SU 9 Wishlist

gzotti

I would like to see a skybox as parallax-invariant background that is also not trimmed off by the far Z plane. Either from an equirectangular panorama or six cube faces. Transparency to be allowed (so the blue-ish sky comes through, and the sun and shadow algorithms should take the skybox into account. Or maybe even a Preetham-style sky colour skybox with a "sun" with lens flare?

marcuus

I do not know if you post here is still valid or whether the terms have already expired, but I read just now and, among my greatest desires for a great leap of scketch up there would be a chance to make it compatible
with the cam system, such as the Tebis for example, or others that can recognize,
as the 3D modeling is not born just to take pictures or static images

but is just a coin

lapx

Rotation input in the material dialogue box please.

kwistenbiebel

@lapx said:

Rotation input in the material dialogue box please.

good suggestion

mpowell1234567890

I have a few wishes for Sketchup 9 "free":

The follow-me tool that can go over crossed lines.
Push-pull on curved objects.

john2

I have a long wishlist

Multiple windows of files interface, so that new SU doesn’t have to be opened every time.
Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system
Better 2d export facility with layers support. This will help in efficient post processing in AutoCAD.
Ability to export PDFs (in layout as well as SU) with shadows as a vector and not a raster.
Feature to control lineweight for different layers or selected objects within SketchUp itself.
Solid cut through – will give users an option the moment they put a door on a wall, it cuts a hole throughout and not on a face particularly. The following options can be there.
Collision detection (that can be turned on or off) so that furniture don’t punch themselves through a surface
Customized snap options like AutoCAD.

Midpoint
Nearest
Perpendicular
Endpioint
Tangent
Center
Node , etc.

thomthom

@john2 said:

Multiple windows of files interface, so that new SU doesn’t have to be opened every time.

As a V-Ray user you do not want this. MDI would make multiple models share the same host process - and also memory.

@john2 said:

Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system

+1!!!!

ArCAD-UK

@john2 said:

Feature to control lineweight for different layers or selected objects within SketchUp itself.
Some good suggestions but please don't burden SU simple efficiency with unnecessary Aut*CAD wannabe features like this.

jhauswirth

@john2 said:

Thumbnail support in folder containing SketchUp files for 64 bit windows 7 operating system

+1!!!![/quote]

It WAS really nice having thumbnails in 64-bit Windows.....

thomthom

@jhauswirth said:

It WAS really nice having thumbnails in 64-bit Windows.....

Was?

john2

Adding to my list :
Feature for Hatching with vector patterns like brickwork, cement, etc. with this one would be able to create richer sectional view of details like planter, window, door frame, fountain,etc. one thing id like to ask. is posting ideas like this on forum effective [i.,e. more likely to get your wish fulfilled] or posting on google ideas ?

utiler

That is something that I think all of us would like John. The more we make noise about it the more likely it will happen!!!

rv1974

Bisection tracking!

john2

@rv1974 said:

Bisection tracking!

you mean angle bisection ?that would be awesome

TIG

@john2 said:

@rv1974 said:

Bisection tracking!

you mean angle bisection ?that would be awesome
You can do this already since v4?...
Make a guideline through one edge.
Select it and use Rotate+Ctrl to copy the guideline around the 'apex' by the full angle you'd like to subdivide...
Then immediately type /2
This will add a bisector guideline.

Note: To divide the angle into 3 equal parts use /3 etc...

rv1974

this is tedious workaround, not the tracking 'on the fly'

TIG

@rv1974 said:

this is tedious workaround, not the tracking 'on the fly'
Tell me how many clicks or key strokes your new "wonder-tool" would need - I suspect not many fewer than what I suggested...
You would somehow still need to define the apex, start angle, end angles and the subdivisions...

rv1974

very similar to square drawing in the present version.
(o.k. 0.5: just 2 keybord free hover moves over bisection forming edges)
BTW user defined angle snapping (with on\off mode) would be nice too.

thomthom

@rv1974 said:

BTW user defined angle snapping (with on\off mode) would be nice too.

TIG

It you had a face with two edges at the vertex it could 'bisect' the angle [you'd still need keyboard input to say do 1/3's]... BUT if the vertex shares more than one face how is Sketchup to know which pair of edges it's to use and the associated face plane for the 'bisection' - you'd still need to pick to select the two edges in question [2 clicks], right-click for context-menu[?] and then enter the divisor numeral [e.g. '2'+enter] >>> 2+1+1+1=5 - whereas so using a guideline = shortcut-key + click/drag [2], then shortcut-key to Rotate +Ctrl to copy, click start, click end [4] plus the divisor numeral [e.g. '2'+enter] >>> 2+4+2=8 - so it could be done in less, but never 0 !

It is easy to code, but I'm not sure it's that useful

PS: It's a new context-menu tool available here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=419335#p419335