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Model disappearing after creating shading surface

Hello!

I was working in sketchup with the open studio plugin on a model of a building that was almost ready to be exported to idf, just needed to add some small things as obstructions and assigning thermal zones.. anyways, the model had projected windows, intersected and matched surfaces and then I created a shading surface group. After double-clicking on it in order to draw an obstruction, everything disappeared. My model was completely gone. Of course, without saving I opened my last saved file and that one was somehow corrupted. Then I went one step behind, again corrupted. Then I opened an open studio file that was finished and exported and was working perfectly fine and it was also corrupted.

When I enter the inspector, surfaces are there, in sense that some 170 surfaces are listed, but nothing is visible. I tried to unhide all, didn't work. Restarted my pc, didn't work. Opened many different files, nothing works. I am very worried now since I have a deadline for my project and this (whatever it is I hope it's an easy-fix) messed up all my files.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Model disappearing after creating shading surface

Hello!

I was working in sketchup with the open studio plugin on a model of a building that was almost ready to be exported to idf, just needed to add some small things as obstructions and assigning thermal zones.. anyways, the model had projected windows, intersected and matched surfaces and then I created a shading surface group. After double-clicking on it in order to draw an obstruction, everything disappeared. My model was completely gone. Of course, without saving I opened my last saved file and that one was somehow corrupted. Then I went one step behind, again corrupted. Then I opened an open studio file that was finished and exported and was working perfectly fine and it was also corrupted.

When I enter the inspector, surfaces are there, in sense that some 170 surfaces are listed, but nothing is visible. I tried to unhide all, didn't work. Restarted my pc, didn't work. Opened many different files, nothing works. I am very worried now since I have a deadline for my project and this (whatever it is I hope it's an easy-fix) messed up all my files.

Thank you in advance for any help!

Model disappearing after creating shading surface

Hello!

I was working in sketchup with the open studio plugin on a model of a building that was almost ready to be exported to idf, just needed to add some small things as obstructions and assigning thermal zones.. anyways, the model had projected windows, intersected and matched surfaces and then I created a shading surface group. After double-clicking on it in order to draw an obstruction, everything disappeared. My model was completely gone. Of course, without saving I opened my last saved file and that one was somehow corrupted. Then I went one step behind, again corrupted. Then I opened an open studio file that was finished and exported and was working perfectly fine and it was also corrupted.

When I enter the inspector, surfaces are there, in sense that some 170 surfaces are listed, but nothing is visible. I tried to unhide all, didn't work. Restarted my pc, didn't work. Opened many different files, nothing works. I am very worried now since I have a deadline for my project and this (whatever it is I hope it's an easy-fix) messed up all my files.

Thank you in advance for any help!