SketchUp 2022 Review for Architects and Interior Designers - My Honest Opinion...
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2022
- SketchUp 2022 just launched! In this video I review the new features from my perspective, that of a residential designer who uses SketchUp Pro exclusively for every phase of my design process, even construction documents. I am going to show you where to find the new features, demonstrate how to use them, and offer an opinion on how they impact my SketchUp Workflow. If you are an architect or interior designer, this video will cover everything you need to know about SketchUp 2022. Stick around to the end to learn how to use my model organization guides, or MOG's, so you never have to assign a tag or make a nested group again!
00:28 Search SketchUp
01:09 Tag Tool
03:34 Arc Tangent Inference Lock
03:56 Native M1 Support for Macs
04:13 Explode Performance
04:56 Directional Inference Tooltips
05:10 Freehand Tool
06:16 Section Plane Picking Logic
06:48 Camera Clipping Solution
07:45 Lasso Selection
08:47 Standard Views Respect Model Axes
09:34 Tape Measure Tool and Guides
10:04 Scene Search
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Seems the sketchup developers always spend the whole year thinking of the worst possible ways to disappoint and frustrate its loyal users.
I'm sincerely beginning to believe, like you said, SKETCHUP DEVELOPERS DO NOT USE SKETCHUP. And it shows
Last year, with the license change, I heard that sketchup would take a huge leap forward in programming and developing new modeling and optimization tools. Apparently we were deceived once again and they will still insist on optimizing old things and futile repairs!
Here's a line that got edited out of the final cut... Regarding the new Tag Tool and why it's not needed...
It seems to me that over a decade ago the entire professional SketchUp community came to a consensus. we don't assign layers to individual entities. which I suppose this tool would be good for. Instead, it's faster, easier, and more predictable to group all similar entities and apply the tag once. then add new similar entities to the corresponding group, so you don't have to keep applying tags to individual entities.
I've been teaching this method for well over a decade. I don't know any professional interior designer or architect who would benefit from this tool. I thought everyone knew this!? Maybe there's other industries that apply layers to individual entities and could benefit from this.
But isn't the target audience for SketchUp Pro desktop version Architects and Interior Designers?
I agree completely, they really play on costumer loyalty
@@BrightmanDesigns Aptly put👌🏽
We're also left wondering as you are
@Brightman Designs I agree to a certain extent on the positive review about the clipping improvement (me too use the "isolation mode" a lot).
BUT I've found that there's still a lot of cases in which the new improvements don't change the situation that much.
Let's say, for example, thet you have to edit a group/component or any subgroup/subcomponent at a given nesting level in the hyerarchy AND you need to inference/snap the model OUTSIDE that group or subgroup to do the job.. then you are still facing problems as in previous sketchup versions.
I find myself in the situation I described quite often, so for me is an "improvement", but not the ultimate "solution", and I'll still rely on the camera debug window to actully fix the problem when I'm in trouble (altough I feel that the best solution in 99% of case is to fix/avoid the known issues that are causing the problem "from the root").
What do you think about that?
Sketchup could use all those nice free plugins out there like freedo, erenoth, 1001bit, etc and incorporate as a native tool in SU. I said that because if you load a bunch of plugins in your machine it can slow SU and even crash. I hope SU buys these plugins and improves them even more, standardize the icons within the program. Can you imagine being able to extrude multiple non-coplanar faces at the same time? Can you imagine having the native toposhaper in SU? It would be really good! It would make life a lot easier!
I go back and forth on this one. Should SketchUp hoover up a ton of tools and build them in? Or, should they whittle it down to the absolute core and focus on making the platform the best it can be for 3rd party developers. I agree though, it would be nice to not have to sort out all these plugins. If I were running the show I would have an official "SketchUp Architecture", "SketchUp Interiors", and "SketchUp Landscape". Bake in the plugins everyone in that field uses, or sell them as one clean add on. Makes sense to me!
@@BrightmanDesigns actually the need for those plug-ins illustrates the limited modeling abilities in sketchup. The moment u leave modeling a cube you hit a wall with sketchup.
For example a basic fillet or chamfer tool would be good - that is kinda a must have tool found in every application - it boggles my mind how Trimble adds all this fancy stuff when the foundation did not improve over how many years and they charge an arm and a leg
I have to say the layout tool is a good selling point for sketchup and the drawing process is natural but otherwise apps like blender a dramatically better tools actually.
Takes longer to learn yes but can also do more
@@cekuhnen Multiple offset and extrude would be nice too! Primitive shapes and organic modelling like blender and cinema 4d! Would be nice if this program handles a massive geometry like those other programs.
i'm afraid I disagree! SU is good as a general purpose app for all us architects, interior designs, woodworkers, product designers etc. If they build in all these plugins, the main product will become bloated and will be providing a ton of stuff that we don't need. A bit like what Microsoft did to Word many years ago - its now the worst app in the world, with the ability to import movies, change languages, run mail merges, draw, write equations etc etc.. , when all you want to do is write a letter
Hey Mike, thanks for creating the MOG! I've used it daily for the past few months and finally dove into creating my own that better suits my needs. Mainly, I created framing elements that allow me to easily isolate and export framing assemblies for prefabrication. If there were one feature I would like to see added it would be a window to add/subtract elements from the MOG with color coding each element block as a bonus.
Regardless, thanks for all you've done with ConDoc.
Love that idea Mike! I am exploring some ideas with light dynamic component functions... Maybe I should break them out into pieces as well so it's easy to drag and drop to build your own? Glad to hear that you have mastered the system and truly made it your own. Nice work and thanks for your support!
Now that was entertaining Mikey :)
Nice review. I do prefer your approach actually having an opinion on whether or not it’s a useful update.
Thanks Gustav! Brace yourself for the LayOut 2022 review...
Best SU22 review on the web so far
Simone! You made my day... Thank you!
Thanks for the review. The sound effects are overwhelming
As in they bring you overwhelming joy!? Thanks for the feedback!
Nice.
Making dad proud... Thanks!
8:36 I haven’t used it yet because I’m still on 2021 but there are so many times when it’d be useful. I think once you start using it you’ll need it.
Devin! It's been almost 6 months and I still haven't touched it! To each their own... If you dig it, and it makes you faster, have at it!
@@BrightmanDesigns Yeah for sure man, SketchUp has been nagging me to update. Thanks I'm sure I'll use it now that you've told me about all the new features :)
@Brightman Designs I like this vid, which is honest and unfiltered about how sketchup just keep updating yearly yet still look the same . If there's no active community that makes a plugin for Sketchup whether if its free or paid, the program itself is long dead.
Thanks Un Do! Much appreciated... I call it like I see it! Still love SketchUp though! I have mentioned it a few times, if you want new tools just grab extensions! You could have a new feature every day for the rest of your life. I just wish SketchUp would do more work on the engine to improve speed and stability. The new "tools" this year are really not necessary...
Please your link in your layout book isn’t working is there a way i can get the example files(TSWFA) used in the book?
Sorry about that Shimah! Check this page... brightmandesigns.com/tswfa/
Thanks for your support!
Agree, you do wonder if the team actually uses SU/LO in producing document sets... 10+ years to add FIND & REPLACE to LO
Still no LO API access for 3rd Party Developers... how many years since introduced ?
Still no component cabability in LO
Still waiting in limbo for ability to create LIVE Components ,,
I'm with you Gary! If they aren't going to develop meaningful tools, at least open the API and let the 3rd party community take care of feature development. Hard to imagine all these years and there's no block/component behavior in LayOut. That one blows my mind!
Been requesting Find and Replace in Layout for about 6 years (when layout became useful), and it's finally here. Not that I'll get to use it at home - I have the last perpetual license. But I'll use it at work where they are on subscription.
@@BrightmanDesigns I'm with you, too. I'm using VBO Workflow, just a bit difference with Condocs Tool. VBO has some tool for LayOut but must use some trick to open LayOut with menu Extension to run Ruby Console.
I have never knew someone will do the same ctrl+h to hide the rest of the model, is like the most used command for me. If I come up with this without knowing others, Why Trimble hasnt adding as a default comand yet?
I must toggle hide rest of model 1000 times every day. I can't live without it!
i assign it to my `~ key
i guess a lot of new features are for stylus based as they are in beta for sketchup for ipad.
If I'm without a mouse (ie. flying or sitting at a bar) I refuse to work with SketchUp. What takes one minute with a mouse takes ten without. Simply not worth it. The only situation I could imagine more frustrating and time wasting than modeling on a laptop trackpad is modeling on an ipad with a stylus or my fingers. In my opinion tablets are for consuming content, not creating. The SketchUp viewer makes sense, but there's no way I would ever do production work on an ipad... I'm expecting some differing opinions here... Hit me with them! Do you agree?
@@BrightmanDesigns Started at a new office 3 months ago - they are a Mac based office. Retraining my brain from CTRL to Command is still ongoing. I did however get my 3dConexxion Space Mouse to work with a beta driver and it solves a lot of issues.
The one nice feature Mac supports that isn't on Windows is opening several SU docs without opening several different SU.
As for the iPad, the viewer is great! But I have enough troubles with the Mac, production on iPad would be painful.
I'm still using 2020 like a chump for no reason 😅
Sketchup Pro 2022 for Mac is the first version of Sketchup that I have tried to use. It has been insanely frustrating. For one, there does not seem to be any way to set Dimensions Styles to accommodate scale in a plan. A 1" line is supposed to equal 4', but the Dimensions tool will only measure that actual dimension on the plan and not scale it. All of of the videos that I see where people have a Dimensions Style in their style tray are either using an older version, or the Windows version of Sketchup. Apparently, this is just not an option for Mac. Dimensions Style is not even listed in the Help menu.
The Dimension Style dialog is definitely available on the Mac version! You are commenting on the SketchUp video, but referencing a LayOut dialog. Are you sure you are poking around in LayOut, SketchUp's 2d counterpart?
Here's one thing I've never understood. Why he changes the selection highlight color to green? What's the benefit of it?
Just trying to be different!? Many years ago I switched up that selection color on my default DESIGN style. At the time, I was trying to differentiate from the default SketchUp templates when screen grabbing for my book. I think at one point I thought it might help to visually notice if someone is using our template when doing consulting, but that's easy enough to figure out. Probably my first answer is the most accurate...
A few things… as a SU/LO condoc power user one has to question what’s going on with the SU development team. They constantly miss the mark here.
1. The renaming of layers to tags in SU2020 was super dumb. The whole CAD world uses the term layers. Changing layers to tags was epically stupid. I have not forgotten that one.
2. Scene management has been a sore spot for some time. My models have hundreds of condoc generated scenes. The search tool is a step in the right direction but a outline / grouping tool is sorely missing.
3. Section cut management continues to be a disaster. A few simple tools like hide inactive sections when section visibility is on and select orphan sections with the option to delete are sorely needed.
I have more but will end here for the sake of brevity. I am still on SU/LO 2020 and can fly thru it. From what I’ve seen here these new small ball features are not enough to get me to upgrade. They really need to up their game if they hope to retain or even grow their customer base.
Gd day Brightman , I have a question regarding layout , I want to dimension a curve inside layout , how to do that ?
Off the top of my head, you might consider adding center point markers for your curves as lines in SketchUp so you don't have to rely on inferencing in LayOut. The SketchUp center point inferences have gotten much better in recent years.
I HOPE SKETCHUP TEAM SOLVE CRASH PROBLEMS, AT LEAST GIVE A MESSAGE BEFORE IT CRASH SO THAT YOU CAN SAVE YOUR WORK AND RESTART THE PROGRAM AGAIN .
Thank God I moved to blender on time.😁
Useless for precision work though - sketchup is designed for precision and speed. I tried to switch, couldn't make it work.
As great as SU is, this software is dead in the water for professionals without the continued support of 3rd party extensions. Meaningful in-house development has been non-existent for YEARS now. I'm constantly worried that these 3rd part dev's at some point stop updating their tools and we are left with simple "push pull."
Agreed! So many years in a row we get so little. I'm a bit fed up this year because I know they did work, just not in the right place. Disappointing. It would be the final nail in the coffin if they somehow disrupt the extension market...
I don’t think that SU will be replaced anytime soon. There is a large user base and acceptance in the industry. They kinda have a Monopol on it. That’s why Trimble can get away with not really updating the app on areas where it hurts - since years.
It literally looks like they put one software developer on SU project and called it..
It seems like Trimble would be able to get a hell of a lot more done in a year... I've been saying this for years. I think the issue might be that they are spread thin with projects. 3d Warehouse, Extension Warehouse, Ipad version, viewer, free web version, VR, augmented reality... I wish they would focus more on the professional tool that we pay for.
I like the channel, but I could do without some of the sound fx. You don’t need to. What you’re saying is interesting enough.
Holy crap. No scene grouping? Another disappointing release :(
yeps, how come they haven't think about scene group, right after layer's group were introduce i tought they were going to introduce a lot more grouping options, but no. maybe next year
Scene grouping would be a logical addition, although I do everything I can to minimize clicking around in the Scenes dialog. I do like the new scene search. If you prefix your scenes you could accomplish some organization... For instance Plan_, Elev_, Sect_... I do like this new feature!
I know, right? I've always wanted scene folders, where I could drop layered scenes into one tab in the toolbar that would expand if hovered over. That would be enough, but if folders in the Scenes window could be nested and rearranged with drag and drop it would be perfect.
Tags Are not layers ! Tags are collections !
Aaaaaah... Is there a program that calls them "Collections"? I could buy into the tags name if you could assign multiple tags to one entity. Simply not the case! Maybe we can agree that these are definitely not tags!?
@@BrightmanDesigns yes blender actually - also like sketchup it has an outliner too but in.Ike sketchup where tags and outliner are two different things collections and objects are shown in the outliner in blender.
12 months of development and we get these lame features.
Disappointing... Isn't it!? So many years in a row. I'm actually okay with SketchUp being left alone since we have 3rd party developers that can pick up the slack. The lack of development in LayOut is inexcusable! Either prioritize it, or open up the API...
Sketchup the most primitive program. It is not parametric !!! draw yourself a block and make a group and change the parameters :-) 😀 good luck. Rent for 1 year costs as much as buying , this is an advertisement
Yo Totes! You aren't making sense...