SketchUp/OSX Lion Known Google SketchUp Lion Issues

[bigstick]

There are also issues with CAD packages - AutoCAD in particular. Considering Apple's massive growth (iPhone and iPad revenues apparently are higher than Microsoft's total revenue) it won't be long before this stuff gets fixed.

I however am holding off until it does.

There are lots of reasons to upgrade. Everyone has heard of the headline multi-touch, full screen mode, and improved mail and Calendar and iDrop.

But in addition, the new Preview has the ability to sign PDFs with a scanned digital signature. It is also the most secure consumer OS you can get. It's even more secure than Linux now apparently due to internal design changes.

Then you have Resume and Autosave, a completely new Filevault (all that's similar is the name and principle - apparently), the ability to record only a part of the screen with Quicktime, easier ways of typing accents and lots more stuff.

So if your machine has decent enough hardware, I think it's a pretty compelling set of reasons to upgrade.

[honoluludesktop]

........... Considering Apple's massive growth (iPhone and iPad revenues apparently are higher than Microsoft's total revenue) ............

Didn't realize this. Wounder if there is no longer a barrier between hardware, and software?

[bigstick]

Don't know, but interestingly, Apple is now the second most valuable company in the world!

Top is Exxon with a market value of around $415bn. Apple is some way behind at around $375bn. What lots of people are wondering though, is what will happen when the next iPhone is released...

[honoluludesktop]

LVMH, the biggest luxery group sold about 15b in the first half of 2011. Apple sales were almost 25b in the first quarter. WOW!!! Steve Job can probably own his own space station 4b/year over 30 years, and refurbish a shuttle (1.7b) to take him there (.5b a trip).

[Mike Lucey]

What lots of people are wondering though, is what will happen when the next iPhone is released...

It won't be the next iPhone that will create the BIG LEAP in Apple stock value! From what I read (and I read a lot about Apple) the next avenue they look to be breaking into will add 100B to stock value!

Now can anyone guess what I read?

Mike

[honoluludesktop]

A 160m megayacht? I give up, what?

Can't, be related their anticipated purchase of Hulu.

[Mike Lucey]

..... simple! TV sets Apple have knocked Nokia of the 1st Place perch and I read they intend to knock Sony, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, etc into a corner soon!

[Mike Lucey]

..... this is what I read,
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AppleInsider
04-13-2011, 07:11 AM
Apple could launch an Internet-connected high-definition television set by the end of 2011, entering the lucrative $100 billion LCD TV market, a new report claims.

Analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities has been at a China electronics trade show this week, and said in a note to investors that he picked up "data points" that point toward a "Smart TV" launch by Apple, possibly by the end of the year.

"Our research suggests this Smart TV would go well beyond the miniature $99 second-generation Apple TV that the company released last fall and provide a full-blown TV product for consumers," White said.

He went on to say that although Apple has long been projected by company watchers to enter the HDTV market, the Mac maker now appears to be "moving down this path at a faster pace than the market expected."

"The combination of Apple's powerful ecosystem, industrial design savvy, powerful brand and ability to reinvent product categories could make Apple a powerful force in the TV world over the next few years," he said.

The biggest pusher of a prospective Internet-connected HDTV from Apple has been analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray. Munster has repeatedly forecast that Apple will introduce such a product in the coming years, with a starting price of around $2,000.

Such a product could be paired with a subscription service to iTunes, allowing users to access content and services at a flat subscription rate that would negate the need for a cable box and digital video recorder. However, White's note gave no indication of potential features of such a product. Apple also has a great deal of experience with high-definition displays on its iMac desktop, including its big-screen 27-inch iMac, first released in 2009.

Earlier this year, Apple revealed it had invested $3.9 billion of its cash reserves in securing key components for products. Many have assumed that money has gone toward securing displays for its range of products, including the iPhone and iPad.

But Munster said in February he believes that $3.9 billion investment is just more evidence of a forthcoming Apple HDTV. He believes Apple could build a television set up to 50 inches in size, though he predicted earlier this year that such a product would not launch until the end of calendar year 2012 at the earliest.[ View this article at AppleInsider.com ] (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11 ... dtv_this_y ear_report.html)
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[solo]

Great news!!

Why because Apple encourages competition, competition pushes innovation, and lower prices.

So let Apple come out with a full internet HDTV and I'll buy the Vizio that competes with it at a fraction of the price, we all win.

[Mike Lucey]

.... further 'problems'!

'Apple has hidden the user Library folder by default in Mac OS X Lion. These are instructions on how to make it visible again.'

Mac OS X | How to Show the User Library Folder in Mac OS X Lion

http://iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=16220

Has apple got something against SketchUp? Maybe its because SketchUp is not in the App Store

Mike

[Mike Lucey]

Great news!!

Why because Apple encourages competition, competition pushes innovation, and lower prices.

So let Apple come out with a full internet HDTV and I'll buy the Vizio that competes with it at a fraction of the price, we all win.

What are you doing over here Pete ...... spying????

[solo]

Hey, I have an Imac, family all have iPhones, and a few ipods (no longer used due to having iPhones) So I'm invested in Apple.

[pbacot]

Yeah, TV figures. They already have iTV or whatever. I went by the online Apple store. Busy over there--this is what you get currently

Anyway, isn't that what it is all about? All these eons of human evolution and all this technology, and what people still really want is to watch some pretty person sing and dance on TV, and of course LOL cats.

[mariocha]

No use to wait for the Lion on USB key release. It is rather easy to put Lion installer on your own key (and cheaper)
Instructions to do that are easy to find.
for instance; http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/07/20/ ... k-for-lion
Did it, no glitch.
Installed Lion from the key on my wife's mac.
My machines will wait a while.

[Edson]

Great news!!

Why because Apple encourages competition, competition pushes innovation, and lower prices.

So let Apple come out with a full internet HDTV and I'll buy the Vizio that competes with it at a fraction of the price, we all win.

What are you doing over here Pete ...... spying????

pete is a benign spy. just between the two of us, he pretends to be a mac hater but, as you know, hate is very close to love.

[mariocha]

Back on topic.
There also is a Lion DiskMaker app on the net.

[Mike Lucey]

No use to wait for the Lion on USB key release. It is rather easy to put Lion installer on your own key (and cheaper)
Instructions to do that are easy to find.
for instance; http://www.hardmac.com/news/2011/07/20/ ... k-for-lion
Did it, no glitch.
Installed Lion from the key on my wife's mac.
My machines will wait a while.

Mmmmm ..... yep, makes sense but I would like a Mac stick! I never thought to put Lion on my wife's Mac! This is a great idea, will do straight away. Thanks.

Mike

[michaliszissiou]

Pete spent more money for apple phones than for a decent PC. I guess so.
This only counts. (for apple)

[Marconiusrex]

I've also held off on upgrading to Lion because I use SketchUp all the time for work. I encounter problems with SU in Snow Leoapard all the time too though even on my brand new 27" iMac with 3.4 Ghz i7 Sandy bridge processor, 2 GB ATI GPU and 8 Gigs of DDR3 Ram. What's with that? Is it just me or is SU way overdue for an update?! Adobe got all of their software issues for Lion resolved in like 2 weeks - What's taking Google so long! I rely on SU on a daily basis so wish Google took it more seriously .

[michaliszissiou]

Under OSX 10.6.8 I never had problems with SU performance.
What is probably happening is that lot of developers still use libraries that don't exist in Lion. Apple's warning. Years now. But who listens.
Blender 64 bit, 3dcoat 64 bit, zbrush 32 bit and sculptris 32 bit work fine. But same great performance as in SnowLeopard. Nothing changed.
Another issue is the GPU, I use Nvidia on a macpro dual xeon Gainestown-16 threads. Nvidia always, cuda drivers installed and working where needed.

[bigstick]

I bit the bullet and upgraded to Lion earlier than planned.

I had to make sure that the latest version of Podium works properly on it. V2.7 beta (available for download) does without issue.

The most interesting thing I noted was that it made my machine much more responsive. It was inclined to be a bit sluggish, due no doubt to the crap I accumulated over the years, but now it's back to how it was when new.

No other issues noted though - so far...

I have ordered a new USB stick specifically for Lion, for use with LionDiskmaker

[bertb]

Updated to Lion yesterday; no problems so far.
Faster, snappier, more response.
So I' am happy I did,

Bertb :

[Christophe Hebert]

I have updated yesterday.

It seems to be nice, and I like the improvements.

No more white line bug with HD3000. ( viewtopic.php?f=11&t=38006 )

I have tested the new MacBook Air, SketchUp work perfectly.

[Mike Lucey]

Well this news looks good ...... so far

[bigstick]

Hmm, perhaps I posted too soon about Lion and SU8.

I'm getting some regular instability now. Every so often SU will hang completely requiring a restart. Repairing Disk Permissions tends to help - for a while...

Google are taking rather a long time to fix this.

[mightyquinn]

Hi, I'm new to the forum, but I'm a long time Sketchup user. I love the program dearly, even since Google got their hands on it, and I use it and Layout exclusively when designing and documenting houses. I just upgraded from a 2007 MacBookPro (MBP) running Snow Leopard to a new MacBookAir (MBA) (1.8Ghz i7 chip) running Lion. The MBA is sleek and smooth and beautiful and I found SU and LO faster and more responsive than on my MBP, but not phenomenally so. Out of the box, the MBA came with Lion 10.7.0 and I had no issues, it ran SU and LO well.
However, when I upgraded Lion to 10.7.1, I got the white line bug described in this thread. I don't know if this is a result of the internal Intel graphics chip on the MBA, or if all users running SU on Lion 10.7.1 are noticing it?
The MBA is faster than my four year old MBP, and the thing is so sleek and light and beautiful that I hate to do this, but I am returning it today. The speed improvement is just not substantial enough for me to deal with the white line bug. Instead, I'm going whole hog for the fastest iMac I can get. My theory is that as Google won't or can't substantially improve SU's speed on the software side, I'll just have to use as much muscle as I can purchase so I can continue to use my beloved SU and LO for my work. (if only it weren't forever doomed to 32bit single processor....)
Is anyone running SU on Liuon 10.7.1 and not getting the white line bug? I hope it's limited to the MBA.

[Mike Lucey]

Hi Guys,

I've order the Apple Lion Stick today and will probably test Lion out on the wife's MacBook to get a feel for it.

While poking around I came across this useful site, Roaring Apps - App Compatibility Table.

http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/tags/_g/index_tags/_g

I attach the screen shot of the Google SketchUp verdict

I will go through the list to see how some other apps I use regularly are fairing out. I notice the Sketcher is not there yet!

Mike

[bertb]

As I am not in the office these weeks , I don't know.
Keep you informed after sept 4.
Sccs.
Bertb

[mariocha]

I updated my MacBook Pro to Lion a few days ago.
Not bad at all.
Some precisions about known issues:

Scene is no longer synced in model with 1 match photo scene

In fact any scene; click on the tab to go back to it, orbit / pan to change camera point of view and then if you try to return to it by clicking again on the tab, nothing, won't do. Click any other scene tab and then the previous one, will do.

Unable to login to the 3dwh.

Don't know if it's the 7.1 update but, no problem here with 3D-WH from the component window.

Some of the photo texture pins are no longer visible.

Here no pins at all appeared, until I tried dragging a selection box on the picture, then the 4 pins did show and the captures went just fine.

[bjanzen]

The pins on Photo Textures is something I haven't seen (not like the earlier problem we fixed). What version of Flash are you running on Lion? According to Adobe's site, it's 10.3.183.5 at the moment. You can find your version by opening Chrome and typing in about:plugins.

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