SketchUP 8

thomthom

@ben ritter said:

How do you get the upgrade? Been on the website but still v.7.

Good question - I see the v8 downloads, but no information of the v8 upgrade is free for existing users of Pro or not.

Historically Pro has not had free upgrades - but at a discount. I assume this to be the case this time as well.

bmike

you get the standard 480 minutes of use.
i imagine that there will be a charge for the upgrade as it has jumped from 7.1?? to 8.

fossa

Found it. It's the usual 95.00 to upgrade.

Really gonna give this some serious thought google. Not impressed with the last 4 years of development.

bmike

the solids tools and extra view back lines would speed my work.
i'm sure i could get the solids tool functionality from rubies... but.

have to think about it.
and see if it is any quicker with geometry.

adding angles to layout is also overdue...

jim smith

Just found this news article on the Google pages:

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(sketchup.google.com)

Here is the upgrade link:

http://sketchup-store.sketchup.com/?lang_code=en

Panga

Solid tools...bool tools cost around 20 $...I hope there're others improvements...does google knows what RPO means ? I don't want to throw the stone as I did not test this 8 version for the moment, but I really hope they do not fool us again...

thomthom

http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/gsu7/download.html now refers to 7.1 again.

SU8 download link: http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/gsu8/download.html

tridem

Just installed the free version, it seems I can run both the new one and the old 7.08, this is great to discover the new features "safely"

honoluludesktop

It appears that the implementation of OpenGl is improved. V8 runs with hardware acceleration on my graphically impaired home PC. However some of my plugins do not load.

jeff hammond

I guess my main question about this is

Does and update such as this usually include more options for the ruby writers?

thomthom

@honoluludesktop said:

However some of my plugins do not load.

Can you please make a post in the affected plugin's thread? (include any error if you get any)

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

I guess my main question about this is

Does and update such as this usually include more options for the ruby writers?

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(sketchup.google.com)

@unknownuser said:

We upgraded our API's Ruby interpreter from version 1.8.0 to 1.8.6, which is a better supported, more stable version. This gives API users the benefits of hundreds of Ruby bug fixes, but version 1.8.6 is also more strict on Ruby syntax. If a script is broken, you may need to contact the script's original author to get an upgraded version.

thomthom

More expanded changelog for SU8: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=115424

drewpoeppel

Looks like they removed the solar orientation setting in the geolocation area for manually setting the north angle in you model, along with dwg/dfx import, in the free version. I wish they wouldn't take away features.

jeff hammond

Solid volume display in entity info is much welcomed.

though it'd be nice to be able to change the units.. i draw in feet&inches but volume (for me at least) is always cubic yards..(concrete)
/27 for now.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

Just installed the free version

I see only Pro version!
Have you a link?

Khai

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

Just installed the free version

I see only Pro version!
Have you a link?

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(sketchup.google.com)

thomthom

@unknownuser said:

Solid volume display in entity info is much welcomed.

though it'd be nice to be able to change the units.. i draw in feet&inches but volume (for me at least) is always cubic yards..(concrete)
/27 for now.

Yea - we use mm - but area and volume in m.

Good thing is that total area for materials are now calculated correct for skewed groups/components.

Khai

YAY and bugsplatted it first run

EarthMover

Wow, solid tools are super fast! Toolbar fix is also huge. So far so good! Ruby calculations seem faster as well.