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    • kenK Offline
      ken
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      My wish for Sketchup 9.

      I get three types of CAD drawings. The first is the original cad drawings, which I can use without any problems. The second is a PDF scanned drawing of an older hand drawing, that never was a CAD drawing. Which, I can import into Adobe Elements and turn parts of the drawing into PNG files which I can use, with some difficulty. And the third type is a PDF drawing either saved or printed from a CAD drawing.

      With the last drawing type, I have a program, PFD2DFX, which helps, and give me the opportunity to work with the drawing.

      So my wish is to have a native PDF to Sketchup importer, such that I don’t need to use another program to convert the PDF to a workable Sketchup drawing. This importer would only work on PDF files made from CAD drawing by the process of either exporting or printing from the CAD program to a PDF drawing.

      It would also be nice if one could import a scanned PDF drawing into Sketchup, like you can do now with a PNG or JPG file.

      Thanks for listening and the great Basecamp.

      Ken

      Ken

      Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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        tfdesign
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        @unknownuser said:

        It would also be nice if one could import a scanned PDF drawing into Sketchup, like you can do now with a PNG or JPG file.

        That's odd. Can't you do this? I can do it here- I just tried. Perhaps it's a Windows thing?

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        • kenK Offline
          ken
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          @tfdesign said:

          @unknownuser said:

          It would also be nice if one could import a scanned PDF drawing into Sketchup, like you can do now with a PNG or JPG file.

          That's odd. Can't you do this? I can do it here- I just tried. Perhaps it's a Windows thing?

          No, I believe that the Mac's can, but not the windows.

          Ken

          Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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          • jeff hammondJ Offline
            jeff hammond
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            something that i think would be interesting, helpful, as well as just plain cool (and something i feel google might be into) is a web version of sketchup.

            i upload a model then other people can join in and watch, navigate, edit, voice conference, etc..
            this is already happening in basic form but google seems to be one of the best companies to really make something like this work properly.

            dotdotdot

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              d12dozr
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              ...or even just a web-based Sketchup viewer so a client doesn't have to download anything...make it have the ability to support scenes for easier navigation.

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              • B Offline
                biff
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                How about the ability to incorporate equations into the measurements box, a la revit type equations. E.G. move command, then in box

                =3000+(1000/3)
                

                and the object moves 3333 mm.
                I so miss that function in SU.

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                • jeff hammondJ Offline
                  jeff hammond
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                  still wishing for the ability to rotate with snapping/inferencing..
                  [wished for it last year too πŸ˜„ http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=192332#p192332 ]

                  it's not even 11am yet and i already needed that ability 3 times today!

                  dotdotdot

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                    @unknownuser said:

                    still wishing for the ability to rotate with snapping/inferencing..
                    [wished for it last year too πŸ˜„ http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=192332#p192332 ]
                    it's not even 11am yet and i already needed that ability 3 times today!

                    Try my Free Rotate Tool v3 ?

                    TIG

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                    • EscapeArtistE Offline
                      EscapeArtist
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                      Something that's driving me nuts lately is the ability to do a proper bevel job on sharp edges. IMO the SU folks probably view SU as primarily an architectural type program with a built in render solution and sharp edges aren't a concern, but when I model something that I'm going to export to an external render solution it isn't generally a house. In fact, I've never exported a house; my models all been real-world objects that don't have sharp edges. To be honest, I have yet to find a renderer that does a decent job of beveling. The bevel and bevel by bezier scripts work ok, but I'm forever chasing down mis-matched edges, holes, and surfaces that have shot past the object's edge in order to repair them (no matter the model size). It'd be great to be able to model something and have a simple, reliable bevel ability.

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                        tfdesign
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                        My wish for 9 is that the mouse zooming is just as effective over blank space as it is over a space that contains vector information (solid). It drives me crazy sometimes trying to zoom like mad, and just not to get very far.

                        Anyone else suffer from this? (Or has TIG made a plugin to remedy the situation?)

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
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                          I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump. Troublesome when I'm working on just edges - like imported DWG data. I have to constantly keep aiming the cursor to be over an edge to avoid SU from zooming too far.

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

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                            tfdesign
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                            Oh yes, fix the bl**dy layers management!! Why is it that within a grouped object, several entities can co-exist on different layers all at the same time? This is utterly crazy! I can understand for whole objects, but single little things? It's silly. Perhaps I'm missing something here? πŸ˜•

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                              tfdesign
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                              @thomthom said:

                              I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.

                              😲 😲 😲

                              Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow. πŸ˜•

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                                thomthom
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                                @tfdesign said:

                                Oh yes, fix the bl**dy layers management!! Why is it that within a grouped object, several entities can co-exist on different layers all at the same time? This is utterly crazy! I can understand for whole objects, but single little things? It's silly. Perhaps I'm missing something here? πŸ˜•

                                I find it useful to have fine control of the entities like that. Let me toggle on/off edges for parts of the mesh for instance - which is useful to control the object's presentation.

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

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                                  thomthom
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                                  @tfdesign said:

                                  @thomthom said:

                                  I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.

                                  😲 😲 😲

                                  Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow. πŸ˜•

                                  When you zoom while the mouse if over an entity to goes slower - and I wonder if the speed depends on how close it is to the camera - so when you get closer it goes slower.

                                  Zoom in while the mouse if over empty space and the zoom goes into hyperdrive.

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

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                                  • EscapeArtistE Offline
                                    EscapeArtist
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                                    Ability to sort and file Plugins!

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                                      tfdesign
                                      last edited by

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      @tfdesign said:

                                      @thomthom said:

                                      I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.

                                      😲 😲 😲

                                      Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow. πŸ˜•

                                      When you zoom while the mouse if over an entity to goes slower - and I wonder if the speed depends on how close it is to the camera - so when you get closer it goes slower.

                                      Zoom in while the mouse if over empty space and the zoom goes into hyperdrive.

                                      Thom, I've just tried again, and I get the problem when I'm zoomed right in (something I do a lot). I can't seem to replicate what you are getting. There however doesn't seem to be a problem for me when I'm zoomed out. I also never use the zoom tool. Always the wheel on my Logitech Trackball Marble.

                                      Tom

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
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                                        Yea - I always use the mouse scroll wheel as well.

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

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                                        • kenK Offline
                                          ken
                                          last edited by

                                          Sketchup 9. I wish to have a set of tab, similar to the scenes tabs, but for layers. This way I could pass my model to co-workers and I could have a set of layer Tabs across the top along with the scene tabs. They could select a scene tab, and then make selections of the layer tabs to add more less to the model in that particular scene. Unlike scenes, where you could only have one tab on at a time, the layer tab you would be able to have more than one on at a time. And the layer tabs could be all the layers or just a select few.

                                          Ken

                                          Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                                          • R Offline
                                            remus
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                                            Ken, what would be the difference between that and having the layers manager open?

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