DraftSight is great for general drafting, its very fast and light compared to Autocad and runs on my mac have been using it for while now and have not had any issues.

I don't really understand what the issue is? It just a disk image, of course you can keep the dmg file. You can make backups of it until your heart is content and you can save them anywhere you want.

I saw the morph in Archicad 16 and felt that we are getting left behind. Sketchup should have had that in its core functionality ages ago. Besides the guys doing plugins there has not been any significant modeling capabilities added since the sandbox tools and that was in the @last years.

I actually felt sad watching that. That is just my personal rant.

That is actually very easy, only looks hard beacause every floor plate has a different shape and that gives the 3D effect

I really think that the next step has been long overdue for Sketchup, i just hope this is the right one, good luck to the Sketchup team

Sign me up for this too please!

This is ridiculous, even if you could somehow make out the little fuzzy image what about all the stuff you download
that was created on Windows machine, it has no preview in OSX. Even the stuff i get from Formfonts has no preview on the mac. I am i supposed to open every file and resave (also delete the backup that gets made) it in order have a small chance of maybe making out what is on that fuzzy thumbnail.

Please Google Sketchup team, it is not much to ask for a decent preview icon of your model.

@thomthom said:

The thing is - there is no universal answer for what OS is best. It's completely subjective depending on ones needs.

Thank you for that, you have nailed it on the head. So this whole one is better than the other is a bit pointless.

Use whatever makes you more comfortable. It is entirely up to ones choice.

Graphic converter works, but why can we not get a native support under OSX for previews???

I think that Sketchup is a design tool before its a modeler. Max is a modeler and not a design tool.
I don't use Sketchup because its the best modeler, but because it is a best design tool.
I am speaking as an architect.

Thanks for the explanation

I have found that if i turn off the Geo referencing before i import it works ok.
However if i select my country and city and then import from GE then then when i want to place my model back into GE then it is out bit quite a bit.

I am having a problem with exporting back to Google Earth in Sketchup PRO 7. My model does not end up where it should be.
If i use Sktchup PRO 6 then everything comes into Google earth in the right place.
The Geographic Location in both 7 and 6 is exactly the same but something is wrong somewhere.
Has anyone had anything similar happen to them. Any input will be great.

Thanks man, have only been waiting for this for like 5 years
It is a very good start and i am looking forward to this becoming a real loft tool.

Thanks again!

I export using 3DS and check Use full hierarchy under options. The components will be grouped the same way
and have the same names in the C4D object browser as they did in Sketchup. The only thing is that they will not be instances. I think C4D instances work differently than components so i don't thing that functionality can be translated. It would great if it could.
AutoCAD blocks translate perfectly into Components when bringing a DWG file into Sketchup. It might work the the other way too, but then you are still stuck with the problem of bringing it into C4D.
I use my Sketchup materials to differentiate different elements and then use the select texture tags in the C4D material browser to apply the final finishes to these. 3DS all the way

As a follow up on "Money as Debt" one has to watch "The Ascent of Money" is very up to date and touches on the current crisis. Find it very informative. It is sad that no one ever learns from the mistakes of the past, the same things happen over and over again.

Ascent of Money

A look at the creation of the economic system.

Ascent of Money (www.pbs.org)

The series was run on BBC Knowledge and there is also a book.

"They are going to have to pry the mouse out of my hand when I stop breathing and most likely the application running at the time will be SU"

I fear the same faith awaits me too

Nice one man that is funny

Now that i look at it again i think i did that image in c4d ages ago to show what i want in Sketchup

If i am not mistaken i posted it on the old forum

Nvidia 7900 GT driver 6.14.11.7516

I see that Nvidia have new driver posted a few days ago will give that a go.

UPDATE - driver 6.14.11.8122

Just updated to the latest driver and there was no improvement.