Der Suchmaschinenbetreiber Google hat heute die Version 7.1 des Tools veröffentlicht, mit dem sich sehr leicht umfangreiche 3D-Modelle erstellen lassen. Die in Colorado ansässige Firma SketchUp entwickelt dieses Programm bereits seit 1999 und wurde inzwischen von Google gekauft.
Wie bei der Bilderverwaltung Picasa auch, stellt der Suchmaschinenbetreiber hier eine kostenlose Version zur Verfügung, obwohl der ursprüngliche Hersteller dies nicht getan hat. Im Fall der Software SketchUp gibt es allerdings noch eine kostenpflichtige Pro-Version für 330 Euro, die einen erweiterten Funktionsumfang bietet.
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"SketchUp ist eine leistungsstarke und sehr leicht erlernbare und bedienbare 3D-Software, die für die Konzeptions- und Entwurfsphase von Designs entwickelt wurde. Die preisgekrönte Software kombiniert umfangreiche Funktionalität mit höchster Benutzerfreundlichkeit, die 3D-Design an Ihrem Computer rationalisiert und vereinfacht."
In der jetzt veröffentlichten Version 7.1 ist es dank der überarbeiteten Rendering-Engine möglich, umfangreiche 3D-Modelle schneller und weicher zu bearbeiten. Insgesamt soll sich die Software schneller anfühlen. Zudem unterstützt sie den Import und Export der Dateiformate Collada und KMZ. 3D-Objekte lassen sich jetzt mit Fotos von Google Street View texturieren. Außerdem kann man sich ab sofort Gebäude aus der Onlinedatenbank 3D Warehouse anzeigen lassen, die sich in der Nähe des aktuell bearbeiteten Objekts befinden.
Im Internet bietet Google bereits über 5000 Modelle an, die man sich kostenlos herunterladen kann, um sie dann in SketchUp zu importieren. Eigene Entwürfe lassen sich exportieren und in Google Earth auf einer beliebigen Stelle der Satellitenkarte platzieren und betrachten. Um die Bedienung zu erlernen, ist ein Tutorial vorhanden, welches rund 15 Minuten Zeit in Anspruch nimmt. Danach steht dem Erstellen eigener Modelle nichts mehr im Weg.
Download: Google SketchUp 7 (http://winfuture.de/downloadvorschalt,2249.html) (37 MB)
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Ein gutes Jahr nachdem der US-Navigationsspezialist Trimble überraschend die 3D-Zeichensoftware SketchUp von Google übernommen hat, gibt es eine neue Ausgabe des Entwurfswerkzeugs – die erste seit drei Jahren. Sie trägt die Jahreszahl 2013 als Versionsnummer und ist in drei Varianten erhältlich: Als SketchUp Viewer, SketchUp Make und SketchUp Pro.
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Changelog
# SketchUp Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- Fixed a crash that occurred at program startup on some computers.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while exporting certain complex models.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the number of segments in a circle or polygon.
- Fixed an issue that caused SketchUp Make to launch with a “SketchUp Pro is expired” dialog on some computers.
- Fixed an issue where escaping from the Classifier tool resulted in no tool being active.
- Added all currently supported IFC export Types to the IFC exporter Options dialog.
- Fixed an issue where certain labels on the Welcome dialog could temporarily be blank after entering a license.
- Mac: fixed an issue where SketchUp could lag when switching from a document that has lots of scenes to a different document with few or no scenes.
# LayOut Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- Windows: fixed an issue where the gray text could go missing in the label attribute picker.
- Fixed the issue that was causing the left align button icon to include the tool text when dragged to a toolbar (customizing toolbars).
- Windows: fixed a rare crash in LayOut that would occur during the close process.
- Fixed a rare crash due to a problem within the text inspector when LayOut launches.
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Changelog
# General Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the Dynamic Components and Classified badges were not always visible for online models in the Components browser.
- Fixed an issue where the Component browser was showing an older model version than when downloading the component in a browser.
- Fixed an issue where a Rotated Rectangle would incorrectly rotate when entering a length/width without an angle.
- Changed the SketchUp Pro title bar to show trial days remaining when in a trial.
- Windows: fixed an issue where thumbnails of SketchUp models were not visible in Windows Explorer on some machines.
- Windows: fixed an issue where links on the Learn tab of the Welcome dialog wouldn’t open in a user’s default browser.
- Mac: fixed an issue on Yosemite where month abbreviations did not fit in the Shadows dialog.
- Mac: fixed an issue where Ruby tool icons could turn into an icon of a green zombie when the Ruby extension was removed or disabled.
- Localization: various fixes for incorrect translations and truncated translations.
# Stability Improvements:
- Fixed a crash with the Push/Pull tool when using the VCB after pushing a face up twice, selecting undo, and then selecting the face.
- Fixed a crash with the Push/Pull tool in a particular case when double clicking to repeat an operation and using the VCB.
- Fixed a crash with the Offset tool when using the VCB after offsetting certain faces.
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the Move tool when toggling on auto-fold during a copy.
- Fixed a crash when exporting certain models with text to an animation.
- Fixed a crash when exporting certain models with different style changes between scenes to an animation.
- Fixed a crash when drawing lines connecting vertices in extremely large geometry.
- Mac: fixed a crash when using Outliner to drag a component into another component which has subcomponents and is not yet expanded.
- Mac: fixed a crash when switching to another application during an animation export.
- Windows: fixed a crash that could occur on some machines when using Windows Explorer to view SketchUp models.
- Windows: fixed a crash that could occur in certain complex models when exporting to .3ds, .obj, .xsi, or vrml file types.
- Windows: fixed a crash when inserting certain components, undoing the insert, and pressing Escape while trying to drag/drop the component again.
# Exporter and Importer Improvements:
- IFC: added the ability to export transparent materials.
- IFC: added the ability to export geometry that was classified as IfcSite, IfcBuilding, or IfcBuildingStorey.
* LayOut Release Notes
# General Fixes:
- Fixed a bug on Windows related to particular fonts of symbol character sets (as opposed to ANSI) not properly rendering. We updated a text library to add support for symbol character sets, e.g., Flux Architect.
- Fixed a bug with exploding labels and dimensions, where auto-text wouldn't work anymore after undoing the explode.
- We put in a fix that changes the horizontal constrainment behavior of the label leader. The label tool will now constrain the second leader line to horizontal. Previously, the user needed to hold Shift to constrain to horizontal.
- Fixed a dwg export issue that would cause some templates to export with a landscape orientation when portrait was expected and vice versa.
- Fixed a bug where window restoration would interfere with LayOut's ability to show the recovered files at launch after a crash.
- Fixed a Yosemite bug where LO's font panel accessory view wouldn't be correctly initialized when the font panel was restored (if previously open when LO quit).
- Fixed a bad German translation for the text that appears in the delete layers dialog.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the version number from showing in the About dialog for some localized versions of Style Builder.
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Changelog
# Fixes/Improvements:
* Stability
- Fixed a crash when saving a model after importing a .dwg file that had a component definition name the same as one already in the model.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when auto-folding certain geometry and using an arrow key to lock direction.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a new file or switching documents while in the middle of some operations (including importing a 2d image, viewing an image igloo, or using the Dimensions/Text tool).
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that occurred by deleting an in model component’s definition name or description via the Components browser dialog.
* Tools & Inferencing
- Fixed an issue where SketchUp was incorrectly parsing negative lengths for specific formats such as feet and inches (e.g. -2’ 8”) and fractional (e.g. -15 1/2”) when entered in the VCB (Measurements toolbar) or the Ruby Console.
- Removed Shift + Press Alt (Win) and Shift + Press Command (Mac) functionality from Rotate and Protractor tools which freed the center of the protractor. Shift + Alt functionality clashes with the Windows shortcut default setting that changes keyboard language on Windows if multiple languages are installed. The down arrow key provides the same functionality.
- Fixed an issue with the Protractor and Rotate tools in which the protractor jumped to the corner of the screen when making multiple slope entries in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
- Updated the Section Plane tool so it is colored based on the axis it is normal to when being placed (for consistency with other tools). Also, added a tooltip to indicate “Unlocked plane” or “Locked plane”.
- Added ability to Circle/Polygon tools to use Shift to lock through different point inferences (including endpoints, midpoints, arc centers, and guide points).
- Fixed an issue with Arc, Pie, Circle, and Polygon tools in which the tool could remain locked to a plane after releasing Shift with the down arrow key active.
- Fixed some cosmetic issues with several tools in which the drawing line could be incorrectly colored when locked with the down arrow key.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with surface based tools in which the tool cursor could be incorrectly colored when locking with an arrow key and parallel to an axis plane.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with several surface based tools in which the tool highlighted in magenta when pressing Shift to lock normal to an axis.
- (Win) Fixed an issue in which Entity Info accepted arc/pie/circle/polygon segments that were out of range as specified by an error message.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which you couldn’t update two consecutive arcs/pies/circles/polygons with the same number of segments in Entity Info.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue where arc/pie/circle/polygon segments temporarily updated to 0 or last valid entry in Entity Info when an invalid entry was made.
* Customizeable Utility Trays on Windows
- Fixed an issue where the drawing window took focus away from extension dialogs. This impacted our shipped extensions (e.g. Component Options, Photo Textures) and some external extensions (including Brighter3D and SU Podium). In some cases extension dialogs appeared to disappear but were located behind the SketchUp window.
- Made a change so that the visibility of an auto-hide tray does not toggle by way of the Window menu or a shortcut as toggling this way caused the tray to immediately retract. The visibility of an auto-hide tray is only managed with the tray tab (hover over tab to display tray).
- Fixed an issue in which renaming an entity in Entity Info didn’t save correctly when subsequently clicking in Outliner.
- Fixed an issue where the selection highlighting was visible when softening edges. The highlight now returns once the cursor moves out of the Soften Edges dialog.
- Fixed an issue in which some drop down and sliders no longer scrolled using the mouse wheel when they had focus.
* Localization
- Fixed an issue where the "Use Image As" text was not translated for our localized builds.
- Fixed missing carousel arrows on our Spanish version of the Learn tab.
- Fixed several German translation issues on our About dialog.
- Fixed the German translation of ‘Knowledge Center’.
- Various other translation quality fixes.
* General fixes
- Fixed an issue where Ruby extensions fail to load / gave errors on launch if you have certain non-English characters in your Ruby path (which can occur if your Windows user name has certain non-English characters). If you’re still seeing an error with the Trimble Connect extension, please update that extension in the Extension Warehouse.
- Fixed our Updater Service so that the user is notified at a more appropriate frequency.
- Fixed issue where cameras were not being exported in the Collada exporter.
- Fixed an issue where temp files were not removed when exporting a 3D model.
- Fixed an issue where the text "This is a very long string. How long do we want?" could show up in the status bar on launch under rare circumstances.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where uninstalling SketchUp disabled the ability to set Internet Explorer as your default browser, and may have disabled other programs’ defaults similarly.
- (Win) Addressed several issues surrounding invalid file locations in Preferences.
- Fixed an issue where you could see a CFileException 3 error if the “Models” file location was invalid and auto-save kicked off. A new, more descriptive error message is now displayed.
- Fixed an issue in which you could see multiple CFileException 3 error messages within the same session even after updating the “Models” location to a valid path.
- Added a new error message upon startup if any of the File locations in Preferences > Files are invalid.
- Invalid file locations are now displayed in red in Preferences > Files and a tooltip is displayed indicating an invalid path.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the slider labels in the Choose Colors dialog could be incorrect after switching between picker types.
- (Win) Increased upload timeout of models to the 3D Warehouse.
- (Win) Replaced our expired signing certificate, then changed our digital signatures and timestamps to use SHA2/256, in accordance with Microsoft’s SHA1 deprecation announcement.
- (Win) Fixed an installer issue where the user would receive "An error occurred in PreBootstrapper. [could not create sketchup_install]" if an empty sketchup_install folder existed.
- (Mac - El Capitan) Fixed an issue where Toolbars containing dropdown arrows got misaligned when accessing the Customize Toolbar dialog.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which a component could no longer be replaced if it had the same name as another component.
- (Mac) Fixed the ‘SketchUp License Agreement’ link on the About SketchUp dialog.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which BugSplat technical support responses were not being displayed.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue where adding 3D Text created an “unreferenced fonts” validity error.
# LayOut and Style Builder Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- (Mac) Inserted pdfs will no longer be influenced by the image compression setting while exporting a document to pdf. Thus, your inserted pdf images will remain sharp even if you use heavy compression when exporting to pdf.
- We made changes to prevent drawing pattern fills for single-segmented lines. This may prevent some memory related crashes.
- (Win) The object snap button wasn’t toggling correctly. Often, pressing the object snap button would turn object snapping on or off but the icon artwork wouldn’t change to the correct state. We fixed this so that the icon artwork will always reflect the object snapping state.
- We added check marks in the Move to Layer context menu next to any layers that the selection set currently has entities on.
- (Win) We fixed an issue that would cause save to fail (and pop a dialog exclaiming as much) if the save event came immediately after a previous save.
- (Win) We fixed a crash that occurred while attempting to close LayOut immediately after starting (before the getting started dialog was visible).
- Fixed an issue where LayOut was incorrectly parsing negative lengths for specific formats such as feet and inches (e.g. -2’ 8”) and fractional (e.g. -15 1/2”) when entered in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
# SketchUp API Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- (Mac) Fixed issue where custom image importers were not being honored.
- Fixed issue where Sketchup.require/load fails to indicate a load failure.
- Fixed issue where load_on_start was not being honored on extensions that were manually placed within the Plugins folder.
- Fixed issue where extensions fail to load / gave errors on launch if you have certain non-English characters in your Ruby path (which can occur if your Windows user name has certain non-English characters). If you’re still seeing an error with the Trimble Connect extension, please update that extension in the Extension Warehouse.
- Fixed issue where the Trimble Connect Extension fails to load due to an invalid byte sequence error. Users will need to update to SketchUp 2016 M1 and update the Trimble Connect Extension to version 1.1.1 (via the Extension Warehouse) to see this change.
- (Win) Fixed issue where the unchecking an Extension within the Extension dialog caused the list to scroll back to the top of the list.
- Fixed issue where unchecking an Extension within the Extensions dialog did not change the appearance of the checkbox.
- (Win) UI.preferences_pages() will now include "Extensions Policy"
- (Win) UI.show_preferences("Extensions Policy") will now open the correct property page.
- Fixed issue where the Extension Status dialog incorrectly stated a user was under the "Identified Extensions Only" policy.
- Updated dialog content for extensions that were installed but not loaded. The dialog now clearly states that the user must load the extension in order to use it.
- Fixed issue where an extra dialog appeared on startup when loading an uncertified extension that was previously certified.
- (Mac) Fixed issue where exporter progress dialog had the incorrect title of 'Import progress.
- Fixed issue where the language handler treated all double slashes (//) as comments.
- (Mac) Fixed issue where the 'Uncertified Extension detected' dialog did not appear when installing an extension through the Preferences dialog.
- Prevent the unsigned extension dialog from appearing unless the number of unsigned and loaded extensions has changed.
- On startup, only extensions.rb, langhandler.rb and sketchup.rb will be loaded from the Tools directory.
- On startup, users will be prompted if any of the following files have been modified since being digitally signed: extensions.rb, langhandler.rb and sketchup.rb.
- Modified the Ruby file loading priority to be .rbe, .rbs then .rb.
- (Win) Fixed issue where third party DLLs in Windows system folders could override the Ruby standard library DLLs.
- Fixed issue where extensions installed in the Plugins directory were not respecting the load_on_start value.
- Added Sketchup::RegionalSettings.decimal_separator
- Added Sketchup::RegionalSettings.list_separator
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Fixes/Improvements Stability:
Fixed a frequent crash that could occur when inserting components and doing other actions (e.g., renaming a component, deleting entities, changing component properties).
Fixed a frequent crash that could occur when copy/pasting geometry that needs to be merged with hidden geometry.
Fixed a frequent crash that could occur when doing a copy/rotate after having cancelled out of a previous copy/rotate by activating another tool.
Fixed a frequent crash that could occur on some systems with AMD/ATI graphics cards.
Fixed a crash that could occur when opening/working in some models with unfixed validity errors.
Added a fix for a non-reproducible crash that could occur when using the Rectangle tool.
(Mac) Fixed an issue where simultaneous Component Browser searches led to SketchUp crashing.
Tools and Inferencing:
Made updates to Measurements toolbar entries for tools:
A closing bracket is now added automatically when an opening bracket is entered for both square and angle brackets related to point and delta input such as [nn,nn,nn] and (in US locale).
(Win) SketchUp now recognizes both the decimal and list separators that are set within the Windows OS.
Fixed an issue with the Rotated Rectangle tool where entries in the VCB (Measurements toolbar) were not working as expected after the second click.
Fixed an issue in which Dimensions or Text would snap to a sub-component origin instead of the component origin.
Fixed an issue with the Tape Measure tool in which a model would not rescale when measuring two points on a face and entering in a value in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
Fixed an issue with the Tape Measure tool in which you could not infer from a face to create a guideline along another face.
(Win) Fixed an issue with the Tape Measure tool where guides would toggle off when using Ctrl + Z to undo a previous operation.
Miscellaneous:
Fixed an issue where materials on faces could be lost or faces could be flipped after modifying geometry in certain cases.
Fixed an issue where an offset of an ellipse would sometimes offset as a circle.
Fixed an issue where color swapping/pixelation would occur on very small textures.
Improved Checkup’s messaging for graphics cards that report inaccurate memory information.
Improved our ability to get diagnostic data on startup crashes.
Fixed an issue where the letterbox bars were displayed incorrectly when the Advanced Camera Tools’ aspect ratio did not match the current window.
Fixed an issue where Advanced Camera Tools did not correctly export 2D images.
(Mac) Fixed an issue where users on certain iMacs were not able to export to 2D graphic containing transparent backgrounds.
(Mac) Fixed an issue where exporting a 2D graphic with a transparent background would produce jagged edges on certain iMacs. These artifacts could also be seen in LayOut.
LayOut Release Notes:
Fixes/Improvements Stability
Fixed a Raster and Hybrid Rendering crash that would show up during DWG export.
Fixed a crash related to the Text Edit.
(Win) Fixed a crash with DWG export when the file being exported was in use or the user does not have write permission.
(Mac) Fixed a Style Builder crash on quit.
DWG Export
(Win) Fixed an issue where exporting an individual page would export the following page.
Tables
Fixed an issue where inserting certain Excel files would fail, we have expanded the ability to insert a wider range of Excel formatting.
Fixed an issue where the user would not be able to update a table when the external file was lost.
Fixed an issue where Excel formatting was used when the ‘Use Excel Formatting’ was unchecked.
PID’s/Dimensioning
Fixed an issue where entering a new dimension after exiting Edit 3D View would produce a wrong measurement.
Miscellaneous
Fixed an issue where current camera position would be lost when switching to a scene with no camera properties.
Fixed an issue where Classification attributes were not showing up in the Label auto-text dropdown.
(Win) Fixed an issue where the SketchUp model text can appear too big within LayOut.
(Mac) LayOut now uses SketchUp’s mouse scroll direction. An issue has been fixed where the paperspace and modelspace zoom directions were reversed when set to mac’s ‘Natural’ scroll direction.
SketchUp API Release Notes:
Fixes/Improvements General
(Mac) Fixed issue where SKM files lost attribute dictionaries when saved from ‘In Model’ to local library.
Ruby API
Fixed an issue with HtmlDialogs where SketchUp would crash when the dialog was closed before all callbacks were processed.
Fixed an issue where extensions with multiple periods in filenames would not load.
C API
Fixed an issue where BSTRToUTF8() returned unreliable data.
Added SUGetColorOrder() to allow for a platform dependent way to get the indices indicating the ordering of color data within 32-bit bitmap images.
Added SUTextureWriterGetImageRep() to allow for a way to export ImageRep from TextureWritter.
Added SUModelCreateFromBuffer() to allow for the creation of models from the bytes buffer.
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