SU 9 Wishlist
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To quote an old English punny joke...[you need to hear the words]
When a bride enters the church she sees the processional route and she thinks 'aisle'...
Then she sees the sanctuary at the end and she thinks 'altar'...
Then she hears the signing and she thinks 'hymn'...Somehow in the confusion of the ceremony this gets muddled in her head and later on it comes out,
"I'll alter him!"
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@jgb said:
MY desktop.... Where would you suggest???
I now see what you mean! I got the end of the stick
When I usually say "Rapid Prototyping Machine", my friends think I'm talking about this;
How about burning some of those books? You could dump the 486 PC for starters!
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@jgb said:
It's called "Bait & switch". Standard with every marriage certificate.
Offer her "Stitch and Bitch" instead. It works over here!
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I like the Sphere tool and other cubical shapes added to Sketchup 9 free version.
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What? Where?? v9??
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@tfdesign said:
:shock:
Coming soon I guess.. Not sure when though..
What? Where?? v9??
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@mpowell1234567890 said:
I like the Sphere tool and other cubical shapes added to Sketchup 9 free version.
Get the SketchyPhysics Ruby. It has several generic shapes with good detail, even if you don't use its animation capability.
Or, make a few versions of the shapes you want, and put them into your component library to be used as needed.
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@tfdesign said:
@jgb said:
MY desktop.... Where would you suggest???
When I usually say "Rapid Prototyping Machine", my friends think I'm talking about this;
How about burning some of those books? You could dump the 486 PC for starters!
Seriously; what is that? It looks like the intercostal ring for a heavy-lift rocket, but not quite.
I've seen Rapid Proto's and the small ones are usually about the size of a washing machine. The space frame machine in TFDESIGN's photo is new to me. But I don't think it would be suitable to make bits for most of my projects, even if I scaled them down a lot. And, if I could use a RPM for the few smaller projects, the problem becomes one of surface smoothness and fit tolerance for the assemblies.
Also, burning books (or better yet, recycling them) and dumping the 486 board (and others like it) would entail getting to them and/or finding them first. Too much like work for a lazy SOB like me. Besides, I've saved all my old PC boards and cards, even defunct harddrives, for sentimental reasons..... They cost me money.
But honestly, the real reason I saved them is I had long ago planned to make a wall "mural" of them in a chronological order, but there ain't no empty wall in my office now. Ceiling maybe.... now there's an idea.
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If lighting is added in sketchup, no one requires an external rendering engine. Adding video clips as texture would also be a great idea.
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@ramasubbu said:
If lighting is added in sketchup, no one requires an external rendering engine.
I disagree - adding light sources to SketchUp is no replacement for rendering. (Not saying I wouldn't want lights in SU - they would most likely be of great use, for sketchy illustrations and I'd think render engines could make use of them as well.)
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@tfdesign said:
@serge.n said:
Which announcements?
But I guess being a Windows user, you probably would have missed that?
Autodesk big announcement huh? That is not so big. They have already abandoned that platform once. And there would have to be a lot of 3rd party stuff for AutoCAD make the jump to the Mac as well for it to become a serious platform. From the reports I have seen it is buggy.
I have a better Idea... Add the necessary tools to SU layout so we don't need AutoCad in the first place! It is time for a new Sheriff (Google) to come to town (CAD world)! Anyone that has had to deal with the likes of AutoDesk should be able to confirm this!
64 bit would be nice
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@serge.n said:
Yes, I did. Well I'd rather write that I didn't realized that's such a big achievement. And what about Revit? Indeed, I imagine Autodesk still have Autocad on Windows due to legacy issue. If they could they would have made everybody switch for Revit or Inventor.
Yeah Autodesk certainly desires everyone one to switch to Revit and Civil3d. They have no Intellicad competition there and the price is double that of AutoCAD. From a Landscape Architects point of view that idea is a huge waste of money. Especially since Revit has no way to deal with curbs! I think Autodesk has been sniff'n a little to much of it's own marketing poop!
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Its simple for me....
incorporate some of the wonderful plugins developed in this forum as 'standard'... then pay those developers a huge lump of cash or perhaps give them some google shares for making sketchup better...
and thats it.There are so many good ideas floating around here that I often wonder why the 'collective' of plugin writers haven't got together to develop their own system/software... it could be good.
Dave
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Anyone else wishing for an easy way to bisect angles?
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@catmando said:
Anyone else wishing for an easy way to bisect angles?
there's already a sorta easy way to to that.
what's you're current method?(just in case your current method is the same one i'm thinking and you're just wanting an even easier method
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@catmando said:
Anyone else wishing for an easy way to bisect angles?
Make a guide-line through one line...
Select the guide-line and Rotate+Ctrl to rotate-copy it about the apex point [intersection of two guides, if needed you should have made both] from its location back to the second line - immediately type /2 and you have bisected the angle [/3 in thirds etc...][attachment=0:n9n4l6m9]<!-- ia0 -->Capture.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:n9n4l6m9]
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Yeah, same technique as I was thinking though I generally wouldn't use a guideline. Just select one of the lines forming the angle then copy/rotate it to the other. Then /2
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@unknownuser said:
Yeah, same technique as I was thinking though I generally wouldn't use a guideline. Just select one of the lines forming the angle then copy/rotate it to the other. Then /2
Fine if you want to repeat the line at half angle.
My method returns a guide that's the bisector, for more general use...
Depends what he wants to do - either one is pretty simple - I find it hard to image a simpler way... I could write a script... activate tool, pick apex, pick first line, pick second line etc... as many picks as the rotate-copy method ? with less options for what you are getting...
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@escapeartist said:
64 bit support
Have you ever had SU run out of memory? (just pure SketchUp, no render engine plugin.)@escapeartist said:
Dare I beat the multi-core horse one more time?
Why not just ask for better performance? That's what you want, right? Instead of asking for a particular technical implementation that can't be applied to most tasks. (most 3d apps that boost this feature refer to the render engine they bundle.) -
@thomthom said:
Have you ever had SU run out of memory? (just pure SketchUp, no render engine plugin.)
Like exporting giant images, or heavy calculations operations (intersect) on giant models, or maybe for a better platform for developers to program for?
@thomthom said:
Why not just ask for better performance? That's what you want, right? Instead of asking for a particular technical implementation that can't be applied to most tasks. (most 3d apps that boost this feature refer to the render engine they bundle.)
Like multipe frame export in movie sequences, or any calculation that can be paralelized (like multiples modeling operations - multiples faces push pull, and doing better modeling tools in the process...and i've just make this up...can't imagine what a paid professional could do) or maybe (again) for a better platform for developers to program for? (since right now users seem more dependent on plugins developers like you
than google)But right now i would trade any of that for real UV/Maping tools...
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