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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      @dsarchs said:

      SU is now large address aware, which, as I understand, effectively allows use of more than 4gb memory, even if it's not officially 64-bit.

      No, it means SU can address up to 4GB under a 64bit OS. Under a 32bit system its still 2GB, unless you have the 3G switch - where you can address 3GB.

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

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        Anton_S
        last edited by

        Calculate center of area/volume

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          @anton_s said:

          Calculate center of area/volume

          There are tools for that already. Try here, here, here, here...

          Etaoin Shrdlu

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            Anton_S
            last edited by

            @dave r said:

            @anton_s said:

            Calculate center of area/volume

            There are tools for that already. Try here, here, here, here...

            The only 'here' I was talking about was the first and the last one...

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              dsarchs
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              @ thomthom

              Thanks for the correction.

              Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

              -e.e.cummings

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              • oganocaliO Offline
                oganocali
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                My list is soo short.

                PERFORMANCE!

                There... I had to shout it aloud. Specifically I wish to be able to explode the silly tiny (ish) attached one component with 24K faces faster than fixing myself a cup of coffee. My guess is if this is fixed scaling rotating, and editing will also speed up.


                performance_problem.skp

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                • TIGT Offline
                  TIG Moderator
                  last edited by

                  @oganocali said:

                  My list is soo short.

                  PERFORMANCE!

                  There... I had to shout it aloud. Specifically I wish to be able to explode the silly tiny (ish) attached one component with 24K faces faster than fixing myself a cup of coffee. My guess is if this is fixed scaling rotating, and editing will also speed up.
                  But 100s for something this complex seems acceptable to me - my PC is pants too ! ๐Ÿ˜•

                  TIG

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                  • oganocaliO Offline
                    oganocali
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                    My computer is not that bad (i7 2600 with 8 gig ram). In my case it takes over 30 seconds to explode.
                    24K faces should be nothing with these computers. This case is complex only by SketchUp standards.
                    Apparently SketchUp takes several million instructions per face for the explode operation (for this case).
                    I did a quick experimentation varying the size

                    face count |  explode time (secs)
                         3K        ------|      < 0.5 
                         6K        ------|         2        
                         12K       -----|         8
                         24K       -----|        30
                         48K       -----|          ?
                    

                    Admittedly the times are only approximate but seems to me the explode operation has n^2 complexity. Double the size -> quadruple the time (which should be fixable).

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
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                      SketchUp also takes longer to add geometry the more geometry already exist in the context its added it.

                      I'm guessing that it's due to SketchUp's nature of automatically merge and intersect geometry. This differs from most other 3D modellers where you explicitly needs to tell it to split and merge.

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

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                      • oganocaliO Offline
                        oganocali
                        last edited by

                        @thomthom, I would expect the incremental merge/split/intersect cost to increase with increasing size but my suspicion is that incremental cost is linear for SU (whereas it should be sub-linear). Explicit split/merge would be a nice workaround indeed.
                        Ogan

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Well I really hope there is room for improvements, because as you say, Explode becomes horribly slow very quickly.

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

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                          • onzkiO Offline
                            onzki
                            last edited by

                            My wishlist:

                            1. CAD file and Sketchup file XREF feature
                            2. CAD import improved.. don't break cad lines please, circles are circles not dodecagons ๐Ÿ˜„
                            3. No more Bug Splats
                            4. Option to autosave to lower version
                            5. Option: to prompt Select layers to show (rest are hidden) when opening of a file. (this option has bypass- just open it, no more prompting)
                            6. Ghost / Invisible layer override! I cant think of a name.. but this layer setting temporarily or permanently disables "Snaps" thereby making it behave like an image underlay as long as you want.

                            [/hr]Dell Alienware Area-51. SKU 2021 Pro. AutoCAD 2023. Landscape design firm

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                            • john2J Offline
                              john2
                              last edited by

                              whoa.!! long list of wishes. do the google su devloper guys actually read this ๐Ÿ˜ฎ if yes then perhaps they incorporate all this ๐Ÿ˜

                              Sketchup Make 2017 (64-bit), Vray 4.0 , Windows 10 โ€“ 64 bit, corei7-8750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                They read it and we even get them to prepare weekly reports on where they are at. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                Gai...

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                                • john2J Offline
                                  john2
                                  last edited by

                                  @gaieus said:

                                  They read it and we even get them to prepare weekly reports on where they are at. ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                  wow!! ๐Ÿ˜„ and where are they at now ๐Ÿ˜‰ ? you must be knowing about su 9 release date.

                                  Sketchup Make 2017 (64-bit), Vray 4.0 , Windows 10 โ€“ 64 bit, corei7-8750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB

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                                  • GaieusG Offline
                                    Gaieus
                                    last edited by

                                    SU 12 to be more precise... ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                    Gai...

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      You're a wicked man Csaba, wicked.

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

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                                        Aerilius
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                                        If SketchUp joined the version number race (Chrome&Mozilla), we would see new versions more often ๐Ÿ˜„

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                                        • john2J Offline
                                          john2
                                          last edited by

                                          @gaieus said:

                                          SU 12 to be more precise... ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                          just tell me about 9 ๐Ÿ˜‰

                                          Sketchup Make 2017 (64-bit), Vray 4.0 , Windows 10 โ€“ 64 bit, corei7-8750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GB

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                                          • TIGT Offline
                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            Those [if any] who are involved in the beta-testing of new versions of Sketchup, Layout and even other Google Tools [if any], will almost certainly have signed an NDA [Non-Disclosure-Agreement], and therefore they will not even be able to tell you about their involvement in this process, let alone to provide any details of their [limited] knowledge [if any] of potential forthcoming changes that could be anticipated [if any], in these products.
                                            ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                                            TIG

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