I am sure that following suggestions had been raised before, but it's good to keep them fresh

-keyword filter for windows, like Outliner have: for Materials, Components ..and Layers could have too. In Components is that 3dWarehouse search, but why can't we search on local library?
-details view for Materials, like Components have. Because hovering over each material to find its name it's not so accurate, often it have lags and it's slow process when you have 15-20 materials and some of them are too alike. And List view don't provide visual. And maybe in detailed view to see the size of texture tile?
-Clear Ruby Console built-in function -it would be nice, right?

I noticed that, when SU starts, first loads Getting Started toolbar, then unloads it and loads user's toolbars. What's the point to load something what's disabled? Just time and resource consuming.

-fix that bug which causes the right-click menu to gray-out sometimes.

-some way to be able to resize SketchUp window, without messing up all icons, Maybe a Lock Toolbar function Sometimes I need the sketchup window to be less than Full-Screen, and in this situations, if some icons would go out of screen would be OK, IF there would be a small (triangle) to access them in sort of vertical bar, like in MS Word, for example.

-and, YES... ConstructionLine Stipple FIX !

@thomthom said:

mhm... one can not change the stipple type of CLines in SU8 any more.

I really don't understand the meaning of this changes... is there kind of testing... to see what SU users can accept? Pushing the buttons and see what happens? If so, it's ugly
In my idealistic mind, changes and future versions of software are meant to add improvements...

@thomthom said:

Think so... think I saw it mentioned somewhere...

What does it means? the plugins that use that code are not working in SU8 ?

maybe you are interested in this:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=32663#p287961

It's not perfect, and I'm sure that it can be enhanced and the code more clear, but... it's my first!
I'm happy to hear suggestions.

Well, you could need some plugins to ease your work, like RoundCorner, for example.
Then, you should start with a rectangle, shape the case, then go for details, screen, buttons.
I made for you some images, to suggest the steps. It's just the case shaped quickly, but I guess it will help you to start. The lines that you will see on the contour are left from rounding, but you can choose to smooth/hide them.
As a suggestion, don't create entire model from one piece, but split it into components, each one meaning one part/material. It will be easier for you to refine it. For example, I see that the case have a nickel contour. You could split the case in three overlayed parts: the black, the nickel and the back (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

@jim said:

But I'm not sure you can do it with arbitrary attributes.

It seems that is not possible. The editable attribute overwrites any formula with the value from input field, once the user inputs something
C'est la vie...

@jim said:

How about SMALLEST(v1, v2, v3, ...) and LARGEST(v1, v2, v3, ...)?

Hmm, I can't figure out how to use this on an editable attribute. A little help, please?
As I could see, I can not use the attribute itself to compare. There is no such thing as self in DC-s? What I need is to compare the value that user inputs and IF the value is less than a minim (or more than a max.), to force that min/max. For that I had to use the attribute for INPUT, and the other one which doest the math and provide me with the result.

@jim said:

Just a watermark. See the Styles Dialog, Edit, Watermark settings.

Woow! Cool I never used that feature... and I surely forgot about it.

I downloaded this component: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=fc5b49c7ca17e3554af4635b6ebb0145
And I was amazed by what I saw: there was a image on the working area, which was NOT in the 3d space inside sketchup. See the image for yourself.
Is possible for us to do the same? Or It's just a glitch from Google to tease people?

@gaieus said:

Yes, indeed. A viewer and file combination that cannot be disassembled but can be run on any computer (regardless of OS - maybe even linux )

Can you do some magic, so a guy from Google to "accidentally" read this topic? .. who knows what might happen next

Updated the topic !
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=32663#p287961

**I try to limit the values that a user can input for a Dynamic Component, in Component Options dialog, but the only way I can do it now is a very nasty one. I have to use two attributes, like this:

INPUT_val = [user_input_val] cm
MIN_val = 10 cm
val = IF(INPUT_val < MIN_val, MIN_val, INPUT_val)

-so, I have to use val for my next operations, instead of INPUT_val.

I would like to do something like this:
(but this doesn't work, it gives me the #)

INPUT_val = IF(INPUT_val < MIN_val, MIN_val, INPUT_val)
MIN_val = 10 cm

I agree, it looks like a circular definition, but maybe there is another way to do that.**

@unknownuser said:

>  Xsize = input[0].to_f
>  Ysize = input[1].to_f
>  Zsize = input[2].to_f
> 

But, every time I run the script, I get this message in the ruby console:

> warning; already initialized constant Xsize
> warning; already initialized constant Ysize
> warning; already initialized constant Zsize
> 

How do I fix this?

Well, for start, you could type in lowercase Because if your variable name starts with capital letter, ruby takes it as CONSTANT. You are lucky that ruby lets to redefine constants, most of programming languages don't allow . This is why you get the warning.
use something like this, it's easier to read and those are local variables, not constants:

x_size = input[0].to_f
y_size = input[1].to_f
z_size = input[2].to_f

@tig said:

I don't see the problem [v8+]

It hapens to me just sometimes. Is it possible the cause to be Video Card drivers?
I have some obscure card with NVIDIA drivers... and now I have the drivers from Windows7.

Is it possible to display a default value in the text editable box, if the user doesn't input anything?
I tried like this, but no success.

value =IF(value=0, 100, value)

I guess there are some bugs in SU8 ... it happens to me often that the lines to not cut the faces. Especially when draw shapes on the face. In that situations the intersect doesn't work neither. Usually I can solve it by redrawing a edge. But, there were some cases when not even redrawing did something, so I had to remake the face.
I'm confused...

@jim said:

Instead of SketchUp Reader, it would be cool to have the model password protected and open read-only in SketchUp free.

Yeah right... and to stay and explain to every client to not be afraid of buttons
Sketchup viewer is good for st*pid clients... just install and use Orbit and Pan
A kind of portable Sketchup Viewer would be even better, so the client doesn't have to install anything... or, to go on with my fantasy: a built-in file (sort of export from sketchup and - voila !) viewer

Indeed, Google Sketchup Viewer 8 expected... right now I had a bad surprise when I installed it and was version 7.1.
Maybe somebody from Google is reading this and...

@michaliszissiou said:

@dereeei: thanks, nipples ha ha, I wish this stl machine can carve these. Even as a simple stroke, it'll be fine.
A tutorial for digital sculpture? On what app? 3DCoat? Zbrush? There're tons of this stuff around.

On what you did this one

I like the nipples ! ... sorry, it's offtopic
Anyway, good work! A tutorial for that sculpture would be awesome