Your Ideas for SketchUp 2014
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The SketchUp Team are looking for your requests for the next release....
http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/IbflqJjevk0/SC1jRE6UrfgJ
@unknownuser said:
Hi everybody,
In the weeks following the release of SketchUp 8, we had a lively discussion about what the SketchUp team should be working on next. While a user base of 30 million people or so using SketchUp in every way imaginable will never all have the same requirements, there was some convergence last time on a couple basic requests.
The majority of folks who responded asked for better support for finding and installing Ruby extensions. Our developers wanted API improvements so they could write better extensions. Folks who make drawings for a living wanted better tools for drafting. Folks who make renderings for a living wanted better tools for working with rendering engines. There were also dozens of good ideas about basic toolbar management and other such things in the UI. We had many requests for improvement in model interoperability with other applications.
And of course everyone always wants the whole system to run ever faster on ever larger models. That's a fixture of every release we've ever done. Specific technologies that have captured folks' attention in recent years include "64-bit" and "multicore", but performance is always on our development agenda— no matter we choose as the supporting technology.
We got to some of this in SU2013, but of course didn't get to everything. Some of what we didn't get to we'd like to do 'someday' and some of it we may 'never' do. Some of it we are already working on... but it will take a long time to finish. Regardless where we are on our internal roadmap, the discussion here is always good.
So let's kick this thing off... what do you think we should be working on next and why is that important to your work?
john
....I do recommend that if you are planning to submit requests to keep things 'positive'. They do listen and are very proactive now that it is a yearly major release.
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I've seen many great ....good ... minor feature requests here in different threads.
One that I can't recall having seen is: Allow two (maybe more, but at least two) active section planes per modeling level. In other words: **each group, each component and the top level of geometry can have two active section planes.**Maybe some sort of 'Section Plane Outliner' to better handle all section planes in a model.
A very interesting request is the one Christina Eneroth (Eneroth3) posted in SketchUp Help Forum https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/sketchup/feature-suggestions/IbflqJjevk0
This would make my request here entirely superfluous. If only this were possible and implemented, handling section cuts would be much more advanced. -
@unknownuser said:
So let's kick this thing off... what do you think we should be working on next and why is that important to your work?
Somehow feels like a déjà vu...
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Maybe a stretch tool like Auto Cad?
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"Maybe a stretch tool like Auto Cad?"
Using Move on lines or points works just the same as Stretch in Autocad.
Kris
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Illustrator has a indirect selection tool in addition to a selection tool. The indirect selection is the hollow arrow. It allows you to make a selection via fence or window into nested objects. A common use for this would be to take a multistory building made of many seperate groups, draw a window to stretch out the building 10 feet.
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@krism said:
"Maybe a stretch tool like Auto Cad?"
Using Move on lines or points works just the same as Stretch in Autocad.
Kris
but you have to be within the context and the object may contain components etc. -- use Fredoscale.
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A complete rewrite of the dimensions function so the dimension size remains constant relative to the object plus an option for annotative scaling.
Without having to go into a separate program (LO).
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sketchup layout should look at floor planner software capabilities and form z nurbs and I don't think any application for architecture and product design will ever get close in ease of function
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Reading through the responses I believe I'm in an alternative universe, no wonder SU 2013 was such a let down if the users they are polling are pretty much noobs and casual users that do not even use SU as extensively as users on this forum.
Floating menus, sub layers, bring back Susan WTF? more than half the requests are for Layout, which should be a separate thread IMO. So do not hold your breath, SU 2014 will have Susan back and more Layout improvements only, oh they may add floating menus...
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What if Sketchucation did a petition with a few most wanted requests that we can agree on and all member who wants can "sign his name" on it?
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In Sketchup 8 already there's a Layout_api.dll( sorry Solo). Are we at some point going to be able to develop plugins for Layout? Cause, that would be a huge leap forward.
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@rich o brien said:
The SketchUp Team are looking for your requests for the next release....
http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/sketchup/IbflqJjevk0/SC1jRE6UrfgJ
Honestly, why do you do it? Post it, i mean.
Developers should have saved requests in any databases systems, even in google
docs...during or before 8 releasing
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Ok here is my wish.
Im working betwen sk and 3dmax, what i do is export the sk model in FBX format but it takes ages on a medium model and it can take hundreds of mb (650mb for a 8 story building ! ) after i import on max its a 30 mb model ...
i know that 3dmax can import your sk model but what if you need to update it without losing your vray materials?
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Just have a real look at what developers made to improve the basic tools and it would be a great release (just dreaming).
And for myself, why TSU 13 does not run with Snow Leopard?
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Dynamic Components free for all versions for superboost them!
They are massively under-employed!
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Hi Rich-
Thanks for posting this link.
We do have a database of existing issues and feature requests, and we're already working on some of these items for 2014. John's thread is your opportunity to bring up new requests, and to help us set priorities on existing items.
I wanted to clear up a misconception that I've seen a few times: LayOut issues do not directly compete with SketchUp issues for resources. LayOut has its own dedicated team! So, don't hesitate to submit LayOut requests.
thanks,
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from top of my head.
better UI obviously (toolpalets, docking stuff, two monitors friendlyness, in my opinion ribbon wouldby great too)
field in layout and sketchup. I actually dont know why LO can not autonumber pages, insert name of the viev as a field ...
foldering layers is nice koncept i miss in SU and LO
If LO should become more serious i would like to see layout things warohouse (hatches, blocks, linestyles . ..)
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some time ago i was thinking about visibility control in su.
and now we have three different systems. Scenes, layers, hidden/unhidden geometry. We have three tools to control that. Layers, scenes and outliner. I think its possible to combine them into one tool. Scenes are used to remember layer states and geometry isolations and do it as their secondary feature. the are scenes after all so i wouldnt change them, but i thing outliner and layers can be combined into one tool. something like corel draw has, but better. This is just addition to my previous suggestion. -
Just dawned on me watching both threads that maybe it is me, I want stuff that most folk do not, like better UV tools, more poly's, quads, etc.
Gonna have to give Blender a real go.
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