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arail1 · 19 Mar 2011, 16:49

Over the last few weeks I've been moving to a new computer.
In the process my demo for SketchUp 8 kind of got lost - it doesn't matter because I had no time for it anyways - my overclocking got screwed up so I was in computer hell for a bit there.

Question - now that it's been out for awhile is there a consensus as to whether or not the upgrade is worth the cost? A necessary upgrade or no? I don't use Google Earth so those improvements have no use for me.

Thoughts? Opinions?

Thanks

Rich O Brien · 19 Mar 2011, 17:04

Shadow Bug fixed

Toolbars fixed

LAA enabled

Solid Tools

It's been labelled as getting more GE orientated but its not wholly true. It does work great with GE but I think it's a big leap from 7.1 to 8. There's also issues addressed for plugins developers so that's another plus.

I know I've left out info but I think it's worth upgrading

thomthom · 19 Mar 2011, 17:56

Model axis now automatically adapts them-selves to the group/component axis. Which I find to be a very good workflow improvement.

solo · 19 Mar 2011, 17:57

IMO stability.

Not a single bugsplat yet (just jinxed myself)

thomthom · 19 Mar 2011, 18:14

@solo said:

IMO stability.

Not a single bugsplat yet (just jinxed myself)

Sandbox Tools splats as much as always...

solo · 19 Mar 2011, 18:20

I don't use it...phew!

arail1 · 19 Mar 2011, 19:41

@unknownuser said:

Toolbars fixed

LAA enabled

Could you explain these two? By Toolbars fixed you don't mean that the toolbars go back to where they belong after the SketchUp window has been re-sized do you?

By the way - I took your advice from my other thread about rendering and downloaded a trial of Twilight - I'll make my extremely positive comments about the program over there.

Rich O Brien · 19 Mar 2011, 19:56

In 8 your toolbar positions are saved. So if your resize your window it will go crazy as usual. But when you return to it's original size there is a command to restore toolbars.

LAA means that if your use 64bit OS SU can utilise more ram. So those long number crunching waits are reduced. Not quite sure how much ram but there is an article in our Webmag CatchUp that explains it. It was actually written by Twilight Guru Fletch.

Edit

It's 4gb on 64bit. Up to 3gb on 32bit but that needs some tweaking to happen.