SketchUP 8

Frederik

You guys are so un-grateful...
I like "Susan"...

EarthMover

@earthmover said:

Ruby calculations seem faster as well.

From what I've heard, Ruby 1.8.6 is faster than 1.8.0 - though I've yet to run any number on this.

I ran Make Fur on a sphere and it calculated over 200K polygons in 28 seconds clean. Ran the same test in SU 7.1 and the screen went white and I got the spinning circle for over two minutes.

Hieru

@tridem said:

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"

How do you do that, as it would be good to keep the old version for dwg imports?

Do you simply set it up in a different folder, or is this an automatic new feature?

remus

It should just install in its own folder without you having to do anything.

thomthom

@hieru said:

How do you do that, as it would be good to keep the old version for dwg imports?

Do you simply set it up in a different folder, or is this an automatic new feature?

Each major SU version will install into a separate folder.

You can have SU6 and SU7 and S8 side by side.
But you can not have SU7.0 and SU7.1 side by side.

IdahoJ

Just downloaded and installed SU8 free into it's own directory. No conflicts so far with my pre-existing SU7 install (didn't think there would be but you can never tell when something messes with the Windows registry file).

Now to start moving and testing the 7.x plugins and scripts ...

Cheers.

Hieru

Thanks Remus & thomthom .

rickgraham

Sorry - but just about every other major upgrade that I have used (vX to vX) had visual differences. Sadly, v8 FREE visually looks EXACTLY like v7. No new visual improvements. It may be faster, speed-wise but I would have preferred to have some visual differences. It looks like a Win 95 interface for 2010 and beyond. Heck, even some betas that I've been involved in look radically different form Beta to beta.

As someone else pointed out, you don't take away features and it should have been v7.2. I think I'll stick with 7.1 for now.

Sorry - just disappointed.

Rick

HFM

I think the tremendous update from 'Style Builder' to 'Style Builder 2' says is all and gives a pretty good impression what Google thinks of its customers.

On a more optimistic note: Blender 2.5 has gone beta! [about half a month now] and it rocks!

kado

Can someone please tell me what has happened to the Plugin menu (Mac Pro Eval Version )??

jaxcoffee

I liked grabbing the Ariel from Google Earth better. The graphics coming into 8 seem a little fuzzy to me with this new method. I'll have to test it on some other regions, but it's a little clumsy, most likely because it's new. Old work flows die hard.

jeff hammond

@kado said:

Can someone please tell me what has happened to the Plugin menu (Mac Pro Eval Version )??

You have to have something in the plugin folder in order for the menu to appear (something that requires the plugin menu)

(and the plugin folder isn't the same as for su7. You have to move or copy them to the su8 plugin folder)

kado

@unknownuser said:

@kado said:

Can someone please tell me what has happened to the Plugin menu (Mac Pro Eval Version )??

You have to have something in the plugin folder in order for the menu to appear

(and the plugin folder isn't the same as for su7. You have to move or copy them to the su8 plugin folder)

Thanks for that!

honoluludesktop

In general, I think that 8.0 demonstrates Google's commitment to the product, and as $95.00 keeps the @Last team on the payroll, I am all for it. Haven't explored solids yet, but along with DXF for LO, the only thing missing is a Ruby API for LO. Maybe 8.1?

I don't think it is fair to remove features like dxf2skp from those who use SU free. Google could have continued to offer the 7.1 level of Dxf for SU free v8.0, reserving compatibility with Acad 2010 for Pro. But this way, someone will eventually write a basic translator as a plugin for SU free.

The menu is "sort of" fixed, and although it caused some problems at first for hackers like me, it is good idea tighten up API. Implementation of OpenGl is better, and my system runs faster. Installing a new version also provides the opportunity to clean up my plugins, and put into a file the ones I haven't used in a while. The move to the new version was fairly seamless, and I am easily up and running. "knock on wood"-) Back to the production boards.

domus

Just tried to import a 2010 DWG that opens up fine in e-drawings & ViaCAD 7 and it stops half way through. Spins the beachball until I have to Force Quit SU everytime.

EscapeArtist

Did the upgrade to 8 Free, discovered that I lost about 30% of my plugins on the toolbar. It'll take a bit to go through and figure out which ones vanished.

tim

The Google video demonstrating changes to Layout? First example file is my house

broomstick

also, if you set location and import a mesh (finally in color!) and then open the components dialog you wiil find a category named: nearby buildings, that will import the building on the terrain.

Also, take notice that solid operations are awesome, but work only for pro... and that's bad

wind-borne

@drewpoeppel said:

Looks like they removed the solar orientation setting in the geolocation area for manually setting the north angle in you model

Solar North toolbar now but so far can only toggle on/off.
Bottom two buttons dead at the moment.
Do work if I put icons into customized toolbar

jeff hammond

has anyone used up their 8hrs yet?
i'm pretty close and i'm just wondering if it reverts to SUfree..
my company pays for my license but it's going to be another couple of days but i'd like to use it in the meantime..

(that back edges view is real nice btw.. seems like i'll be using that a lot more often than xray now)