Going forward, the Extensions menu heading will always be visible, regardless of whether extensions have been installed there or not. If you’re eager to explore this new API, check out extensions such as Artisan, SubD, Bezier Surface, and Skimp. Once you get meshes above 20,000 polygons, the improvement is especially noticeable. We’re pleased to announce an improvement to how efficiently SketchUp’s API generates large meshes. Of course, the bigger the mesh an extension is adding to SketchUp, the longer it will take to generate. Some SketchUp extensions are designed to create or manipulate large amounts of geometry. Performance improvement for big mesh extensions Watch our Skill Builder to see exactly how these tool patterns and modeling behaviors will impact your workflow. Push/Pull and Follow Me operations behave more predictably with these changes, resulting in correctly oriented faces. For example, if a face is drawn over the top of an existing face, the new face will still inherit the orientation of the face that it is drawn on. Now, SketchUp will always orient newly drawn faces with the front side facing up, when drawing on the ground plane, and with the front face ‘facing’ the camera in other cases. ‘Stretching’ a face is roughly equivalent to moving a face perpendicular to its drawing plane, and especially useful at the earliest stages of form development.Īlongside improvements to Push/Pull noted above, we are also making a change to the front-face orientation when modeling in SketchUp. Stretch is a modifier state that has actually existed in SketchUp for years but has never been referenced in the Status Bar or the Push/Pull cursor. In addition to making the Push/Pull Copy modifier a persistent toggle, we are also formalizing Push/Pull’s hidden modifier, Stretch. In SketchUp 2021.1, you’re likely to notice some differences with Push/Pull. You’re now able to pre-lock an inference direction before the first click with the Line, Tape Measure, and Move tools.
In this release, we are starting to apply this pattern to other tools. To get out of a modified tool state, either hit the modifier key again or change tools.Īs you may already know, many SketchUp tools feature the ability to ‘pre-lock’ an inference direction or drawing plane. This means being able to make multiple copies of objects with Move or being able to hide edges with Eraser across view changes using Orbit.
We’re now persisting modifier tool states across multiple operations. With more modifiers behaving as toggles, we think it’s easier to switch the tool state before you complete a given operation. This means fewer press-and-hold modifier interactions for tools and more predictable modeling outcomes.įor any tool, you can identify what modifiers are available in the Status Bar (at the bottom of the screen) and confirm the current modified state of the tool by examining the cursor or on-screen modeling behavior. The most explicit change is that more tool modifiers behave as toggles that can be turned on and off by tapping a key. And, with a modifier, Push/Pull can create new faces when you extrude. For example, SketchUp’s Move tool can also work as a Copy tool. In SketchUp 2021.1, the way that ten core tools work in modifier states is changing. The goal of this latest release is to improve the consistency of how modeling works from tool to tool, increase workflow efficiency, and build on the learnability of SketchUp. We’re happy to announce some more updates in SketchUp Pro.
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