Bizarre Sketchup problem?

[gidon]

Don't know what's going on but any models I make or have made print and are exported as a black block! I've tried installing the latest version, uninstalling etc to no avail.
Anyone any ideas?
Must be something silly surely?
Cheers
Gidon

 

[Steve Maskery]

Hi Gidon

Are you sure you're not just designing black blocks? That would be silly

Where's me coat?

 

[RobertMP]

What about file>print preview. does that show the picture or a black block?

 

[RobertMP]

Only other thought is some strange scale setting zooming you in super close?

 

[Slim]

Hi Gidon,

Just had a look at the Sketchup Google group. It seems that there is a bug, but it can be remedied by switching off OpenGL hardware acceleration.

Go to Window > Preferences > OpenGL and uncheck 'Use hardware acceleration'

If this fixes the problem, then download the latest drivers for OpenGL and your graphics card.

Hopefully that should help.

 

[gidon]

Hero! Thanks Simon.
Weird why it's suddenly come about - been using Sketchup for quite a long time - but not for a while so must have done something funny in the mean time.
Thanks for all the help.
Cheers
Gidon