This new arc tool lets you define an arc bulge via the arc’s end point.

Who said SketchUp only does boxes? With the addition of a 3 Point Arc tool, there are now four different ways to draw arc’d edges in SketchUp. Give it a try: we bet it’ll make you feel like you’re using SketchUp for the very first time again. SketchUp 2015’s official Rotated Rectangle tool lets you draw off-axis rectangles at any angle (and not necessarily on the ground). The folks who used this tool found it extremely handy, so we decided to build it into SketchUp with some significant enhancements. This extension allows you to draw non-90 degree rectangles on the ground. When we tested this sharpened code on large models, we found big performance improvements in operations like Explode and Intersect.įor a few years now, we hosted a wildly useful, but not wildly popular Rotated Rectangle extension. Think for a second about how often that happens. Face Finder is the code that runs whenever SketchUp automatically creates a face from coplanar edges. We’ve mined and optimized the code for Face Finder, one of the core under-the-hood operations that make SketchUp’s magic possible. Note that we have dropped support for Windows Vista, XP and OSX 10.7 Lion with this release. On the Mac, given that all of our supported operating systems are 64-bit, SketchUp 2015 is available only in 64-bit. If you don’t have a 64-bit Windows machine, we’re still offering a 32-bit version for Windows machines. Check out this article for more details including things you need to know about installing 64-bit SketchUp.

Theoretically, the 64-bit version of SketchUp should have a better working relationship with your 64-bit computer. What exactly does this mean? The least nerdy way to explain it is that 64-bit allows for more bandwidth between SketchUp and your computer’s active memory. We’ve updated the SketchUp engine to run as a 64-bit application on both PC and Mac operating systems.

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