Hehehe, thanks TysonK, the Tip-Ex tip really helped!
And yes, I’m one of those coming from a Photoshop and Illustrator background.
I’ve been following Sketchup from when it was developed by @Last Software, but I have always used a lot of bad words whenever I’ve tried to understand Sketchup’s “Layers”, so the renaming is really welcome.
I will see if the “Tags” title for the function sinks in after a little while or if I will have to stop trying to come to grips with the weird workflow of it and just hide the panel. But, I do feel that the developers focus on making the Outliner the go-to management tool will be what saves my sanity as it seems to be very intuitive now.
I am a subscriber and was billed $120 1/1/2020. I downloaded the 2020 version but can’t get it to recognize that I have a valid license. Still showing as “Trial”. I requested my authorization code from my license page at the website but no email response in an hour. I call"heavy call volume" and I left a voice message. After paying the purchase price and the annual support fee of $120 for about 3 years it seems I should not have this much trouble getting my app to work. Any of you have any idea that might help me?:
It takes me to the license page that shows my license is Active and Renewal date is 1/1/2021. How do I get Sketchup 2020 to recognize it? I tried to add a Classic license but I need an authorization code but when I click on the button to email me my authorization code I do not get an email from Trimble.
I’m not the right to respond since I don’t know how the licensing work but did you download the 2020 version from the web page directly or did you get it from a previous version of Sketchup telling you it had recognized that there was an update available?
There are some Trimble emails that look suspicious to spam filters, but usually if I’m on a call with someone and I use the license manager to send their license, I can hear that it got there quickly.
ps. I also replied to your voicemail message, and included the license in my reply.
Why so eager to enter your license info? The trial version has no restrictions.
When you enter your classic license, the new version will now be the active one. That means you can no longer switch activations of the old. Suppose you have a extension that works only with the old? Now you’re stuck on the machine(s), you can’t Undo making the new version current.
Those are called Geometry now. Object refers specifically to entities that are not Geometry.
Components in LayOut (that works consistently to SketchUp, i.e. the component has its internal coordinate system, can be stretched, skewed and rotated, can represent an external file of the same format as the one it is used in etc etc etc) would be something of the best that has ever happened to layOut.
SVG import and export would be really sweet too. It’s a bit awkward having to go through PDF and DWGs for this.
I can see the logic of having “working” scenes in SU that are just for draftsmanship purposes and separate “presentation” scenes in LO for output purposes. Might be awkward for those who have no access to LO though.
I’m really happy about all the bug fixes for Mac, the addition of new units, and the visibility toggle option on the outliner. Congratulations on another edition of one of the best 3D modeling programs!
If you don’t have LO you don’t need the scenes that are purely for the LO presentation anyway .
The possibility to link scenes must remain, both for backward compatibility to existing workflows and because you sometimes want the same view both in SketchUp and LayOut. I’m talking about those awkward scenes that just bloat the scene list and only serves LayOut.
I wish the texture engine would be updated to accept advanced textures from applications such as Substance. Or at least offer different slots for the different maps should one wish to do it manually.
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