Wednesday, January 12, 2011

An important update for SketchUp 8

Sometimes a haiku says it best:

new SketchUp version
shadows work much better now
farewell artifacts!

You'll want to download today's free update for SketchUp 8 as soon as possible. It contains (among a great many other things) fixes for for raster image export at high resolutions on Windows, and for the dreaded Shadow Bug. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of millions of modelers uncorking Champagne to celebrate. Believe me – we're thrilled, too.

Here's an overly-dramatic video that shows the Shadow Bug fix in living color.

The newest version of SketchUp 8 (free and Pro) is available today in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese. Stay tuned for Russian, Dutch and Simplified Chinese; they’re coming soon.

Here's how to get the latest version of SketchUp 8:

Windows: Choose Help > Check for Update

Mac: Choose SketchUp > Check Web for Update

Please feel free to express your own euphoria in the form of a haiku in this post's comments thread.

Udpate: Added Korean to the list of available languages.


Posted by Aidan Chopra, SketchUp Evangelist

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18 comments:

  1. SketchUpArtistsJanuary 12, 2011 at 3:51 PM

    Thanks guys this is great news...well done!

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  2. GenkiTTJanuary 12, 2011 at 7:43 PM

    Thanks for great work!!

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  3. UnknownJanuary 12, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    Just Thanks

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  4. patJanuary 12, 2011 at 11:43 PM

    i don't share in the adoration, at least not of this update notice.

    i can not find the version number anywhere. i attempted to update SU Pro, but when it was complete, nothing looked different. i don't know if i successfully updated or not because i can't compare what it says the version number is with what the new version number is. here is a haiku for aidan, think it thru.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 13, 2011 at 12:13 AM

    Hi Pat,

    The version number for Windows is 8.0.4811 and Mac is 8.0.4810. Hopefully that helps.

    Regards,
    Tommy

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  6. kristalksJanuary 13, 2011 at 5:03 AM

    great!

    hope it won't take 10 yaers to turn SU into 64-bit?

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  7. kristalksJanuary 13, 2011 at 12:21 PM

    this bring SU for MAc to 8.0.4810?

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  8. NVizeonJanuary 14, 2011 at 8:36 AM

    Congrats to the SU team. Now we can finally lurk in the shadows...hehe

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  9. Manfred van der VoortJanuary 21, 2011 at 2:53 AM

    Is there already an official statement about the support of 64 bit OS-es?

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  10. LuisustainFebruary 2, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    you guys are fantastic, and provide all these great tools for humanity for free! Thanks is the very minimum one can say to you. So the haiku for you all is for u from us all

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  11. informationFebruary 28, 2011 at 8:15 PM

    SketchUp updating
    Update not working at all
    Still shadows broken

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  12. UnknownFebruary 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM

    Any idea when the broken "Add Location" will be fixed? I use it a great deal.

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  13. AnonymousMarch 1, 2011 at 3:20 PM

    Howdy Moz,

    This issue should have been resolved last Tuesday. Feel free to post to this thread in the Help Forum so we can chat more:

    http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=6858c1ec836865b9&hl=en

    Regards,
    Tommy
    SketchUp Team

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  14. informationMarch 2, 2011 at 2:02 AM

    What is this CRAP?

    You tick a box saying you want to be notified of postings and when you decide you don't want to be notified of postings you click on unsubscribe and you're sent to Blogger!

    Not unsubscribe, but some other artful Blogger!

    Google!

    Get it right!

    This is SPAM MAIL!

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  15. informationMarch 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM

    Haiku:

    Spam mail from Goo-gle
    Stuffing up my inbox bad
    Spam mail from Goo-gle

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  16. AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    Hi information,

    Just to clarify, when you click "Unsubscribe to comments on this post" from your email, are you seeing a screen like this?

    http://screencast.com/t/lhKE0TaA

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  17. SchloederMarch 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM

    Sorry guys, the shadow bug is still there. I have the latest version (8.0.4811) and the shadows are still sometimes wonky.

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  18. AnonymousJuly 11, 2013 at 11:30 PM

    Having an Issue:

    For a few days straight, I have been unable to create Components in any SketchUp model. When I select what I want for a component, I get the XYZ axis superimposed on a random corner, and the whole program freezes. I have to force close, which results in loss of work.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?

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