Trust me, I tried using Blender. My brain does not have the capacity to get around it, Sketchup’s more simple user interface works best for me,
Also, yeah, I’m aware Sketchup isn’t intended for it, but isn’t it great that you can use Sketchup in a way that it wasn’t intended for, and get actually good results? That’s why I would hope for, in the future, more in-depth performance updates to allow Sketchup to handle more than what it’s capable now.
I don’t necessarily mean that in terms of features, but definitely mean it in terms of overall performance. Let Sketchup unlock the full potential of my CPU/GPU/RAM/whatever it has to in order to handle my hobbyist workloads
If I have things that I want to isolate all to themselves in Layout I make a separate tag for each of them, like stair 1 to 4, so that in Layout its easy to override one stairs scene to get just one of them in the viewport. But Condoc does this, several tags applied per object. Haven’t tried it though.
Sketchup is not a CAD, is built around a polygonal 3d core (I believe that I read somewere on Sketchucation that it was originally based on some old game engine).
By the way, by it’s nature could be more suited to create robots than to create a true circle.
There’s no reason why one should not do some serious freeform modeling out of it. Actually we already do (of course using a plugin army), and we could do it even better with a little more native support in some areas that would make possible to build even more powerful plugins.
The extension warehouse needs to actually be a working STORE ie I pay for things using the store.
Then it’s so much easier to charge $2 or $10 for an extension, and developers will have way more incentive to update them, improve menus, icons, etc.
Yes, I agree, the examples you show are good or even better than the major tool in this SU 2023 minor update.
As for the mirror script that I present, I am not discouraged, I devote practically no time to it. I have lost the habit of programming in Ruby or SketchUp APIs
Honestly, I believed that you were going to demonstrate that a single person can do that in his spare time and it’s not worth a “major upgrade”.
Well, maybe that was not your purpose, but you just demonstrated that anyway.
Why don’t we (the Pro users) organize a user group? Name a leader and then vote on priorities for new features and upgrades. Then present a case for a top 10 list to SU.
Exactly. If you want to do that, you are going to think carefully on how you do it with SketchUp: how to set layers, sections, scenes, layout view ports…
It’s not straightforward at all and in complex projects it becomes very complex work.
There are plugins that may help, of course, but it’s not seamless, even with those.
That’s why I would hope for, in the future, more in-depth performance updates to allow Sketchup to handle more than what it’s capable now.
