[Trimble-Email-generic-new-800x600] Our New Year’s resolution was to make SketchUp work for you, and we are pretty proud of the results. Announcing workflow improvements galore in SketchUp 2020! This year we’ve got some shiny new features that we uncovered from our Bootcamp training sessions and …

Having spent the last 15 years teaching SketchUp users that layers aren’t the same as layers in 2D programs, I’m happy to see the term ‘Layers’ go away. The only names I can think of that better describes what Tags do would make Entity Info way too wide. If folks are were using layers correctly the…

@DaveR , you suggested in another post that the installation of 2020 should still be run as administrator, I seemingly did not have that option in the new setup, did I miss something? I can still run repair if I did.

Try again. Find the installer, right click on it and look for Run as administrator. It should be there if you are using Windows 10. Definitely do a repair?

Although LAYERS in SU-PRO are not strictly as one would expect them to be as in other CAD software, i.e. you physically have the drawn entities/groups on a specific LAYER. SU-PRO LAYERS are only meant to control the VIEW, as everything is meant to be drawn on LAYER-0 & then the grouped items or comp…

[image] CJT1963: I can’t recall anyone asking for LAYERS to be renamed. I can’t think of a single Sage or SU support person who HASN’T asked for the name change… john

Layers aren’t views. Views are what SketchUp calls scenes. Layers are containers separating content, what SketchUp call groups or components.

OMG the zooming is soooooooooo nice. This should be the 1st new feature listed in bold. Wow very cool and relaxing.

SketchUp 2020 has landed!

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timlanier January 29, 2020, 7:19pm 67

Yes, you should see dramatic improvements in Outliner performance on Windows. We put a lot of work into making the Outliner work well for complex models.

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SketchUp 2020 has landed!

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