Merci Fredo for a very useful toolbar.

Gorgeous work Dave.

@unknownuser said:

Yes. There should be a sort of fork with a long wooden handle to shift the belt back and forth between fast and loose pulleys. I have yet to find dimensioned drawings or even really good photos of the belt shifter.

Dave — it's not a dimensioned drawing or even a photo, but at 2:45 in the video linked above there's a good shot of the belt shifter you describe shifting between the two pulleys. (and again at around 4:00 showing the shift of power to the bandsaw)

Maybe you could contact them for good stills of the mechanism(s)? (Perhaps they also have drawings?)

Just a thought.

Really cool Dave.

I've enjoyed seeing the evolution of your vintage lathe model and look forward to seeing it hooked up to your newly-modelled line shaft!

Makes me think of the Hancock Shaker Village shop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2X2-ygHb00&list=PLb05GHmjNNyC0PgtPm7DG5IEzkct2uscn&index=1

(beautiful vintage shop and great video of this type of system in action for those who aren't familiar)

I would like to second the request for an import function. It would be very helpful for my workflow to be able to import csv's from my Excel project dashboard.

Fantastic work!

Looks cool. It's too bad that it's Windows only or I would definitely give it a go.

@juju said:

The LO API, can plugins / extensions be created for it yet? No? What? How many years has it been since this was first mentioned by SketchUp themselves (IIRC).

Ya, that's a head-scratcher, what's really happened there? You would think that it would be a major dev priority, given the missing LO features/capabilities/workflow automation that a live extension API would enable.

We have a plethora of talented extension authors that could leap into the breach and fill in the missing pieces, especially for supporting varied and/or specialized workflows and feature requests.

Weird that they made such a grand announcement (back in 2016, I think), raising expectations for a similar LO extension ecosystem to SU... then nothing for 5, now 6 years. WTF?

Looks like one of the most feature-rich releases in recent years, though that's not been a very high bar!

Lots of long-time requests and annoyances left unaddressed, but the new additions — especially in LO — look good. I am most interested to hear how well it performs on M1 Macs, now that it runs natively. That alone could make it worth subscribing (I have a 2021 Classic license), since I plan on upgrading to a M1 MacBook at some point this year.

I'd still like to see the development pace accelerate somewhat — and address those longstanding issues — but the trajectory is encouraging, especially when compared to inevitable disappointment that attended previous releases.

Just astonishing — the combination of huge scope and high quality!