL: To be honest with you, I don’t think monitors are meant to be hot plugged. Try keeping them off when connecting. Hi RLGL, Consider that Windows has supported docking stations with external monitors for decades. Available bandwidth in USB 3.0 and the driver technology has made…

[image] KentonHensley: Consider that Windows has supported docking stations with external monitors for decades. Available bandwidth in USB 3.0 and the driver technology has made USB docking stations with external monitors now the preferred method for business use. Also, none of my other programs…

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simoncbevans November 24, 2018, 9:09am 4

Should one mention the Dave Method at this point?

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