![]() Starting with SketchUp 8 M2, the SketchUp Pro Trial will no longer revert to “free mode” when the trial period expires. ![]() Our Pro Support team has been fielding dozens of “Why can’t I import a CAD file?” questions per day. Even worse, folks who had bought Pro licenses and had forgotten (or otherwise been unable) to activate those licenses were missing out on all the great stuff they’d paid for. The problem was that lots of people didn’t realize that they weren’t actually running Pro anymore. Effectively, Pro reverted to being just like regular ol’ SketchUp. Up until now, we’ve simply switched off the Pro stuff if you don’t enter a license after the trial period. ![]() In M2, they’re built right into every copy of SketchUp Pro 8.Īfter you download and install SketchUp Pro, you can try all of the Pro features for 8 hours (of use) before deciding to buy a license. Until now, the ACTs were a separate plugin that you had to install. The ACTs let set designers, cinematographers, storyboard artists and other people in the entertainment industry work with simulated real-world cameras in their SketchUp models. This makes it easier to work with COLLADA files in 3rd party rendering tools.īack in March, we announced the Advanced Camera Tools for SketchUp Pro 8. One particular thing to note: SketchUp now preserves texture names in exported files. We think you’ll like SketchUp 8 M2’s ability to seamlessly import and export clean and compliant COLLADA geometry. As of M2, SketchUp’s import/export support for COLLADA is now compliant with over 90% of the official Khronos compatibility test suite, only leaving out support for animations and shaders-neither of which can be authored in SketchUp anyway. It’s managed by the Khronos Group, an industry consortium that decides which features COLLADA should support. We’ve also added a lightweight set of “hooks” in the API that should help scripters build their own script-management tools.Īll versions of SketchUp 8 can read and write COLLADA, a 3D file format that works with lots of other 3D software. Clicking it lets you install any properly-configured ".RBZ" (ruby zip) file, which puts the needed files into the correct spot, without having to dig around in your computer’s file system. In SketchUp 8 M2, we’ve added two features that should make using Rubies a whole lot easier: The first is a new button on the Extensions panel in SketchUp Preferences. ![]() The Extensions panel in SketchUp Preferences has a new button. Try explaining how to do that to your boss. Adding a sophisticated Ruby used to involve finding a specific folder on your system and putting a bunch of files in all the right places. The tricky part has always been teaching SketchUp modelers how to install and access the Ruby scripts (Rubies) that they want to use. People have created thousands of great scripts-we consider the API one of the most useful things we’ve done. Anyone with coding skills can use the Ruby API (application programming interface) to whip up new tools that they can distribute any way they like. We’ve had a way for other folks to build SketchUp plugins and extensions for years. Having stated that maintenance releases aren’t always flashy, we couldn’t resist adding a few shiny, new things that we think you’ll appreciate: Mac: Choose SketchUp > Check Web for Update The best way to get it is to open SketchUp and do this: M2 is a free update for all users of SketchUp 8 and SketchUp Pro 8 in all 12 languages. It’s been a few months since we released M1 since then, we’ve collected a fresh batch of performance tweaks and bug fixes-over 150 of them, in fact. They aren’t really about flashy new features they’re more like tune-ups for your car squeaks and rattles get fixes, tires are rotated, fluids are changed. Maintenance releases are mini-versions that come out between major updates. In the world of software, the designation “M2” refers to “Maintenance Release #2”.
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