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    • StinkieS Offline
      Stinkie
      last edited by

      Hmmm ... as far as I can see (I'm on a moderate laptop, atm) ... no. Hopefully, I'm wrong. So far, the much anticipated 7 looks like, as we say in Flanders, 'a fart in a bottle'.

      Best thing, probably, is to wait until a list of features is released.

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
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        @unknownuser said:

        Best thing, probably, is to wait until a list of features is released.
        great idea stinkie...

        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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        • B Offline
          blugarero
          last edited by

          About handeling more gometry... I doubt it... it is as slow as SU6, when I tried a heavy scene

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          • I Offline
            idraft
            last edited by

            thought id be the 1st to ask when is SU8 coming .. ๐Ÿคฃ

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            • plot-parisP Offline
              plot-paris
              last edited by

              (context menu) "make unique texture" is a funny function. you click any face that has a texture assigned and use this function to create a new texture that represents the outline of the selected face...

              don't know what you can use it for though ๐Ÿ˜„

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                ๐Ÿ˜„

                Until Google makes the release notes, it's like Columbus navigating around the ocean trying to find India before Amerigo Vespucci made the first usable maps about the New World! ๐Ÿ˜„

                Good discovery, my friends!

                Gai...

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                • Dave RD Offline
                  Dave R
                  last edited by

                  @plot-paris said:

                  (context menu) "make unique texture" is a funny function. you click any face that has a texture assigned and use this function to create a new texture that represents the outline of the selected face...

                  don't know what you can use it for though ๐Ÿ˜„

                  Maybe, it's like Make Unique with components. Then you can edit that new material without affecting the other things that have it.

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                  • GaieusG Offline
                    Gaieus
                    last edited by

                    I just wonder who will be the first to put the new SU version next to his/her profile!
                    ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                    Gai...

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                    • Dave RD Offline
                      Dave R
                      last edited by

                      @gaieus said:

                      I just wonder who will be the first to put the new SU version next to his/her profile!
                      ๐Ÿ˜ฎ

                      Me! ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ

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                      • plot-parisP Offline
                        plot-paris
                        last edited by

                        ah. what I ment is this function:

                        http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5238/uniquetexturelb6.jpg

                        ok. and now I understand, what the purpose of it is. you can right click a face, select "make unique texture", just with simple colour. then you right click the new texture in the material browser and use the "edit texture" function to be linked to photoshop. now you can do any changes to this perfectly uv-mapped texture.
                        a great thing is, that when you save the image file in photoshop and return to SketchUp, the texture is automatically updated (no need to manually reload it).

                        however, the tool would be even more useful, if you could export an image format that supports transparency to preserve the cutout form for photoshop use.
                        and it is a bit sad, that you can only selec one face at a time. so you can't select e.g. 7 faces and create one unique texture for them. you have to create seperate textures for each face instead.

                        I hope Google will reveal lots of such hidden functions when they make their documentation public. otherwise SU7 is a huge disappointment to me. there were so many really useful suggestions mentioned here in the forum - non of which has been implemented into the new release (and I am not talking about major new tools, but about things as simple as twice clicking an entity in the outliner to rename it or getting advanced control over layers (e.g. select content) with a context menu).

                        [Edit]but they fixed the problem of group bounding boxes not aligning to newly defined coordinate axes! thank you so much, Google! that will make modelling a lot easier!!! ๐Ÿ˜

                        it is the small things in life, that give you real joy...

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                        • L Offline
                          linea
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          thought id be the 1st to ask when is SU8 coming ..
                          ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ

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                          • GaieusG Offline
                            Gaieus
                            last edited by

                            Yeah,that's a good one!

                            Gai...

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                            • I Offline
                              ilay7k
                              last edited by

                              Thanks to google/su developers!
                              Looking at layout(dynamic scale things ๐Ÿ˜‰), it's great too!

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                              • AnssiA Offline
                                Anssi
                                last edited by

                                I downloaded as fast as I could. Dynamic components will be very useful, almost worth it alone, if they are well implemented.

                                Anssi

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                                • T Offline
                                  tomasz
                                  last edited by

                                  Make texture unique works as Whaat's explode photomatched texture ๐Ÿ˜† from his Indigo exporter.
                                  I am glad to see SU7 finally.

                                  Author of [Thea Render for SketchUp](http://www.thearender.com/sketchup)

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                                    princedragoncok
                                    last edited by

                                    All I really wanted was multi-core support, but sadly it is nowhere to be seen as of yet.. hugely disappointed. 2D drafting within sketchup was also something I was eagerly awaiting.. nowhere to be seen either - Layout looks better but I need to evaluate it more for the moment.. Unless Google releases some magic list of features and points me towards some magic button I missed, then unfortunately it is time to leave for another modeler.. ๐Ÿ˜ž

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                                    • T Offline
                                      tomasz
                                      last edited by

                                      @princedragoncok said:

                                      Layout looks better but I need to evaluate it more for the moment..

                                      Yep. It lets you edit a layout while updates the SU view.. maybe it uses a second core then! ๐Ÿ˜„

                                      @princedragoncok said:

                                      some magic button I missed

                                      I am afraid you won't find one.
                                      Interesting can be an interact tool and what we can do with parametric components.

                                      Author of [Thea Render for SketchUp](http://www.thearender.com/sketchup)

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                                      • S Offline
                                        ScottPara
                                        last edited by

                                        I think the best and most capable modeler to look at is modo (http://www.luxology.com). It will be releasing a skethcup plugin in the coming days. I did some testing on the plugin and I can say it works really well but does have some downfalls. Modo itself is extremely powerful with a small learning curve. It comes with great UV tools and supports animation along with an amazing renderer. 401 will be coming out and it should support volumetric lighting and hair along with improvements to animation. While I would love to say that I will continue to put 100% of my efforts into Sketchup, I just cant. While I will never lose it from my workflow, I doubt it will stay my main modeling tool. The lack of multicore support in this day and age is ridiculous. I really was hoping things like the shadow bug to be fixed but that is not the case either. It seems to be more of a dressed up version 6 than a full release.

                                        My two cents and a bit of a rant so I apologize.

                                        Scott

                                        Love the fact that some HATE my avatar.....

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                                        • J Offline
                                          johnsenior1973
                                          last edited by

                                          Just a thought, but what a waste of paper the NDA's have been. What's the point in making Non-Disclosure Agreements when there's nothing to disclose anyway?

                                          I'm just hoping that this isn't the real SU7. If it is then it's frightening that they are still charging $500 for the Pro version and it's even more frightening that Google would allow it to be released in such a shoddy manner.

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                                          • S Offline
                                            ScottPara
                                            last edited by

                                            I am not sure whether it has been stated or not but the only way to get Version 7 is to upgrade your pro version or to but pro 7. I tried downloading the version 7 free and it is still version 6.4. I guess most of us will need to wait until Monday to get the bosses credit card or wait for the free version of 7 to be made available.

                                            Scott

                                            Love the fact that some HATE my avatar.....

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