Thanks to all beta testers - we have just released a new version of our Driving Dimensions plugin for SketchUp.

Version 1.3 supports new platforms and contains several improvements and fixes. Answering numerous requests by the users of Windows 7 and Mac OS X v.10.6 operating systems, LEDAS development team focused on supporting these new platforms for its SketchUp plug-in. The functionality of multi-document interface (MDI) on Mac platform has been improved. Version 1.3 also includes several fixes of internal errors reported by Driving Dimensions users. To see the full list of changes, please visit the release status page.

More than 20,000 of SketchUp users worldwide downloaded our Driving Dimensions plug-in. When we first released it in October 2008, many users did not understand the value it added to SketchUp, but now reviewers estimated it as “an essential plug-in that can really help you speed up your designing”. We really appreciate this recognition.

You are welcome to download the version 1.3 at http://www.DrivingDimensions.com!

For the attention of Mac users!

We are going to release a new version of our Driving Dimensions plugin for SketchUp. It includes:

• correct installation on Snow Leopard 10.6
• improved compatibility with other plugins
• support of PowerPC

If you are interested in testing the new version of our plugin before its official announcement, please contact me.

Hello daviddoria,

What version of SketchUp and Windows do you use? Could you please download the plug-in directly from our website and install it again:
http://drivingdimensions.com/download/

Edson, please try the newest version (1.2) of our Driving Dimensions plugin.
Your problem should be fixed, since we have resolved several compatibility issues.
You can download it here.

Hi there!

We have just released a new version (1.2) of our Driving Dimensions plugin for SketchUp.
What's new in brief:

• Support for national languages
• Japanese translation of GUI
• Less edges and faces are now moved when you edit a driving dimension value
• The time required to solve driving dimensions has been significantly reduced
• Several compatibility issues with other SketchUp plugins solved

Please read the full press release on ouw website.

We invite all users of the free version of Driving Dimensions to help us with translation of the plug-in to different languages. As compensation, LEDAS will provide all collaborators with Pro licenses of the Driving Dimensions plug-in for SketchUp at no charge.

Please enjoy using our plugin and don't forget to share your ideas with us!

Edson, Martin,

Thank you for these explanation. The reason of the bug seems to be clear - our plugin tries to update a model, but fails since the model contains some corrupted piece of data (not surprising, since Edson uses "a huge number of plugins"). We are going to fix this behavior in the forthcoming version of our LDD plugin by checking the correctness of our data before updating a model.

However, I have to ask another question: when exactly the problem happens? When you open a model or when you load 't.rb' in the Ruby console?

Edson,

Thank you for reporting this problem. Could you please say what else plugins do you use in SketchUp and how often this problem happens?

Thank you for using our plugin, Mike!
By default the plugin does nothing when you draw your model.
Didn't you change any DD option or used previous versions of our plugin on your computer before?
If you installed it for the first time, DD should be inactive until you manually create any driving dimension. Could you please confirm? (Probably there is a problem on our side?)

Your question about various types of designs with DD is good, and probably some users will share their experience here. I particularly see that DD should be useful inside components (with version 1.1 it is possible!) For example, you can take the TV pedestal model mentioned in my previous note and insert it into your design as a component. Then you use driving dimensions (already existing inside this component) to adjust it for your particular size.

Hello everybody!

Yesterday we released version 1.1 of our Driving Dimensions plugin for SketchUp that runs on both Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Mac OS X (10.4+) platforms.

Small functional enhancements include a new help button on the toolbar and improved behavior when selecting dimension arguments. We have also fixed several bugs - thanks to all beta testers! We are very excited to see 10,000 downloads of our plugin since November 2008, thank you for the interest to it!

You can find the full press release here and download the plugin here.

And here is a simple TV pedestal I designed yesterday on Mac to show you how our DD plugin can be applied to control thinkness of shelves when you change the overall dimensions of the predestal (you can download the corresponding model with driving dimensions at 3D warehouse

I have a news for you guys - we are about to release our Driving Dimensions plugin for Google SketchUp running on Mac OS X.

If you are interested in beta testing this software (before the official release), please let me know.