I open up SU today and get a pop up telling me a new version is available.
I click the “Download Now” button thinking I will download it. To my surprise instead of downloading anything I’m simply taken to a webpage. A page with many download links to pick from.
Thinking I have SU Pro 30 day trial, but not knowing what version I go back to SU and click “SketchUp>About SketchUp” and see this.
Seems I’m running SU Make, not the 30 day trail of Pro. Does that sound right?
there was SU 16 M release announced short time ago. Have you checked the release notes pages? First step in any down load you should read release notes and try to make decision if you want / need to upgrade.
This is what it says SketchUp Pro 2016 and SketchUp Make 2016- Maintenance Release 1 Released: February 29, 2016 Versions: 16.1.1450 (Win 32-bit) 16.1.1449 (Win 64-bit) 16.1.1451 (Mac 64-bit) General Note Windows: This maintenance release fixes a Windows-only bug introduced in the first release of SketchUp 2016, also dot dot dot…
Not sure at what point I was to be lead to that page from the first pop up window I received telling me there was a new version available with the download now button, but I know about the page now.
Installing Maintenance Releases or Installing minor version updates
Was not sure at the time if what I was going to download & install from the download page until now.
As Dan answered Yes to me asking if it was a Maintenance Release. So now I know.
So if you already have SU installed then everything from that point on is either going to be a Maintenance Releases or minor version updates?
I’m sure I’m making this more complicated then it’s really going to end up being. Guess I will just go ahead and give it a try. Seems like most software I work with simply downloads the update right away after I click a button that is labeled “Download Now”.
Why don’t SU just go ahead and download the one I need right after I click the “Download Now” button on the first popup window that tells me there is a new version?
Seems a fair question. Most people would expect that “Download Now” means download now, not “take me to a page where I can choose something to download”.
As we are releasing more frequent updates to SketchUp, we want to make it easier for people to access the improvements we make between ‘major’ versions. In this release, we are introducing a direct download update. This means that the next time there is a new version available, you can use this update service to automatically download the proper language version. When an update is available, you’ll receive a notification in SketchUp. You can initialize the direct download update at that moment, or defer to a later date. After downloading an update, you will be prompted to save and close existing files so that SketchUp can shut down. From there, you can install the update to the desired location on your computer.
