How many of you have updated to SU 2013?

bhbarchitects

Prefere to wait mature version!
Just arrived on the V7!

valerostudio

I made the upgrade solely because a crash bug that was caused by a conflict with V-Ray 1.6 and how SKM materials were being handled was fixed in 2013. I have been using it for about 2 weeks now and see no real performance improvements but at the same time have not had any major issues with it either.

The thing that annoys me the most is getting used to the new icons and how the default SU toolbars stack side by side in single rows now instead of double up like they used to. I can't tell you how many times I click scale when I want push-pull. I hope that they bring in a save workspace feature, like Photoshop. Anyway, it's a pretty lackluster update but it did fix a few bugs so for me it was worth it.

kaas

I upgraded just for the suggested improvements in LO speed.

I still have to get used to the new interface in SketchUp. I liked the old interface and after using it for several years day after day I struggle with the new layout. Why isn't there an option to use the old interface layout instead of the new one?!

Krisidious

I was thinking about upgrading this week...

andybot

nope. A purely budgetary decision. Why would I pay for something I already have. I see no improvement whatsoever in what I use SU for.

hellnbak

I'm not going to update until all the questions and problems associated with 2013 here on the forums subside. And, really, maybe not even then, as I haven't heard about anything new in it that I need. Still don't understand why Trimble laid this on us when it wasn't really worth the effort. A really big missed opportunity on their part, IMHO.

unearthed

Agree with hellnback

why upgrade to an environment that'll take me ages to acclimatise to. There are no advantages to being an early adopter, especially in one-man shops like mine.

When Trimble make some real changes (e.g. bring back .shp import, introduce real arcs, fix plane clipping, open api or whatever to enable real-time Excel/.xls work, oh and how about a simple built-in spreadsheet too) then I would change.

Frederik

I wonder if Jason Maranto decided to upgrade or just leave it...

numerobis

NO!

no improvements >>> no update!

Why should i update it? To get a Trimble folder instead of the Google one? Or for the ugly icons? To feel good by paying a subscription fee? No... thanks!

CalypsoArt

I'm a daily user and came here for info on whether to upgrade or not. It seems, based on the reviews here that I makes no sense. The upgrade price is not a factor. If there was some major improvement. Speed, 64bit, new tools etc. I do not use LO. I guess I'll wait a while.

david_h

Tried 2013 for a few minutes. Tried to uninstall . .it screwed up my registry with SU8 (See "Issues" thread)

I am thinking of going back to SU 5.

jim smith

I haven't gotten around to any serious use of LO and have seen to many issues with the conversion so I have little interest and too much apprehension. I will stick around in the V8 playground for a while longer.

jeff hammond

@unknownuser said:

I am thinking of going back to SU 5.

5? nah, 8 is where it's at.. it has the speed bump of 7.1 plus the solid tools

hellnbak

I think he was just kidding

jeff hammond

@hellnbak said:

I think he was just kidding

really? nah..

Dave R

I haven't found any need to open SketchUp 8 or LayOut 3 for quite awhile. SU/LO2013 work fine for me. I like the speed increase in LO and the auto-hyphenated dimensions which speeds up my work in LO a great deal. I don't see any real differences with SU2013 in day to day operation except that I never have the scrambled toolbars any more.

beginner

Hi Guys,

We had a go with SU2013.
The only one improvement which we could see (and pay for) is the speed in LO or do I missed something?
I know that there is few other changes but... we are still using 8.0 PRO.

Don't like the new icons in SU and I'm surprised that LO still has the same and the most ugly icons I have ever seen in a 'PRO' software.

PS. If I would be SketchUp/Trimble, I will run some small competition IMMEDIATELY to design the LO icons