"Swingman" wrote in message
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"MikeWhy"

So this is now official where I'll come with my SU gripes. Danged
cheerleaders here need waking up. I picked up a little book on modeling a
wooden sailboat. But it had little scale drawings you were supposed to
trace, and doesn't have offset tables and line drawings. No problem. I
scanned them and figured I would just trace them in SU, and make clean
prints with fine lines I can cut. Damned if it doesn't meltdown and exit
to the desktop every 3 minutes. I'm giving up. POS. My weekend has not
been a relaxing one so far.

Look first to your computer .... too many millions using the program with
no similar problem to put the blame elsewhere but locally.

A hardware problem, most likely in your graphics subsystem? Got the latest
drivers for your video card?

That said, as with every version change there are bugs to be squashed.
There has been a recent update, so make sure you have it before proceeding
with other troubleshooting.

It's not a graphics driver issue. Drivers abort with blue screens, not
application aborts. All the same, the graphics drivers were updated
recently, just a few weeks ago, to support additional CUDA and PhysX
features. There are no other issues of any kind with any other application.

The SU website is a little odd. It doesn't list the version number or date
of the latest update. I did check, but didn't find a version number, so I
didn't update. As far as I could tell, it's the same version I already have.

No worries. I got the job done some other way. It was just as well. I wanted
to see if SW can unroll a lofted, developed surface to a flat shape. I'm
building a 14 ft. lap straked sailboat this summer, and wanted to preview
the planking. It works well enough for simple shapes. If you're interested
in such things.