SketchUp 2015 is 64bit

[Krisidious]

Well, hello Steve... Nice to meet you.

[solo]

The proverbial cat is out of the bag.

[Krisidious]

OMG.... It's sooo fast.

[Anton_S]

Wow! We can actually check off something in the 2014 wishlist!

[utiler]

@krisidious said:

Well, hello Steve... Nice to meet you.

And he rides a trumphy....my sort of bloke!!

Well done to the Trimble team once again. Glad to see 64Bit has become a reality!!!!

[pilou]

So all existing plugins must be adapted again

[Krisidious]

I've only tried Vue Exporter so far and it does not work in 2015.

My first plugin was Sketchucation tools of course.

[solo]

@unknownuser said:

So all existing plugins must be adapted again

Yup, now you need the 64 bit version, enjoy, see this as a spring cleaning in autumn.

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

So all existing plugins must be adapted again

Only if they used binary libraries. Most will work as is.
I had two which needed updating; TT_Lib and Vertex Tools. Compatible versions are on PluginStore and ExtensionWarehouse.

[Anton_S]

@unknownuser said:

So all existing plugins must be adapted again

Those that use a .dll, or .so in their plugin have to be future proofed. Some were future proofed before SU2015 was set public. Yet, there are many plugins that don't depend on a compiled c extension or dll, which don't need to be upgraded.

[thomthom]

@anton_s said:

@unknownuser said:

So all existing plugins must be adapted again

Those that use a .dll, or .so in their plugin have to be future proofed.

Under OSX it's .bundle.

[pilou]

And this version under 64 steroïds is only valuable for the Pro version

[thomthom]

@unknownuser said:

And this version under 64 steroïds is only valuable for the Pro version

If you ever experienced crashes because you ran out of memory this will be of use. Out of the box it's currently rare people hit this limit, but users of render engines which run inside the SketchUp process could easily hit the 32bit limit and find good use of 64bit.

[pilou]

yes but this 64 version is also for the Make version or not ?

[pbacot]

@unknownuser said:

And this version under 64 steroïds is only valuable for the Pro version

It's available for the Make version

[pilou]

Thx for the info!

[driven]

SketchUp now starts with a 30 day trial of SketchUp Pro.

which is nice...

john

[jeff hammond]

nice work @suTeam.. much appreciated

[Box]

Two things well worth pointing out.
It restores the thumbnails function in Explorer
and
it can easily be set not to be the default Skp opener, in other words it doesn't ride rough shod over your choice of version. You can install it to test it out and still retain your preferred version as default.

[pilou]

Cool function!