Wishlist for SketchUp 2018
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@baz said:
...But imagine not having to remove your attention from the model as you "Pushpull, 200mm, go" Or, "linetool, red axis, 600, go." Or even, "Rectangle, 30 metres, green axis, 10 metres, push pull, 6 metres, blue axis, make component, copy by 5 , red axis, 20 metres, go." "Undo last."
The mouse would still be selecting the area of focus. Gotta be quicker and less stressfull.
Possibly you could then use a 'SpaceNavigator' more effectively, tho no experience there.If you're going there...why use a mouse instead of eye tracking..? And maybe have SketchUp talk back to us... Some inspiration from my favorite sf series when I was young.. (start at 48:00 for the talking computer part) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rt06UPT5-s
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One thing I would definitely like to see is the ability to control the width of the fill in 'filled' dimension text in Layout, or to at least make the fill boundary closer to the length of the occupied text...perhaps extending beyond the ends of the dimension text by the same amount that the fill adds above and below the text, or slightly less even. Currently the fill boundary is superfluously extended beyond the ends of the dimension text, creating unnecessary blocking/overlapping of items in close proximity.
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Simple workspace toolbar migrate.
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@baz said:
How about voice commands? It's the way of the future IMHO.
can you imagine how annoying an office full of people voicing sketchup commands would be?
I think I will stick with just voicing the occasional expletive and keeping the other commands silent.
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@pmolson said:
@baz said:
How about voice commands? It's the way of the future IMHO.
can you imagine how annoying an office full of people voicing sketchup commands would be?
I think I will stick with just voicing the occasional expletive and keeping the other commands silent.
Well, there is that, but I work alone and I talk to myself anyway
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If you want voice then I would look at a 3rd party voice add on. Therefore I wouldn't want or expect sketchup to do it. With a 3rd part solution then you can use it for many applications - not just one.
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Normal windows built in voice recognition software works easily with SU, I used it years ago but gave up on it when working with others in a too noisy environment.
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@box said:
Normal windows built in voice recognition software works easily with SU, I used it years ago but gave up on it when working with others in a too noisy environment.
Not the same as a dedicated SU interface. As I understand 3rd party speech recog... EG; to open a group for editing... I would have to say 'double click'. To orbit I would have to speak the assigned shortcut instead of just saying 'orbit'.
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Not necessarily. It is quite possible that the voice recognition software can work with voice macros. You say orbit and the short cut is executed.
Voice activated software has come a long way in the last few years and can actually work with the powerful hardware that we now have.
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@garry k said:
Not necessarily. It is quite possible that the voice recognition software can work with voice macros. You say orbit and the short cut is executed.
Voice activated software has come a long way in the last few years and can actually work with the powerful hardware that we now have.
I will check it out, thanks.
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@kimi kimi said:
Yeah man, what's up with these material, scenes and layers palletes? We need those better. And we need everything else otb mentioned.
I second that motion! Just want to add extra notes to the following:
- "Export to 2D" features
-please make scenes tickable /selectable! I have 100++ scenes, there should be a tickable box or better the shift+drag mouse+click scenes that you only wanna export, that would really be handy, just like how you select items in windows/Sketchup environment, you highlight them and drag them, shift click to add/remove, etc.. that kind of gestures. Right now I am just using a paid plugin from Smustard, really helpful but it's one click per scene only, still very manual selection, author hasn't updated it.
- Scenes
-option to batch rename, reorder, reorganize, group, Shift+Click to select and drag to position you want, shift+click to unselect..etc.. these kind of gestures that's normally used in Windows environment. Just like how a Photoshop layers behave. Our hands are used to this pattern already. Sketchup should catch up.
- Layers
-similar to CAD or Photoshop, very easy to manage & organize, an idiot proof approach
.I've been using Sketchup since version 7, now there'd been upgrades on features but these panels hasn't received notable updates! Skethup 2018 developers, kindly look at these areas. Thanks!
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I rather doubt anyone from Trimble actually reads threads like this, but on the wild chance they do....
My wish list for oh, at least the last 10 versions:
Drawn lines should be drawing elements that can display their own color and line form per whatever the end user wishes them to do.Please redo the menu structure under textures. Get rid of "Position" and put in its place the commands located under "Position".
Stop the display of the "Unable to load image file" popup message when one does a control-c on the file name, control-v to the materials name box while creating a new material.
Thank you.
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Speed and large file capabilities. They always say we'll just ask for more but SketchUp is always behind on what one needs for working on typical models for typical small building projects, let alone for adding landscape, and other models that are handled easily by other software.
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