SU 9 Wishlist
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@unknownuser said:
still wishing for the ability to rotate with snapping/inferencing..
[wished for it last year too
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=192332#p192332 ]
it's not even 11am yet and i already needed that ability 3 times today!Try my Free Rotate Tool v3 ?
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Something that's driving me nuts lately is the ability to do a proper bevel job on sharp edges. IMO the SU folks probably view SU as primarily an architectural type program with a built in render solution and sharp edges aren't a concern, but when I model something that I'm going to export to an external render solution it isn't generally a house. In fact, I've never exported a house; my models all been real-world objects that don't have sharp edges. To be honest, I have yet to find a renderer that does a decent job of beveling. The bevel and bevel by bezier scripts work ok, but I'm forever chasing down mis-matched edges, holes, and surfaces that have shot past the object's edge in order to repair them (no matter the model size). It'd be great to be able to model something and have a simple, reliable bevel ability.
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My wish for 9 is that the mouse zooming is just as effective over blank space as it is over a space that contains vector information (solid). It drives me crazy sometimes trying to zoom like mad, and just not to get very far.
Anyone else suffer from this? (Or has TIG made a plugin to remedy the situation?)
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I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump. Troublesome when I'm working on just edges - like imported DWG data. I have to constantly keep aiming the cursor to be over an edge to avoid SU from zooming too far.
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Oh yes, fix the bl**dy layers management!! Why is it that within a grouped object, several entities can co-exist on different layers all at the same time? This is utterly crazy! I can understand for whole objects, but single little things? It's silly. Perhaps I'm missing something here?
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@thomthom said:
I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.
Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow.
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@tfdesign said:
Oh yes, fix the bl**dy layers management!! Why is it that within a grouped object, several entities can co-exist on different layers all at the same time? This is utterly crazy! I can understand for whole objects, but single little things? It's silly. Perhaps I'm missing something here?
I find it useful to have fine control of the entities like that. Let me toggle on/off edges for parts of the mesh for instance - which is useful to control the object's presentation.
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@tfdesign said:
@thomthom said:
I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.
Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow.
When you zoom while the mouse if over an entity to goes slower - and I wonder if the speed depends on how close it is to the camera - so when you get closer it goes slower.
Zoom in while the mouse if over empty space and the zoom goes into hyperdrive.
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Ability to sort and file Plugins!
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@thomthom said:
@tfdesign said:
@thomthom said:
I find the zooming over blank space to be too aggressive - too big jump.
Really?? Maybe we're both missing something? Is there a missing variable somewhere, that can change this? Mine is painfully slow.
When you zoom while the mouse if over an entity to goes slower - and I wonder if the speed depends on how close it is to the camera - so when you get closer it goes slower.
Zoom in while the mouse if over empty space and the zoom goes into hyperdrive.
Thom, I've just tried again, and I get the problem when I'm zoomed right in (something I do a lot). I can't seem to replicate what you are getting. There however doesn't seem to be a problem for me when I'm zoomed out. I also never use the zoom tool. Always the wheel on my Logitech Trackball Marble.
Tom
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Yea - I always use the mouse scroll wheel as well.
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Sketchup 9. I wish to have a set of tab, similar to the scenes tabs, but for layers. This way I could pass my model to co-workers and I could have a set of layer Tabs across the top along with the scene tabs. They could select a scene tab, and then make selections of the layer tabs to add more less to the model in that particular scene. Unlike scenes, where you could only have one tab on at a time, the layer tab you would be able to have more than one on at a time. And the layer tabs could be all the layers or just a select few.
Ken
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Ken, what would be the difference between that and having the layers manager open?
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@remus said:
Ken, what would be the difference between that and having the layers manager open?
Well, I model with multiple layers, and I would want only the upper layers, that would be completed parts in the layer tab. To me it would just make it easier to send to people who have a limited knowledge of how Sketchup operates.
Ken
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I would also like multiple core support.
You can't even buy a computer anymore that does not at least have two cores anyways.
I really would like SU to be able to utilize my machines resources!
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@sir.sanio said:
And yes, 64 bit please!
I think we've already been over this subject enough already. SCF had SketchUp Central here over the last couple of weeks assuring us that apart from rendering (which SU doesn't possess- apart from in plugins- which work independently from SU anyway), a 64 bit boost will achieve very little. Having a dual (or more) processor, believe it or not, has very little influence over speed as well.
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you can read about it here, if your so inclined: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=30490
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The impression I got from the discussion is that the current SU architecture won't benefit from multi-core or X64.
The implication being that SU would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of multi-core and X64?
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@hieru said:
The implication being that SU would have to be rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of multi-core and X64?
for 64bit yes - for multi-core it's not possible for many of the tasks.
Most of the other modelling packages the claim multi-core support are the ones with render engines and multiple cores are used only for the rendering process. -
In theory could SU be rebuilt so that it uses the CPU for its real-time rendering of models? Or even a CPU & GPU combo?
If so, then presumably multi-core support would be of some benefit and allow for better handling of high poly models?
I don't really understand that much about software, so I'm probably talking a load of nonsense.
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