Exchange-Bin Icon
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I love applications with intuitive interfaces. thats why I love SketchUp so much.
and thats why I love drag-and-drop operations (by the way, I recently found out, that you can drag and drop a SketchUp file into the stage of a model you are currently working with. the file is imported as a component...).some days ago there came this idea into my mind, when I was exporting images (File > Export > 2D Graphic)...
wouldn't it be great to have an icon at the top right of your SketchUp window, a so called
Exchange-Bin
if you want to export a scene, you simply drag either the tab or the entity in the scene window into the Exchange-Bin to open up the image export window.if you drag multiple scenes into the bin, it will ask you, if you want to export images or an animation.
in the same way you can export components, textures, styles... (simply drag and drop them into the Exchange-Bin)
in addition to that we can think of an option window, that is opened, if you klick on the Exchange-Bin button (don't know what that is yet, but we will surely find some good features for that
).ah, yes. the image of this icon will be static. when SketchUp is running an export however (it will do that invisibly in the background, because SU7 will have multi-core support
) the globe rotates.
when it finished, it will flash once and then stay highlighted to indicate, that results are available.what do you think? would that be too much of a fancy toy or would it be a valuable add on to SketchUp's intuitive worklfow?
what other operations could be realised with the Exchange-Bin?
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