Yes, please! Looking forward to that.
BTW, I find the sliders not very useful. Generally you need very specific numbers, so you usually type them. More useful might be sliders with click-stops (and still have the ability to type in values).
For example, with a Straight Cabinet Carcass, in the US, itâs standard for them to come in 3" increments. If the slider slid but click-stopped at 6", 9", 12", 15", 18", 21", etc., that would make the slider more useful.
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In Europe, 100 mm increments
highlight (select) the digits and type your own, you can actually go beyond the limits of the sliders
Yeah, but I think his point was more that by having the snaps the slider would be more useful. Like the scale tool for example will snap to .5 or -1 this way you can use the slider to quickly snap in increments without needing to type specifics unless you really need specifics.
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Hello! Is there something, new or news? It may be 2 years since Live Component released, and I still can not apply anything from it. Just watch and wait.
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Hi there, I was wondering if there was still a possibility to be some kind of beta tester for this ? I filled out the form for it last week but no reply came back so I was just wondering if this was still open.
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Hey I filled out the form as soon as it was available, havenât had any response either. Not really sure what that means or if it helps lol. I guess if the form is open they may still be accepting applicationsâŚ?
Beta will launch Q3-4 this year if all goes well.
Weâre very much monitoring the form, so youâll be included.
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âIf all goes wellâ so three years for a beta. ?.. if all goes well⌠wish I could say that to my clients and still get paid
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Quick Poll
How many users have applied âLive Componentsâ to commercial project ?
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I canât say I have. I remember trying the spiral stair, and it wasnât quite right, so I had to go custom make my own.
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Until I can make my custom components and control exactly the result I want, I wonât use them.
I could try then in some cases, I guess, but then again I would loose more time trying if they fit my needs than modeling what I need.
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As a cabinet and millwork engineer who produces production drawings for all kinds of cabinet shops in commercial and residential markets, I really canât use the live components for the reasons others have stated. Every shop makes cabinets different and I have to be able to adjust each model for those construction methods.
When the cabinet live components become truly adaptable to alternative assembly methods then I will have the ability to integrate them.
Additionally, there are different methods of presentation which as Nick Sonder says, allow you to scale the amount of detail. Some of the live components that I would want to use have way too much detail for how I present my drawingsâŚwhich is opposite of what some comments here have said.
I guess the more options that are available to any one component would the ideal scenario. And just to be clear, I would prefer the live component over a plug in any day of the week. In my opinion they are much lighter and take less resources.
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I am afraid that Live Components has led the developers into abandoning the Dynamic Components project. DC.s still have many, perhaps most of the bugs they had when originally introduced (in version 4?). And they still are a Ruby extension. Making it native would be a priority that would allow their creation in all the current platforms, and DCs have in practice quite the same potential as LCs.
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Theyâll make it slow enough nobody use it.
The fact that they are making it is already great
Have always wondered why DCâs didnât get more development dollars. Seemed like onboarding them would have given Sketchup a parametric option that many could leverage. Are LCâs an attempt to remove the parametric and yet have components with design options?
I think the take on LC in Sketchup for iPad is rather interesting. It can lead to a nice workflow.
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For me, without DC components SketchUp has no edge over other cad programs. I use SketchUp for the DCs. I think it would be a huge oversight on Trimbles part to throw away the DC extension without LCs being able to fill the same role as DCs. They need to be completely customizable and buildable by the end user and allow reporting attributes. Time is also needed to adapt/adopt LCs and move everything over to the new system, possibly running in tandem for a while. I am all for the change, but its gotta work right.
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