A brief Leopard update

Posted by Brad Askins, Quality Assurance Engineer

Apple released a new version of its operating system a couple of weeks ago, and it seems as though lots of SketchUp and Mac users are upgrading. We’ve received a few questions from folks wondering about the interaction between Mac OS 10.5 Leopard and Google SketchUp 6, so we wrote a Help Center article that addresses these questions. In brief, there are still some known issues related to using SketchUp’s Google Earth-compatibility features:

• SketchUp may crash when clicking the “Get Current View” button, or by clicking “Tools” > “Google Earth” > “Get Current View.”

• Clicking the “Place Model” button, or clicking “Tools” > “Google Earth” > “Place Model” will do nothing on a Mac with a PowerPC processor. SketchUp will appear to have not processed the request. To work around this issue, we suggest the following steps:
  1. Click “File” > “Export” > “3D Model…”
  2. Choose “Google Earth 4 (*kmz)” from the “Format” drop-down menu.
  3. Enter a file name and click “Export.”
  4. Open Google Earth and click “File” > “Open.”
  5. Browse to and select the KMZ file you created and click “Open.”

• Leopard users can’t change which font is used by the 3D Text tool.
  

Please know that we’re working on the problems, and we’ll let you know as soon as they are resolved.