SketchUp 2017 Wishlist

juju

@rich o brien said:

A publicly listed roadmap of development would be nice.

+1

pbacot

Just an idea. Not a biggie. What if you could find (and / or) open any layout file which references a SU file --from within the SU file.

JQL

@pbacot said:

Just an idea. Not a biggie. What if you could find (and / or) open any layout file which references a SU file --from within the SU file.
Useful!

pbacot

Also I would like to see trays for Mac just as in Windows. It MUST be possible to clean up the UI! Same for LayOut. Every session requires clearing up all the windows.

JQL

@numerobis said:

import improvements

better texturing tools

multicore support (yes, this is the way processors evolve now - since a few years)

high poly support

faster ruby script execution! (it's just a joke, that you have to watch a counter when you round some edges, where another app can do this instantly...)

faster explode or copy/paste

disable/configure snapping

an advanced camera without these unbelievable stupid huge frustums and guide lines (clipping problem?) or simply a camera with numerical input for the target hight (or simply the same value as the eye level if a flexible value is too much )

a usable, more direct or intuitive version of dynamic components with usable stretch and move options like in dynamic blocks in acad for instance

a camera that can use/display shift parameters of the camera in render plugins

These should be feasible right?

@numerobis said:

Quads

sub-D modeling

better proxy display modes for referenced objects of external renderers - not only a box

non destructive and parametrical modeling using a modifier stack or node graphs. Maybe we'll see a ruby... this seaems to be to only way this program will evolve in the future (as always).

...

oceanembers

Modulus operator in Dynamic Components. Please. It would make some of my formulae infinitely less complicated.

Lushi

I wish there was a tool that will facilitate the creation of floors from sketches of lines, like revit

utiler

@oceanembers said:

Modulus operator in Dynamic Components. Please. It would make some of my formulae infinitely less complicated.

What's a modular operator?

ashscott

@utiler said:

What's a modular operator?

One of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_operation
(I still have no idea)

Doesn't Simfonia Animation Tools have a modulator function so you can create wave signals (possibly completely unrelated).

Wishlist for SU 2017:

FEA (just kidding, but not really)
To incorporate this into the software: http://sketchucation.com/plugin/803-coastalconcepts_editflag
Some way to not have segments in arcs
STL export
+1 for publicly listed roadmap of development
Regarding the nesting of layers - isn't this effectively BillyBob's [url=http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=53906:36c9x8qg]Layers Panel Plugin?[/url:36c9x8qg]

JQL

@ashscott said:

@utiler said:

[*]Regarding the nesting of layers - isn't this effectively BillyBob's Layers Panel Plugin?[/list]

The problem is that jiminy had to come up with so many workaround methods to create Layers Panel, that even he got confused and eventually stop supporting it, in order to have time to create skatter.

I believe he'd gladly welcome a native solution to this...

JQL

I'd say JBB-Layers Panel is as usefull to me as it is to you!

ashscott

I'm impressed that he even got it to work as someone who was teaching himself Ruby as he went.

I cannot say how useful it has been using Layers Panel in conjunction with scenes to create complex construction documents in Layout.

I arrange every view I need as a scene in sketchup with the appropriate layers on/off (some models have 30+ layers so doing this without Layers Panel is extremely error-prone), send to layout, place the scenes, dimension and add notes, export, build.

Its standard functionality in photoshop etc yet does NOT add any unnecessary complexity to a new user

EDIT: Grammar

HornOxx

I´ve just copy pasted my little wish from the SketchUp 2016 Wishlist

I want an improved 2D pixels export - regardless of the width/height-size of my currently used SkUp viewport. (As if I would adjust the output resolution within any render plugin)
I want that other SkUp users with their own viewport sice can export exactly the same file resolution as I do. Interacting by repeating the same output results with other users would be so much easier ...

Even if there is a plugin for that, SkUp should at last be able to do this "out of the box"

jiminy-billy-bob

@jql said:

I believe he'd gladly welcome a native solution to this...

I'd very much indeed.

I'll soon make it completely open-source, so that anyone can update it, even try to make money out of it, whatever.

sketchuh

Guys, Trimble Won't improve anything you wished here, since we are only 0.0001% of the market...haha.
But Plugin authors are the best here! Thank you all for the great plugins!

HornOxx

@sketchuh said:

Guys, Trimble Won't improve anything you wished here, since we are only 0.0001% of the market...haha.

well written

@sketchuh said:

But Plugin authors are the best here! Thank you all for the great plugins!

I agree!

ashscott

Speaking of which, I'd pay someone to clean up Layers Panel and make it as robust as possible - I just can't pay enough to make it worthwhile - on the other hand, if there were a number of us willing to pay...

jiminy-billy-bob

@ashscott said:

Speaking of which, I'd pay someone to clean up Layers Panel and make it as robust as possible - I just can't pay enough to make it worthwhile - on the other hand, if there were a number of us willing to pay...

You could start a kickstarter or similar

ashscott

Who would be able to do the coding really well?

kaas

Now, a week after the V16 release, I have similar thoughts. LayOut was improved so that's really nice. In SketchUp I'm struggling to see improvements to me besides the added inference option.
... I'm actually considering using a LO16 & SU15 combo at the moment because of the new interface & a few bugs in them that break my workflow....

I would be very very surprised to see a UV map/unwrap tool, quads, nested layers panel etc etc coming from Trimble in a next V17 release. If you, as a user, really need those tools - get started learning Ruby yourself or pay somebody to make the tools for you. My guess is: they are targeting the average user who just needs an interface to a pro-package (Revit, Maya, 3dStudio, Rhino etc) if they need the pro-tools.

...I hope I will be just as happy with a future update for SketchUp as I'm with this Layout update.
In the mean time, many many thanks indeed to the plugin developers over here that have added so many invaluable tools that make SketchUp a joy to use!!!