Mac UI Improvements - Full screen, docking palettes, etc

SketchUp Feature Requests
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SUPER Exciting! :slight_smile:

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And it looks good. :slight_smile:

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@TedVitale_SU, I really appreciate this message and the attention you’ve shown with this version of the Lab. This isn’t the feeling I had with previous beta versions. So, thank you for listening!

I’ve been testing the Lab version for a few days. But where’s the best place to give you my feedback on the Lab version for Mac? Most of my reports in Earlyengagement issues of previous beta have fallen into oblivion. So I prefer to ask you how the time I can devote to my returns will not be useless and wasted :wink:.

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Thanks for the kind words! Its definitely not just me, its a massive team effort and Mark is in the thick of it along with our QA team. This is a fairly massive Labs release so lots of new features to test and talk about!

Your best bet is to post into the Discussions sections so that we can address it and have some meaningful discussions. We will actually be meeting to go over feedback later today. Also, if you think a topic posted is lost and you hear nothing but crickets, feel free to ping me here or in Labs with a link to your discussion and I can give it a bump.

Its a lot of info coming our way and we never want you or other users to feel unheard, and I promise none of your feedback will ever be wasted (though Ill sometimes things do get overlooked). So definitely share your thoughts in Labs, and also post in the Praise section if you can, not for me, but for the rest of the team, it goes a long way when they all hear that things are feeling more positive!

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Hi Ted. I’d be interested in testing the Labs version of SketchUp and provide feedback. Thank you!

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It’s only in english for now, but be sure as soon as it’s translated in french you’ll see me argue about translations :wink:

(Also, I’m mac-less for the next 3 weeks, so I can’t nitpick yet)

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Hey Ted this is super awesome news, and I would love to help with this if you still need people.

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I’d love to test the Mac beta features, I use windows and Mac, for some work reasons I’ve been using windows more frequently but I don’t really like the OS, I’ve been using Mac since 2013 and windows it’s a bit frustrating sometimes, I’m just waiting for all the software I use to be fully compatible and take full advantage of apple silicon to go back MacOS full time.

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It already does. That part at least

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Wow this is huge news, thanks to Ted and the team!

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Sketchup does take advantage of apple silicon hardware but other programs that I use like enscape or twinmotion ,don’t make use specifically of the ray tracing hardware, renders made on enscape look much better on a windows machine with an RTX Nvidia gpu than on mac with the latest M chip, Twinmotion doesn’t have support for path tracer on mac, and lumen looks better on windows, that´s one of the reasons I haven’t updated my Macbook, an M4 max won’t deliver better renders than my M1 max, it will make them a bit faster but I won´t spend 4K for saving a few seconds of rendering time with the same quality, and the same on windows, I don’t want to spend 2K just on a gpu with 16gb of memory that is sligthly faster than the previous generation.

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I’m not sure if here’s the place to talk about feedback on the labs releases, if not, could you @TedVitale_SU tell me where can I submit my feedback, I’ve been testing the new UI on Mac, by the way I love it, it will surely will make more windows users go to the light side of the force and use a Mac. But I have som constructive criticism on the beta software.

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Maybe where you get the labs releases from? There is a whole ecosystem there exactly for this…

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Ted already told you where:

The Discussions & Ideas section is inside Trimble Early Engagement.
But if you have a bug report then post in the Issues section.

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That will be a cold day in hell, … and don’t call me Shirley.

  • :airplane:
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Thanks for the assist Dan, Yes @francisquitof please log all feedback in the private Labs Trimble Early Engagement forum. Thanks again for testing and giving feedback!

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How can I sign up for the Labs version?

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Never say never.

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:musical_notes: “Ne dis jamais jamais” ( Dating myself here - Yes I am class of '79 )

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Lol…I’m still gonna go with never :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

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