Sketchup 9

Gaieus

They never even announce BaseCaps too early (which is even worse as many people would need to make preparations much earlier than the narrow time gap).

Then again, there are always rumours but we have not heard them yet...

thomthom

@gaieus said:

They never even announce BaseCaps too early (which is even worse as many people would need to make preparations much earlier than the narrow time gap).

Yea - I missed the last one due to that.

Google's release policy is simple: When it's done!

jorge2011

perhaps, sketchup team can give an opinion, right?

PLEASE¡¡¡¡¡

Gaieus

They won't. Why is a nice, sudden surprise is not good for you enough?

jorge2011

Yes, of course. but I am anxious:).
maybe it's my bad habit, with design programs such as Autocad or corel or potoshop, they release a new version every year

andybot

I have a question Jorge - why do you want a new release? Is there something that doesn't work for you? Sketchucation gives me something new every week to enjoy with the constant release of new or updated plugins.

Gaieus

Well, SU is definitely not one that is upgraded to a next main release every year. In fact, if there are no essentially new features, it would also be pointless. Software that is upgraded at a given time always, may not even bring as many new features but is some forced upgrade to get your money. There has been a maintenance release of SU 8 already and it brought important things like the fix for the always hated shadow bug. Or when SU 7.1 came out, the rendering engine was completely revamped. It could even have been called SU 8 at that time and Google could have got a lot of folks to pay the upgrade fee but they decided not to.

So I am sure that when SU 9 comes out, there will be significant novelties, not just some higher version number. I would expect some maintenance release of SU 8 before that however especially that with the new Lion OS for Mac, some things have been broken but of course it's up to Google if they fix this separately or together with a new, major release.

jorge2011

andybot

Sketchup is an excellent program for this reason is that it always requires a little more.
perhaps, organizer of plugins, better performance, drawing and modification tools more powerful, enhanced animation and scene management, enhancements to apply and manipulate materials, improvements and new features for dynamic components, improvements to the outline and so on .... .
sketchup much can be improved, adding new features.
Sketcheducation plugins are amazing. Improve and enhance the qualities of sketchup, but not usually have the support of money and lack a little development and integration, because programmers need to have other jobs to live.

sorry for my English

david_h

I'm waiting forV 9.2

do you think we'll hear something about that soon?

chedda

Multi Processor aware,high poly support & 64 bit. I see beachballs.........

solo

Proper UV tools, nothing more (until version 10)

jason_maranto

I'll second that! (if they do it)

Best,
Jason.

fuzzion

You must take into consideration Google's business philosopshy towards SU. Its primary aim and ambition now satisfies the basic citeria it once set out to be.

I suspect , since the basic criteria and need for SU has now been fully satsified, the next business model is to
take on Autodesk and the tablet market.We know Vray 2.0 for sketchup is in the works.

My bet is they are going to go for the "app" route and discard pro-su in the future. This will allow SU team to focus on multi-core and efficiency issues of high polygon models.

Pixero

@solo said:

Proper UV tools, nothing more (until version 10)

I've come to learn not to expect anything for a new SketchUp release.
However, I wouldn't cry if they did add proper UV tools.

fuzzion

@pixero said:

@solo said:

Proper UV tools, nothing more (until version 10)

I've come to learn not to expect anything for a new SketchUp release.
However, I wouldn't cry if they did add proper UV tools.

Simply because SU, when bought over by Google was never meant to be a CAD competitor to other processional software.
As far as the Board of directors are concerned at Google, SU is at its peak of satisfying the general populace
of google earth users and science fair projects.

However, the sheer number of SU users may force the BOD to change direction.

Bob James

I'd be happy if they just fixed the issue(s) that results in my right-click menu greying out.

andybot

@jorge2011 said:

Sketchup is an excellent program for this reason is that it always requires a little more.
perhaps, organizer of plugins, better performance, drawing and modification tools more powerful, enhanced animation and scene management, enhancements to apply and manipulate materials, improvements and new features for dynamic components, improvements to the outline and so on .... .
sketchup much can be improved, adding new features.

@fuzzion said:

Simply because SU, when bought over by Google was never meant to be a CAD competitor to other processional software.
As far as the Board of directors are concerned at Google, SU is at its peak of satisfying the general populace
of google earth users and science fair projects.

That's what I was thinking - what is there in the functionality of SU as it is that would prompt Google to change anything about it? Sure there might be some minor bug fixes, but do you really see "them" investing in making this a much more robust 3D modeling software? I am mildly curious how important sketchucation and plugins, etc. are to Google and their needs for this product. I see it as rather fringe compared to their core interests. (i.e. Google Earth)

jason_maranto

One would hope they would be interested in SketchUp Pro footing the bill for maintaining the free version of SketchUp -- for new OS issues, new hardware support, and better integration with Google Earth... those types of things are always ongoing issues for the free version.

I don't expect nor do I care much about major improvements to the free version... it is free after all -- however as a paying user I do expect major improvements to a software I have to pay to upgrade.

Best,
Jason.

andybot

Good point about the pro version. I wonder if Google considers it a pro software or not? Hmm, a trip into the mind of googleplex...

jason_maranto

Always a frightening trip ... but I never see what I expect to find there

Best,
Jason.