A community chat about SketchUp's future

thomthom

@jclements said:

So how do we participate Will there be login link to this Reddit session?

They will announce the link when the session begins. Keep an eye on this thread, twitter or G+.

JClements

So it is only thru Twitter or G+. Rats, can't use them at work.

Rich O Brien

@jclements said:

So it is only thru Twitter or G+. Rats, can't use them at work.

Can you view the Reddit page in work?

thomthom

@jclements said:

So it is only thru Twitter or G+. Rats, can't use them at work.

No - that's some of the channels they'll use to publish the link. I expect the link to be published here at SCF. If not, we (the mods) will update the first post.

Mark H.

I will definitely be posting the link to the Reddit chat when we start it up, John. In the meantime, you may want to visitReddit.com and register a username (which you'll need to participate) -- it takes 30 seconds.

tbd

**Mark:**unless it replies with "reddit is under heavy load right now, sorry. Try again in a few minutes."

Mark H.

Hey all,

We're now live on Reddit; hope you can join us!

Mark

thomthom

So much for a chat... one has to wait about 5 minutes between each post...

thomthom

Now I have to wait 8 minutes...

BrooksL

Some SketchUp significant priority wishes off the top of my head...

make Layout dimension precision options match SketchUp's precision capabilities; layout looks like a very helpful application but it's not nearly as useful when it can't dimension with the same units and number of decimal places as our SketchUp models -- needs to at least do hundreths of a millimeter and thousandths of an inch, but would be best to simply match SketchUp's capabilities.
make the plane tools also respond to the arrow keys by forcing the plane orientation (because the point and line tools respond, I see new users [and myself] intuitively expected similar behavior from the plane tools -- and it would be very helpful!
make the plane tools capable of quick compound angle alignment similar to the protractor tool by holding down the left mouse button. When it was pointed out to me that the protractor can do this, I can see how it would be very helpful (and make for intuitive consistency) if all the native plane tools responded like that.
fix the errors in and clarify the documentation - especially for lowering frustrations of new users.
provide a couple of ways that the user can quickly kick or influence the inference engine to look for another inference or a specific inference in the same view vacinity - because it's really frustrating when a user (especially a newbie) frequently needs to zoom in very close or turn off a bunch of geometry just to get the engine to make the desired selection.

5a) some kind of selection filter influence for the selection tool could also be useful - sometimes (often) it's a royal pain to get a construction point selected by itself among a bunch of other geometry.

solo

I got distracted by the drying paint on my wall, far more interesting.

Mark H.

@Thom Thom -- we're experiencing that annoying delay as well. We are on 3 different networks and have set-up 3 different wi-fi hot spots to get off the same IP!

thomthom

@brooksl said:

Some SketchUp significant priority wishes off the top of my head...

I think they prefer to use the Reddit site - keeping the whole discussion in one place.

pbacot

I was hoping chat on the future of SU ala Trimble. A few hints anyway. It's sort of the usual wish list and the usual answers...

But cool of the SU team to do this. Hope more of this comes along.

Neat to see various greats like Daniel Tal chime in.

thomthom

Right now my brain blanked out. I'm sure there's tons of things I'd think of when the chat ends...

brodie

Cool idea, I hope they do it again. Unfortunate that the format is causing so many issues.

-Brodie

thomthom

Very hard to follow the conversation eventually. No good way to spotting new posts.

TIG

Crappy !

There must be better ways to 'chat' than that - it was pants...
Not being able to post for another 8 minutes after making a brief comment is tooooo much...

There were some interesting posts but they were all subsumed in a quagmire of dross...

Rich O Brien

Skype?

Remeber when we last had that big pow wow

I found it interesting enough. Not the nicest thing look at but then I'm acclimatized to this place too much

thomthom

@tig said:

Not being able to post for another 8 minutes after making a brief comment is tooooo much...

Seemed to be for the first handful of comments. Maybe new users..?
I could eventually spam as much as I do here...