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      craigcampbell66
      last edited by

      Deals with higher poly/larger models better.
      Quicker saving/autosave.
      Layout - Active or Current layer 'automatically' switches to Dimensions when activating the dimension tool or Annotation when either notes or text tool is selected. Maybe the ability to customise this feature.

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        derei
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        SU 2016 BASIC WISHLIST

        I want for no magic and fairy tales... all I wish is common sense:

        %(#BF0000)[1. Fix Scenes Bug that can lead to accidental Scene Renaming !
        2. Fix Importers/Exporters to work at decent speed (take any other 3d software from the market as example)
        3. Fix the iterating commands in SU, because they take forever to run on complex models. Either if those commands are coded in SU or ran from scripts and plugins. This includes the Outliner crap, that makes everything blow to hell when Outliner is opened.
        4. Make a BETTER Layer manager (get inspired from Layers Panel plugin).

        5. (optional) - try to make plugin parsing a bit faster... would help a lot when SU is loading. One suggestion would be to have all the plugins parsed and converted in binary and saved as a "copy", ready to load in memory. And to have a (manual) function to rescan the Plugins folder in case that plugins were added/removed/updated. This way, won't be needed to parse and interpret all the plugins every time SU is loading...

        1. MAKE LAYOUT DECENT ! - this can become a huge list of things that can be improved. The general idea is that Layout at this moment runs like a Beta version 👎 in all aspects. Text editing is a mess, dimensions placed in SU are not consistent (displayed too big in Layout), general performance is less than decent.. and so on.]

        Thank you very much. This would make SU2016 what it should be, BEFORE adding extra functionality and fancy things that we all dream to. At least make it work, before making it fancy (and before adding price increase).

        DESIGNER AND ARTIST [DEREI.UK](http://derei.uk/l)

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          TommyK
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          @craigcampbell66 said:

          Layout - Active or Current layer 'automatically' switches to Dimensions when activating the dimension tool or Annotation when either notes or text tool is selected. Maybe the ability to customise this feature.

          I do like the sound of this. What I would imagine is that a pop up window can open when you right click on a layer name and select "layer settings". It would be great if you can make any tool in layout default to any layer you want.

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            oceanembers
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            The... whatever it's called... explorer shell sounds right? The save window. It needs updating - Layout has modernised already, but Sketchup seems stuck in the XP days in this regard. It irritates me that I can't get quick access to my favourites, libraries, etc. when I need it.

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              kaas
              last edited by

              A wish / fix for Layout:

              • Don't add an extra style (myStyle1 / myStyle2 etc ) if the style is updated in SketchUp. Just update the style in LayOut to the new settings.
              • If someone wants a new style in LayOut - just make a new one in SketchUp.
              • Or at least give the user a prompt in LayOut to re-use the existing style in layOut OR update the existing style to the one from SketchUp OR keep the style in LayOut and create a new one (also nice if inserting several SketchUp files).
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                kaas
                last edited by

                A wish for SketchUp:
                option to name a section plane -> Entity Info box

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                  JQL
                  last edited by

                  @kaas said:

                  A wish / fix for Layout:

                  • Don't add an extra style (myStyle1 / myStyle2 etc ) if the style is updated in SketchUp. Just update the style in LayOut to the new settings.
                  • If someone wants a new style in LayOut - just make a new one in SketchUp.
                  • Or at least give the user a prompt in LayOut to re-use the existing style in layOut OR update the existing style to the one from SketchUp OR keep the style in LayOut and create a new one (also nice if inserting several SketchUp files).

                  For what I've experienced that only happens if you change styles in LO.

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                    JQL
                    last edited by

                    @kaas said:

                    A wish for SketchUp:
                    option to name a section plane -> Entity Info box

                    It would be very good if these names could be used in Layout automatically for naming section lines in plan views.

                    This would go perfectly along with a way to style section lines in LO and make them, for instance, very short or only visible near the edges of the plan's viewport

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                      tommyg101
                      last edited by

                      It would be great to have a manual dimensioning tool. Like you get with most other 3D & 2D programs ie Rhino's 'Box Edit, Cinema 4D's scale and dimensions window or 'transform' box in Illustrator. This would make adjustments to sizes much quicker and easier than have to manually scale an object by moving an edge by a calculated distance to achieve the amended size. It's also a very quick and easy way to see the size of an objects length, depth and width instantly, rather than having to use the tape measure each time, or have drawn dimension lines sitting around the model the whole time. There used to be a plugin called 'Driving Dimensions' which looked like it solved this problem, however this became no longer available a few years back. This seems like a very simple tool that would make such a big impact in the speed and workflow of dimension work in sketchup, the current tools are great but this would just make the process much more efficient and time saving. It would also help migrate more people over to sketchup who are used to this common practice in 3D design.

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                        intrifen
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                        i wish the pan tool with the Middle mouse button,and orbit tool with shift+Middle mouse button,
                        because i use the pan tool frequent, just like the 3Ds MAX software Or can be switch

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                          olivier1971
                          last edited by

                          Would it be great to be able to group layer?

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                            jgb
                            last edited by

                            @olivier1971 said:

                            Would it be great to be able to group layer?

                            This has been asked for and ignored in many past versions, so I hold no hope we will see it anytime soon. 😢

                            There are a few Layer manager plug-ins out there but they don't integrate fully or properly with SU's native layering, so I dropped using them some time back.


                            jgb

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                              mariocha
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                              One simple thing ; thumbnails on Mac. Or is it not simple? 😄

                              %(#008000)[Mario C.
                              Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                                juju
                                last edited by

                                @mariocha said:

                                Repeated BUGSPLATs, on Windows 7 under Parallels. 😕

                                that's not on my wishlist for SU2016, but hey, each to their own...

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                                  numerobis
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                                  A divide (line) function without limitation to 100 segments... 😒

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                                    pbacot
                                    last edited by

                                    @numerobis said:

                                    A divide (line) function without limitation to 100 segments... 😒

                                    Not so hard to type the number, but whatever you think is important.

                                    MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                      srx
                                      last edited by

                                      TRIMBELE VR headset and SketchUp! I think that it would be great step forward if Trimble would integrate VR interface in new Sketchup 2016, which would be used for modeling! Trimble VR hardware could be in the packet too 😄

                                      www.saurus.rs

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                                        mariocha
                                        last edited by

                                        removed

                                        %(#008000)[Mario C.
                                        Every rule has exceptions, but some.]

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                                          mojtaba691001
                                          last edited by

                                          دِ این لامصبو بدین بیرون دیگه
                                          اینقد روی اعصاب ما راه نرین
                                          WHEN do Dear Trimle release Sketchup 2016?? when??
                                          atleast tell us new version date,PLEAAAAAAAASE

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                                            TIG Moderator
                                            last edited by

                                            @mojtaba691001 said:

                                            دِ این لامصبو بدین بیرون دیگه
                                            اینقد روی اعصاب ما راه نرین
                                            WHEN do Dear Trimble release Sketchup 2016?? when??
                                            at least tell us new version date, PLEAAAAAAAASE
                                            This is not the official Sketchup site.
                                            If it were then you would not be told such sensitive information anyway.
                                            That said, the annual release of new versions of SketchUp have in recent years moved to just before the year changes.
                                            So whilst it is in no way a guarantee, you might hope to see v2016 available within the last few months of 2015...
                                            BUT you'll just have to be patient. 😞

                                            TIG

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