SketchUP 8
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 @ben ritter said: How do you get the upgrade? Been on the website but still v.7. It still shows as V7.1 on the download page, but if you download and open - you see it it really V8! 
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 @ben ritter said: How do you get the upgrade? Been on the website but still v.7. download it. will say 8 when you install. 
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 @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. 
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 @john.warburton said: @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. 
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 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.
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 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. 
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 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... 
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 Just found this news article on the Google pages: Here is the upgrade link: 
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 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... 
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 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 
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 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"  
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 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. 
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 I guess my main question about this is Does and update such as this usually include more options for the ruby writers? 
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 @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) 
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 @unknownuser said: I guess my main question about this is Does and update such as this usually include more options for the ruby writers? @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. 
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 More expanded changelog for SU8: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=115424 
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 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. I wish they wouldn't take away features.
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 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.
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 @unknownuser said: @unknownuser said: Just installed the free version I see only Pro version!  
 Have you a link?
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