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Fixing Sketch Up blank window (white box) problem

When downgrading my OS over Christmas, I was faced with many problems, one of which is getting my Google sketch-up working. Almost everything was working perfectly, except one little thing, The 3D Warehouse. It was just displaying a blank screen . At first I thought I had blocked permissions for giving it internet access.  Though my computer said it was allowing it to go over the network. I tried turning off my firewall and still nothing happened. I don't have any anti-virus software so I didn't worry about that. Guess what fixed it this annoying problem? Updating INTERNET EXPLORER. Just check for updates, and updates for what ever you computers default browser is also. Now everything's back in harmony

Google Sketch Up

It's free. Ha ha. Link to download is here . It's a 3-D modeling software. Pretty cool. But like most 3-D software you need to find a guide to learn how it works. Google already has plenty of nice tutorial videos. Within an hour a knew enough to get started. It's very simple and easy to learn. A link to the list of tutorials  here . There models work with Unity. You have to export them as a 3D model. Default file format is the extension .dae. Heres something I came up with in 5 minutes playing around with: