Thanks TIG, I went through the following Sketchup menu; Window-Preferences-workspace-reset workspace
It did the trick, I guess I messed with something accidentally.

Hi when I export from Skechup with the render scene button Octane launches but my exported scene is super far away or sometimes missing (perhaps too far for me to find it I suspect). I've tried the different options "current view", "current scene" etc but to no avail. I'm running the the latest ...

I need to correct what I said before, I can render a still frame but i'm still unable to render the solar animation, start scene is "summer solstice start", and the end scene is "summer soltice end"?
Were you able to do this?

Hi and Thanks, I managed to find the problem Group entity, it was the 2 small roof knee braces that support the small roof located at the garage side man door. The roof was a Group that contained 2 the knee braces which were sub-group as well.
Do you thing TIG the developer should be advised there ...

Can anyone tell me why this file crashes when I export a still image or animation of it to Octane 2.57, i'm using the latest TIG exporter 1024-09 but i'm always getting this message; node "summersolstice.obj" is no mesh
Yes I already tried the Sketchup fix problems and purge commands as well as all ...

Thanks Boys! There was an appostrophe in the file path name. File works fine now.
Patrick

Hi, i'm using the latest Sketchup exporter and for some reason it does not start up with this skp file. All others work fine. Attached is the file any idea why only this file?
Thanks,
Patrick
Sketchup Pro 8, Win Pro 7, i7, EVGA 570 GTX, 16gb ram