Congratulations Mike!
I am looking forward for Sunday (PL vs IRL)

The dream is strange indeed, almost borders a nightmare.

I like the flexibility and solidity that voxels give. They are like 3D pixels, you can erase them, paint. In a future architects will be working with real life like 3D scans of buildings and whole sites. We will be using voxel snapshots of a site with 1mm precision.

Concrete Buildings Flyover - YouTube
[flash=640,385:24994v2z]http://www.youtube.com/v/hAmvJ9VtbGI[/flash:24994v2z]

Euclideon 'Unlimited Details' and Better Reality are just a beginning.

Displacement... sounds like a word from a distant past when you watch those videos.

I am personally supporting a development of this brilliant voxel/atom based engine.
Brano's recent video looks like an architect dream, quite weird one It reminds me scenes from the 'Inception'.

Soft Voxel Bodies Are Super Easy! - YouTube

[flash=640,385:3plksn96]http://www.youtube.com/v/jItvtnc5hLw[/flash:3plksn96]

Being an architect and programmer, seeing such things sparks my imagination enormously.

@findthong said:

Procedural and grammar based designs:
Voxel Farm - Procedural Architecture Elements

Trimble has bought Voxel Farm license. Are we going to see it being used inside SketchUp?

I know that SU2015 64bit has cooled down all rebels...

New World Record Plum Quick Racing - YouTube

[flash=480,385:di6e0q0g]http://www.youtube.com/v/BZ5btNXb9D8[/flash:di6e0q0g]

I wouldn't go that fast on a golf course

Do you mind sharing the sample model?

Very good work Anton! I am impressed.
I think many of us were waiting for this to come. Thank you!
I will add support for 3.4 in 'Thea for SketchUp'.

@pixero said:

the hyped died out as soon as they released pricing info

Last time it was ~ 2000€ if I remember right.

Has the situation improved in SketchUp 2014?
I have tried opening a TCP socket:

>>require 'socket'
true
>>hostname = 'localhost'
localhost
>>port = 6300
6300
>>s = TCPSocket.open(hostname, port)
Error; #<Errno;;EACCES; Permission denied - connect(2)>
<main>;in `initialize'
<main>;in `open'
<main>;in `<main>'
-e;1;in `eval'
nil

Is there a way to get it working in SU2014?

The Dual Carbon Battery developed by Power Japan Plus is a new battery type that offers 20x times faster charging then Lithium-ion , higher storage, higher recharge cycles and is environment safe and cost effective, due to carbon used for the cells.

Power Japan Plus - Balancing the Energy Storage Equation - YouTube

[flash=640,360:1z9dajpd]http://www.youtube.com/v/OJwZ9uEpJOo[/flash:1z9dajpd]

@frederik said:

wouldn't you be able to ask the "customer"...??

No worries. I am already in contact with Thomas.

On a second run for the obvious crash due to lack of memory I have received this:

I have answered Yes... although I wasn't 100% sure whether it was asking "Do you want to format drive?" .

Edit: Whole model loaded into SU in Win7 64 requires 2.1GB for SU process.
It won't fit into 3.0GB with a system no matter what.

But you can easiy imagine that rendering it inside SU is not an option, when the model itself occupies quite a lot.

@tt_su said:

Can you email or PM me that model for debugging please?

No. It is a model of one of our customers.

@tt_su said:

Was this on the same machine? Vista 32bit crashed with memory usage at around 1.8GB but Windows 64bit - same machine - worked?
How much system RAM does the machine has?
1.8GB sounded much just by loading a SketchUp model. Does that happen with extensions disabled?

Machine #1
Vista 32 (4GB installed, 3.0GB available)
Machine #2
Win7 64 12GB

I guess the scenario was following: the model created on 64 bit machine, right at the memory limit. It simply crashes on 32bit system due to lack of additional few hundreds of MB.

I have done it especially for you - yes, it happens with no single plugin installed. I have even taken a screenshot with a cursor showing the position when SU silently crashed.

@olishea said:

I believe it will be a decade or so before the QUANT becomes a reality

It is reality.

http://mediacenter.nanoflowcell.com/mediacenter/press-release/news-detail/2014-07-22-the-quant-e-sportlimousine-with-nanoflowcellR-drivetrain-concept-approved-for-use-on-public-roads-in-germany-and-europe/

The first model (the concept car shown at the Geneva International Motor Show 2014) has been approved for use on public roads in Europe.

They are are [url=http://mediacenter.nanoflowcell.com/mediacenter/press-release/news-detail/2014-07-28-outlook-homologation-of-the-quant-e-sportlimousine-with-nanoflowcellR-technology-for-series-production/:3sjsj83x]currently working[/url:3sjsj83x] at top speed on the homologation for series production.

@tt_su said:

When you say you couldn't even open it, what happens? Do you get a BugSplat? If so, did you submit it?

No good news Thomas. When I open the file SU loads it and quickly reaches ~1.8GB+ memory usage which combined with a space occupied by the system fills up whole memory. Windows message comes up then saying that SU stopped working. BugSplat didn't even have a chance to catch the exception.

Going 64bit is a must, no matter how long it will take you. There is no excuse.

Just a side-note. It is not a model of an airport, large terrain, hospital. It is just a house with all furniture and appliances inside.

I consider QUANT e-Sportlimousine with nanoFLOWCELL drive much larger "crack" because it runs on ionized salt water, 62 mph in 2.8s, 350miles or range, 920HP with torque vectoring. BMW is definitely something accessible as opposed to Quant.

[flash=640,270:3b95me7p]http://www.youtube.com/v/RqLpqR0SPnQ[/flash:3b95me7p]

World Premiere of the new QUANT e-Sportlimousine - YouTube

[flash=640,360:3b95me7p]http://www.youtube.com/v/6LIYQ4Yp9bg[/flash:3b95me7p]

By the way... I have recently received a 250MB SKP file from an user who couldn't render it. I was surprised to learn that I couldn't even open that file in Vista 32bit. I thought it was corrupted. So I have downloaded it once again. No luck. I was only able to view it in Win7 64bit. An attempt to render the whole model was obviously not even considered by me.

@andrews said:

Given the size, complexity, organization and nature of the SketchUp application code, I personally estimate it would take on the order of two to three man years to reliably port it to 64-bit and achieve an equivalent level of reliability from the end product.

That was something I was afraid of.

@mike lucey said:

I wonder if the situation might be leveraged for the generation of an Ultimate SketchUp Pro 64-bit version (with all the bells and whistles sought by power users) via a Kickstarter-like venture?

It is clear that SU is so intricate inside, with old game engine being used etc. that bringing it to 64bit means rewriting it. Patching it may not be the best option.

It is time for our community to build something on Kickstarter basis. There was a thread on it already started.

get_center2d() and get_scale2d() C++ SDK functions return a camera shift and zoom-in factor for 2p perspective camera.

You reply gave me idea, that maybe I could calculate the shift/zoom using InputPoint.position... This may work.

I can read center2d and scale2d of a page camera through C++ SDK.
Is there any chance I could get those values for active_view.camera?
The active camera in C++ SDK is not being updated when SU view is modified (inside SketchUp).

If it is not possible, then I kindly request this feature in Ruby API.
Reading camera.field_of_view_is_height would be also good to have.