[TRNSYS-users] Important for Trnsys3d WG: [openstudio-support] New Maintenance release of SketchUp 8 addresses the push/pull problem described below.

[hotline]

Dear TRNSYS users,
 
here is an important note from the OpenStudio community that also
affects Trnsys3d.
Please update your Google Sketchup 8 version!
 
Christian 


 

When SketchUp 8 came out there was a bug that affected the push pull
tool when you typed in a number for a distance vs. using the mouse. That
has now been fixed and can be manually downloaded or updated by using
SketchUp’s “Check for Update” item under the help menu. You will be able
to update or install right on top of the original SketchUp 8, and all of
your plugins including OpenStudio will remain intact and ready to use.

 

For reference, here is a description of the problem that has been
addressed. Once you upgrade your version of SketchUp you no longer have
to use these work arounds.

“Using push/pull to extrude a surface loses a vertex from new surfaces
when entering the extrude distance in the measurement box. People with
this bug see missing vertices from surfaces when reopening the .idf
file. To avoid this issue before SketchUp is updated, enter guidelines
or use other geometry to snap to instead of typing an extrude distance.
Another alternative is to create and extrude your geometry outside of an
EnergyPlus zone, then cut the geometry and paste in place from inside of
your zone object. If you have SketchUp 7 installed, you can also use
that until a SketchUp 8 maintenance release comes out.”

 

Here is a link to the SketchUp release notes

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=release_notes.cs

 

And here is a download page.

http://sketchup.google.com/index.html

 

 


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.onebuilding.org/pipermail/trnsys-users-onebuilding.org/attachments/20110113/5d891381/attachment-0005.htm>