SU 9 Wishlist

Gaieus · 2 Oct 2010, 23:37

I don't even dare to ask where my pile of scrap papers went during my week in BaseCamp!

thomthom · 3 Oct 2010, 00:33

When it comes to performance I wish exploding would improve its speed.

jgb · 3 Oct 2010, 16:34

As for my "filing system" its called stacks.
I know exactly which stack anything is in..... I just don't know how deep it is.

I keep everything. No BS here. On the far right, first shelf that you can barely see are boxes of 5inch floppies from my old Radio-Shack TRS-80 (circa 1978). I can't throw them out because I can't reach them, without moving 1/2 my office, and I have no place to put what I need to move out of the way.

And yes, I still have that machine as well. It won't work because the connectors are corroded.
In fact 6 weeks ago, I actually discarded its' old 110baud phone-line modem, that was in my way when I "cleaned up" my other workshop bench when the battle axe bitched about the "mess".

I still have the expanded 1.2mb memory cards from the old IBM PC that replaced it in 1984.
And my old 486 motherboard, and my old complete SCSI computer, also dead.

If the wife reads this, I'm dead.

jgb · 3 Oct 2010, 16:46

@gaieus said:

That's a neat place, Joel.

Mine is a bit similar (maybe more cigarette ash piled up everywhere) and I thought my girlfriend / fiancé would be understanding.

But ever since I got married (like two weeks ago), she has been vacuuuming all around.

What gives?

It's called "Bait & switch". Standard with every marriage certificate.

Before; they "love you for what you are".
After; that ain't good enough anymore.

Gaieus · 3 Oct 2010, 20:55

@jgb said:

It's called "Bait & switch". Standard with every marriage certificate.

Before; they "love you for what you are".
After; that ain't good enough any more.

Yeah... I am (slowly) getting it...

(But I love it, of course - in case she is also reading this... )

TIG · 4 Oct 2010, 09:04

To quote an old English punny joke...[you need to hear the words]
When a bride enters the church she sees the processional route and she thinks 'aisle'...
Then she sees the sanctuary at the end and she thinks 'altar'...
Then she hears the signing and she thinks 'hymn'...

Somehow in the confusion of the ceremony this gets muddled in her head and later on it comes out,

"I'll alter him!"

tfdesign · 4 Oct 2010, 13:20

@jgb said:

MY desktop.... Where would you suggest???

I now see what you mean! I got the end of the stick When I usually say "Rapid Prototyping Machine", my friends think I'm talking about this;

How about burning some of those books? You could dump the 486 PC for starters!

tfdesign · 4 Oct 2010, 13:28

@jgb said:

It's called "Bait & switch". Standard with every marriage certificate.

Offer her "Stitch and Bitch" instead. It works over here!

mpowell1234567890 · 4 Oct 2010, 19:51

I like the Sphere tool and other cubical shapes added to Sketchup 9 free version.

tfdesign · 4 Oct 2010, 23:12

What? Where?? v9??

mpowell1234567890 · 5 Oct 2010, 05:49

@tfdesign said:

:shock:

Coming soon I guess.. Not sure when though..

What? Where?? v9??

jgb · 5 Oct 2010, 13:11

@mpowell1234567890 said:

I like the Sphere tool and other cubical shapes added to Sketchup 9 free version.

Get the SketchyPhysics Ruby. It has several generic shapes with good detail, even if you don't use its animation capability.

Or, make a few versions of the shapes you want, and put them into your component library to be used as needed.

jgb · 5 Oct 2010, 13:38

@tfdesign said:

@jgb said:

MY desktop.... Where would you suggest???

When I usually say "Rapid Prototyping Machine", my friends think I'm talking about this;

How about burning some of those books? You could dump the 486 PC for starters!

Seriously; what is that? It looks like the intercostal ring for a heavy-lift rocket, but not quite.

I've seen Rapid Proto's and the small ones are usually about the size of a washing machine. The space frame machine in TFDESIGN's photo is new to me. But I don't think it would be suitable to make bits for most of my projects, even if I scaled them down a lot. And, if I could use a RPM for the few smaller projects, the problem becomes one of surface smoothness and fit tolerance for the assemblies.

Also, burning books (or better yet, recycling them) and dumping the 486 board (and others like it) would entail getting to them and/or finding them first. Too much like work for a lazy SOB like me. Besides, I've saved all my old PC boards and cards, even defunct harddrives, for sentimental reasons..... They cost me money.

But honestly, the real reason I saved them is I had long ago planned to make a wall "mural" of them in a chronological order, but there ain't no empty wall in my office now. Ceiling maybe.... now there's an idea.

Ramasubbu · 25 Nov 2010, 07:01

If lighting is added in sketchup, no one requires an external rendering engine. Adding video clips as texture would also be a great idea.

thomthom · 25 Nov 2010, 11:14

@ramasubbu said:

If lighting is added in sketchup, no one requires an external rendering engine.

I disagree - adding light sources to SketchUp is no replacement for rendering. (Not saying I wouldn't want lights in SU - they would most likely be of great use, for sketchy illustrations and I'd think render engines could make use of them as well.)

kydbmaster · 30 Dec 2010, 23:57

@tfdesign said:

@serge.n said:

Which announcements?

This one.

But I guess being a Windows user, you probably would have missed that?

Autodesk big announcement huh? That is not so big. They have already abandoned that platform once. And there would have to be a lot of 3rd party stuff for AutoCAD make the jump to the Mac as well for it to become a serious platform. From the reports I have seen it is buggy.

I have a better Idea... Add the necessary tools to SU layout so we don't need AutoCad in the first place! It is time for a new Sheriff (Google) to come to town (CAD world)! Anyone that has had to deal with the likes of AutoDesk should be able to confirm this!

64 bit would be nice
Support for the complete .rpc file format would be even better though!

kydbmaster · 31 Dec 2010, 00:09

@serge.n said:

Yes, I did. Well I'd rather write that I didn't realized that's such a big achievement. And what about Revit? Indeed, I imagine Autodesk still have Autocad on Windows due to legacy issue. If they could they would have made everybody switch for Revit or Inventor.

Yeah Autodesk certainly desires everyone one to switch to Revit and Civil3d. They have no Intellicad competition there and the price is double that of AutoCAD. From a Landscape Architects point of view that idea is a huge waste of money. Especially since Revit has no way to deal with curbs! I think Autodesk has been sniff'n a little to much of it's own marketing poop!

davidlouis · 7 Jan 2011, 22:05

Its simple for me....

incorporate some of the wonderful plugins developed in this forum as 'standard'... then pay those developers a huge lump of cash or perhaps give them some google shares for making sketchup better... and thats it.

There are so many good ideas floating around here that I often wonder why the 'collective' of plugin writers haven't got together to develop their own system/software... it could be good.

Dave

Catmando · 1 Feb 2011, 22:23

Anyone else wishing for an easy way to bisect angles?

jeff hammond · 1 Feb 2011, 22:30

@catmando said:

Anyone else wishing for an easy way to bisect angles?

there's already a sorta easy way to to that.
what's you're current method?

(just in case your current method is the same one i'm thinking and you're just wanting an even easier method )