Looking ahead to SU 8.

sketch3d.de

Is it just me who gets redirected to...

Safari?

Yes but since the Google SU forum isnt a real "forum" like Sketchucation is (IMHO) it would be nice to see their presence where their users are, wouldnt it?

'real' forum or not, running their own 'stuff' but using the SU forum instead of their own resources would probably devaluate them...

@pixero said:

I've never said anything about demands for the free version...

I've never said that you are a SU free user.

Norbert

pbacot

I think the issue users feel regarding "demands" for improvements is not so much the cost of the software. Users have invested much more in time, learning (and in the case of SU, developing rubies and other materials)and integrating the program into their work. They just hate to see a good thing languish and want to engage the powers that be.

I feel the same about other major software I use, much more expensive. It is not the big upgrade cost I think about. It is whether I can justify continuing the use of a software when it can't keep up with me or my needs. It is whether I can tell others they should try it, and be confident about the future. Sometimes you are disappointed.

I am not saying Google is not responsive. I have no opinion about that.

I did not find the same page you did Pixero. The page I saw seemed to be a Google response to various concerns.

Pixero

About the link, I tried it with both Internet explorer and Firefox. Same result, hmmm....

Gaieus

Try this link, Jan:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=2d0ef22945dcff3c&hl=en

The "&hl=en" sniplet at the end makes you go there. Without that I can only see the adsense and webmaster tools forums (as if one who has a non-English OS and keeps being redirected all the time could not read forum topics in English)

Pixero

Thanks, that link worked for me.

jgb

My $0.02 (Canadian)

I have avoided upgrading SU 6.1 (free) to 7.1 (free) because I felt it did not offer enough upgrade to warrant the hassle of upgrading. Making Outliner a paid upgrade was also a reason.

I may reconsider moving up to V8.

3 of my wish list would be.....

A better editing facility for materials, especially within the Materials section.
You need to pull a material into a drawing before you can edit it, even to change the color slightly, or change the color/texture name. Then you need to export that change out to another list to use it later. You cannot even change the orientation of a texture (vert/horiz).
Then I just found out that a large scale change to an object/component with a texture changes the scale of the texture, totally screwing up the look of it beside other same textured unscaled objects, unless I reset scale definition, which I do not always want to do.
Then I would also want to be able to sort colors/textures in the entity info box, and also be able to purge unused colors/textures. This is important where I have been playing with shades of the same color/texture before getting it right. Now I cannot get rid of the unwanted and unused variations.
Better and expanded use of control keys for shortcuts. Right now only the shift, ctrl and alt keys are used by shortcuts in combo with alpha keys. Expand them with the tab key and the special function keys for the Windows and Mac k/b's. It would be very useful to be able to define the axis (red,blue&green) from the left side of the k/b as well as the arrow keys.
Make full use of the multi-buttoned mouse. Most mice these days have horiz scroll wheels. SU ignores them. My Logitech mouse has a total of 11 buttons and scroll wheel functions. SU only sees 5 of them.

Gaieus

@jgb said:

Making Outliner a paid upgrade was also a reason.

Hi Joel,

You must have misunderstood something. The Outliner is still a feature of the free version.

jgb

@gaieus said:

@jgb said:

Making Outliner a paid upgrade was also a reason.

Hi Joel,

You must have misunderstood something. The Outliner is still a feature of the free version.

I believe you, but last year I was told in the old forum that it was no longer part of SU 7.0 free. Only in Pro, like dynamic Components.

Rich O Brien

Hi jgb,

I would advise that you give 7.1 a go as there was a big performance boost and dynamic components are able to be used but not created in 7.1 free.

It can also run in tandem with SU6 so no harm done...

Gaieus

@unknownuser said:

...It can also run in tandem with SU6 so no harm done...

Yes, you can keep su6 beside su 7.

I do not know who was that nuts who said this to you however.
DWG/DXF import was taken out of su 7.1 (not 7.0) but a plugin was provided instead.