Sketch Up Version 8 - anything we should know?

Hi All

Just installed SU 8 Pro - not yet reinstalled Irender NXT - is there any known problems ?

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by James D. Smith on September 2, 2010 at 12:48pm

We're on the same wave length! See my post 6 seconds before yours- I can't get the renderer going. All files are a mirror of the V7 plug-in folder, and I do have a line in the pull down menu but nothing happens when I click it.

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Permalink Reply by Boothy on September 2, 2010 at 1:07pm

Hi James

I have not installed yet - I have to go out now but will have a look later

Cheers

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 2, 2010 at 2:04pm

we should have a new version for SU 8 in a couple of days. there were some changes in Ruby which will require some changes in our plug-in.

note: users who have not renewed their licenses in the past 12 months will have to upgrade to use Render Plus products with SU 8.

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Permalink Reply by Boothy on September 2, 2010 at 2:16pm

Hi al

Cannot even get toolbar to load on 64 bit win 7 machine - most other plugins (not renderplus) have loaded OK but have not yet tested.

Boothy

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Permalink Reply by Dave P on September 4, 2010 at 12:18pm

I have installed Sketchup 8. I have used RP tools for years on previous versions of Sketchup. I uninstalled RP tools and reloaded into SU 8. Also downloaded the latest version of RP tools and reloaded. In Sketchup8 I get the "RPtools:load" flyout opening under plugins but it doesn't load the toolbar.
Is there anything I'm doing wrong? The RP tools rotate tool is one of my most important tools and I need it back soon.

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Permalink Reply by Ritchie Marcelino on September 13, 2010 at 7:05pm

I have the same problem as above. Not able to use current RP on SU8. Has this been addressed already?

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 13, 2010 at 10:25pm

Have you tried the latest IRender nXt beta (JI10), or RpTools (JI07) from:

http://www.renderplus.com/php/download_links.php

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Permalink Reply by Ritchie Marcelino on September 13, 2010 at 11:03pm

Thanks Al, just downloaded the beta and installed. Works great.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 13, 2010 at 11:21pm

Great news!

Hopefully we will get a stable version out tomorrow or Wednesday which works with SU 8 so people wil have an easier time.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 15, 2010 at 4:17pm

We just uploaded a new Beta version, JI15, which does a better job of docking the toolbar, if the Beta version is selected to load when SketchUp starts.

It also contains a fix for the icons on the Material dialogs.

http://www.renderplus.com/php/download_links.php

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Permalink Reply by Richcat on September 15, 2010 at 5:01pm

Rich just down loaded JI15 Beta, and when I opened sketchup, it always opens as the stable release I already have, it will not let me get to Beta, even when I changed loading to not load in support it just defaults to open tool stable release on re start. I get following file error, may its because I'm still using GSU 7.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on September 15, 2010 at 8:53pm

Until we have a chance to check this out, you can rename the folder "Program Files\Render Plus\IRender_nxt" to something like: "Program Files\Render Plus\IRender_nxt_hold", then it will not be able to open it.