Hey everyone, I’m new to sketchup and am following along with the beginners lessons from FineWoodworking.com. I can easily make a rectangle and use push/pull to expand it into a box. Very basic I know. But, when I try to select the area to prepare to make it a component, the entire program either freezes or crashes. I’ve check the troubleshooting guide. I’ve restarted my computer after install. I’ve ensured no older versions of Sketchup exist. I’ve deleted every file that I can find before reinstalling and it still crashes at the same point. I can move the object or skew it to the side but as soon as I try to select it, absolute failure. My graphics card is a little old but is still within the tolerances listed on the website. It was working earlier today while I was going through the lessons but then it failed and has continued to fail for the last 7 hours of trying everything I can think of. I even tried to install the 2024 version but that was even worse. That one wouldn’t even launch my browser to enable me to log in. I’m at a loss. I know it’s a good program for most people but so far it’s been a dud for me to even learn the basics. Help!
You might start with switching to the Classic graphics engine in Window>Preferences>Performance. Then restart SketchUp. You list an integrated GPU which doesn’t support the new graphics engine in SketchUp.
On the off chance it’s something related to the model, can you share the .skp file so we can see what you’ve got.
@DaveR Thank you so much. Switching to the classic graphics seems to have fixed the issue so far. I think this will work for me as I’m not doing anything that complicated yet. I really appreciate it.
Good to hear that got you sorted out. If you want to take advantage of the rendering features inSketchUp you’ll need to update your hardware to include a suitable graphics card.
How might one find out what is a suitable graphics card? The last post I could find on graphics card was 2019.