SketchUp Make 17.0.18899 64-Bit

- Major improvements to graphics pipeline, allowing for performance improvements everywhere you see a .SKP.
- Now, SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, LayOut, my.SketchUp, and Trimble Connect all render models using the same under-the-hood algorithms—all tuned for buttery 3D orbiting.

# Fixes/Improvements:
* Stability
- Fixed a crash when saving a model after importing a .dwg file that had a component definition name the same as one already in the model.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when auto-folding certain geometry and using an arrow key to lock direction.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a new file or switching documents while in the middle of some operations (including importing a 2d image, viewing an image igloo, or using the Dimensions/Text tool).
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that occurred by deleting an in model component’s definition name or description via the Components browser dialog.
* Tools & Inferencing
- Fixed an issue where SketchUp was incorrectly parsing negative lengths for specific formats such as feet and inches (e.g. -2’ 8”) and fractional (e.g. -15 1/2”) when entered in the VCB (Measurements toolbar) or the Ruby Console.
- Removed Shift + Press Alt (Win) and Shift + Press Command (Mac) functionality from Rotate and Protractor tools which freed the center of the protractor. Shift + Alt functionality clashes with the Windows shortcut default setting that changes keyboard language on Windows if multiple languages are installed. The down arrow key provides the same functionality.
- Fixed an issue with the Protractor and Rotate tools in which the protractor jumped to the corner of the screen when making multiple slope entries in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
- Updated the Section Plane tool so it is colored based on the axis it is normal to when being placed (for consistency with other tools). Also, added a tooltip to indicate “Unlocked plane” or “Locked plane”.
- Added ability to Circle/Polygon tools to use Shift to lock through different point inferences (including endpoints, midpoints, arc centers, and guide points).
- Fixed an issue with Arc, Pie, Circle, and Polygon tools in which the tool could remain locked to a plane after releasing Shift with the down arrow key active.
- Fixed some cosmetic issues with several tools in which the drawing line could be incorrectly colored when locked with the down arrow key.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with surface based tools in which the tool cursor could be incorrectly colored when locking with an arrow key and parallel to an axis plane.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with several surface based tools in which the tool highlighted in magenta when pressing Shift to lock normal to an axis.
- (Win) Fixed an issue in which Entity Info accepted arc/pie/circle/polygon segments that were out of range as specified by an error message.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which you couldn’t update two consecutive arcs/pies/circles/polygons with the same number of segments in Entity Info.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue where arc/pie/circle/polygon segments temporarily updated to 0 or last valid entry in Entity Info when an invalid entry was made.
* Customizeable Utility Trays on Windows
- Fixed an issue where the drawing window took focus away from extension dialogs. This impacted our shipped extensions (e.g. Component Options, Photo Textures) and some external extensions (including Brighter3D and SU Podium). In some cases extension dialogs appeared to disappear but were located behind the SketchUp window.
- Made a change so that the visibility of an auto-hide tray does not toggle by way of the Window menu or a shortcut as toggling this way caused the tray to immediately retract. The visibility of an auto-hide tray is only managed with the tray tab (hover over tab to display tray).
- Fixed an issue in which renaming an entity in Entity Info didn’t save correctly when subsequently clicking in Outliner.
- Fixed an issue where the selection highlighting was visible when softening edges. The highlight now returns once the cursor moves out of the Soften Edges dialog.
- Fixed an issue in which some drop down and sliders no longer scrolled using the mouse wheel when they had focus.
* Localization
- Fixed an issue where the "Use Image As" text was not translated for our localized builds.
- Fixed missing carousel arrows on our Spanish version of the Learn tab.
- Fixed several German translation issues on our About dialog.
- Fixed the German translation of ‘Knowledge Center’.
- Various other translation quality fixes.
* General fixes
- Fixed an issue where Ruby extensions fail to load / gave errors on launch if you have certain non-English characters in your Ruby path (which can occur if your Windows user name has certain non-English characters). If you’re still seeing an error with the Trimble Connect extension, please update that extension in the Extension Warehouse.
- Fixed our Updater Service so that the user is notified at a more appropriate frequency.
- Fixed issue where cameras were not being exported in the Collada exporter.
- Fixed an issue where temp files were not removed when exporting a 3D model.
- Fixed an issue where the text "This is a very long string. How long do we want?" could show up in the status bar on launch under rare circumstances.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where uninstalling SketchUp disabled the ability to set Internet Explorer as your default browser, and may have disabled other programs’ defaults similarly.
- (Win) Addressed several issues surrounding invalid file locations in Preferences.
- Fixed an issue where you could see a CFileException 3 error if the “Models” file location was invalid and auto-save kicked off. A new, more descriptive error message is now displayed.
- Fixed an issue in which you could see multiple CFileException 3 error messages within the same session even after updating the “Models” location to a valid path.
- Added a new error message upon startup if any of the File locations in Preferences > Files are invalid.
- Invalid file locations are now displayed in red in Preferences > Files and a tooltip is displayed indicating an invalid path.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the slider labels in the Choose Colors dialog could be incorrect after switching between picker types.
- (Win) Increased upload timeout of models to the 3D Warehouse.
- (Win) Replaced our expired signing certificate, then changed our digital signatures and timestamps to use SHA2/256, in accordance with Microsoft’s SHA1 deprecation announcement.
- (Win) Fixed an installer issue where the user would receive "An error occurred in PreBootstrapper. [could not create sketchup_install]" if an empty sketchup_install folder existed.
- (Mac - El Capitan) Fixed an issue where Toolbars containing dropdown arrows got misaligned when accessing the Customize Toolbar dialog.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which a component could no longer be replaced if it had the same name as another component.
- (Mac) Fixed the ‘SketchUp License Agreement’ link on the About SketchUp dialog.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue in which BugSplat technical support responses were not being displayed.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue where adding 3D Text created an “unreferenced fonts” validity error.
# LayOut and Style Builder Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- (Mac) Inserted pdfs will no longer be influenced by the image compression setting while exporting a document to pdf. Thus, your inserted pdf images will remain sharp even if you use heavy compression when exporting to pdf.
- We made changes to prevent drawing pattern fills for single-segmented lines. This may prevent some memory related crashes.
- (Win) The object snap button wasn’t toggling correctly. Often, pressing the object snap button would turn object snapping on or off but the icon artwork wouldn’t change to the correct state. We fixed this so that the icon artwork will always reflect the object snapping state.
- We added check marks in the Move to Layer context menu next to any layers that the selection set currently has entities on.
- (Win) We fixed an issue that would cause save to fail (and pop a dialog exclaiming as much) if the save event came immediately after a previous save.
- (Win) We fixed a crash that occurred while attempting to close LayOut immediately after starting (before the getting started dialog was visible).
- Fixed an issue where LayOut was incorrectly parsing negative lengths for specific formats such as feet and inches (e.g. -2’ 8”) and fractional (e.g. -15 1/2”) when entered in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
# SketchUp API Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- (Mac) Fixed issue where custom image importers were not being honored.
- Fixed issue where Sketchup.require/load fails to indicate a load failure.
- Fixed issue where load_on_start was not being honored on extensions that were manually placed within the Plugins folder.
- Fixed issue where extensions fail to load / gave errors on launch if you have certain non-English characters in your Ruby path (which can occur if your Windows user name has certain non-English characters). If you’re still seeing an error with the Trimble Connect extension, please update that extension in the Extension Warehouse.
- Fixed issue where the Trimble Connect Extension fails to load due to an invalid byte sequence error. Users will need to update to SketchUp 2016 M1 and update the Trimble Connect Extension to version 1.1.1 (via the Extension Warehouse) to see this change.
- (Win) Fixed issue where the unchecking an Extension within the Extension dialog caused the list to scroll back to the top of the list.
- Fixed issue where unchecking an Extension within the Extensions dialog did not change the appearance of the checkbox.
- (Win) UI.preferences_pages() will now include "Extensions Policy"
- (Win) UI.show_preferences("Extensions Policy") will now open the correct property page.
- Fixed issue where the Extension Status dialog incorrectly stated a user was under the "Identified Extensions Only" policy.
- Updated dialog content for extensions that were installed but not loaded. The dialog now clearly states that the user must load the extension in order to use it.
- Fixed issue where an extra dialog appeared on startup when loading an uncertified extension that was previously certified.
- (Mac) Fixed issue where exporter progress dialog had the incorrect title of 'Import progress.
- Fixed issue where the language handler treated all double slashes (//) as comments.
- (Mac) Fixed issue where the 'Uncertified Extension detected' dialog did not appear when installing an extension through the Preferences dialog.
- Prevent the unsigned extension dialog from appearing unless the number of unsigned and loaded extensions has changed.
- On startup, only extensions.rb, langhandler.rb and sketchup.rb will be loaded from the Tools directory.
- On startup, users will be prompted if any of the following files have been modified since being digitally signed: extensions.rb, langhandler.rb and sketchup.rb.
- Modified the Ruby file loading priority to be .rbe, .rbs then .rb.
- (Win) Fixed issue where third party DLLs in Windows system folders could override the Ruby standard library DLLs.
- Fixed issue where extensions installed in the Plugins directory were not respecting the load_on_start value.
- Added Sketchup::RegionalSettings.decimal_separator
- Added Sketchup::RegionalSettings.list_separator

# Stability
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing an image into a model that had a corrupt image (0x0 size).
- Fixed a crash that could occur when auto-folding certain geometry.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when copy/pasting geometry or closing models. This crash is caused by component instances that have bad definitions. We added a validity check to catch and repair this condition, so if you are crashing, especially on copy/paste, please go to Model Info > Statistics > Fix Problems to see if SketchUp finds and fixes an issue related to component instances.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when downloading a model from the 3D Warehouse by clicking on buttons rapidly.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when moving geometry and toggling auto-fold.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing arc segments in Entity Info. Added a new message to indicate if the number of segments is too large for a given angle and radius when changing arc segments in Entity Info.
- Fixed a specific case in which a file could not be saved or fixed with a validity check related to a bad component. This led to a crash when closing the file.
- Added a validity check to detect and fix components that have duplicate definition names (which can cause bugs/crashes when doing other things in SketchUp).
- Many “under the hood” changes to resolve warnings and improve product stability.
- (Win) Fixed a crash that could occur when closing out the Soften Edges dialog using certain key strokes.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that could occur when closing a file in SketchUp Viewer.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that could occur when undoing the pasting of certain components.
- (Mac) Fixed a crash that could occur when opening and closing multiple large models.
- (Mac) Fixed a hang that occur when closing the “Warning - Scenes and Styles” dialog.
# Performance
- Improved the performance of Stamp and Drape and other operations where geometry is intersected.
- Improved the performance of erasing entities within groups in large models.
- Improved the performance of undoing changes to geometry.
# Trimble Connect
- Located underneath the File menu on both Windows and Mac.
- Requires use of a Google account to access Trimble Connect (either a Gmail account or an email associated with Google will work).
# Generate Report 2.0 (New!)
- The Metric system is now supported.
- The ability to choose and order the report columns has been added.
- One or more reports can now be saved with a model as a template for future use. Templates can also be duplicated and edited as needed.
- The ability to filter based on component levels has been added.
# 3D Warehouse
- Made the following UI changes:
* Added a Window > 3D Warehouse menu item.
* Renamed the *Get Models* button to *3D Warehouse”.
* Added a new “3D Warehouse” component context sub-menu.
* Moved the “Share Component” menu item to be under the new “3D Warehouse” component context sub-menu.
- Fixed an issue where Unicode characters were not always maintained/404 errors were issued when downloading models with Unicode definition names/file names from 3D Warehouse.
- Fixed an issue where an uploaded model could get out of sync with the model saved to disk - we now require that a model be saved before uploading.
- Made the following set of changes to retain a component’s definition name and original filename when uploading and downloading models from 3D Warehouse and when importing and exporting components locally:
* When downloading components from 3D Warehouse, SketchUp now retains the component’s original definition name and description (if defined) vs using the model’s 3D Warehouse title and description.
* Changed SketchUp to remember the definition name of components on import vs overwriting the definition name with the component’s filename.
* Added a Name field to Model Info > File to allow a user to directly specify the model’s name which will become the component’s definition name if that model is inserted as a component from 3D Warehouse or directly imported as a component.
* When using the context Save As menu to save a component, SketchUp suggests the component’s original filename (if known) vs suggesting the component’s definition name.
- Added the ability to upload the current model via the Upload Model command that is visible within the 3D Warehouse dialog (Window > 3D Warehouse > User menu).
- (Win) SketchUp now returns to your last visited 3D Warehouse location during your current SketchUp session vs redirecting to the home page each time you call up the 3D Warehouse dialog.
- (Mac) Fixed an issue where a suffix could be appended to the definition name of downloaded components.
# Tools
- Fixed an issue with the 2 Point Arc tool in which an arc endpoint could be misplaced when drawing in small dimensions. An excess line was created.
- Fixed an issue where the edges were not removed when creating a fillet if the arc endpoint ended on another endpoint.
- Fixed an issue where Arc and Pie detent radius tooltips were only displayed when parallel to an axis.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Arc and Pie tool drawing lines were hard-coded black and not using colors style-specific colors.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue in which the Rotated Rectangle, Arc, and Pie cursors were not updating based on clicks or typing values in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
- Fixed an issue where the Rotated Rectangle protractor was not displayed with dotted lines when on a back edge.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the Rotated Rectangle tool where a line could remain while locking to an axis using the arrow keys.
- Fixed an issue in which an edge could not be directly extended when the edge was too close to an axis line. With this fix, the more you zoom in, the smaller this snapping tolerance becomes allowing you to extend an edge easier and eliminate undesired snapping of edges to axes during tracing.
- Fixed a crash with the Rotate tool when using Ctrl/Option in between typing in values in the VCB (Measurements toolbar).
- Updated status bar for Paint Bucket to identify modifier keys for sampling materials.
- Changed the hotspot for the Eraser tool to be smaller.
- Fixed an issue where, when performing two offsets with manually selected items, the first offset could be undone.
- Added new modifier keys to lock just protractor orientation for Rotate and Protractor tools.
- Fixed an issue where pressing Shift would release a constraint that was locked using an arrow key.
- Fixed an issue where an invalid input in the VCB (Measurements toolbar) broke the copy mode.
# Inferencing
- Improved consistency across drawing tools with using shift to lock through different point inferences (including endpoints, midpoints, arc centers, and guide points). This functionality is new to several tools.
- Added inferencing when using the rotation handles within the Move tool.
- Fixed an issue in which inference points could not always be found with the Move tool for points that were off of the gluing surface for glued groups or components. Expanded the list of inference types that can be found for this case.
- Fixed an issue in which an incorrect parallel inference was found after undoing a rotation or move.
- Fixed an issue in which an incorrect parallel inference was found after rotating an edge that was in a group or component.
- Fixed an issue in which an incorrect parallel/perpendicular inference was found when editing a group or component and inferencing an edge of a rotated group or component.
- Fixed an issue where Arc and Pie could show a parallel inference for a non-parallel edge.
- Fixed an issue where the Circle and Polygon tools showed axis inferences when it wasn’t possible.
- Fixed an issue in which a perpendicular inference couldn’t be found for Circle, Polygon, Rotate, and Protractor if the reference edge wasn’t parallel to the xy plane.
- Updated protractor-based tools (e.g. Arc, Pie) and Circle/Polygon to ensure consistency with using shift to lock to a plane before first click instead of just locking orientation in some cases.
- Fixed an issue in which Arc and Pie did not draw in the correct plane when using shift before first click.
- Fixed an issue where the Rotated Rectangle tool was not showing Intersection, Guide Point, and On Face inferences.
- Fixed an issue where the Arc and Pie tools were not showing Intersection inferences after first click.
- Improved inferencing with Protractor tool while outside of a component/group.
- Fixed an issue where the Center of a Circle could not be found when the Circle was contained within a Group.
- Added arc segment “Midpoint” inferences and updated the actual arc midpoint to “Arc Midpoint”.
- Fixed an issue where midpoints on Polygon segments could not be found if Polygon was split by an edge.
- Fixed an issue where the Rotated Rectangle, Arc, and Pie tools were not always showing From Point inferencing along an axis.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue where the Tape Measure, Rotate, and Protractor lines did not turn magenta when parallel/perpendicular to an edge.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue where a magenta, dotted line was not drawn between the first and third points of a 3 Point Arc when parallel/perpendicular to an edge.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue where the Circle and Polygon radii were not turning bold when locked to an inference using shift.
- Fixed a cosmetic issue with the 2 Point and 3 Point Arc tools where the drawing line could change appearance when locked using shift.
# Support for High DPI Graphics
- User may see graphics on certain Ruby Extensions that look small or low resolution, as the author for the extension may not have updated their graphics (Vector based graphics) to support High DPI yet.
- (Win) When changing the screen resolution or scale% with multiple monitors, the monitor that is your ‘Main Display’ will be the one that controls how SketchUp will look when opened.
- (Win) We support an unlimited number of screen resolutions, however, we currently only support a scale percentage change of up to 150%. Screen scale percentages set above 150% can result in unreadable menu items.
# Operating systems: El Capitan & Win 10
- (Win) Fixed the issue where the user would lose the scroll bars on the Welcome Dialog, Templates tab, when the middle mouse wheel was used.
# File Open / Save
- (Win) Improved the look of the File > Open and File > Save dialogs.
- (Win) Fixed the "File currently locked by another user" message that was seen when opening a file via double click when the Preview Pane in Windows Explorer was open.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where you could see a CFileException 5 error when saving a model multiple times in a row without waiting long between saves.
# Miscellaneous
- We removed the EULA license agreement from the installer. It is now displayed and must be agreed to at first launch by each unique user.
- Changed SketchUp to display the major version number in the title bar.
- Created new templates featuring Lisanne, one of our cheerful Customer Support representatives.
- Fixed an issue where exploding components sometimes unsoftened softened edges.
- Fixed an issue where hiding dialogs/minimizing SU smoothed/unsmoothed selected geometry.
- Changed the Create Component dialog to remember what was last checked in the "replace selection with component" check box.
- Fixed an issue where panning did not work in models with only construction points (e.g. point cloud models).
- Fixed an issue where a blank component definition name could be added in the Create Component dialog.
- Changed the section slice DWG exporter to export the model units (vs always exporting inches).
- Renamed the Geo-location functionality in SketchUp to be more generic including:
* renaming the location layers to “Location Terrain” and “Location Snapshot”.
* renaming the “Google” toolbar to “Location”
* removing the “Preview in Google Earth” button. Note: models can still be previewed in Google Earth by exporting them to the kmz format.
- Added the ability to extend expiring (single-user) Enterprise licenses without a user needing to re-license SU.
- Improved parsing of classification schema.
- Added classification information to Model Info > Statistics.
- Fixed an issue where the Aspect Ratio value chosen for animation exports was not saved between sessions.
- Fixed a number of translation and truncation errors in our localized builds.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the Model Info dialog was not appropriately disabled (including the menu item) while editing a Match Photo.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the slider text on the Shadows dialog and toolbar did not always respect the current Window’s desktop theme.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the length snapping field in Model Info > Units updated to zero when changing precision.
- (Win) Changed the default size of the Viewer application window to be larger.
- (Win) Fixed an issue where the Add License button was unreachable at certain screen resolutions.

# General Fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the Dynamic Components and Classified badges were not always visible for online models in the Components browser.
- Fixed an issue where the Component browser was showing an older model version than when downloading the component in a browser.
- Fixed an issue where a Rotated Rectangle would incorrectly rotate when entering a length/width without an angle.
- Changed the SketchUp Pro title bar to show trial days remaining when in a trial.
- Windows: fixed an issue where thumbnails of SketchUp models were not visible in Windows Explorer on some machines.
- Windows: fixed an issue where links on the Learn tab of the Welcome dialog wouldn’t open in a user’s default browser.
- Mac: fixed an issue on Yosemite where month abbreviations did not fit in the Shadows dialog.
- Mac: fixed an issue where Ruby tool icons could turn into an icon of a green zombie when the Ruby extension was removed or disabled.
- Localization: various fixes for incorrect translations and truncated translations.
# Stability Improvements:
- Fixed a crash with the Push/Pull tool when using the VCB after pushing a face up twice, selecting undo, and then selecting the face.
- Fixed a crash with the Push/Pull tool in a particular case when double clicking to repeat an operation and using the VCB.
- Fixed a crash with the Offset tool when using the VCB after offsetting certain faces.
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the Move tool when toggling on auto-fold during a copy.
- Fixed a crash when exporting certain models with text to an animation.
- Fixed a crash when exporting certain models with different style changes between scenes to an animation.
- Fixed a crash when drawing lines connecting vertices in extremely large geometry.
- Mac: fixed a crash when using Outliner to drag a component into another component which has subcomponents and is not yet expanded.
- Mac: fixed a crash when switching to another application during an animation export.
- Windows: fixed a crash that could occur on some machines when using Windows Explorer to view SketchUp models.
- Windows: fixed a crash that could occur in certain complex models when exporting to .3ds, .obj, .xsi, or vrml file types.
- Windows: fixed a crash when inserting certain components, undoing the insert, and pressing Escape while trying to drag/drop the component again.
# Exporter and Importer Improvements:
- IFC: added the ability to export transparent materials.
- IFC: added the ability to export geometry that was classified as IfcSite, IfcBuilding, or IfcBuildingStorey.
* LayOut Release Notes
# General Fixes:
- Fixed a bug on Windows related to particular fonts of symbol character sets (as opposed to ANSI) not properly rendering. We updated a text library to add support for symbol character sets, e.g., Flux Architect.
- Fixed a bug with exploding labels and dimensions, where auto-text wouldn't work anymore after undoing the explode.
- We put in a fix that changes the horizontal constrainment behavior of the label leader. The label tool will now constrain the second leader line to horizontal. Previously, the user needed to hold Shift to constrain to horizontal.
- Fixed a dwg export issue that would cause some templates to export with a landscape orientation when portrait was expected and vice versa.
- Fixed a bug where window restoration would interfere with LayOut's ability to show the recovered files at launch after a crash.
- Fixed a Yosemite bug where LO's font panel accessory view wouldn't be correctly initialized when the font panel was restored (if previously open when LO quit).
- Fixed a bad German translation for the text that appears in the delete layers dialog.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the version number from showing in the About dialog for some localized versions of Style Builder.

# SketchUp Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- Fixed a crash that occurred at program startup on some computers.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while exporting certain complex models.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the number of segments in a circle or polygon.
- Fixed an issue that caused SketchUp Make to launch with a “SketchUp Pro is expired” dialog on some computers.
- Fixed an issue where escaping from the Classifier tool resulted in no tool being active.
- Added all currently supported IFC export Types to the IFC exporter Options dialog.
- Fixed an issue where certain labels on the Welcome dialog could temporarily be blank after entering a license.
- Mac: fixed an issue where SketchUp could lag when switching from a document that has lots of scenes to a different document with few or no scenes.
# LayOut Release Notes
* Fixes/Improvements:
- Windows: fixed an issue where the gray text could go missing in the label attribute picker.
- Fixed the issue that was causing the left align button icon to include the tool text when dragged to a toolbar (customizing toolbars).
- Windows: fixed a rare crash in LayOut that would occur during the close process.
- Fixed a rare crash due to a problem within the text inspector when LayOut launches.

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# General
* Fixed a crash that could occur when loading models with invalid match photo images.
* Fixed a crash that could occur when opening models containing images with certain Exif data on them.
* Fixed an issue where certain models with large textures and nicer transparency could become unusable after toggling x-ray mode off and on.
* Fixed an issue where SketchUp could appear to hang after switching between a scene with no transparency and one with nicer transparency.
* Fixed the Layers toolbar to perform a case-insensitive sort when sorting layers.
* Fixed an issue where 64-bit 4 x 16-bit RGBA alpha images displayed opaque.
* Fixed an issue where artifacts could be seen when holding down the left mouse button and moving the mouse rapidly with the Select tool active.
* Fixed an issue where drag selection did not always work properly after doing a triple-click select.
* Changed the units display of areas and volumes to now follow ISO conventions - e.g., we now display 100 mm2 vs 100 Millimeters2
* Added better error reporting when entering the wrong type of license to SketchUp.
* Changed the Text tool to report the xyz coordinate location when adding text to construction points.
* Windows: fixed a common crash that could occur when opening certain models with large images on XP.
* Windows: fixed an issue where thumbnail images in the Component Options dialog did not display for standard, non-admin users.
* Windows: fixed an issue where cancelling from saving a file with the "File > Save As" menu resulted in a failure to prompt you to save unfinished work.
* Windows: fixed an issue where material (*.skm) files saved on Windows would not display material thumbnails on the Mac.
* Mac: fixed an issue where in model materials were not visible until opening or creating a model.
* Mac: fixed an issue where the Layers toolbar did not change the current layer.
* Mac: fixed Photo Textures to accurately grab textures on Retina displays.
# User Interface
* Added, to the Getting Started toolbar, new drop down toolbars that group together tool sets.
* Changed the Draw menu to group certain tool sets together.
* Changed the Large Tool Set on the PC to be fixed at 2 columns and to dock vertically.
* Fixed a bug where the status bar was not showing text when hovering over a menu or toolbar.
* Changed the "Zoom Extents" context menu to "Zoom to Selected" to more accurately describe what it does.
* Mac: fixed a Mavericks-specific bug where snappy dialogs don't stay together when they are collapsed/expanded.
* Mac: fixed an issue where SketchUp would not remember that Ruby toolbars were opened.
* Mac: fixed a case where a snappy dialog stack containing the Styles dialog could break apart when being expanded/collapsed.
* Mac: added a warning message when deleting a scene via the scene context menu.
* Windows: increased the size of the face style buttons in the Styles browser.
# Exporters and Importers
* updated the DWG libraries to support AutoCAD 2013.
* Fixed an issue with the DWG importer where some arcs could import inverted/displaced.
* Fixed an issue where some *.kmz files failed to import into SketchUp.
* Mac: DWG import now imports solid, region and body entities!
* Mac: fixed animation export to work when specifying a custom frame size.
* Windows: fixed EPS export to work and no longer create blank files.
* Windows: fixed mp4 animation export to no longer drop frames right before the video pauses on each scene.
* Windows: fixed an issue where you saw an "Unable to create video file" error when exporting animations to the mp4 format with certain custom settings.
# Shadows
* Hidden geometry made visible via View > Hidden geometry used to incorrectly cast a shadow. With SU 2014, it no longer casts shadows.
* Fixed an issue where, if the "enable transparency" setting is turned off, SketchUp would ignore that setting and still treat faces as transparent for shadow casting, resulting in shadows not being cast that should have been.
* Fixed an issue where face me components with transparent materials that should not cast shadows (opacity < 70), previously cast shadows.
* Fixed an issue where edge shadows were incorrectly cast when a section plane lies right on a face.
* Fixed an issue where, in models with faces that are slightly non-planar, stringy shadows could be seen.
# Ruby API
* upgraded the Ruby API runtime to Ruby 2.0 with full Standard Library, giving Developers a better platform for creating new SketchUp tools and one that offers improved support for non-English characters, section planes, text and dimensions and more.
# LayOut Issues fixed:
* On Macs, templates, scrapbooks, and pattern fills would disappear if you had moved LayOut.app from it's default install location to somewhere else on your hard drive.
* When a scene was aligned to a section plane, dimension measurements were incorrect. Views aligned to a section plane will now have paper space dimensions, just like standard top/front/right/etc. views did previously.
* LO used to crash on close if the user didn't have write-access for their PLO or xml files. LO will now display an error dialog if it fails to write the PLO file, and will no longer crash.
* The ending arrowhead of a polygon was drawing in the wrong location (usually in the center of the polygon).
* The use of maximum texture size and hardware acceleration SketchUp was not reflected in LayOut. Now, all OpenGL settings from SU are reflected in LayOut. The use of hardware acceleration is carried over into LayOut. Also, high resolution images and textures brought into LayOut will be the same size as they were in SketchUp.
* Pattern Fills inside groups were not appearing in the "In-Document Patterns" list.
* Trying to save a corrupt file would also corrupt the autosaved file. We now detect the case where an auto-save is available (and newer than the saved document), and allow the user to revert to the auto-saved version.
* Chinese and Japanese Input method editor (IME): there was some focus confusion between the IME and the in edit text cell. This was causing the IME to fail to update the the edit cell.
* The IME window position and font size was not correctly updating if the user had zoomed or scrolled during a text edit.
* Scaling about center using the the alt modifier on a SketchUp model was not respecting the "Preserve Scale on Resize" option.
* Picking through styles, we found that a SketchUp model would sometimes not update to the style selected. This despite the expected style being highlighted in the Styles tab.
* On Macs, the Ungroup button was not working if added from the Customize Toolbar dialog.
* Radians would sometimes show if angle degrees had been selected in the Dimensions inspector (and vice versa).
* LayOut pointer icons were inverted on 64-bit machines running Windows XP. This fix will require the user to add a special key to the SketchUp Preferences registry.
* Undoing a layer deletion (with all of the entities on that layer) would put the layer back, but not it's deleted entities.
* Line break logic for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages was not right for line closing and line beginning punctuation marks during a text edit.
* Sometimes rendering a SketchUp model in Vector or Hybrid would show lines that shouldn't be there (and wouldn't be there in a Raster rendering).
* Right-clicking on blank space would clear the selection set. We improved this by showing the blank-space-context-menu while maintaining the selection set.
* If a save fails we now offer to restore the auto-saved version or revert.
* On Windows, you couldn't change text font as you were creating the text. In order to change the font, you had to first create the text then select the text and change the font. This occurred with the Text and Label tools.
* There was an extraneous space between the document scroll bars and the inspector tray and status bar when LayOut was ran on a Windows machine with display scaling greater than 100 percent.
* Inspectors were not expanding and collapsing properly on OS X

# The following issues have been fixed:
* Graphics card-related crash when updating scenes which use a standard view (e.g., Top, Front) on some machines.
* Mac: crash when exporting a model with dimensions or text to 2d DWG.
* Mac: VCB does not work if you give it focus. Previously, when clicking in or tabbing to the VCB on the Mac and typing data, the VCB didn't behave as expected.
* Mac: machines with a 10.8 operating system show instructor content that is Windows-specific.
* Windows: crash when selecting the "File" menu item on a small subset of machines. Previously, on some machines, selecting the File menu item crashed SketchUp. This crash was caused by the fact that we used to load all exporters and importers when the File menu item was selected and, on some machines, loading the FBX exporter caused SketchUp to crash. Now, we only load exporters and importers when exporting or importing files. This should lessen the likelihood of experiencing the crash - i.e., the crash should occur now only when selecting File > Export > 2d graphic and File > Export > 3d graphic vs when selecting the File menu item. We are still working on fixing the FBX crash itself. The workaround to this crash is as follows:
- Open Windows Explorer
- Navigate to the C:Program Files (x86)SketchUpSketchUp 2013Exporters directory (or wherever you have installed SketchUp)
- Rename the file 'Skp2Fbx.dll' to some other name - e.g., Skp2Fbx.bak
- Launch SketchUp again - the crash should no longer occur
* Windows: SketchUp loses floating toolbar visibility state when closing from a minimized state. Previously, floating Ruby toolbars would no longer be visible when re-launching SketchUp if SketchUp were closed from a minimized state via the Windows taskbar.
* SketchUp quits extracting at first failure when extracting files from *.rbz zip files. Previously, when extracting *.rbz files, SketchUp would quit on first failure. Now, SketchUp continues to extract files if it encounters failures.
* Clicking on the "Name" column header in the Layers dialog doesn't sort layers as expected.
* Model Info > Geolocation Dialog does not always refresh after adding a location. Previously, after adding a location, the Model Info > Geolocation dialog did not always reflect that a location had been added.
* Crash when clicking on a material or style on some Unicode configurations. SketchUp previously crashed when clicking on a material or style when it was run using a username containing Japanese/Chinese characters on a native operating system.
* SketchUp fails to export and import for some Unicode configurations. SketchUp previously failed to import and export files when it was run using a username containing Japanese/Chinese characters on a native operating system.
* Bad translations, missing translations and string truncations for the FIGS languages.
* Crash when de-authorizing SU when using the Italian Windows build.
# The following new things have been added:
* We have new installs for the following languages - Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
* LayOut:
- The following issues have been fixed:
> Crash on startup, or shortly after initialization, on Windows machines with user account names that were composed of at least one special character. Typically, this was more present with localized builds.
> Bad translations, missing translations and string truncations for the FIGS languages.
# The following new things have been added:
* We have new installs for the following languages - Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

No change log.

# New Features:
- An Extension Warehouse has been created and integrated with SketchUp. Users can now manage hundreds of extensions installed on their computer via the Extension Warehouse.
- The word “SketchUp” now refers to a product family of which there are two members: SketchUp Pro and SketchUp Make.
- Toolbars for SketchUp on Windows operating systems have been improved. They are now customizable and more reliably stay put once they have been docked.
- Scene-based animations can now be exported to high-quality video from SketchUp.
- Toolbars and cursors have been updated and made consistent between SketchUp, LayOut, Style Builder and SketchUp Viewer.
- We have a new SDK. See the “getting_started.html” and “migration_guide.html” in the SDK package for details.
- Lots of little tweaks, bugs fixes and improvements were made to existing features.
- SketchUp no longer will take a long time to open and close with an unstable Internet connection.
- (Mac) SketchUp does not support OS X 10.6 and older versions of OS X. Users with these platforms will see an error on launch.
- (Windows) XP SP3 is now required to run SketchUp on XP.
# Extension warehouse/Ruby plugins:
- We are installing only the following extensions with the product : Advanced Camera Tools, Dynamic Components, Sandbox Tools, Photo Textures. The other SketchUp 8 extensions (Ruby Script Examples, Ocean Modeling, Utilities Tools, Shadow Strings Fix toolbar, Solar North toolbar) are available for download on the Extension Warehouse.
- The plugins directory on the Mac has moved to ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp. We no longer install anything into the Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/SketchUp directory.
# SketchUp Toolbars (Windows only):
- Toolbars now stay put and you can customize toolbars containing non-Ruby tool icons!
- The SketchUp 8 “Save toolbar positions” menu choice has been removed as it is no longer needed - toolbar settings are saved when exiting SketchUp.
- View > Toolbars shows just one menu choice now. Customization of toolbars has been moved to one dialog.
- SketchUp 2013 does not have the ability to create 2 column vertical toolbars (a limitation of the libraries we used as the basis of our new toolbars). If you want to create a setup similar to what is in SketchUp 8, you can either create a few new custom toolbars, docking them side by side to create 2 columns, or you can dock some of our smaller toolbars side by side.
- To customize non-Ruby toolbars, bring up the View > Toolbars dialog. You can move an icon from one toolbar to another by dragging it or pressing the Alt key. Holding down the Ctrl key allows you to copy an icon. Right clicking on a toolbar gives you some additional functionality.
# LayOut:
- General
> Changes were made to improve overall performance with LayOut.
> Shapes can now be filled with image-based patterns in addition to solid colors. This is called Pattern Fill.
> LayOut now has the ability to create multi-copy arrays, similar to the way SketchUp works.
> Text leader lines can now be curved.
> Users can now zoom in to a document up to 10,000%.
> To better reflect standards, dimensions now have dashes to separate feet from inches.

# The following changes were made:
* We have new versions of both SketchUp and SketchUp Pro for the following languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese. We have new SketchUp versions of Russian and Dutch.
* Windows: We fixed a bug in the DWG exporter that was preventing 2D from exporting properly.
* Mac: Drop down menus on the Dynamic Component Options dialog were missing arrows, making it hard to know that they could be “dropped down” to show different options. This issue should now be fixed.
* Mac: The new installer did set some folder permissions incorrectly. This issue should now be fixed.
* Ruby: Extension creator/copyright was incorrect when an extension creator/copyright was not specified. Previously, when a Ruby extension did not specify a creator via the extension.creator and extension.copyright methods, the extension defaulted to being created by “SketchUp” with a copyright attributed to “Trimble Navigation Limited.” With M5, the creator/copyright fields are left blank in this case.
* LayOut
- We have new versions of LayOut for the following languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese.