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    • T Offline
      tfdesign
      last edited by

      emage, if you have already used Maya, it seems to me, that you would be better off investing in a copy of 3DS Max. I did one module in ArchViz when I studied for my degree, and we used mainly 3D Studio Max. I did prefer SketchUp for its easy of use, but found that I couldn't use SketchUp with Flash (I ended up using Unity instead of Flash, but I had to use the 3DS Max/Flash combination set up to pass the module). You could also look at SpaceClaim, the version without all the engineering tools. The developers call it "SketchUp on Steroids"!

      Failing that, try Bonzai 3D.

      My book "Let's SketchUp!" Download from here

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        thomthom
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        The thing is... I don't feel Bonzai handles more polygons than SU. Nor is it either 64bit. (and doesn't have as many render engines available.)
        The key difference is that it's a nurbs and solid modeller.

        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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          JClements
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          This is what I am up against often, using SU without needing photo realistic modeling.

          I've got of model of a treatment plant. The footprint is large. Equipment (piping, channels, galleries, and bays) can span 2 or 3 floors. Components are used to keep file size down and reduce repetitious modeling. The compressed SU file size can easily be 25 meg. The associated Layout file (depending upon the settings) could double or triple that size.

          Goal of the model has two basic needs. 1- produce technical illustrations (usually thruough Layout for highres transparent PNGs) and 2- Walk throughs.

          #2 was a big a reasons for getting SU way back in version 2. However, with the complexity I mentioned above this is not fluid. Waiting to render even with the improvements since version 7 is a bummer. Perhaps there could me a mode where SU reads only the next or previous Scene or two and ignores "remembering" any other geometry of the model of scenes which are not in the immediate queue?

          #1 usually Layout works good enough but depending upon the settings used with a big model or one that has a lot of textures it can seem to be slow and exporting a transparent PNG can fail and if it does you don't know it will until the end of the exporting process when you get an error message. Perhaps utilizing multicore processing would be possible for Layout rendering? This could make buying the Pro version more desireable and bolster the difference between the Free and Pro versions.

          John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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            jhauswirth
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            @jclements said:

            Perhaps utilizing multicore processing would be possible for Layout rendering?

            You guys want to know a funny thing? LayOut 2.0 on Windows
            renders in another thread while you continue to work on the
            document. What's so funny you ask? Well in LayOut 2.1 we
            had to pull out the background rendering and guess
            how many people noticed? ZERO!

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              JClements
              last edited by

              Perhaps if you hadn't have updated/improved the SU rendering engine we would have πŸ˜„. Kind of kidding you here.

              John | Illustrator | Beaverton, Oregon

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              • thomthomT Offline
                thomthom
                last edited by

                @jhauswirth said:

                @jclements said:

                Perhaps utilizing multicore processing would be possible for Layout rendering?

                You guys want to know a funny thing? LayOut 2.0 on Windows
                renders in another thread while you continue to work on the
                document. What's so funny you ask? Well in LayOut 2.1 we
                had to pull out the background rendering and guess
                how many people noticed? ZERO!

                TouchΓ©! πŸ˜„

                Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  Pixero
                  last edited by

                  @jhauswirth said:

                  @jclements said:

                  Perhaps utilizing multicore processing would be possible for Layout rendering?

                  You guys want to know a funny thing? LayOut 2.0 on Windows
                  renders in another thread while you continue to work on the
                  document. What's so funny you ask? Well in LayOut 2.1 we
                  had to pull out the background rendering and guess
                  how many people noticed? ZERO!

                  Well I certainly didn't...since I don't use Layout. πŸ˜‰

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                  • Bryan KB Offline
                    Bryan K
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                    @hieru said:

                    @thomthom said:

                    .....a Plugin Manager would let you browse and download plugins directly from SU. And of course update when updates are available. The Plugin Manager should be available as an one-click-installer.

                    Basically something like Dreamweaver's Extension Manager?

                    Now there's a good idea!

                    See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                      jchau2007
                      last edited by

                      I would think google should keep the SU in 32bit for the less intense users and release the 64bit for more intense users. Let us (the users)test it out and you will get your response of what we think that if the 64bit version actually benefit more to the intense users. Now a day, I believe computers set their 64bit application as their standard. I have seen laptops as low as $400 with 64bit window base application. I believe 64bit is the future if not the current then why SU stays as 32bit.

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                        agamemnus
                        last edited by

                        Peep

                        I want a way to selectively disable inferencing -- a checkbox list for which inferences should be on or off.

                        Not having that option is a major bummer for me.

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                          toxik
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                          I think that introducing coloured guide lines will ease a lot of work during construction.

                          Just a thought

                          Toxik

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                            julyyen
                            last edited by

                            Hi,

                            In my opinion it will be essential to bring in SU (free and pro - especially free) linetype, lineweight, hatching, even it's a 3D modelling tool. (in fact, we all need a 2D plan before 3D modelling)

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                              Pixero
                              last edited by

                              @julyyen said:

                              Hi,

                              In my opinion it will be essential to bring in SU (free and pro - especially free) linetype, lineweight, hatching, even it's a 3D modelling tool. (in fact, we all need a 2D plan before 3D modelling)

                              2D tools by TIG here: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=22091

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                                jeff hammond
                                last edited by

                                @julyyen said:

                                (in fact, we all need a 2D plan before 3D modelling)

                                Old skool thinking!
                                πŸ˜„

                                dotdotdot

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                                  Pout
                                  last edited by

                                  There are a lot of questions/suggestions available in this topic:
                                  http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13666

                                  All of them for the use of developers.
                                  But if those people get the right tools, they can make better plugins and extend Sketchup possibilities.
                                  It's like Pixero wrote:

                                  'extend the API'!

                                  πŸ˜„

                                  I know it is impossible to adress everyones wishes. But if you make the API better, then more people can try to answer those wishes...

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                                    jeff hammond
                                    last edited by

                                    @pout said:

                                    There are a lot of questions/suggestions available in this topic:
                                    http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13666

                                    All of them for the use of developers.
                                    But if those people get the right tools, they can make better plugins and extend Sketchup possibilities.
                                    It's like Pixero wrote:

                                    'extend the API'!

                                    πŸ˜„

                                    I know it is impossible to adress everyones wishes. But if you make the API better, then more people can try to answer those wishes...

                                    i'm sort of under the impression (judging by a couple of random posts by SUteam members) that they don't want to go full on in supporting plugins..
                                    i'm pretty sure if they set up a depot app store type of thing then they'd have a gigantic slew of new problems to deal with.. fredoscale was a decent example of what may happen so imagine if that was happening to millions instead of thousands.
                                    it'd be sort of sweet if google had an approval process of some sorts prior to rubies going live but again, that's a big undertaking in itself + we'd miss (some of) the benefit of talking directly with the developers and offering ideas/additions etc. (that could still occur but the process would be weeks/months instead of hours/days.)

                                    dotdotdot

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                                      david.
                                      last edited by

                                      @unknownuser said:

                                      i'm pretty sure if they set up a depot app store type of thing then they'd have a gigantic slew of new problems to deal with.. fredoscale was a decent example of what may happen so imagine if that was happening to millions instead of thousands.

                                      If I may ask, what was the fredoscale example?

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                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Due to an unknown design limitation on the API regarding the UI::Command objects, context menus began to grey out when one used the plugin.

                                        Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                          jeff hammond
                                          last edited by

                                          http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=28135&p=244052

                                          dotdotdot

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                                            david.
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                                            Thanks.

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