Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
before it will finally highlight the correct face.
Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
On Wed, 12 May 2010 16:07:22 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
<[email protected]> wrote the following:
>"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:42:42 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
>> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>>>How do you know you got it all?
>>
>> Egad! How pervasive are small rootlets at the 1' depth?
>
>If you went a foot deep, you're probably ok. But how about the seeds, did
>you pick up all the seeds?
Pompous grazz gotsk seeds? Aw, shucks. They'll just have to deal
with it if it comes up, I guess. I'll take over a jug of Roundup and
an eyedropper. Ackshully, I found something better. Green Light puts
out COM-PLEET, a 41% glyphosate solution for half the Monsanto
extortional price. A quart makes 21 gallons, and it appears to work
well in 3 of the 4 places I tried it. Grass in the one area it didn't
kill off entirely was a foot tall. Then my brass tip lost itself
while I was cleaning the unit. It just flat disappeared. I'm certain
the larger ants carried it off because of my deforestation of their
home areas.
--
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless,
and the honest desire to help other people, will, in
the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
-- John Ruskin
On 5/11/2010 6:27 PM, SonomaProducts.com wrote:
> Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
> pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
> mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
> it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
> zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
> before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>
> Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
Sounds like a graphic systems issue, but insure the following before
getting into that:
Is this behavior with a part that has been made into a component or
group? If so, you have to double click on the component/group, or right
click and chose edit from the context menu to get the part into edit mode.
If not, insure that you indeed have created a "face" to select and that
it is in "edit" mode, as above.
As noted first above, it is highly likely that this could be a driver
issue with your graphics system. Be aware that 100% compatiblity with
OpenGL is an absolutely requirement for SU. You need to determine if
your graphics card/system is indeed 100% compatible with OpenGL, and
update with the latest drivers in any case.
Here is something to check in that regard:
1. In SketchUp, open the "Window" menu.
2. Click "Preferences."
3. Click "OpenGL."
4. In the "Acceleration" section, select the "Correct reversed
picking driver bug" option.
5. Click "OK."
You might also try different hardware acceleration parameters in the
same menu, as well as disabling hardware acceleration. In case none of
this solves the issue, here are some tech notes that may help
troubleshooting:
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu_mac/F-Model_Settings_and_Managers/Settings-Preferences.htm
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/gsu_mac/M-Technical_Reference/Tech-OpenGL.htm
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I haven't had that problem, ever. When you solve it
will you post, as this is interesting. Thanks
"SonomaProducts.com" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
> pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
> mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
> it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
> zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
> before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>
> Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:42:42 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
<[email protected]> wrote the following:
>"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
>> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>>
>>>Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
>>>pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
>>>mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
>>>it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
>>>zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
>>>before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>>>
>>>Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
>>
>> 'Nother newbie to SU here. I've found the same thing. It usually
>> indicated that there were other close surfaces which were being
>> selected. Zooming in helped me in that case.
>>
>> I received the super-cheap Missing Manual today but haven't had time
>> to even open the cover yet. I may come up for air on Friday-Sunday,
>> as I'm taking those days off to decompress. Being busy is a mixed
>> blessing. I have cuts all over my forearms from taking out 3 huge
>> pampas grass clusters today.
I should have said "welted-up teeny scratches" instead of cuts. There
wasn't much blood showing, but my forearms are werry sore this morn.
>My dogs used to climb up into one that we had many years ago. Buggers would
>sleep up there until dinner.
Animals have thicker skin than we do.
>How do you know you got it all?
Egad! How pervasive are small rootlets at the 1' depth?
--
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless,
and the honest desire to help other people, will, in
the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
-- John Ruskin
"SonomaProducts.com" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
> pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
> mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
> it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
> zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
> before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>
> Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
I suspect that you are trying to push/pull something which is not really a
"face"--a connected sequence of edges.
My fix for this problem is to resketch boundary of the face. Of course, I am
not an expert.
Bill
"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>
>>Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
>>pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
>>mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
>>it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
>>zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
>>before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>>
>>Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
>
> 'Nother newbie to SU here. I've found the same thing. It usually
> indicated that there were other close surfaces which were being
> selected. Zooming in helped me in that case.
>
> I received the super-cheap Missing Manual today but haven't had time
> to even open the cover yet. I may come up for air on Friday-Sunday,
> as I'm taking those days off to decompress. Being busy is a mixed
> blessing. I have cuts all over my forearms from taking out 3 huge
> pampas grass clusters today.
My dogs used to climb up into one that we had many years ago. Buggers would
sleep up there until dinner.
How do you know you got it all?
"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:42:42 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>
>>"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>>>
>>>>Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
>>>>pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
>>>>mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
>>>>it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
>>>>zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
>>>>before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>>>>
>>>>Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
>>>
>>> 'Nother newbie to SU here. I've found the same thing. It usually
>>> indicated that there were other close surfaces which were being
>>> selected. Zooming in helped me in that case.
>>>
>>> I received the super-cheap Missing Manual today but haven't had time
>>> to even open the cover yet. I may come up for air on Friday-Sunday,
>>> as I'm taking those days off to decompress. Being busy is a mixed
>>> blessing. I have cuts all over my forearms from taking out 3 huge
>>> pampas grass clusters today.
>
> I should have said "welted-up teeny scratches" instead of cuts. There
> wasn't much blood showing, but my forearms are werry sore this morn.
>
>
>>My dogs used to climb up into one that we had many years ago. Buggers
>>would
>>sleep up there until dinner.
>
> Animals have thicker skin than we do.
>
>
>>How do you know you got it all?
>
> Egad! How pervasive are small rootlets at the 1' depth?
If you went a foot deep, you're probably ok. But how about the seeds, did
you pick up all the seeds?
"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 16:07:22 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>
>>"Larry Jaques" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>news:[email protected]...
>>> On Tue, 11 May 2010 23:42:42 -0700, "Lobby Dosser"
>>> <[email protected]> wrote the following:
>>>>How do you know you got it all?
>>>
>>> Egad! How pervasive are small rootlets at the 1' depth?
>>
>>If you went a foot deep, you're probably ok. But how about the seeds, did
>>you pick up all the seeds?
>
> Pompous grazz gotsk seeds? Aw, shucks. They'll just have to deal
> with it if it comes up, I guess. I'll take over a jug of Roundup and
> an eyedropper. Ackshully, I found something better. Green Light puts
> out COM-PLEET, a 41% glyphosate solution for half the Monsanto
> extortional price. A quart makes 21 gallons, and it appears to work
> well in 3 of the 4 places I tried it. Grass in the one area it didn't
> kill off entirely was a foot tall. Then my brass tip lost itself
> while I was cleaning the unit. It just flat disappeared. I'm certain
> the larger ants carried it off because of my deforestation of their
> home areas.
They'll be pounding it into ploughshares ...
On Tue, 11 May 2010 16:27:09 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
<[email protected]> wrote the following:
>Sometimes (many tinmes or even most times) when I go to use the push
>pull or follow me tool, I can't select the syrface I want. I move the
>mouse over the face but it won't highlight. If I try to select anyway
>it will pick some face, usually on the far side. I have to keep
>zooming and rotating around and moving the mouse all over the face
>before it will finally highlight the correct face.
>
>Am I just crazy or is there some trick or what?
'Nother newbie to SU here. I've found the same thing. It usually
indicated that there were other close surfaces which were being
selected. Zooming in helped me in that case.
I received the super-cheap Missing Manual today but haven't had time
to even open the cover yet. I may come up for air on Friday-Sunday,
as I'm taking those days off to decompress. Being busy is a mixed
blessing. I have cuts all over my forearms from taking out 3 huge
pampas grass clusters today.
--
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless,
and the honest desire to help other people, will, in
the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
-- John Ruskin