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      rhankc
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      It is good to read your newsletter Coen, very well done, and full of good info. I was absorbed all the way to page 60.

      I have become engaged to GE. I have been using it on a project where the sight lines from certain community view corridors are critical for project approval. GE is amazing, you drop your model on the terrain and navigate the area to disclose any situations that need addressing. Some views are apx. 13,000 ft away and the elevation diff is 1200 vertical ft.

      The biggest point I would like to see Google make is to enhace the output capabilities regarding construction docs. I think I am lazy , but it seems redundant to me to send a model to cad to "enhance" it for CDs.
      Peace

      Hank

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        DavidBoulder
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        So, I hadn't been signed up here until now. Is this newsletter online somewhere. If someone can send me a link I'd appreciate it.

        Thanks, David

        --

        David Goldwasser
        OpenStudio Developer
        National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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          remus
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          there you go, enjoy.

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            lewiswadsworth
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            Thank you, Coen, for the long newsletter.

            I am pleased that Aidan (geez, the guy used to work down the street from me and now he's a star!) left open the possibility that some kind of new product demonstration might occur at Basecamp. Otherwise I'm afraid that the gathering will be a wake, however jovial.

            Oh well, there will always be something else if SU turns into a toy for GE jockeys. I write this as I complete, for the first time in five or so years, a project using another package as my main modeler.

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              tomsdesk
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              I did notice that quote, Pete...along with a couple of other points I want reread and digest a bit more (though as Coen and others suggest: any interpretation on my part is still just a "not particularly educated" quess :`)

              Here's the stuff of my hopes for the future, and I'm happy to support them along the way as I need them:

              "CatchUp: Last question for this interview: Where do you see Sketchup going?

              Fredo: It is true that I don’t really perceive the direct involvement of Google in the Sketchup Ruby community. When I see SketchyPhysics, Subdivide & Smooth, Free Form Deformation, Soap Skin & Bubble, Skin, LightUp and many other great scripts, I would have expected that the Sketchup designers at Google give feedback and also more insight on what would come next in the official version (including the API itself, whose documentation can largely be improved). I can however see the dilemma: Keep Sketchup simple to learn and to use, or make it a giant design factory as complex as Blender or 3D Max. Maybe the plugin approach is the right compromise, but then, I think Google should still put a little bit of effort in helping the community of script developers and users."

              With this scenerio, however, my attitude would be to stay away from future upgrades of SU, unless they include some of the basic stuff noted on the wishlist thread, as they are quite likely to become even more cumbersome than the changes from 5 to 6. I just hope the ruby genius' share these thoughts and keep compatability with older versions.

              http://www.tomsdesk.moonfruit.com/
              2.5D Trees & Shrubs!

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                todd burch
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                Lewis, if it gets too dry, we can always cruise over to Apple's WWDC, get a pass for the vendor area and see how many freebies we can get out of there with.

                Todd

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                  lewiswadsworth
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  Lewis, if it gets too dry, we can always cruise over to Apple's WWDC, get a pass for the vendor area and see how many freebies we can get out of there with.

                  Todd

                  🤣 Best idea yet!

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                    DavidBoulder
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                    Thanks for the link

                    --

                    David Goldwasser
                    OpenStudio Developer
                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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                      plot-paris
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                      thank you very much, Coen.

                      that magnificent newsletter was really worth waiting for! 😍

                      I have sacrificed some hours sleep to read it through by now. 😆

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                        utiler
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                        Nice work Coen....

                        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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                          SchreiberBike
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                          Great Job Coen, One of the nicest "newsletters" I've seen on-line.

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                            dazza
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                            Great work Coen, thanks for all the hard work! 😍

                            All people have the right to stupidity but some abuse the privilege.

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                              el.antuan
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                              Wow!!

                              I agree: Nice work! 😲

                              Regards

                              "En las fiestas no te sientes jamás; puede sentarse a tu lado alguien que no te guste." Groucho Marx

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                                ELYSIUM
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                                Tks for the newsletter Coen, great work! it was well worth the time you keept us in the dark.

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                                  kwistenbiebel
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                                  Congratulations Coen (and the other contributors involved) for the nice newsletter.
                                  It is a joy to read. Thanks for that.

                                  I didn't find any useful news on the upcoming SU7 itself though (= none at all).....
                                  The title of this thread is a bit misleading.
                                  Sure it's about 'Sketchup news'...but not about the Seven.
                                  Or did I miss something?

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                                    Jean Lemire
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                                    Hi Coen, hi folks.

                                    Excellent job.

                                    Great informative newsletter.

                                    Superb idea.

                                    Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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                                      gio
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                                      @lewiswadsworth said:

                                      @papyrus said:

                                      A new compete will start with FormZ and their new programme : BonZai 3D

                                      Read this :
                                      http://architosh.com/news/2008-05/0513_aia_bonzai_3D.html

                                      It's good for us. 👍 👍 👍

                                      FormZ is such a piece of 1990's foolishness. I have difficulty believing the company that produces it is capable of any innovation...not that we have been seeing much progress in that area anyway.

                                      You will be surprised of Auto-ded-sys!
                                      A friend of mine saw today the preview and he told that it will be a good competitor of SU.
                                      Let's see...

                                      Ciao, Gio

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                                        lewiswadsworth
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                                        @gio said:

                                        You will be surprised of Auto-ded-sys!
                                        A friend of mine saw today the preview and he told that it will be a good competitor of SU.
                                        Let's see...

                                        Oh, I'm sure they have some eye-candy. And devoted fanatics, like any other program.

                                        But they also have a great reputation for producing expensive, cumbersome, "also-ran" software. I should know...I carried two licenses for their ridiculous flagship for six years. I have a key-chain's worth of those retarded hardware locks.

                                        In any case, is this not a SketchUp forum, and a thread devoted to SU 7 news? There are others devoted to alternative modelers. Whole forums on other sites, in fact.

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                                          gio
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                                          @lewiswadsworth said:

                                          Oh, I'm sure they have some eye-candy. And devoted fanatics, like any other program.

                                          Wow!!!!
                                          What a "devoted fanatic" you seem to be! 💚

                                          Peace!
                                          Gio

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                                            lewiswadsworth
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                                            So the owner (!) of Auto-de-sys (maybe it should be "Auto-de-fé") was at the booth at the AIA convention today. He went on and on about people were always sending him SketchUp models that couldn't be 3D printed, and that they ended up completely rebuilding the models and SketchUp was a primitive toy and so forth.

                                            I interrupted him and pointed out that I've never had any problem with getting my SU files made into STL for printing, and that I've helped various firms win major RCP's with SketchUp models and renderings, and even done fairly well myself in a few. He insisted this was not possible; I suggested that I was simply very lucky. He insisted I couldn't turn SketchUp files into STLs. I said I used a script, or if it was too complex I simply imported the file into Rhino and used their STL exporter. I suggested again that perhaps I was just really, really lucky.

                                            He became really, really angry. I thought he might hit me.

                                            I mentioned this to...ahem...another SCF regular in attendance, and she suggested it was because SketchUp is eating away at his retirement fund, and he knows it.

                                            (I did see the demo for their SketchUp-challenger, which is about 80% of the old FormZ tools minus any of the cool NURBS capabilities and with a warmed over SU interface. Yawn.)

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