@sdmitch said:

I think it is the same problem as with most of Didier Bur's scrambled plugins. You need to edit the code at the end as described in this post.

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=12354%26amp;start=60#p513679

Excellent, Thank you so much - it worked perfectly for me.

Hi,

I've been using this plugin for several years and it's VERY useful. How can I install it on Sketchup 2014? If it doesn't work is there an alternative plugin that does trilateration which I use for survey data

Thanks

John

Have you developers seen this - as a Sketchup Pro user I'd LOVE to be able to use this with Sketchup

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Cheers

Well, I have the Pro version so I'm more interested in what's actually coming - proper 64 bit and GPU support and therefore real improvements in performance maybe? I'm happy to pay for software that has real value and is up to date.

I'd rather Google actually made money from Sketchup and then had a real incentive to keep supporting it. Ever since they bought @Last the momentum just seems to have slowed down IMHO

John

Complete list of new features is now up

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@thomthom said:

I think the key item that's been missing from this SU7 release is information. We've not known anything about what SU7 would bring. We've not known what direction Google is taking SU. We haven't heard anything about what issues the team focus on. We don't know what they are working on next. We don't know what issues didn't make it into SU7, but is slated for later release.

There's been a whole lot of nothing in regards to information, except that SU7 would be superduper, leaving a void that's built anticipation

I don't know how much under the hood is done. I don't know how much work had to the stability, I don't know how much had to be done to get parametric done.

That's why when I first heard of SU7 this weekend and I rushed to download and install it I was puzzled when I opened SU7. It was not as expected. I look back on the website to find changelog, but no detailed log exists. What I do see on the What's new page, http://sketchup.google.com/product/newin7.html is that Layouts list of new features are much longer. And when I try to look up detailed information on dynamic components I'm faced with "Under construction" messages. Fair enough, SU7 wasn't announced yet, but even now after the SU blog has announced SU7 the information is missing.

I know that the information will be up there shortly, but I'm just pointing it out to show that the flow of information has not been great across the whole line. Now, I do know that the SU team asked in the Ruby section for feedback, so I'm not oblivious to that fact. But on the whole, information is serverly missed. It feels like the information lock down Microsoft has been following in the past. But they have in fact improved greatly the last couple of years. Many Microsoft teams now have very interesting blogs that allows users insight to where the product is going and what are some of the challenges the teams are addressing. There's a very good visible dialogue there which I'm sorely missing here.

I'm changing my top wishlist from the SU team to be information. I'd just like to know what they are thinking, because I'm feeling that I'm not in tune at the moment.

That's been my 2 cents, with inflations interests. I finish of by thanking for SU7 and especially dynamic components (one of my top wishes). This thread can't be what you hoped to see as a reaction to years of hard work. It's easy to be critical and it's easy to forget the good parts. But this is an indication that we're not all on the same wavelength. None the less, the critics are also an indication that people care about the product. I for one find SU to be the best mesh modeller. Other modellers feels awkward now, and I've only used SU for a year.

Totally agree - great post

@burkhard said:

@jstanton8869 said:

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After all this time this looks like a point release rather than a full new version. Sorry Google - Try Harder

this is from the blog and you want more?

Two years in the making and the result of many, many people's hard work, Google SketchUp 7 has arrived. You are cordially invited to visit our website to download a copy for yourself. We can't wait to see what you think.

I think that's the point - what have they been doing for 2 years? There are a large number of improvements many of which are covered (sometimes supported) ad hoc by ruby scripts that could have been properly integrated into native Sketchup and just arent there. The UI could be massively improved

Basic stuff like customisable toolbars, better arc drawing etc etc etc. A lot of this stuff (especially the Arc tool which is stone age) has needed improving since before version 5. The Dynamic components look great but my point is that it seems crazy you can draw lines and curves more easily and flexibly now in Layout than you can in Sketchup. What am I supposed to do, draw my model in 2D in Layout. Use the new Export as JPEG to transfer my drawing to Sketchup. Trace over the lines and then work it up in 3D??? It'd be like working in Vectorworks all over again!

Oh,and while I'm up on my horse - the full list of changes link on the google website gets you a blank page so I'm still waiting to see what I've missed.

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I share the disappointment that's been expressed here about v7. There are some nice features and to me it appears marginally faster but nothing amazing considering the wealth of ideas out there that could have been included.

It does seem however that I'm unusual in that I do use Layout and the improvements here have been great - the frustration is now that the arc tool, line tool and editing functions in Layout are BETTER than that in Sketchup. This seems ridiculous.

Have a look at the Line tool and Editing, Scaling and Rotating in Layout - you'll see what I mean.

After all this time this looks like a point release rather than a full new version. Sorry Google - Try Harder