Google Sketchup 6 released

Daniel Aleksandersen - Jan. 11, 2007

Anyone else missing The Sims after seeing thse photos? ^^ Google should make a Sims-like extension pack! :P

Dave Davis - Jan. 12, 2007

Hey Thomas. Long time reader of your feed. Was never aware of this before. Really love the mockup you did. Regarding Vista, I'm sure there will be a small update or something to insure its compatibility.

Jorin Stalif - Apr. 6, 2007

Hello Thomas, excellent work, you have a very unique style.

You mind if I ask what kind of hardware you're using? I have a brand new Dual Core with NVIDIA card and I haven't for the life of me been able to get Sketchup to work with Vista. Its freezing up right at the "Learning Center" popup window. I keep looking around for ways to fix this issue, have searched high and low and tried everything I've read. The compatibility and admin settings seem to be working for everyone but me, so I can only guess it has to be something in the hardware.

Can't believe here we are in April and still no support from Google! I think they hate Microsoft.

jo - Jun. 25, 2007

Jorrin

In case you haven´t solved your problem . . . I had the same thing until I changed the compatibility mode to Windows 98 and start with administrative rights turned on . .. . strangely enough this worked for me after everything else failed

Andre Fernades - Jul. 24, 2007

Hi there,

I got exactly the same problem as Jorrin. After trying everything that I saw and thought that would solve the problem, I tried the Jo proposed and suprinsingly it worked. I really don't understand why, but it worked and that is what matters.

thaks for the help

Nathan King - Jul. 28, 2007

I'ma long time fan and user of Google Sketchup (been using it for just over a year now) and gretaly enjoyed using it, especialy on my old machine. I recently purchased a new machine (a celeron m advent notebook, intergrated graphics) which, unfourtianatly for sketchup, runs windows vista. This is a great source of annoyance, as I had to spend about a week trawling for soloutions, downloading new drivers of intel for the graphics chip, exc. When all of that was done, it gave the highly irrating situation the next day of inserting a blank white space inbetween the toolbars and the actual model viewing area. The effect of this is that it shifts everything down, so instead of clicking on something to selesct/draw.erase/paint/exc. I cant click on the object or line, but instead have to mess around clicking above the object or line, to compensate for this drift. I recently tried uninstalling and reinstalling sketchup, and ot worked fine again after that...

... for about a day, because the next day I reopened the model I was working on, and the evil bar of nothingness had reappeared. It takes about 10x as long to do a project. Please fix it Google.

Though I wouldn't be suprised if Google hated Microsoft, seeing as it has a pretty sweet relationship with Apple.

TulsaDavid - Jul. 28, 2007

Thanks for the Vista info on running Sketchup in Windows 98 Compatibility mode. That is the only way it worked for me as well. I've installed it on a HP Pavillion laptop, dual core, NVIDIA GeForce 7600 graphics, and it froze exactly as Jorin Stalif mentioned (post #7 - Apr. 6, 2007).

Thanks, Jo, for the post.

Shawn - Aug. 8, 2007

I need help I am in Iraq and I have been using sketchup since I got here the problem I am having is that when I open sketchup on my laptop (which uses Vista) everything is see through and no matter what i do i can not get it to be textured or even colored just see through. If anyone can help me I would really appretiate it.. Thank you

chrisbenjy - Aug. 20, 2007

shawn, I have the same problem, and im also running vista, you can uninstall SketchUp and Install it again and it will work, but you have to reinstall everytime you turn on your computer which is anoying, I've played around with all the settings trying to sort it out, but nothing worked. anyone got a solution?

elias - Aug. 21, 2007

Open the program, then open Window menu, then Preferences, OpenGL,

then deselect hardware acceleration. it should work..good luck

Chrisbenjy - Aug. 21, 2007

that worked great thanks, but wat i dont understand is why it works to start off with but then doesnt, anyway thanks alot = ]

elias - Aug. 21, 2007

I'm glad that it worked for u. to answer ur question ,SketchUp relies on OpenGL 1.5 compliant graphics card and drivers, and several graphics cards don't have Windows Vista compatible drivers yet.therefore it's important to continually check with the graphics card manufacturer for new drivers.if u do that, u won't have this problem.

p - Oct. 18, 2007

solved the problem:

get hold of a copy of XP.

waldemar - Oct. 25, 2007

GS still doesn't work well at the vista?

I'm having a lot of problems'.

In Brazil theres not any help.

Can you give me a hand?

Nyrelle - Nov. 23, 2007

So very disappointed that I experienced same problems as already mentioned. So grateful for the suggestions. I have changed compatibility mode from Vista to Windows 98 ..... and so far so good. THANKS !

eric - Dec. 10, 2007

i tryed using it on "run as administrator" and it did work :-)

Warren - Jan. 1, 2008

THANK YOU for the run as administrator/Win 98 tip...It works!!!

neptis/tevion/martyn - Jan. 2, 2008

i have a aculy got GS to work fine in vista

all i did was downlode it .

ok it has a fue glitches . but thats it

Shane - Jan. 28, 2008

YEAH

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous - Feb. 10, 2008

sketchup is great on a Mac ! - actually everything is better...

anDres - Feb. 19, 2008

Thanks!!!!! ELIAS

Lacné Pneumatiky - Mar. 11, 2008

It is your real own work? Please where you downloaded things like: clock, flower or umbrella?

Slovniky - Mar. 20, 2008

Nice work, thanks for info.

Inspiron User - Mar. 27, 2008

I had issues with saving files from Google Sketchup and I am running windows vista. The program opens fine and when I select save (and most other File options that require a dialog bok) from the file menu Google Sketchup crashes. After trying many things(running it in Win 98 mode was one thing) running it in Windows XP (service pack 2) compatibility mode was the solution. After this saving files and using other File options no longer crashed Sketchup.

vic - May. 10, 2008

Every time I tried to install GS it stops right at the installation process and gives me three options: report, close, ok..I am running Vista SP1...any ideas...

thanks

Tuyen - May. 28, 2008

Can someone please help me.

Question #1: i tried opening one of my recent drawing in sketchup and i got a pop up saying this file is currently locked by another user. what does that mean? im the only one using sketchup on this laptop.

Question #2: when i tried to render using SU podium i accidentally clicked stop and now when i tried to render again, it just render till that certain percentage where i clicked stop. there is nothing i can do to get it working again. can someone please help me?

Larissa Reolon - Jun. 3, 2008

Hello!! I have windows vista and the same problems that everyone described..today I selected the compatibility mode for win 98 and It worked . But when I try to save or even import a file it shuts down immediately!!! Anyone knows what migth be going on?

thanks

MRX - Jun. 27, 2008

I have downloaded a skin for windows xp. It is really the same as vista. if the pc is starting it says windows vista. and sketchup works fine. if someone is interested. the skin's name is windows vista inspirated 2 ultimate. :P

tony - Jul. 15, 2008

Larissa, I use to have the same problem as well but that was fixed by adding more memory. Also make sure you have powerful graphic card (i use NVIDIA Ge)

fayebelle - Jul. 18, 2008

i installed sketch up pro 6 in my laptop, like nathan king has encountered, when i select a face it selects the back face or other entity. it is so hard to erase, push/pull and offset.. because it selects another face. i tried all of the suggestions. worse thing is, i couldn't uninstall the program.

please help

sophies - Aug. 7, 2008

thomas, i would like to know did you use any rendering programme in the sketchup drawings above? if yes, which rendering goes the best with sketchup (if recommand?) and how long it took you to accomplished this drawing?

i used sketchup a couple times for my presentation. and wish to get better on that.

thanx for taking time anwering!!

sophie - Aug. 8, 2008

thanks thomas!

i am so glad to know that i don't need rendering to make it more picture-like. i did try some rendering programmes before, it was time consuming and frustrated.

three days is very decent to come up with the detailed model you made. that says i can do it too......

i found your site while searching information learning sketchup. forgive me not yet go thru every thing in your site. i wonder have you use sketchup for other creations? such as products design?

Vangel - Oct. 7, 2008

Hey, i have a problem,every time i try to draw something it get full of blue red and green spots,it gets annoying:(

Vasco - Oct. 29, 2008

Hello. I successfully installed GS in Vista 3 days ago. So far, it's running smoothly. All you need is to install it with different compatibility modes:

1. right-click the installer. In the 3rd Tab (Compatibility) there's a list where you can select it to run XP compatible. Install GS.

2. in the executable or desktop short cut, you do the same, but this time select Windows 98/ME compatibility.

Voilá.