A new home for SketchUp

pbacot

@mike lucey said:

Maybe SketchUp could leverage LeapMotion to bring the modeling experience forward? http://news.sketchucation.com/leapmotion-just-like-star-trek/

[flash=560,315:l98ohx7p]http://www.youtube.com/v/V5cZtxfeSwg?version=3&amp[/flash:l98ohx7p]

That will liven up the architects' offices. Should be quite aerobic at deadline time.

opal

@michaliszissiou said:

@unknownuser said:

Just a short note about blender. To learn blender, one must be able to SEE the interface.. it's just too small for those of us that are visually challenged which is why sketchup is the program of choice for me.. a UI that is both user friendly and visible with crappy eyesight.
I gave blender a shot about 3 years ago.. failed and someone told me that a lot had changed/updated since then so a couple months ago, I tried again and could not find any way to make text and buttons large enough to make the program user friendly for me.
I hope the new owners choose to leave the interface alone.

Well, the first I check on a new app is the preferences panel
Please, try DPI=100 for instance.
Don't forget to click "save as default" if you're happy.

WHOA! nobody ever told me that DPI had any relation to something besides printing. I'm thrilled! Now I can actually SEE what I don't understand (yet)

tysm!

JClements

So, how the heck can we get a hold of the "3D Web Viewer" used in the http://www.google.com/sketchup/showcase?

I'd like to create some web pages to display various models.

Rich O Brien

it's using some viewer embedded with...

<iframe src="http://pompidouviewer.appspot.com/viewer.html?Pompidou/nomeclatura_torrecildosimplificada12.dae" scrolling="no" width="645" height="460"/>

Starling75

@rich o brien said:

it's using some viewer embedded with...

<iframe src="http://pompidouviewer.appspot.com/viewer.html?Pompidou/nomeclatura_torrecildosimplificada12.dae" scrolling="no" width="645" height="460"/>

nice .. http://sites.google.com/site/sandboxdae/

I wonder whether the pompidouviewer app could be converted into google gadget.. it would be very useful for web presentation of models..

Mark H.

Tagging back in, the SketchUp team is now live on Reddit. We'll be posting for the next two hours or so; hope you can join to talk about some of the features that you all have proposed here!

Mark

jolran

HOLY macaroni!

Been away from Sketchucation and all that has todo with a computer for a while.
And now I see this

Got some reading to do, 50 + pages.

I wonder how this will affect Ruby API etc
I'm worried..

paddyclown

I am intrigued by this new development in Sketchup history... i have been a user for a while now & it has become a core tool for my architecture business.
I have also used the tool as a teaching support for groups of young people in social reinsertion programs.
In both contexts it has been so valuable for several reasons: (not in order of priority)
1 - ease of initial learning
2 - cost, whether free for the students, or a reasonable price for a very small architecture outfit in the Pro version.
3 - ease of capture of google earth terrain
4 -the wonderfully rich plugins available from an extremely talented & dedicated community.

Like so many of others that I have read on various blogs & forums, we all seem to share worries on these (& other) core principals of what makes sketchup so special.

I have been 3d modelling since about 1988 (yes, on a mac with no hard-drive) when i used the then revolutionary modelshop software from paracomp (later bought by macromedia) which was a precursor to sketchup in so many ways: A no frills, easy to learn, intuitive & value for money product... & we all know what happened when it got bought by macromedia... RIP.
I, like so many million other users out there rely on Sketchup to remain accessible to ordinary folks who do not want & cannot afford Autodesk et al. & their huge unwieldy products which are surely useful for corporate architecture/engineering... but akin to killing a fly with a bazooka when it comes to small & medium size bespoke buildings... We don't need, or want full BIM, just reliable easy software to quickly sketch-up & work up projects that we can communicate to clients who do not understand working drawings !
A bonus would be easy extraction of 2d drawings for contractors, but only if that does NOT involve a huge price hike & loss of ease of use ! BTW the current Layout is sooooo like pedalling in molasses that it is next to hopeless (yes, I have tried to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I just can't get it to be smooth enough, so short of taking up smoking again, I gave up...)

So ? The real question is, does Trimble care about us small users, or are they only interested in their corporate clients to the extent that they will let sketchup share the same fate as modelshop ?

Let's hope the core team of developers really will be allowed to keep some freedom & not be marshalled into the big-boy rigid world of BIM bam boom & large price-tag licence programs... good luck guys, 'cos i think you'll need it to keep the faith !

http://www.multiplicite.fr/filmCM.html

etobic

wow the pompidou viewer looks really awesome - it seams to work in google chrome only but anyway...

any ideas how tro structure this code and add my own collada model in it?

<iframe src="http://pompidouviewer.appspot.com/viewer.html?Pompidou/nomeclatura_torrecildosimplificada12.dae" scrolling="no" width="645" height="460"/>

notareal

@mark h. said:

Hey Mike,

Thanks for calling this out. This is an important point, and we want people to understand what is happening with the 3D Warehouse. I am going to try and chase down some more detail here; I'll do my best to clarify, but I might be a bit hamstrung in what I can share because the sale of SketchUp still has not been approved.

Incidentally, that's also why us SketchUp folks can't comment too much on some of the conversations here.

Best,

Mark

@mike lucey said:

Just read through the - Transfer of licenses and personal data to Trimble - here, http://sketchup.google.com/usernotice.html

This paragraph has me a little confused!

[i]'Opting-out

Wow...

@unknownuser said:

UPDATE (29 May 2012): Google and Trimble anticipate the transaction to close on or around 1 June 2012. After the Closing Date all users who continue to access or store content in the 3D Warehouse will do so under a revised Terms of Service. You can read a preview of the Terms of Service here. Users will continue to be subject to Google's Privacy Policy, and will also be subject to Trimble's Privacy Policy.

I'll assume everything is still fine... sky did not fall Anyhow, congratulations for closing the deal. Hope to hear some positive development news soon.

michaliszissiou

Yeah LOL
BTW, the use of the term DPI isn't accurate here. We should use PPI instead.

And you still don't understand what you see. I can feel your pain. I lived with this pain for six months. But I may be stupid.
The truth is that what I learned all these months is much more than what SU can provide to me.
During these months I also learned Zbrush and 3dcoat. And everything between them. Do you have any idea what this means?
All these because of my love to this 3d world.

jason_maranto

The expected fallout from the sale to Trimble has materialized for me -- I have been moved off SketchUp/SketchUp Pro by my employer, which means that will be one less Pro license updated for SketchUp 9.

Best,
Jason.

Mike Lucey

@jason_maranto said:

The expected fallout from the sale to Trimble has materialized for me -- I have been moved off SketchUp/SketchUp Pro by my employer, which means that will be one less Pro license updated for SketchUp 9.

Best,
Jason.

Hi Jason,

Care to expand?

Mike

pbacot

Noooooo, Jason!

brodie

Sorry to hear that Jason, you've added a lot to the community. I hope SU 9 will bring you back into the fold.

-Brodie

jason_maranto

My employer (VTC) is skittish (understandably) about SketchUps development future at Trimble and I have been asked to begin teaching a competitors software package(s) instead...

Since none of us know what the future holds I can't blame them for taking that position... I expected as much, and said so early in this thread.

I have a limited budget for software purchases and I tend to reserve it for packages I am teaching, so it is very unlikely I will update my Pro license -- it would have to have some pretty compelling updates/new features to justify the purchase since the package I am replacing it with is many times more robust already (the excellent SketchUp plugins notwithstanding).

Best,
Jason.

Rich O Brien

That's genuinely sad news. I also hope they reconsider as I point alot of people towards your videos.

pbacot

Yes, Jason. I wish to thank you for all the help in videos and forums! We will all continue to benefit from your work, new and old, I am sure.

jason_maranto

Thank-you all, I suspect they are going with a "wait and see" approach before jumping back in the SketchUp pool -- in the meantime they don't like to have me idle. But I will certainly be keeping my eye on things here and I will keep them (VTC) up-to-date with any new developments. Also thank-you for directing users to my videos -- that more than anything would convince VTC to stick with SketchUp (they follow the numbers like any business).

Obviously I have quite a bit emotionally invested in this software and community, so I do hope Trimble makes good on it's promises and the doomsayers are proven wrong.

Best,
Jason.

Edson

@rich o brien said:

That's genuinely sad news. I also hope they reconsider as I point alot of people towards your videos.

rich,
would you tell us where those videos can be found?