https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160965#M17987 Hi Jay,<BR /> <BR /> Sounds like a graphics card problem - that's what powers the 3d window. Have you checked to see if there is a newer graphics card driver for your system?<BR /> <BR /> Good luck with getting to grips with ArchiCAD again! Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:31:13 GMT Anonymous 2010-06-21T22:31:13Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160964#M17986 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>I am back to drafting with ArchiCAD after 6 years. (My best employee found a better job at the San Diego Zoo, ...slow economy here.) I love ArchiCAD, but I have forgotten most of the "words" to the language of ArchiCAD because I haven't used it myself in years. <BR /> <BR /> Today I have started drawing lessons. I have drawn a simple house with some jogs in the walls. On top I put a hipped roof. The 3D view looked OK, but when I moved around with the orbit function I got the beach ball, ...freeze.<BR /> <BR /> Now this should not happen to a nice, old, guy like me. A simple exercise: a one-story house and a simple roof, ...but it freezes the computer.<BR /> <BR /> Am I missing an update? <BR /> <BR /> Ideas?<BR /> <BR /> I'm using Snow Leopard. OSX 10.6.4 and AC 13.0<BR /> <BR /> -JS</T></DIV> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:01:45 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160964#M17986 Anonymous 2010-06-21T19:01:45Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160965#M17987 Hi Jay,<BR /> <BR /> Sounds like a graphics card problem - that's what powers the 3d window. Have you checked to see if there is a newer graphics card driver for your system?<BR /> <BR /> Good luck with getting to grips with ArchiCAD again! Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:31:13 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160965#M17987 Anonymous 2010-06-21T22:31:13Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160966#M17988 Hi Peter,<BR /> <BR /> Well, I tried it again, ...no problems that time. You will see that I have two graphics cards, both rather powerful and each with a large fan. Seems the fans draw in dust, which can cake the cooling fins, leading to an abrupt, systemic, lack of enthusiasm.<BR /> <BR /> Thank you for good wishes. <BR /> <BR /> ArchiCAD is like French, it comes back quickly when, or if, immersed.<BR /> <BR /> -JS Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:05:51 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160966#M17988 Anonymous 2010-06-22T00:05:51Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160967#M17989 <BLOCKQUOTE>Jay wrote:<BR /> I have forgotten most of the "words" to the language of ArchiCAD </BLOCKQUOTE> The usual cuss words will do. Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:51:13 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160967#M17989 Dwight 2010-06-22T00:51:13Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160968#M17990 <BLOCKQUOTE>Jay wrote:<BR />OK, but when I moved around with the orbit function I got the <FONT color="#FF0000"><B>beach ball</B></FONT>, ...freeze.</BLOCKQUOTE>My kids call it "The Spinning Pinwheel of Death" <IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/emojis/icon_twisted.gif" style="display : inline;" /> <IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/emojis/icon_biggrin.gif" style="display : inline;" /> Wed, 23 Jun 2010 07:21:46 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Beach-Ball-with-my-first-roof-in-3D/m-p/160968#M17990 Stress Co_ 2010-06-23T07:21:46Z