SU upgrade to 8.0.4811 (Maintenance 1)
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GREAT UPGRADE - THANK YOU SKETCHUP
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@andrews said:
Those who brought the /LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag to our attention touted it as a magical cure-all. Indeed, we had high hopes that it would make a marked impact for those folks who really want to work with much larger files; we invested quite a lot of work in turning that flag on, ensuring we had done it correctly and consistently throughout SketchUp, and testing the results. Unfortunately, in the specific case of compiling and linking it into SketchUp, Style Builder and LayOut, that flag is more snake oil than miracle cure.
The people who will benefit the most from this are probably render engine users, like me. Some render engines run inside the SU process. Previously you'd be in trouble if you rendered large files as things would crash when memory usage creeped up to 1.8GB. I had found a utility to change the LAA flag in SU8M0 and that had saved me a few times when I had to squeeze out some larger renders. I'm glad it's not LAA out of the box and I don't have to use hacks to enable it. The extra 2GB availible has helped greatly.
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Wow, I'm impressed. Shadow bug fixed and toolbars and large adress aware too...finally I will consider upgrading to v8.
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I'm impressed! A proper release that appears to solve real problems, I can't wait to try it out!
Thanks,
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For me this point release have more pleasant stuff than v.8 itself.
Thank you google team. I just wonder is it (partly?) a reaction to the cold wave of criticism toward v8? -
I have some issues with this update :
I reduced my Sketchup Window in order to test the toolbars, then maximised the window, go to View > Toolbars > Restore position of toolbars : the position of toolbars is right, but there's many icons which disapeared !! For example, my Sandbox toolbar only show the tow first icons !! And the same thing on many other toolbars.
Anyone encountered the same issue ??
Regards.
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@panga said:
Anyone encountered the same issue ??
I have experience that. Not sure when/why that happens. Doesn't happen all the time.
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Good job Google, I downloaded the 8 demo when it was first released, didn't see much reason to upgrade, till now. Now if only we could get some better texturing tools........poor Google, it's never enough.
Mike
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The bugs noted by me:
SketchUp 8 Bugs: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=30583
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Shadow bug fixed?! Are you kidding me? Is it Christmas all over again?
Seems like a really nice and comprehensive update and that brings joy to my heart.
Thanks to the developers for all their hard work!
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Do you need to uninstall and reinstall if you are using 64bit Windows? The older 8.0 is installed in the x86 Program Files. Will this prevent SU from using 64 bit?
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Your completely safe to install without uninstalling your current version. No plugins, components, materials etc. will be messed around.
Happy Sketching
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I just updated, luckily I saved a copy of the plugins folder because it replaced it with the basic one. So all is back to normal.
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@unknownuser said:
I just updated, luckily I saved a copy of the plugins folder because it replaced it with the basic one. So all is back to normal.
...that is kind of worrying, I didn't experience this but if you've doubts follow Vicspa's advice
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If in doubt,....always have a backup ready. It would take me quite some time to replace all the plugins.
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@valerostudio said:
Do you need to uninstall and reinstall if you are using 64bit Windows? The older 8.0 is installed in the x86 Program Files. Will this prevent SU from using 64 bit?
SketchUp is not 64bit. It's LargeAddressWare, but it is still 32bit.
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@unknownuser said:
I just updated, luckily I saved a copy of the plugins folder because it replaced it with the basic one. So all is back to normal.
It shouldn't have...
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I've never had it replace it.
Did you update from SU7? In which case I created a brand new folder, leaving the old SU7 alone. -
bmike, I'm always amazed how an installation like this can differ between people. I'm on a PC by the way.
But now that I'm thinking about it, I placed the plugins folder on the desktop, and copied it back after the new installation,
that's why it remade a new plugin folder. Sorry I wasn't so clear before. (senior Moment. )
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TBH, I didn't have much hope for SU with the original version 8 introduction. I have to say that attitude has changed with the release of maintenance 1. I will gladly give my $95 for the upgrade from SU7 to SU8 now. Thanks to the team at Google that made this work.
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