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    • Mike LuceyM Offline
      Mike Lucey
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      @marcdurant said:

      There are a number of SketchUp folks who read this forum. Speaking only for myself, I focus on those conversations where I can make a difference by helping people with problems or perhaps tracking down a new bug report.

      Thanks for chiming in and commenting Marc, much appreciated.

      Mike

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      • Tyler MillerT Offline
        Tyler Miller
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        Hey folks -

        Just wanted to pop in an say that we do indeed follow the posts here and very much value your feedback. SketchUp is a large application and sometimes you have to shore up the foundations in order to better move forward. We've done a lot of that with this release, while also trying to make SketchUp a better platform and a better documentation and presentation tool (LayOut). Keep the feedback coming (yes - the negative stuff too!).

        Regards,
        Tyler

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        • Chris FullmerC Offline
          Chris Fullmer
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          @swingman said:

          When Trimble's email support form, the form you must pay $95 for the privilege of submitting, doesn't even have the version (2013)as an option for which you paid the $95, I would say that Trimble may be demonstrably stone deaf to paying customers at the moment.

          Thanks for pointing it out Swingman, I'll make sure the support team sees this 😄

          Chris

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          • pbacotP Offline
            pbacot
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            Appreciate you (TSU) guys chiming in!

            MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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            • GarethG Offline
              Gareth
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              @alan fraser said:

              @frederik said:

              As Jason already have mentioned, SCF was born because Google were shutting the previous forum down and converting everything into Google Groups...
              Let's not forget that if Google had not done that, SCF would have remained a private tutorial web-site founded by [i](gosh... I can't remember his name... 😳 )

              Actually, that was me...and the name you are searching for is Coen Naninck. 😉

              WOW.....!!

              I was a member back then too....and I am ashamed to say I had forgotten about Coen.

              If anyone is still in touch with him, please send him my regards.

              I have very fond memories of the forum back in those days....if I remember correctly when I joined in 2003/4 (my memory needs refreshing)there were only a thousand or so of us.

              And it is hard to imagine that it was the days before all those wonderful plugins popped up, let alone render plugins....or if they were our there, I didn't know about them....!!

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              • GarethG Offline
                Gareth
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                @mike lucey said:

                A true performer takes the criticisms in the same good grace as he does the praise.

                Beautifully said....! 👍

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                • KrisidiousK Offline
                  Krisidious
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                  @gareth said:

                  I was a member back then too....and I am ashamed to say I had forgotten about Coen.

                  If anyone is still in touch with him, please send him my regards.

                  He's on to BIGGER and better things... 😎

                  http://www.curvyshrine.com/author/coen-naninck/

                  By: Kristoff Rand
                  Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                  • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                    jiminy-billy-bob
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                    @charly2008 said:

                    I suspect that they will try to integrate "SketchUp" into this system.

                    Are you sure about that ?
                    I thought so too, it seems logical. But when I look at their websites, I'm not so sure any more. Sketchup is nowhere to be found on the Trimble Website : http://www.trimble.com/products_az.aspx#S
                    And Trimble is hardly mentioned in the new Sketchup website. Only a blue banner at the bottom with a small Trimble logo. It was more clear in the previous website, when they just replaced Google's logo.

                    It's like "Sketchup" is the brand, not "Trimble".

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                    • Rich O BrienR Offline
                      Rich O Brien Moderator
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                      Try searching for Trimble Buildings which is separate from Trimble somewhat.

                      SketchUp falls under Trimble Navigation along with Tekla and other Design, Build and Operate systems.

                      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp 📖

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                      • KrisidiousK Offline
                        Krisidious
                        last edited by

                        http://buildings.trimble.com/

                        By: Kristoff Rand
                        Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                        • soloS Offline
                          solo
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                          http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=052213a

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                          • charly2008C Offline
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                            Another interesting article,

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                            Trimble's SketchUp looking destined to enter CAD/BIM space

                            Trimble's SketchUp product managing director shares with us some insight about where LayOut is headed. Straight at CAD and BIM...

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                            • pbacotP Offline
                              pbacot
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                              '“We’re keen to make that (LayOut) into a full-featured drawing tool for architects,” said Bacus, “with all the tools that you’d expect from a modern CAD system.”'

                              MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                              • olisheaO Offline
                                olishea
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                                @krisidious said:

                                He's on to BIGGER and better things... 😎

                                http://www.curvyshrine.com/author/coen-naninck/

                                jeez!! he really is onto BIGGER things!! 😆

                                Isn't coen the guy who used to quote himself in his signature? 😆

                                oli

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                                • ilovesuI Offline
                                  ilovesu
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                                  @tyler miller said:

                                  Hey folks -

                                  Just wanted to pop in an say that we do indeed follow the posts here and very much value your feedback. SketchUp is a large application and sometimes you have to shore up the foundations in order to better move forward. We've done a lot of that with this release, while also trying to make SketchUp a better platform and a better documentation and presentation tool (LayOut). Keep the feedback coming (yes - the negative stuff too!).

                                  Regards,
                                  Tyler

                                  Hi Tyler,

                                  Good to see you again! It's always nice seeing Google... err Trimble people looking at these pages. I do not frequent this forum as much as I used to, but I check in every now and then.

                                  Anyway, I was also a bit disappointed with version 2013. I found out about the new release about a week after it was launched (I'm not actively following things anymore, but still use SketchUp for a "big" project of mine).

                                  Since you guys are taking notes, for me the biggest thing really is hardware support; I'm not so much looking for 64 bit support, but rather that the three out of four CPU cores of my 3770K are not used by SketchUp.

                                  I recently bought a new system (following Pete Stoppel's excellent CatchUp article advice). Thus far the only benefit I've noticed is the GeForce GTX 680's fluid orbiting speeds, even at 8.000.000 SketchUp Faces (eight times my current model's Face count).

                                  However operations such as Group and Explode still take a very long time to complete with large chunks of geometry. Also boolean/Intersect operations take a long time.

                                  I wonder if these are things which can be sped up.

                                  I did sort of discover a nice way to speed things up with lower spec graphics cards and CPUs, by putting profile Edges and hidden Edges on a separate Layer for separate Groups and Components, then turning those off while retaining Edges on parts of the model one is working on. That's a bit of a workaround for the current slow orbiting on lower end machines.

                                  Anyway, just wanted to add my voice to the lot. Hopefully it is of use to you.

                                  Please send my regards to Tricia and Millard from me.

                                  Kindly,
                                  Coen Naninck

                                  P.s: Is there still a version of SketchUp 8 Pro around? There was a page on sketchup.com which listed some older versions of SketchUp but there were no actual download links. I'm using v8 Free now.

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                                  • Wo3DanW Offline
                                    Wo3Dan
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                                    @ilovesu said:

                                    P.s: Is there still a version of SketchUp 8 Pro around? There was a page on sketchup.com which listed some older versions of SketchUp but there were no actual download links. I'm using v8 Free now.

                                    Hi Coen, you might try here:
                                    http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115548
                                    (Hope it still works)

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                                    • ilovesuI Offline
                                      ilovesu
                                      last edited by

                                      @wo3dan said:

                                      Hi Coen, you might try here:
                                      http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=115548
                                      (Hope it still works)

                                      It's v2013 Pro. Thanks anyway.

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                                      • M Offline
                                        marcdurant
                                        last edited by

                                        Here's the current link for older versions of SU:

                                        Just a moment...

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                                        (help.sketchup.com)

                                        -marc

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                                        • KrisidiousK Offline
                                          Krisidious
                                          last edited by

                                          😎 Coen... I knew you'd be lurking around here somewhere.

                                          By: Kristoff Rand
                                          Home DesignerUnique House Plans

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                                          • ilovesuI Offline
                                            ilovesu
                                            last edited by

                                            @marcdurant said:

                                            Here's the current link for older versions of SU:

                                            Just a moment...

                                            favicon

                                            (help.sketchup.com)

                                            -marc

                                            That link does actually work. Thanks so much!

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