Trimble Sketchup

seasdes

I have the latest version of Sketchup Pro 2014 and have paid for each new version (since V4) as soon as it is released. Is it only me that thinks that development of Sketchup Pro has stalled. I haven't seen a significant enhancement for a long time.
I hear that Trimble is hiring but have not seen a result of this.

Please prove me wrong.

Aerilius

Under Trimble the SketchUp team was able to release twice as many versions than in the same time under Google.

They renewed two major components of the SketchUp application (Ruby 2.0 and the build system + UI libraries, which as side effect fixed toolbar mess and added editable toolbars).
They built two major web platforms from scratch with integration into SketchUp and all the under-the-hood infrastructure: Extension Warehouse and 3D Warehouse.
(and two small mobile apps)

Agreed, these are not so much user-facing innovations in the SketchUp client application, but considering the speed and effort that had gone into renewing the foundations, now that it is done I'd expect a much faster pace of innovative user-facing features.

sfto1

Any thoughts on when SU 2015 can be expected?

Dave R

Yes, there have been a lot of under-the-hood improvements that might not be so obvious to the user but they should make it possible for more noticeable feature upgrades in subsequent versions. There have been major improvements in LayOut, too.

As for when SU2015 will come, it's anyone's guess but based on SU2014, it would be reasonable to expect the next version to come in the first quarter of 2015 or so.