Sketchup 17, Mac OS sierra transparency bug

[DanRathbun]

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Black areas showing up in 2017 Layout viewport

Just upgraded this morning to SU 2017 Pro and am having black areas show up at the fringes of my model in all Layout perspective viewports. Tried updating scenes in the model, turning off shadows, resizing viewports, restarting app etc. and no luck. They also show up on pdf export. On a Mac with Sierra 10.12.1. Anyone else having this? update: only in scenes/styles that have textures turned on. update 2: was able to get them to go away by going into document set up - paper and changing the re…

@Barry

Ah, and little internal birdies have told me about a transparent
background issue on some Macs that can cause this.

So the SketchUp Team knows about these issues and are working on them.

Here is the update by Marc:

Black areas showing up in 2017 Layout viewport

Hi all- Just a little update on this issue. We’ve tracked this down to some sort of an issue with the drivers for particular graphics cards in particular Macs. We’re looking for a fix on our end and we’re working with the vendor to see if they’ll fix this in a driver update. At the moment I don’t have a dependable workaround for this issue. The best way to help solve this issue is to post your exact graphic card specs Thanks, Marc