Google Sketchup Pro 7 is out

Dave R

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

Me!

plot-paris

ah. what I ment is this function:

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!!!

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

linea

@unknownuser said:

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

Gaieus

Yeah,that's a good one!

ilay7k

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

Anssi

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

Anssi

tomasz

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

princedragoncok

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..

tomasz

@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!

@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.

ScottPara

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

johnsenior1973

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.

ScottPara

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

cosycat

As a teacher (and user of the free version) I probably come at sketchup from a different viewpoint. For me, new tools like interact ( have a look at the mailbox component ) and dynamic components open up lots of new possibilities and will further help to motivate my students.

If I were a professional user,however, I would be very disappointed with this new release, which feels much more like 6.5 rather than 7.

'4/10 Google , after a promising start you seem to be coasting, let us hope you'll make much better use of your talents over the next semester'

tomasz

I think they have put all effort into dynamic components. I believe we can squeeze a lot from them.

ilay7k

why do not you think about crisis in gsu development? it's not only economical crisis , also incredible investigations of D.Bur, Fredo, Whaat, Adam, Jim and many... as several months i saw only game in su (with webdialogs playing, from Google)
I think that some gsu's devs are crying in corner, decide that su 7 need to appear...
(i read article that Google management decreased influence at non-moneymaking products, some rumors about youtube...maybe reason to... )

rv1974

It took 2 years?
I have a feeling that an elephant gave birth to a mouse.
I guess even Autodesk (sorry for mentioning)make more efforts every 12 month..
You google people are simply turned to *** ***** *********(Edited by Admin. Please be more sensible about calling names and especially in that raw fashion. Thank you.) feeding from web ads.
...Or may be I'm simply jealous?

pbacot

@unknownuser said:

I think the best and most capable modeler to look at is modo (http://www.luxology.com).
Scott

thank you for the info Scott.

As for your tagline... it looks from your avatar, you've accomplished enough to live for awhile. Certainly good cause to.

remus

Edited out.

remus

@johnsenior1973 said:

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.

$500 seems pretty reasonable to me.

Id be interested if you could come up with any other packages that can compete at a similar price.

Cant hep but agree about the nature of the release though, seems like quite a bad way of doing things.

Mike Lucey

@princedragoncok said:

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..

Let me know when you find a better one