#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS UPDATE#
#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DRIVER#
#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE#
#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SERIES#
#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS#

In SketchUp 2016 and earlier versions, the axis colors were slightly muted relative to the inference colors. If you change these settings, you may notice that the axis colors will get brighter to match your selected direction colors exactly. If you have trouble distinguishing red from green or would simply like to customize your SketchUp colors, it is now possible under SketchUp Preferences > Accessibility. It is now possible to customize SketchUp's red, green, blue, magenta, and cyan inference colors. This includes unique IDs for edges, vertices, faces, and more that will be maintained even if the geometry is moved, rotated, or scaled A unique, persistent ID number is now internally assigned to geometry when it is added to a model. This feature is useful to developers and allows us to improve interoperability between LayOut and other products. Persistent IDs for entities have been added to SketchUp 2017. It shows up automatically when you hover over a selected component or group with a drawing tool This inference shows up whether there is geometry on the origin or not and has higher priority over other inferences. Component Origin inference: We added a new “Origin in Component” inference point which now provides the ability to find and snap to a component's origin. Note it is not possible to force this inference using the down arrow key but it can be locked once it appears by holding shift The drawing line and reference surface will be highlighted in magenta and a new “Perpendicular to Face” tooltip will be displayed. Perpendicular to Face inference: We added the ability to hover over any surface and then find an inference for the direction perpendicular to the face. If you chose a surface to lock the tool to at the beginning, this orientation will persist throughout creating your rectangle Rotated Rectangle tool plane locking improvement: The Rotated Rectangle tool now respects a locked plane across all steps for the tool. Additionally, pressing shift can now lock the proportions of a square or golden section Now the Rectangle tool matches the inferencing capabilities of the circle and polygon tools. This includes the ability to lock off-axis planes using the down arrow key. Rectangle tool plane and shape locking: The Rectangle tool now works with arrow keys to lock the plane normal to an axis or surface. The old functionality is still available via a modifier key We've changed the tool to automatically trim these overlaps to create clean boundaries with no overlaps. Improved Offset tool: Previously the Offset tool would create overlapping or self-intersecting geometry. Here's a brief description of what's new:

#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS WINDOWS#

The Extension Manager can be found within the Window menu on both Windows and MacĪs always, we are looking at ways to improve our core modeling tools and inferencing. This is a complete replacement for the extension and extension loading policy areas previously found within the System Preferences dialog. In addition, users can set their extension loading policy through this same dialog.

#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS UPDATE#

Users will be able to install, uninstall, enable, disable and update extensions from this new dialog. The Extension Manager is the new way to manage how extensions interact with SketchUp. In SketchUp 2017, we are now scaling content in the modeling window so that you can better see the masterpieces you are creating! This work includes larger, scaled inference graphics and linework and updates to our inference icons In SketchUp 2016, we scaled the User Interface (toolbars, cursors, etc).

The SketchUp 2017 modeling window is now “DPI aware”. High DPI Support for the Modeling Window:

#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS DRIVER#

If you see this error dialog, try upgrading your graphics card driver - upgrading your driver is a good first troubleshooting step and often solves the error If your machine does not meet these requirements, you will see an error dialog when launching SketchUp, LayOut, Style Builder, and Viewer that lets you know which requirement you did not meet and which will prevent you from running SketchUp until you fix the error. These tests include checks like compilation of SketchUp's GLSL shaders and support for OpenGL framebuffer objects

#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SERIES#

A graphics card that passes a series of tests that are run by SketchUp 2017 to assure that your card is capable of rendering SketchUp models.

#SKETCHUP 2017 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS SOFTWARE#

We will no longer support software rendering A graphics card that supports Hardware Acceleration. A graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.0 or above

This new graphics pipeline has stricter hardware and software requirements than in previous versions of SketchUp. This was a massive change that will allow us to innovate far beyond what we have been able to do in the past With SketchUp 2017, we have completely reworked our graphics pipeline - i.e., the way we display SketchUp models.

Sketchup 2017 system requirements