SU 9 Wishlist

john2

I have a long wishlist

Multiple windows of files interface, so that new SU doesn’t have to be opened every time.
Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system
Better 2d export facility with layers support. This will help in efficient post processing in AutoCAD.
Ability to export PDFs (in layout as well as SU) with shadows as a vector and not a raster.
Feature to control lineweight for different layers or selected objects within SketchUp itself.
Solid cut through – will give users an option the moment they put a door on a wall, it cuts a hole throughout and not on a face particularly. The following options can be there.
Collision detection (that can be turned on or off) so that furniture don’t punch themselves through a surface
Customized snap options like AutoCAD.

Midpoint
Nearest
Perpendicular
Endpioint
Tangent
Center
Node , etc.

thomthom

@john2 said:

Multiple windows of files interface, so that new SU doesn’t have to be opened every time.

As a V-Ray user you do not want this. MDI would make multiple models share the same host process - and also memory.

@john2 said:

Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system

+1!!!!

ArCAD-UK

@john2 said:

Feature to control lineweight for different layers or selected objects within SketchUp itself.
Some good suggestions but please don't burden SU simple efficiency with unnecessary Aut*CAD wannabe features like this.

jhauswirth

@john2 said:

Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system

+1!!!![/quote]

It WAS really nice having thumbnails in 64-bit Windows.....

thomthom

@jhauswirth said:

It WAS really nice having thumbnails in 64-bit Windows.....

Was?

john2

Adding to my list :
Feature for Hatching with vector patterns like brickwork, cement, etc. with this one would be able to create richer sectional view of details like planter, window, door frame, fountain,etc. one thing id like to ask. is posting ideas like this on forum effective [i.,e. more likely to get your wish fulfilled] or posting on google ideas ?

utiler

That is something that I think all of us would like John. The more we make noise about it the more likely it will happen!!!

rv1974

Bisection tracking!

john2

@rv1974 said:

Bisection tracking!

you mean angle bisection ?that would be awesome

TIG

@john2 said:

@rv1974 said:

Bisection tracking!

you mean angle bisection ?that would be awesome
You can do this already since v4?...
Make a guideline through one edge.
Select it and use Rotate+Ctrl to copy the guideline around the 'apex' by the full angle you'd like to subdivide...
Then immediately type /2
This will add a bisector guideline.

Note: To divide the angle into 3 equal parts use /3 etc...

rv1974

this is tedious workaround, not the tracking 'on the fly'

TIG

@rv1974 said:

this is tedious workaround, not the tracking 'on the fly'
Tell me how many clicks or key strokes your new "wonder-tool" would need - I suspect not many fewer than what I suggested...
You would somehow still need to define the apex, start angle, end angles and the subdivisions...

rv1974

very similar to square drawing in the present version.
(o.k. 0.5: just 2 keybord free hover moves over bisection forming edges)
BTW user defined angle snapping (with on\off mode) would be nice too.

thomthom

@rv1974 said:

BTW user defined angle snapping (with on\off mode) would be nice too.

TIG

It you had a face with two edges at the vertex it could 'bisect' the angle [you'd still need keyboard input to say do 1/3's]... BUT if the vertex shares more than one face how is Sketchup to know which pair of edges it's to use and the associated face plane for the 'bisection' - you'd still need to pick to select the two edges in question [2 clicks], right-click for context-menu[?] and then enter the divisor numeral [e.g. '2'+enter] >>> 2+1+1+1=5 - whereas so using a guideline = shortcut-key + click/drag [2], then shortcut-key to Rotate +Ctrl to copy, click start, click end [4] plus the divisor numeral [e.g. '2'+enter] >>> 2+4+2=8 - so it could be done in less, but never 0 !

It is easy to code, but I'm not sure it's that useful

PS: It's a new context-menu tool available here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=419335#p419335

rv1974

@thomthom said:

@rv1974 said:

BTW user defined angle snapping (with on\off mode) would be nice too.

[attachment=0:1oukterl]AngleSnapping.png[/attachment:1oukterl]

I meant angle tracking, mea culpa. Similar to Acad one.

cmoreink

I have more of a dream than a wish and only one:

import and handle large .obj files (trees, hedges, etc.), is this even possible for SU in next 12-24 months? or should I look into thea render, since I use SU+vray only.
What or which part of SU is responsible for not being able to handle such a big files?
Or could SU and vray do (in near future) something like thea render (instances in regards to tress, grass, flowers, hedges, etc.)

cheers

numerobis

@cmoreink said:

Or could SU and vray do (in near future) something like thea render (instances in regards to tress, grass, flowers, hedges, etc.)

maxwell with mxs references (not instances, instances have to be stored in the scene)...

kwistenbiebel

@cmoreink said:

I have more of a dream than a wish and only one:

import and handle large .obj files (trees, hedges, etc.), is this even possible for SU in next 12-24 months? or should I look into thea render, since I use SU+vray only.
What or which part of SU is responsible for not being able to handle such a big files?
Or could SU and vray do (in near future) something like thea render (instances in regards to tress, grass, flowers, hedges, etc.)

cheers

Not sure, a lot of people thought it was Sketchup not being 64 bit etc., but that balloon myth kind of got popped by a lot of members.
I think it is just the way Sketchup is coded at it's core....
It's my believe it will never be 'fixed' as I guess it would mean an overhaul and a little bit of a re-inventing the way Sketchup handles geometry?

This has been a topic for years now...

thomthom

@cmoreink said:

import and handle large .obj files (trees, hedges, etc.), is this even possible for SU in next 12-24 months? or should I look into thea render, since I use SU+vray only.

VfSU is being prepared for beta - it will get proxy support like VfRhino.