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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      I activate the Zoom tool and type something like either "22mm" or "40deg" and then press Return. Always worked and I've had no experience in a change between SU8 and SU2013.

      Thomas Thomassen β€” SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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      • cheddaC Offline
        chedda
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        The only non extensions warehouse plugins i am using are round corner and the latest maxwell build. Another bitch is the tiny addition & minus icons using the selection shift & alt tool !

        Kraken Wrangler https://www.flickr.com/photos/132441293@N03/

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        • maeglin1M Offline
          maeglin1
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          @mcpcorey said:

          I upgraded to SU 2013 yesterday, and at least for the moment, I am going to call it a Huge MISTAKE !. (sure wish I had visited this thread before upgrading) I Just completed my first model with SU 2013, (probably have 12 - 14 hours time invested in it) I exported a .dae colada file, as I normally did in SU 8, so I can render the model in Lumion 3, only to find out that a collada file exported from SU 2013 causes lumion to immediately crash! WTF Trimble? This is not just frustrating, it is infuriating, and entirely unacceptable, when you have a PAYING client waiting for finished renditions, in order to secure the sale of a $60,000.00 project. And of course, I cannot load the SU 2013 model back into SU 8, I will have to completely rebuild the model in SU 8, so I can render in Lumion, and HOPE & PRAY that in the interim, a competitor does not secure the project first... I Could lose my MAIN source of income over this. (Ok I am through venting now, well actually not, I have a list in my head of all the other Gripes I have about the functionality of SU 2013, compared to SU 8, but the above described problem is my current BIGGIE, and may have just lost me thousands of $$$$$$ of future work)
          Has anyone else had problems with collada files exported from SU 2013, that won't open, and or crashes of other applications?...
          Any known work arounds ?
          Am I doing something wrong ?
          I use windows 7 pro 64 bit
          SU 2013 pro (just ungraded from SU 8 pro)
          and I render in Lumion 3.1.1
          Never had a problem doing this with SU 8, or with collada files exported from it.
          I even tried opening the collada file in the old lumion free version, and also got an immediate crash! I have been using lumion since the first week of initial release, and this is the first problem I have ever had with it, I can only attribute this problem to SU 2013!

          Corey

          I had the same problem. Very infuriating. I discovered it was something I downloaded from SU Library. A kitchen sink. Very detailed models cause Lumion to crash. I erased the sink from the model and Lumion worked. When things are going right you feel you are master of the universe and pat yourself on the back for being so clever (well I do) but when something goes wrong with your software it's like life has suddenly no meaning.... you shout at your wife and kids and kick the dog. When you discover the problem and overcome it.... your back on top of the world.... and then try to explain your woes to your wife.... but, too late... your in the dog house.

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          • Mike LuceyM Offline
            Mike Lucey
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            Barry,

            I very much doubt the dog would too happy about sharing the dog house with you after kicking him! Still dogs are very forgiving little buddies πŸ‘

            Mike

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              congellous
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              How have Sketch-up managed to do so little with so much in layout baffles me. I was using Mini-cad 3 back in 1996 on Cinema G.A's, when you turned all the seats on it performed like Layout does now with about a 10th of the geometry and over 15 years of computer advancement - I had a 90khz 7200 mac - until Layout I hadn't seen such slow performance, spinning wheel of death, amazing !

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                congellous
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                @congellous said:

                How have Sketch-up managed to do so little with so much in layout baffles me. I was using Mini-cad 3 back in 1996 on Cinema G.A's, when you turned all the seats on it performed like Layout does now with about a 10th of the geometry and over 15 years of computer advancement - I had a 90khz 7200 mac - until Layout I hadn't seen such slow performance, spinning wheel of death, amazing !

                I would like to update this as since I sold the macbook pro and switched to Windows running 2013 on a desktop machine, I have had very few issue's and I'm fully best friends with Sketchup again, Hurrah !

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                • I Offline
                  imabzeous
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                  First of all i would like to say " THANK YOU SKETCHUCATION " for all the help i got from here. I am from a country where after completing you architectural Degree and you'll earn 150$-250$ for at least 2 year after your graduation. and in my country there are no authorized training nothing, so i would thanks to Sketchucation again for there contribution there plugins and all.
                  onething more i would like to say is that i havent donated a single penny till now but its not because i dont want to its because that i dont use any debit card or paypal type service and wont be using in future coz BANKS ARE EVIL. but i can assure you that i wanted to Donate so many times to the authors of amazing plugins . you guys really deserve it. and if donation was with western union i would have gladly given 20$ to 30$ in a month or two.

                  and about sketchup 2013 what i hate is that i cant manage my toolbar and cant save it, and all toolbar icons are changed and i hate it so i am still using SU8

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                  • Dan RathbunD Offline
                    Dan Rathbun
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                    @imabzeous said:

                    and about sketchup 2013 what i hate is that i cant manage my toolbar and cant save it, and all toolbar icons are changed and i hate it so i am still using SU8

                    Please tell Trimble your feelings.

                    I'm not here much anymore.

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                    • J Offline
                      jpalm32
                      last edited by

                      Time for 2014 G&B Dan.
                      This is becoming a cult I think.

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                      • Dan RathbunD Offline
                        Dan Rathbun
                        last edited by

                        I only made this thread so people could bitch without starting a flamewar in the other thread.

                        I'm not here much anymore.

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