Where is SU 7 ?
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I have a list of features as long as my arm I'd love to see in SU7! Though I cut that arm off for a simple "reselect" function seriously!
Oh and multiple scenes (pages) to be displayed in split screens!
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Regarding SU 7, maybe the silience is because the omnipotent Autodesk wants to swallow Sketchu into its cavernous maw. and make us all take out overdrafts to pay for it......
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@richard said:
I have a list of features as long as my arm I'd love to see in SU7!
Same here, but I have a few I REALLY want to see, otherwise I think I'm wasting my time with SU, I think that a good number of SU users are starting to feel the same way.
@richard said:
Though I cut that arm off for a simple "reselect" function seriously!
It's available Richard, take a look over at Smustard for SelectionMemory (free) or pay $5 for SelectionMemory2 (enhanced version).
@richard said:
Oh and multiple scenes (pages) to be displayed in split screens!
AFAIK Smustard (Rick in specific) is also working on a script to organise the page/scene tabs. Unfortunately it seems like it will only run one level deep and not several as may be required - still probably better than nothing though.
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Juju thanks for the eyes up on the script mate!
Yeah i'd like to see the split scene option included for although I feel the beauty of SU is the ability to model and compose scenes without split scenes I find so often it could save me having to change camera angles when placing objects in a scene!
But then again so many other features as you suggest could be included. I feel if the guys at google just don't get running on some major upgrades the flavour of SU may soon be lost!
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@syburn said:
Regarding SU 7, maybe the silience is because the omnipotent Autodesk wants to swallow Sketchu into its cavernous maw. and make us all take out overdrafts to pay for it......
There was for so many years this exact fear, in fact it went deeper to the fear Autodesk would by @last and just bury SU altogether. I think that fear has passed somewhat, I really cant imagine Google now off loading SU to anyone! Although off loading the development of it could be a consideration!
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@kwistenbiebel said:
Google could easily spill some needed info for developers and ruby coders which way SU is heading. They could do that without having to reveal 'secret features' no one ever heard of.
Who said they haven't told us a few little hints here and there...
Chris
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No one.
But no one said the opposite either.
Lewis filled us in on what he experienced at AIA.
But concerning 3DBC, the info we got from participants was about the presentations of the existing ruby scripts....and some nice photos off course.
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@kwistenbiebel said:
No one.
But no one said the opposite either.I think you called my bluff
I only wish I was privy to any early info...... 
Chris
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Understood
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I'd just like the dumb "extra 5-minute" kludge to go away so that I don't have to run it every time I open SU6.
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What is the 5 minute kludge you refer to? I know some users had an extra long delay on opening SU in earlier releases of SU 6, but that was cleaned up. Is it something to do with that? or did I misunderstand what you mean?
Chris
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repsonse to: Chris Fullmer on Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:02 pm
"What is the 5 minute kludge you refer to?"
A while back I got a new whiz-bang computer, with Windows Vista loaded onto it. When I installed SU6, the license complained at me, telling me that it was expired. Uninstalling/reinstalling makes no difference.
I contacted Sketchup and they kindly gave me an executable that reset the clock by 5 minutes...but it is sort of like putting a bandage on a broken leg.
It "might" have been intended to be a good fix, I mean, it works, but i gotta jump through the hoop (run the executable) every time I initialize the program.
... but the really frustrating part is that Layout and Style Builder don't understand that and just_won't_work.
grr.
I figured I could wait 'til SU7 because I have a corporate license at work, but, of course the license is on a server somewhere else on the planet and neither program has the patience to look for it, so Layout and Style builder are useless, here, too.
grr^2.
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Hmm, very interesting. I also run SU on vista (64bit). But I have no problems. I guess this probably has to do with the server license stuff. I'm sure there lots going on there that I'm completely unaware of. Sorry its giving you such problems. That is quite the interesting 5 minute kludge indeed!
Chris
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wow you are all too buzy talking about some kludge thing to notice that someone has just announced SU7 release date!! Amazing.
Unfortunatley its only relaesed in mountian time, and as mountains move so slowliy I will have to wait millions of years untill it catches up with GMT.
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