Sketchup drawings randomly disappear while I’m working on them. Is there a way to retrieve them?

What is the most recent action you have taken in SketchUp just before the drawing “disappears”? Have you tried the Zoom Extents function (Camera menu)? Or switch the camera from parallel to perspective mode? Or made sure that the object(s) are not on a layer that is set hidden? Or turn in hidden geo…

What is the most recent action you have taken in SketchUp just before the drawing “disappears”? It has happened when using the protractor or eraser. In this case the eraser Have you tried the Zoom Extents function (Camera menu)? Yes no change Or switch the camera from parallel to perspective mod…

[image] jlsbfam: It has happened when using the protractor or eraser. In this case the eraser [image] jlsbfam: I undid the erase with no luck however sometimes when this happens which is too often I can retrieve the drawing as it reverts back to it. I cannot explain why the protractor …

Your model has fallen victim to a bug that was fixed in (I think) SketchUp 2019. If you are modeling something that is basically 2D, attach leader texts, and then edit the model the texts may get wrongly moved off to very far away. This causes the model contents to seem to disappear if you zoom, b…

Steve, Come to think of it most of my drawings that disappeared had a text attached to them. Sometimes the text was there but not the rest of the drawing. A few times I restored the drawing but I don’t remember what I did to restore it. What are the steps in restoring the drawing? Thank you for yo…

Best work flow would be to avoid modeling in Parallel Projection. Save that for when you export images.

Sketchup 17 drawings disappear

Technical Problems

DaveR February 28, 2021, 6:34pm 4

Share your .skp file so we can see what you are working with.

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Sketchup 17 drawings disappear

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