This really sounds great. Porting ideas from software development like versioning and collaborative editing to CAD only makes sense. I just wish they implemented branching. It would be so useful to create design alternatives, settle on one and then take it from there.

This looks like a major new feature. Has anyone heard if this is part of the SU7 concept - if SU7 ever comes out...

Hi All,

Google yesterday announced that they implemented Docs-like collaboration for SketchUp models in 3D Warehouse. Looks quite promising. Here are my first tries to put this to good use:

http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/3d-warehouse-grows-up-collaborative-design-with-sketchup/

http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/how-to-bimify-sketchup-collaborative-editing-works-for-building-programming-too/

Cheers,
Alex

Great plugin! Looking forward to trying this out. Maybe this could be the start of a panelizing plugin as well (similar to the Rhino version). At this point it seems to implement a regular grid on the projected surface. Would it be possible to re-use code from the "lines on surface" plugin to make it possible to apply a grid directly to the surface?

Hi All,

So far, I have only been reading this forum (with great interest - amazing work everyone!). This time, I'll contribute something: I figured out how to control SketchUp with a Wiimote. Pretty fun tool. Here are the instructions:
http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/when-wii-met-sketchup/

Cheers,
Alex

Even better: Get the plugin to check primary orientation of component/group and apply lengthwise to longest sides. At the same time, apply end-grain texture to shortest ends. Of course, we still need a way to manually override this. The plugin could even have a drop-down selection for different woods.