Wishlist - Improvements Only

arail1

I think there's a general sense that JB's comments kind of miss the point and are worrisome to many. His position, if I understand it correctly, is that significant change (new features, etc.) to SketchUp would mean deviating from the original design of a fast, simple, flexible modeler. The response voiced throughout various threads here over the last few days is that there are many, many areas in SU that need improvement and, doing so, would not make the program more complex, more unwieldy nor would it be a denial of original intentions.

Therefore, let's have a Wishlist dedicated to Improvements Only. I'm sure there are lots of areas that will be hard to decide whether it's an improvement or a new feature. For instance, would parametric modeling capabilities be a new feature or an improvement?

To start this off, I'm going to copy and paste from Pixero's post in the Gripes and Bitchin thread (which is itself a copy and paste from the Bekerman blog). The list isn't mine, it's from sket83 at Bekerman but the list covers many of my needs.

Why can't we dock the Materials, Components and other widows to the side of the screen in a scrollable panel?
Why is there no longer option to save (and load) toolbar positions?
Why can't we make groups for Layers?
Why can't we make groups for Materials? ... (a feature i'd like to see in Vray too, btw)
Why is there no better UV mapping (for organic shapes)?
Why is there still viewport clipping in large models?
Why is Sketchup still not optimized for detailed models?
Why is it still stuck at 32bit?
Why must we reinstall all plugins every time a new version is released?

smicha

Why there is no multithreading?
Why there is no support for alembic files?
Why Sketchup is so slow in terms of saving large files?
Why there is no support for fast import of obj files?