@unknownuser said:

OK, so I found the reference on the SketchUp page, any references / benches on how much better / faster it is?

Hi all,

Chiming in on behalf of the team here in Boulder...

As you probably know, 'performance' is a very relative term. It depends heavily on the kind of model you are working with, how it was built, how you're asking SketchUp to render it, and your hardware configuration. That's why we typically don't provide a hard line on how much faster one version of SketchUp is relative to another.

But since this is a pretty big change to our infrastructure, we do want to share some of our own internal speed testing. We test across a variety of models in different scenarios, so the numbers below are non-scientific generalizations that we are reasonably confident in. We don't expect that everyone will have the same experience, of course.

Overall Performance improvement (Windows only):

• Up to 50% faster fps with a discrete graphics card

Nicer Transparency *** Numbers are not a typo, it is really 35 and 40 times faster ***

• Windows: up to 40x faster
• Mac up to 35x faster

Models with back edges on

• Windows up to 4x faster
• Mac up to 3x faster

Models with Sketchy edges on

• Windows up to 1.5x faster

We also think this update lays the foundation for future performance improvements. What the heck do we mean by that? Well, for one thing, we are now using the same rendering pipeline for SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, my.SketchUp, LayOut and SketchUp Mobile Viewer. This means our teams investment in performance can be focused on where it matters (everywhere!) without as much dilution. There are also a lot of really fun performance and rendering improvements we've been researching, but this is kind of where we transition in to speculation mode, and we don't like to do that!

Cheers from Boulder...

Hey guys,

As always, we do a bunch of testing on our website when we launch a new version. You should see more info on our blog and website pretty soon. But yes, it's real!

Mark, on behalf of the SketchUp team

It should not install over previous versions of SketchUp on your machine (it hasn't for me, and I've installed it about a dozen times now!)

For the time being: there are a lot of details about the release here:
http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro/new-in-2014

Hey everyone,

Yup, there's a new version available. We're working out a few licensing details for folks coming over from SketchUp Pro 8, but we expect to have an announcement blog post with lots of details first thing in the morning!

Mark

@rich o brien said:

Now can one of you SU dudes put this into the webgl viewer?

3D Warehouse

3D Warehouse is a website of searchable, pre-made 3D models that works seamlessly with SketchUp.

(3dwarehouse.sketchup.com)

..I'd love to see how it performs

Our new renderbots are working through all 3DWH models (at the rate of about 50K per day), so that one should get processed soon enough. In the mean time, if you upload a new model, it should render in 3D after just a few minutes.

Take a look at the embed gadget to the right!

@ Jan; we're hoping to provide a more detailed agenda in advance this go-round, but it's likely that might not be available until late January. That said, we want the big focus to be learning, so we're looking to do sessions that focus on modeling/documentation workflows broadly. The hope is to make it easy for your boss to say yes.

In general, we did want to make this Basecamp attractive to folks with families -- not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet! (Everyone likes wine, right!)

@solo said:

Know of a good pub with a patio so I can watch all the Sketchup palooka's falling while having a drink?

Actually, this was one of our criteria for picking a venue

The last few years the snow has been great around this time of year. Also, there is a lift right behind the Basecamp hotel, and a free shuttle bus between the hotel and Vail Village/Lionshead. No reason to get in a car during Basecamp!