SketchUp 2014

Frederik

@Dan: It decrease the time...

Edit: I found the e-mail from SU Support...

Thank you for your note. I understand you sometimes get an error message that SketchUp is unable to update the evaluation time. Note that this message should only occur with the Pro trial of SketchUp as it occurs when the trial time decrements. The reason the error occurs is because the software was never opened by an administrator and the user doesn't have the proper permissions to be able to edit system files or registry entries. You should be able to get past this error by opening SketchUp as an Administrator at least once allowing the necessary files to be created. After opening in this manner then non-Admins can use the software without further intervention. Once the license is successfully applied by the administrator then the error should go away.

Thanks for taking the time to write.

Regards,
Jody
The SketchUp Team

Although I don't recall if the first advice helped (or if I didn't manage to do it correct), the latter made it disappear...

What I've never understood is, that I'm the only user of the computer and I'm running as Admin, so why this occured in first place, I don't know...

Philw

I have upgraded to SKU14 and thanks to this forum installing plug-ins have been a breeze. But for some of the plug-ins I am being asked for a Google account, ok. But the next screen is asking me to give them permission to scan my emails?

“SketchUp and Google will use this information in accordance with their respective terms of service and privacy policies”

I thought Trimble was not attached to Google, so why would I give them permission to pry into my life for a add-on?

TIG

There's the rub !
Complain to Trimble...
and use the PluginStore AutoInstall whenever you can.
BUT some extensions are only available from their EWH !

Trimble and Google did separate, but they obviously need some way of keeping track of you and your downloads, unfortunately your Google account then opens you up to much more that is needed...

SCF must also collect a limited amount of data about 'you' - like your SCF user=name and what you've downloaded, but that is simply fed-back to help you to keep track of your installed plugins - as the new My Installs > Bundles function demonstrates...

If you are paranoid enough...
For the EWH - why not set up an 'unused' email account, register with Google, and use that for the EWH ?
Then there'll be nothing much to pry into...

Philw

Thanks Tig,

I understand collection information for the purpose of the company use, but it seems a bit much to be forced to give them access to areas that have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PROGRAM I AM USING just to download some items?

Aerilius

Actually what they do is using "OpenID" technology to check that you are real, and that you are the person to whom the account belongs. Advantage is they don't have to store and protect passwords on their own servers. But the idea of OpenID is to work with whatever OpenID provider you already have (can be a Yahoo, Hotmail or your own server), and not to bind people to a specific provider like Google.

We once asked whether there are plans to transition further independent from Google, but as you can imagine, only future knows the answer.

Philw

Thanks

Bryan K

Just flagging for auto email updates.

Dan Rathbun

Usually you'd click the "Subscribe Topic" link at the bottom of the page.

Bryan K

@dan rathbun said:

Usually you'd click the "Subscribe Topic" link at the bottom of the page.

Ah ah! Did not see that before. Thanks.

cotty

And you can choose to be notified upon replies by default in your board preferences:

Migmat

After several checks oabout Sketchup 2014 I should say that I am unsatisfied and decpcionated.

Perhaps I expect more than I should about the new version, but I feel that SU2014 long away of the spirit that google creates Sketchup.
Ther are several improvements but there are other problems that make me feell disapointed with this version.

For example the plugins. Why I sould renounce to the set of useful plugins tha I have in SU2013 or SU8.

New version, but only two superfluous tools?, Who needs the Pie tool or the new Arc tool?.
That's no what I expect of a new version. Shure that there is no other useful tools that we need?

Is true, now the graphic system works with the GPU, but in a low level power. I have a Nvidia Qadro 5000, but SU2014 seems like to work at the tenth of the full power of the card (the card are perfectly recognized by SU2014).

Well, I was waiting a new version with truly improvements and no so many drawbacks, that let me working with the faulty older SU2013 version.

This is the future with trimble?

jeff hammond

@migmat said:

New version, but only two superfluous tools?, Who needs the Pie tool or the new Arc tool?.

i think the value of the new arc tool is going wholly unrecognized.. it does offer a way to draw arcs in more of a compass style (which, to me, is a lot better in many situations than start-end-bulge).. but that aside, it finally makes some pretty basic geometry stuff possible in sketchup..

for instance, try to do this in sketchup 2013 or below:

you just couldn't do it.. not accurately or precisely.
previously, you could not draw a triangle when the knows are the hypotenuse + one side.. you can do that now using the new arc tool and to me, it's a pretty important capability to have in a drawing app.

@migmat said:

but I feel that SU2014 long away of the spirit that google creates Sketchup.

heh.. i though @last was the glory days of sketchup.. then google messed it up.. now trimble is messing up the google spirit?
this is getting confusing

TommyK

@migmat said:

After several checks oabout Sketchup 2014 I should say that I am unsatisfied and decpcionated.

Perhaps I expect more than I should about the new version, but I feel that SU2014 long away of the spirit that google creates Sketchup.
Ther are several improvements but there are other problems that make me feell disapointed with this version.

For example the plugins. Why I sould renounce to the set of useful plugins tha I have in SU2013 or SU8.

...

This is the future with trimble?

The way I see the small changes with sketchup is very different to yours. I have seen other CAD programs, for example Vectorworks become bloated and difficult to learn, as they pack new features in with every release to justify their yearly fee. Vectorworks was originally a 2D CAD program, and they have morphed it into having 3D features, which is frankly quite clunky.

The evolution of Sketchup has been very different. There were people crying out for 2D drawing features in sketchup, and instead of adding it to sketchup, they created layout. Instead of adding useful native tools, sketchup produced an API to allow developers to create new tools that users could pick and choose, depending on their use case.

I do agree that there are improvements to be made, and the easy transfer of plugins between versions would be an obvious one (especially when they will be creating a new version every year). However, I have felt that the spirit of sketchup is still alive and burning brighter than ever. Easy 3D - I think this is the mantra. This is of benefit to beginners for lessening the learning curve, and to advanced users for their productivity.

I don't feel let down. Small steps are good - less likely to fall over.

Box

I'm must admit I'm sick and tired of people complaining about SU2014 and even 2013, generally it is people who have never bothered to try the new versions that have the strongest negative opinions. Mostly from ignorance. The plugin transfer for one is getting easier by the update, but because people don't bother to read anything they think it is harder.
Get off your high horses and go with the future or go use something else.

dedmin

@box said:

I'm must admit I'm sick and tired of people complaining about SU2014 and even 2013, generally it is people who have never bothered to try the new versions that have the strongest negative opinions. Mostly from ignorance. The plugin transfer for one is getting easier by the update, but because people don't bother to read anything they think it is harder.
Get off your high horses and go with the future or go use something else.

Yes, I did it. Went with "the future", saw the same past and found something else

BeePee

I'm deeply regretting upgrading from Sketcup 2013 to 2014. It is so unstable!! If it doesn't hang repeatedly for long periods it simply crashes. I have to manually save every few seconds. I have Autosave now set for one minute, but then I end up with horrendously long file names...

What a mess! I see others are having problems too. When's the fix coming?

BeePee

I should add I have Windows 7. Sketchup has gone from being a pleasure to use to an almighty pain with the 2014 version.

Dave R

I haven't had that experience at all. SketchUp 2014 is very stable on my Win 7 machine as well as on my Mac. I haven't seen any reason to go back to an earlier version at all.

tt_su

@beepee said:

If it doesn't hang repeatedly for long periods it simply crashes.

Have you submitted the BugSplats? Did you enter any information in the dialog we can use to look it up?

Dan Rathbun

I'll bet it is a plugin causing the instability.