But without the chalk dust!
I say Whiteboard… black chalk appears to be uncommon anyhow.
Ah … but a whiteboard, with it’s acrid smelling dry erase markers doesn’t have the - je ne sais quois … same atmosphere as an old schoolroom filled with chalk dust!
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It would be nice if the display units setting was split for dialogue boxes and dimensions. Here we seldom show dimensional units, opting for a general note to cover this information (all dimension in mm). But turning the display units off in dimension options also reverts DC dialogues to inches. Yes you can type dimensions with suffixes and there is the very useful toggle units from Matt (thanks Matt), but having to change (and remembering to change) is frustrating.
Just a suggestion before I change all dialogues to html.
When importing images as textures:
If Sketchup would recognize images labeled .jpeg are the same as .jpg
It would be one less step to have to delete that “e” every time.
-Rob
true… and reminds me on my ol’ PC in those days with a 8088 CPU and a 8087 co-pro software emulator for running ACAD v2.5 under PC-DOS v3.3 outputting * coincidence * white on black on a monochrome Hercules monitor… sloooow with already a bunch of lines.
As long as we’re being nostalgic, I recall (perhaps fondly, perhaps not) the look, feel, and most importantly, the sound of the keyboards of the early IBM PCs. Indeed, the entire atmosphere of a room - early cubicle - filled with people using those keyboards evokes feelings in me akin to, but not entirely like, what I feel when partaking of my childhood comfort foods!
Cycles render [Blender] in sketchup !!
The sound was special, but the touch was somehow just right for me, so I kept my original IBM AT keyboard for years until the advent of USB made it obsolete. It weighed a ton and I guess that it was almost unbreakable.
Anssi
Apparently not obsolete!
Here’s the company that MADE the IBM keyboards, still in business, now offering USB versions!
http://www.pckeyboard.com/page/SFNT
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Yes! Specifically, layer visibility control from LayOut. It would greatly cut down on the number of scenes I have to create and manage in my models.
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All thumbs up for that! We can change styles, turn shadows on/off, but for some reason we don’t have access to layers. Please add this to layout! Also I would like to see layers more like tags, not layer like we have now.
I have to create door, add it to layer doors, then group with new group called walls, then group again with another group caller 1st floor etc. Rather add 2 tags - 1st floor and doors. No group in a group in a group in a group…
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For clean look of drawings I use “Color By Layer” in Style. But working in this is a pain for one reason - since layer 0 is white, it makes guide lines white too. It’s impossible to work in this way you can not see them at all. I have to switch between styles only to see where my guide lines are. Would be good to have guide lines still visible even in color by layer mode.
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This isn’t really a request for SU2018 but more of a long term policy change but I think it could be beneficial to have complete camera, layer, style, shadow and fog control directly in Layout and not even have to reference scenes in the model. The model could be a pure model and the LayOut document could contain the presentation in itself instead of having the presentation spread out between the two files.
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Yes yes yes!
At his moment if I need to make changes in layout view I have to - go back to sketchup, change something in layers, save scenes, save model itself, then go to layout, refresh model file and apply changes. this is stupid.
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more UV mapping ‘native tools’, and native non-destructive bevel tool!
it would be nice ;] and sketchup pro version without layout tool [with lower price maybe 
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[quote=“Simonas, post:75, topic:33695”]
… I use “Color By Layer” in Style. But working in this is a pain for one reason - since layer 0 is white, it makes guide lines white too. …
[/quote] Is this a SketchUp issue for you or is it related to Layout?
If SketchUp: why is Layer0 white? You can change its color in SketchUp to any color you like.
Agree you can change color of layer0, but then all your model is painted same color. Since all geometry is on layer0. Rather I would like to have guides somehow separated from layer0 or somehow be visible in this “color by layer” state.
I’m not exactly sure why you are using color by layer. Have you tested monochrome mode?
