I keep running into this type of display-issue with Sketchup 2025. It happens when I “dig into” a group. It’s not Z-Fighting and it looks REALLY weird, like sometimes as if lines where at angles they clearly aren’t and so on. Happens on multiple models. Some of my windows-users report the same issue. Any advice except for “wait”.
How far from the origin is that part of the model? How large of an area does the model cover?
It’s fairly basic. The screenshots where a few meters of 0,0,0 (where I do most of my modeling). I do have a fairly large area (maybe 50 m) right next to it where I dump some components for further examination but my model (ships in this case) are usually not longer then 15-20 m
Try this to rule out a graphics thing related to model spread. First, do a Zoom Extents to see if there’s anything at a huge distance from the model. If there is, find it and delete it. Delete the stuff in the “dump” and purge the model of unused stuff.
Is there any leader text or dimensions in the model that you can’t see?
If all that fails, share the .skp file so we can see if we get the same results on different hardware.
Ok - I’ll try all this and will report back. Thanks @DaveR
I agree with @DaveR that foremost this looks like large coordinates artifacts. I would also check if the axis has been moved.
So the reason I haven’t written back is that ever since I started this post the glitches stopped. Until this morning. I made a video, because it looks super-bizarre. I cannot reproduce when it happens and on what models precisely. You guys were right, that my models often are bigger then I had remembered, because there is a big landscape on a hidden layer that I need for rendering purposes. We use this all the time and in Sketchup 2024 this has not been an issue.
The glitch seems to appear when inside a group and when the “hide rest of model” toggle is on (I have that on a short-cut because I use it all the time). You can see this in the end of the video. When I disable “hide rest of model” the glitch stops, when I enable it again, it starts again.
I can PM-share the model if that helps but it’s not only this model and - as said not all the time either.
https://www.dropbox.com/t/o48zWCiy6kEEDhZc
_https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/34xnf6q7f4t9bmalrpmy9/Bug_A.mov?rlkey=zsr7x3zj1fawzjqnwersw57en&dl=0
That still looks like what happens when the geometry is a long distance from the origin. It was a problem in 2024, and did get somewhat improved. Any improvements are in 2025. If anything I would expect 2024 to be more likely to show the problem.
Yes, I also get this issue (as you showed in the video).
It appears for me in a similar scenario, when inside nested groups or components, although not 100% of the time.
It is not distance from origin related, it seems to be ambient occlusion related and ‘thin’ geometry. Turn it off whilst inside the group and the world is good (or so it seems in my circumstance)