Cool features of SU7

Dik Harrison

I am pleased that I can now navigate (orbit, zoom, etc.) within a fairly complex model, and I don't get stuck in objects, and the navigating is faster and smoother.

Alan Fraser

The VCB is now called Measurements. You'll find it on the View menu with all the other toolbars. If selected, you can now move it anywhere you like so it doesn't keep getting masked by any extended browsers on the right.

thomthom

@tyler miller said:

Hi Mike -

Sang is a member of the SketchUp Dev Team. He's been with us for about 3 years now.

We figured Bryce has take enough abuse (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=81eb1af9d5a907aa3c9fe3a963c6d73b&prevstart=0).

Now it is Sang's turn (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2faedcf7cd0ef7dd44b2fa2cac0778f5&prevstart=0)

-Tyler
Google

And just to make it easy for him you made him Interactive? hehe Wonder how many times Sang has been poked already. Is he ticklish? ...(hmm... think I just had an idea to make the Sang model more interactive....)

remus

Hazza, i think the endpoint/intersections thing was in SU 6 as well.

Image exports are much improved, 9999 here i come!

thomthom

@alan fraser said:

I think the DCs are going to be tremendous when people actually figure out the power locked inside there. I'm sure it will be possible for Google to add extra functions and generally streamline the process if requested. Some of this occurred during their development. Who knows, we might even see something like Fat Faces yet. What were they other than parametric walls?

Like the profile builder plugin under development?

I was looking at all the functions the DC could do. Getting more and more impressed. Components can even be made to face the sun. Seems that a lot of control has been given to us.

Though, I'd wish that I could animate the state of the interactive component parts between scenes. Maybe some ruby wiz' comes up with something. It'd be nice if there turned out to be a way I could render animations in V-Ray.

Gaieus

Yeah, Remus (and all) image exports (consequently animation exports) are MUCH faster and the resolution is WAY bigger. I have just posted this over the "long" thread:

This is a model of over 1.2 million edges and 300,000 faces.
And these exports went about 1-2 minutes on my laptop with 2Gb RAM

I was very pleased to see this.

mattritzman

Two things for me:
The ability to split and merge textures up within SketchUp is awesome. I can now reduce file sizes significantly and send my models to Google Earth.

 The improvements to Layout (too numerous to count) allow me to replace most of the work I would otherwise do in Illustrator or InDesign, and even bits of AutoCAD, Photoshop, and Powerpoint.

 Here's a little trick I just found - Exploding your viewport into vector lines finally allows you to sneak your DWG titleblock into Layout.  Woo Hoo!

sheFF9

@tinanne said:

MUCH faster still animation exports

May be this is due to highly demanded multicore support???
This would be very nice...

Gaieus

@mattritzman said:

Here's a little trick I just found - Exploding your viewport into vector lines finally allows you to sneak your DWG titleblock into Layout. Woo Hoo!

And exploding your viewport in LO allows you to change line weights (colours, dashes etc.) independently inside your exploded SU model.

Note however that exploding is irreversible and will never update with the later changes of the model so should only be done at the last phase of your work.

Bert

Hi,

I now can use hardware accelerator without having SU to hang

So it much faster

Template is much easier to save at the right location

Dynamic component is a great improvement

Layout is much better

and more....