SketchUp 2016 is here....

kaas

Banksy, is that you?
I wish

TIG

As Fredo said a few posts earlier - all current v2015-compatible Extensions/Plugins RBZs should, install, load and run OK in v2016 - BUT you must have the Preferences > Extensions Policy set to 'Unrestricted' [the shipped default].
If you change to another restricted policy, then only 'signed' extensions/plugins will load...
So it's highly recommended that you do not copy files from earlier Plugins folders [as it always was!], and that you get the latest versions of ALL of your extensions/plugins' RBZs, either from the EWH, or the SketchUcation PluginStore, or another trusted developer's site - NEVER use hooky-copies from dubious sites - they will either fail or contain malware, and harm the authors IP and maybe income etc...

Currently all of the authors are getting their RBZ files signed by Trimble.
Fredo has already had all of his 'signed' - they are now all available from the PluginStore.
I have also had several of mine 'signed' - these are also in the PluginStore - others will follow soon.
Those RBZs I have also adjusted for other authors in the PluginStore [like Didier] will also get 'signed' versions available in due course.

The test-version of the SketchUcation Toolset - aka 'ExtensionStore3' - was released a few days ago and this is already 'signed', in anticipation of the v2016 release.

The 'Unrestricted' policy will almost certainly not be around forever, so you need signed RBZs installing wherever they are available.
So probably one day 'unsigned' [or mis-signed] versions will become un-loadable - although there will be a [yet to be explained] 'developer-mode' to allow authors to test their new or modified code before hey have it 'signed' and published...

Pixero

@unknownuser said:

The 'Unrestricted' policy will almost certainly not be around forever, so you need signed RBZs installing wherever they are available

In that case how will authors be able to test scripts without signing them?

Dave R

@pixero said:

@unknownuser said:

The 'Unrestricted' policy will almost certainly not be around forever, so you need signed RBZs installing wherever they are available

In that case how will authors be able to test scripts without signing them?

@tig said:

...although there will be a [yet to be explained] 'developer-mode' to allow authors to test their new or modified code before hey have it 'signed' and published...

juju

Can someone explain to me the need to lock down the plugins / extensions? If you're not sure about the plugins / extensions and where you downloaded them from, surely you have prior knowledge that something could go wrong/break?

By locking down the plugins / extensions, are there any guarantees that there won't be any of these that clash with another? If that is the case, great, if not then I don't quite understand the need for the lock-down.

smuncky

Can't believe this is finally fixed.

“Fixed the "File currently locked by another user" message that was seen when opening a file via double click when the Preview Pane in Windows Explorer was open.”

slbaumgartner

@juju said:

Can someone explain to me the need to lock down the plugins / extensions? If you're not sure about the plugins / extensions and where you downloaded them from, surely you have prior knowledge that something could go wrong/break?

By locking down the plugins / extensions, are there any guarantees that there won't be any of these that clash with another? If that is the case, great, if not then I don't quite understand the need for the lock-down.

The new signing facility has a lot more to do with protecting developers' intellectual property than with preventing careless developers from clashes, or with preventing malware. It will still be true that the only safe route is to download extensions and plugins only from known, reliable sites such as the Extension Warehouse, sketchUcation store, smustard, and vendors own sites. Time will tell what ways malicious people can find to tamper with the signatures and new encoding, so the safe practices remain the same.

Pixero

I read this in a post at the Thea forum. Is it true?

@unknownuser said:

Information from a British reseller;-
Single user licence - once your 2016 licence is authorised, your 2015 licence will not be able to be installed on any new computers (but will continue to run as an existing installation).

If you have an existing:

Network licence: Authorising your new 2016 licence on a single machine starts a 60 day countdown, after which 2015 will be disabled on all machines. If you wish to test version 2016, it is highly recommended you use the trial version to do so.

We cannot reactivate a 2015 licence once it becomes inactive after the 60 day period

TIG

@pixero said:

@unknownuser said:

The 'Unrestricted' policy will almost certainly not be around forever, so you need signed RBZs installing wherever they are available

In that case how will authors be able to test scripts without signing them?
They promise a 'developer-policy' to allow that - but no details thus far...

numerobis

http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro/new-in-2016

Really?!? So, where are the new features?

Another Layout update and a few more and colored inference options for SU? (where most of them are already possible now) And Trimble Connect as top new feature? Are they serious?
I don't use Layout and i don't need any cloud- or teamwork functions. Referenced warehouse models?!? Maybe i don't understand this... directly referenced from the warehouse? Why should i want to do this? I did use a few warehouse models over the years, yes. But i always had to clean and prepare them first in a different file.
And wow! New textures, so now i don't need my own libraries anymore. I think the last time i opened the internal libraries was maybe in v4.
Are these funky new, dockable palettes now all at the useless bigger size like the Photo Match window or are they scalable?

Always good to see when the important problems are getting fixed first!

This can't be real... And i thought it couldn't get worse after the 2013 and 2014 updates.
Now I'm glad i forgot to renew my subscription this summer! Unbelievable...

jason_maranto

LOL

Rich O Brien

@jason_maranto said:

LOL

derei

As I remember there was a HUGE list with SketchUp 2016 Wishes; Even I wrote some in there... And the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the new cool features was "oh my, really? So many people wanted Layout Dialogs and extra inferencing instead of really useful features?" - I mean, I really couldn't believe that Trimble would ignore so big time THE SKETCHUP FORUM (a.k.a SketchUcation), ok...they built theirs(forum)... not sketchucation, but sketchup. And they have their own Extensions Warehouse, not Extension Store... but come on, who is using sketchup?

I had a big rant when they took over and the first thing they did was to CHANGE THE ICON - wow, such feature. No, it wasn't a "feature", it was a way of saying "is ours, this is our mark". Then was the price increase that happened really recently. Again "we spent money in acquiring SketchUp, we have to recover them, so we raise the price" - good marketing technique!

And now, the mighty SU2016 - following the Wishlist NOT. As a matter of fact, the contributors to all the wishlists until now are sketchup users with cumulated years of SketchUp experience more than Trimble will EVER have (unless they have a secret recipe to last like Roman Empire).

So enough with ranting... let me judge some facts:

they already had all the inferencing code - how difficult was to add some new inferencing rules to that? I believe not "that difficult". Experts welcome to comment
the "Layout Style" dialogs code was there too (in Layout source code) - how difficult might that have been to be translated into SketchUp? I bet it took them about a week of hard work (one person, between coffees and other breaks).
Even my sister which doesn't even know to draw a square in Sketchup can come with a folder with textures and to copy it in Materials Folder in Sketchup. - genius

Let me not be completely mean... they spent some time to add some improvements to Layout... for those who actually use Layout. And the improvements are not even so great.
I bet they completely left untouched all text-related bugs and issues that were driving everybody crazy and there were several more things that made any Layout user to want to smash their computer in mid-project.

So: 25%+ in licensing costs, some inferencing tools, some dialogs that were ok as they were, some textures (cgtextures.com, i don't need yours) and completely ignoring the real issues. Does it sound like Corporation? ah, i forgot: extra trouble for plugin developers. As there wasn't already a bunch of great people giving their time to offer lots of great things for free, make it harder for them, Trimble... make them pay for their generosity, if possible.

What's wrong with this world, guys?

RogerB

@unknownuser said:

What's wrong with this world, guys?

Once you realize we are living on a farm, being farmed, and understand the farmer do not have the same interests as his livestock has, things make a whole lot more sense.
And making better decisions will be much easier.

kaas

@jql said:

@kaas said:

you can leave the Outliner open when running ruby scripts. Up to v2015 that could make your ruby go very slow.

It still runs much slower... Where did you find differences?...

I just tested it again with a custom plugin and opening or closing the outliner doesn't make a difference in V16. It does run a lot faster in V16 though. Must be something in my crappy code thats bugging less in v16.

I also tested it with another plugin that creates a lot of geometry as well: TIG's extrude tools - loft. The results in v15 and v16 are about the same and closing the outliner in v16 almost takes half the time.

So my initial remark seems to be wrong: it still can take extra time if the outliner is not closed before starting a ruby plugin. Too bad it still hasn't been fixed

hris

Sorry guys from Trimble - THIS IS NEW VERSION ??? 2016??? It's a small SERVICE PACK - not a UPDATE!!!
No new tools for modelling, no new features from wishlist...are you listening users or no??? My company has 8 licenses with subscription - why we paid for this? It was unnecesary to pay subscription because it's a joke..Sorry guys - 4 last years are lost for SKetchup
Only free plugins from Sketchucation forum are saving this software from dead - but funcionality and amazing new features should be done by Trimble team - not by users for free. SKetchup community is great and still growing - this is amazing FEATURE. Software development has been slowed down 4 years ago.
This is my opinion.
Chris

JQL

There was one major thing that made all the difference for people using complex stuff and rendering... 64-bit...

That soothed a lot of criticism but since then all seems to be about sketchup plugins: creating the right enviroment for plugin developers to specialize sketchup.

Quite frankly I can understand why. Sketchup is used by too many people with too many scopes.

What the trimble folks could do is, keep doing that as a side task but select from the stuff all people are needing, no matter what they're doing, and develop that way.

Things that have been suggested here and have been on wishlists forever seem to be pointing there, however and unfortunatelly, it seems those things are being regarded by trimble as utopic.

Sincerelly, the problem is that Sketchup simply works and even if it could be way better than it is, it is still fit for everyone.

Trimble are certainly aware of that.

rv1974

The new 'feature' Default Tray wasn't so smart decision. It steals tons of display area being pinned;
and being on Autohide mode it doesn't show the windows I demand via shortcuts (say Cnrl+1 for Entity Info) I have to digg in with the cursor. And finally there's no option to drag this damn tray to the 2nd monitor

kaas

@rv1974 said:

The new 'feature' Default Tray wasn't so smart decision. It steals tons of display area being pinned;
and being on Autohide mode it doesn't show the windows I demand via shortcuts (say Cnrl+1 for Entity Info) I have to digg in with the cursor. And finally there's no option to drag this damn tray to the 2nd monitor

I agree I prefer the old trays/panels on windows way better. The one thing that had to be fixed was the Outliner - having that one open could make your ruby plugins twice as slow.

You should be able to drag the tray to the second monitor though.

sketchuh

i always think the strength of sketchup is it's simplicity and the weakeness of sketchup is it's simplicity. I always hate it and love it at the same time.

until there is SERIOUS competition from another new and similar software, Sketchup will always bring NO real updates to people who are screaming the loudest in the wishlist topic.

Do you guys think is it possible any company would develop a software that is more like a hybrid of sketchup/3ds max and or modo or etc...

I really want a software that is easy to use like sketchup but has all the traditional 3d software functionality.

again, I don't think Sketchup has real competitions out there. 3ds vs maya? apple vs microsfot? xbox vs ps,... Sketchup vs who??? I should stop here.