SketchUp 2015 Wishlist
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What shiny new buttons? I think some of the staff (and we know some of them from here) care because they ARE us. As for management, why should they care? I'm sure they have enough else to keep them busy. (I don't mean to say that facetiously towards you. But trying to see it from their perspective, they must have many other pressures and priorities. How would they benefit from this? It's all the next quarter, next year, then eventually retire or move on to another company.)
I think you are right about the "core" if that means better and faster performance.
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I would like to have the ability to create jogged section cuts. Just create a surface, make it a component, right click on it and turn it into a section cut.
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Cut / making hole through all complicated components (content many other components and groups)
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@gudio83:
See this link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=58335.
An extension or plugin like this is more likely to happen than it being incorporated into the program itself. Is this what you are describing in your comment? -
I would like layer transparency and to have it save-able in Scene Manager, so you could "ghost out" non-essential information in a certain scene, and "highlight" the things you want to stand out. Essentially, creating a scene that looks like when you double-click on a group or component within a larger model.
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Faster model manager with large file and material windows, entityinfo windows, Style Windows...working together in the one windows, maybe multi tab for them.
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Better palette and dialog organization / control / consistency for Mac.
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Layout: Speed! I still find it too slow for complex models even using raster renders. I've often wondered sure why Layout can't use the same engine SU does while one is working with the layout, then do the heavy render processing only when it is time to export. We were told a 14x speed increase in the 2014 release but it sure doesn't seem that way to me!
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SU: Real circles, though not displayed as such for the sake of graphics speed - like Autocad which "knows" a circle is a circle in terms of snapping, dimensions, anything that matters; but only displays segments.
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Layout: fix the export to .dwg so that text stays where it is supposed to and in general the end product comes out looking like it did in layout. Understood Acad can't support some of the fancy graphics stuff Layout can, however what I find is titleblocks, text, dimensions moving around so much that the export is pretty unusable. I WANT to use Layout for all my sheet sets but because I have to submit .dwg copies I'm forced to do all my sheets and annotations in Autocad, xref-ing in the SU model.
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Ability to "fade" layers just like they seem to when you are editing a component / group but seeing the rest of the model. This is a great way to emphasize elements - lets say a run of pipe - through a cluttered background. This would need to be tied to scene generation just like whether a layer is on/off. It could be "fade all other groups/components" and / or "fade all other layers" for my money... And of course this functionality would follow through into layout.
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SU: enable dimension & leader text to have a background color so they stand out over geometry, like in layout.
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Stop the Esc key from quitting dialogs!!!!!!
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enable reverse mouse wheel zoom direction in the Mac version!
I think thats enough for a start
...And many thanks to the Sketchup team for a great product that has got so many things right already.
Jon
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@jonb42 said:
- Ability to "fade" layers just like they seem to when you are editing a component / group but seeing the rest of the model. This is a great way to emphasize elements - lets say a run of pipe - through a cluttered background. This would need to be tied to scene generation just like whether a layer is on/off. It could be "fade all other groups/components" and / or "fade all other layers" for my money... And of course this functionality would follow through into layout.
@tk0001 said:
I would like layer transparency and to have it save-able in Scene Manager, so you could "ghost out" non-essential information in a certain scene, and "highlight" the things you want to stand out. Essentially, creating a scene that looks like when you double-click on a group or component within a larger model.
Great minds...
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flickerfree opacity/alphas ... when working with several alpha mapped trees and stuff things get ugly
would be awesome if this could somehow get fixed!!!
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it would be good that door and window components cut to the wall precisely for a given thickness.
BIM plugins should be integrated in it
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Must be high resolution icons in the new version of Sketchup.
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My biggest SU - wishes are still :
[b]1. Speed[b]2. true geometry of circles and curves
I understood - I am inside a box-program but I do not see the point not to progress.
It would make life so much easier to work with true circles/continues curves and to produce geometrical correct intersections.- STL-file export
After spending countless hours on a flawless SU 8-model, I learned from several 3d printing-shops, that the model could not be printed.
Apparently SU 8 produces a countless errors at the intersection of curved Volumes.
If The future really is 3d printing, its absolutely necessary to improve on curve-geometry and file-export
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- STL-file export
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Multi-threaded kernel COLLADA, as parasolid
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A couple of things.
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Give the control of visible toolbars to users. Many plugins are written to leave the toolbar in the workspace, when opening Sketchup, whether you had them open last session or not. That is you can't keep them closed.
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Fix the extensions window in Preferences: So when you are tired of a set of toolbars opening up you go to the extensions window to turn the extension off. The extension window has a tiny scroll window that lists (some, not all) plugins. One must scroll up and down, searching for the right extension because THERE IS NO ORDER OR SEARCH FUNCTION. Make this list contain all plugins and make the window expandable, and please list alphanumerically like the rest of the world.
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- I think you'll find that is an issue with the relevant plugins not SU.
- Have you used the plugin and extension managers that are part of the Sketchucation plugin.
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@box said:
- I think you'll find that is an issue with the relevant plugins not SU.
- Have you used the plugin and extension managers that are part of the Sketchucation plugin.
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So make it a SU issue. Why does Trimble leave the UI issues up to misc. plugin authors? SU has the worse UI setup of any app. I regularly use.
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No. Sketchucation Store plugin? So you would use it to unload extensions that you have in the plugins folder?
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@taner tan said:
Must be high resolution icons in the new version of SketchUp.
Hopefully, this time they do.Gee, you're easily pleased.....
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Pbacot I'm not sure how Trimble can control a 3rd party plugin. Your original point was about plugins that are persistent on restart. This is because the code is written incorrectly causing the toolbar to open no matter what it's previous state was. So it's a fault in the plugin, not Sketchup. If you find a plugin that is doing it you should point it out to it's author.
As for Sketchucation tools, Yes you can turn plugins and extensions on and off, you can even create different set of plugins that you want to load together, you can uninstall plugins, update, auto install, load temporarily or permanently, you can use bundles to sync different computer so they have the same plugins, or create a specific bundle that you will only use on your laptop and auto load all of them with one click........I could go on and on but there are too many things it can do and more coming.
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Thanks! I'll look at the SCF tools. However can't the developers of SU control/prohibit a particular action of a plugin? Isn't it the function of SU that allows the plugin toolbar to show in the first place?
And, of course, I think you realize, that although I can add managers and plugins to improve my use of SU (and I am glad of suggestions), it doesn't change a wish that the application were better out of the box, if only for the new user who doesn't have the plugins to solve their frustrations. I mostly find the extensions window a pain because it is SO poorly designed and is never improved, not that I haven't learned to live with it.
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