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    • JQLJ Offline
      JQL
      last edited by

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

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      • ashscottA Offline
        ashscott
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        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

        Just some stuff I do with Sketchup.

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        • HornOxxH Offline
          HornOxx
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          IΒ΄ve just copy pasted my little wish from the SketchUp 2016 Wishlist πŸ˜‰

          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"

          never trust a skinny cook

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          • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
            jiminy-billy-bob
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            @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.

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            • S Offline
              sketchuh
              last edited by

              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!

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              • HornOxxH Offline
                HornOxx
                last edited by

                @sketchuh said:

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

                well written πŸ’š

                @sketchuh said:

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

                I agree!

                never trust a skinny cook

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                • ashscottA Offline
                  ashscott
                  last edited by

                  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...

                  Just some stuff I do with Sketchup.

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                  • jiminy-billy-bobJ Offline
                    jiminy-billy-bob
                    last edited by

                    @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 πŸ˜„

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                    • ashscottA Offline
                      ashscott
                      last edited by

                      Who would be able to do the coding really well?

                      Just some stuff I do with Sketchup.

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                      • K Offline
                        kaas
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                        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!!!

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                        • TommyKT Offline
                          TommyK
                          last edited by

                          @ashscott said:

                          Who would be able to do the coding really well?

                          Hmmm... I might be tempted. I'm not bad at JavaScript.

                          I would want to change it a little though. I would prefer to group layers according to its prefixes (separated with a hyphen), ala vectorworks and autoCAD. That should make imports from dxf and other formats cleaner without having to rearrange. Would that break the workflow for current users of layers panel?

                          Back on to wishlists, mine are:

                          CIRCLE GUIDES / TRUE CIRCLE INTERSECTIONS - I now do my surveys in sketchup. I know true circle geometry is too much to wish for, but being able to use intersections with true circles would really help. No plugin can truly provide this (TIG does have a tool that helps you, but it clearly is a workaround).

                          LAYERS IMPROVEMENTS

                          • ability to eye-dropper/bucket layers in color by layers view.
                          • Layers management improvements, as have been mentioned.
                          • Support full spectrum of colours and materials for layers, including transparencies (although I know skalp relies on a few bugs to make things work for them). Sketchup needs a proper API In this area too.
                          • Line-weight by layer? Think about it..

                          MATERIALS FOR OS X

                          • I want a better materials palette for os x. Keeping materials organised in Mac is futile currently..

                          REALTIME ANTI-ALIASING

                          • Is current computing power not ready for this yet?
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                          • JQLJ Offline
                            JQL
                            last edited by

                            @tommyk said:

                            @ashscott said:

                            Who would be able to do the coding really well?

                            Hmmm... I might be tempted. I'm not bad at JavaScript.

                            I would want to change it a little though. I would prefer to group layers according to its prefixes (separated with a hyphen), ala vectorworks and autoCAD. That should make imports from dxf and other formats cleaner without having to rearrange. Would that break the workflow for current users of layers panel?

                            I think it would...

                            Current LP functions allow freedom. I need that from LP.

                            I would however regard that prefixes functionallity with welcoming eyes if, having a prefix, would immediatelly arrange a layer in premade group.

                            I could then have a mix of prefixed layers with auto behaviours and other layers with manual grouping.

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                            • TommyKT Offline
                              TommyK
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                              I checked Layers Panel with 2016. It works fine. Seems some people are having some problems, but I haven't come across any.

                              I also had a look at the code on github. It's clean code but there is a lot of it. I am a little put off the idea of helping supporting it with all of its features, and I understand why jimneybob isn't all that keen either.

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                              • oceanembersO Offline
                                oceanembers
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                                @ashscott said:

                                @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).

                                Sorry for the (incredibly) late reply. Were you ever taught about "remainders" as a kid, before you learned to divide into fractions/decimals? Modulus is that - so 15 mod 4 = 3

                                • that is, the remainder after you took away as many fours as you could. It's usually written as a percentage symbol. This is very useful when you're working with discrete numbers.

                                To be honest, I'm not sure why it's not already in DCs, since ruby does actually have support for it.

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                                • 2 Offline
                                  2Harry
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                                  Well the enhanced arc/circle inference snaps in SU16 came a baby step closer to better snap control but is still not there so that is one of my wishes.

                                  But my most fervent wish (still unfulfilled after more versions than I can count) is a fix to Boolean operations that turn Components into Groups. This is such egregious behaviour that I consider it a major bug. It destroys all the efficient and productive effects of using Components.


                                  Please Trimble. Please fix this.

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                                    greatoe
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                                    Tag/Keyword system for organizing layers

                                    say I assign tags 'wall' and '1F' to a layer named '1F_wall', then, on the layers panel, when I click the tag 'wall', the layer '1F_wall' will show up, together with other layers tagged with 'wall', like '2F_wall'. and when I click the tag '1F', layers like '1F_wall' and '1F_floor' will show.

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                                    • D Offline
                                      db11
                                      last edited by

                                      @greatoe said:

                                      Tag/Keyword system for organizing layers

                                      πŸ‘ Great idea β€” would obviate the need for Layers Panel type hierarchy and would be more flexible / powerful. And maybe easier to execute? (compared to the complexity and related stability issues of the Layers Panel plugin)

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                                      • B Offline
                                        bsfranza
                                        last edited by

                                        • better AA

                                        • incorporate a better solution for multiple transparent materials!

                                        • ambient occlusion

                                        • do whatever the plugin devs ask you πŸ˜ƒ

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                                        • Z Offline
                                          ZahariStoyanov
                                          last edited by

                                          Would be nice if you can set four camera views simultaneously(split the screen into 4 views) πŸ˜„

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                                          • pbacotP Offline
                                            pbacot
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                                            Wish list is shorter this year it seems.

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