SketchUp

Win 8.0.16846 Mac 8.0.16845
Released 12/19/2012

SketchUp
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
The following changes were made:

• We have new versions of LayOut for the following languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Portuguese.
• On Mountain Lion, LayOut 3 could consistently crash on startup. Previously, if the OS system preference "Close windows when quitting an application" were unchecked and a LayOut 1 or LayOut 2 document was opened in LayOut 3, LayOut could crash and continue to crash on startup. This crash has been fixed.

Win 8.0.15158 Mac 8.0.15157
Released 08/28/2012

SketchUp
The following issues have been fixed:

• SketchUp has been re-branded as a Trimble product. Most references to Google have been updated or removed as needed and we have a new icon. Some exceptions, such as the install path, still contain references to Google.
• Mac: Better support for Retina display.
  • Text is easier to pick. Prior to M4, you had to click on the top left side of the text to select it and when edited, the text changed size, making it hard to edit.
  • Text and dimensions display at a correct size.
  • SketchUp now takes advantage of the full resolution of the Retina displays.
• Mac: Text boxes within web dialogs no longer display with a black background. After Apple’s release of Safari 5.16, text boxes within web dialogs (e.g., Add Location, Photo Textures, Add New Building, Dynamic Components and lots of the 3D Warehouse dialogs) could display with a black background, which made it impossible to see what you were typing.
• Mac: Installer is now recognized as coming from an “identified developer “ which complies with Mountain Lion’s Gatekeeper feature.
• Windows: When sending to LayOut from SketchUp on a machine where LayOut had never been launched as an administrator, the send previously would fail. This issue has been fixed.

LayOut
The following issues have been fixed:

• LayOut, like SketchUp, has been re-branded.
• Mac: Better support for Retina display
  • Mouse input is now recorded correctly.
  • A SketchUp model view that is part of a subview that has been scaled renders correctly
  • Text from a SketchUp model was shows up at the correct size. Prior to M4, text may have appeared very small.

The following issues have been fixed

• SketchUp can crash when using Ruby plugins that call Ruby observers. In this release we addressed many of our top crashes, which should significantly improve the stability of SketchUp. The crashes were related to Ruby Observers. In particular:
  • Windows - SketchUp was not correctly cleaning up observers on exit, which could lead to crashes.
  • Mac - There were several issues with how observers interacted with the Mac’s multiple document interface. 
• Previously, when working in SketchUp with a large number of Ruby plugins, some SketchUp context menu items could incorrectly become grayed out. With this release, this issue should happen far less frequently, if ever.
• Models created in localized versions of SketchUp 7.0 and 7.1 had a Layer0 which was translated. If those models were opened in any version of SketchUp prior to M3 and the translated Layer0 was purged or deleted, SketchUp could crash. When opening these models in Maintenance 3, the translated name of “Layer0” is no longer translated, which prevents the crash. When the model is saved, the problem is fixed for all versions of SketchUp.
• Improved messaging and workflow for users without a nickname: In order to use the 3D warehouse, users must login using a Google account that has a nickname associated with it. Previously, when logging into the 3D warehouse using an account with no nickname, the login would fail. In this version, users without a nickname now see a better error message and are directed to a login screen to add a nickname.
• Mac: Previously, when using the Ruby method Entities.add_group(), performance was much slower than on Windows. This issue has been fixed.

New functionality

• SketchUp now only uses one network license seat when launching multiple instances of SketchUp on the same Windows machine. Previously, when using a Windows network license each instance of SketchUp would use a separate license seat. In this version, launching multiple instances of SketchUp on the same machine will now result in only one network seat being used.
• More secure image libraries, better protected from potential security vulnerabilities.
• Added a link displaying Open Source Credits in the About SketchUp dialog.
• Mac: We made a change that made uploads to the 3D Warehouse more reliable.

New functionality

• OS X Lion support: With SketchUp M2, we now officially support the Lion operating system. See below for specific fixes.
• Ruby plugin improvements:
  • Ruby manager: This version of SketchUp has a simple UI to install and upgrade Ruby extensions.
  • .rbz file format: Ruby extensions typically consist of several files, so Ruby developers had to zip up those files into a standard .zip file and then give their users instructions on how to unzip them and where to place them. Now developers can zip up the files into the .rbz format and users can easily load an .rbz by going to Preferences > Extensions and clicking the “Install Extension” button.
  • Ability to turn off all Ruby plugins: With this release, it's much easier to disable (and re-enable) Ruby plugins for troubleshooting purposes.
  • Ruby plugin hooks: In addition to the above functionality, we have added several API hooks to allow Developers to more easily write their own Ruby extension managers.
• Advanced Camera Tools are now installed by default, so they no longer require a separate plugin.
• Account authentication: SketchUp now uses a more advanced technology to log into the 3D Warehouse. Instead of seeing the old SketchUp login dialog, you may see two dialogs, one prompting you for your username and password, and a second dialog asking for your permission to view and manage your 3D Warehouse data. As before, SketchUp should remember your login across sessions.
• SketchUp Pro Trial no longer reverts to free features at the end of the evaluation period. Instead, you'll be prompted to purchase a license or downgrade to SketchUp (free).

The following issues have been fixed:

SketchUp:

OS X Lion issues

• Previously, when scene thumbnails were generated for models with background images (i.e., those with Match Photo scenes), SketchUp would hang and would need to be force closed. This issue has been fixed.
• The error message “Service not available. Try again later” was shown when logging into the the 3D Warehouse. This error should no longer occur and the login should be successful. 
• SketchUp would hang in cases where it would have previously crashed.  SketchUp will now no longer hang in these cases and the crash dialog that allows crash information to be sent should be presented again.
• When exporting dae/kmz files to two different directories, SketchUp would hang. This has been resolved.
• When certain snappy dialog boxes were stacked together and one of the dialogs in the stack was resized, the dialogs could break apart. They should now stay attached.
• Mouse scroll direction is now set up to be consistent with the normal SketchUp behavior. Prior to this release the OS X preferences controlled the scroll direction so zooming in and out appeared to be backwards.
• Previously, after making some kind of change to a scene (e.g., changing the camera), SketchUp would not reset the scene when clicking on the current scene tab. This issue has been fixed.

Collada
We worked hard making sure that SketchUp’s Collada importer and exporter are compliant with official Collada standards, set by the Khronos group. As part of this effort, we used the official Khronos Collada test suite, and are now 92% compliant with Collada standards. The following bugs were fixed as part of this effort:

• Export:
• We fixed an issue where some transparent textures were not exported correctly.
• We now preserve texture names when exporting to the *.dae format.
• Import:
• Tags were not read correctly, resulting in a loss of textures on import.
• Transparent textures in some dae files failed to import (e.g. when the texture location is stored as a value directly under the tag).
• Textures in some dae files failed to import, resulting in an error.
• The geometry in some dae files (those with tags) imported incorrectly.
• When a color was specified only under the tag or when specifying the color using the tag, colors could fail to import.
• Some valid dae files failed to import.
• When colors or textures were specified in a tag under the technique they did not import.
• Importing transparency in some cases could yield a reversed transparency value (e.g. 1-correct_transparency instead of transparency).
• Newparam values under library_effect were incorrectly read.
• Crash when importing a file with a newparam under several different tags.

Ruby: When SketchUp shows the Preferences > Extensions panel, it needs to ask all of the registered extensions for some metadata about themselves (e.g. name, author). Prior to this release, SketchUp would ask for this data on every mouse move. Now it should only ask for the metadata when showing the Extensions panel, which should improve performance.

SketchUp Writer C++ API: In earlier versions, ISketchUpGroup::CreateGroup became slower each time it was called. This shouldn't slow down any longer.

Crashes

• Previously, when painting stand-alone soft/smoothed edges, SketchUp would crash. This crash has been fixed.
• (PC only) Under certain conditions including having the Components Browser open, SketchUp could crash on exit. This was our second most frequent crash and should now be fixed.
• (Korean, Japanese, and Chinese) SketchUp previously crashed when opening or saving a model containing certain validity errors. This was our number one crash and should now be fixed.
• (Mac only) Previously, if you viewed a component collection, clicked the Previous button, and repeated those same viewing steps, SketchUp would crash. This crash has been fixed.

Miscellaneous

• (Mac only) When changing the width and height Print fields on the Mac, the changes weren’t preserved, resulting in the inability to print to multiple pages. The print size settings should now be saved with the document and printing to multiple pages should be possible.
• (SketchUp Pro only) On rare occasions, SketchUp Pro would appear to accept a license, but access to Pro features was never granted. With this version, if you appear to be licensed, you should have access to all functionality including LayOut and Style Builder.
• (Mac only) When exporting to EPS or PDF on the Mac and setting scale values, the scale values were not accurate in the exported file. This issue should be fixed and scaling should be accurate with these formats.

LayOut:

• We received a customer file that crashed due to an incorrect tag. We added error handling to fix this problem.
• We received a number of crash reports with comments like "I clicked on the style box and it crashed," "Using Scrapbook images," "I was changing type," and "attempting to open the tool palette." These crashes appeared to be coming from accessing tools on a page, so we changed the way we're accessing page content to fix these issues.
• We received a number of crash reports that were related to performing actions in LayOut. The descriptions included things like inserting, copying, moving, rendering, updating, and resizing SketchUp models. We were able to isolate the issue to a particular area, and we added error handling to fix this issue.
• LayOut previously crashed on DWG/DXF export with files that contained certain Chinese Unicode characters on Windows. This issue has been fixed.
• (Mac only) The Shadow Time for a SketchUp Model in LayOut should have the correct range now, however you adjust it. Previously, if you were adjusting via the circular knob it only allowed a range of 5:00 PM to 9:38 PM.

SketchUp

The following issues have been fixed:

Shadows:

• The shadow bug has been fixed! Previously, when the eye was in shadow, artifacts that look like inverted shadows could show up over all or part of the screen and annoying flickering could show up during animations.
• The “shadow strings” bug has been fixed too. Previously, shadows could show string-like artifacts. There is now a Shadow Strings Fix toolbar which allows you to toggle on and off a fix for this issue.

Push Pull and Follow Me:

• The Follow Me cursor is now correctly shown when using the Follow Me tool with pre-selected items.
• The Follow Me cursor is now correctly shown when activating the Follow Me tool via a keyboard shortcut.
• The Context menu items are now complete when activating the Push/Pull or Follow Me tools and right-clicking on an entity.
• (Mac only) Previously, certain shortcuts weren’t respected while using the Push/Pull tool. This issue has been fixed.

Image export:

• (PC only) In this release, Windows users should be able to export images at a higher resolution. Export capabilities still depend on your computer environment but are now consistent between Mac and Windows machines.
• When exporting images with the camera.aspect_ratio set to a non-default value, block-like artifacts could be seen in the exported images. This issue has been fixed.

Performance:

• In this release, SketchUp is now built using the /Largeaddressaware property on the PC. This change allows SketchUp to potentially allocate/address more memory on 64-bit machines. (Note: 64-bit users must have at least 1.89 GB RAM to see any improvement, and improvement is only noticeable in areas where memory was a limiting factor (e.g exporting images).

Outliner (Mac only):

• Previously, when working in Outliner and selecting or editing entities, non-selected entities might expand or contract. Additionally, after scrolling in the Outliner, sometimes choosing an entity would select a different entity than desired. Both of these issues have been fixed.
• Search now works properly after minimizing and restoring the Outliner.
• Component and group names should now be visible in Outliner results after doing a keyword search. Found items are shown in red.
• The Rename context menu on the Outliner > Details menu works as expected and allows you to rename components and groups.
• Previously, when renaming a component by single clicking on the name in the Outliner, you couldn’t see the text as you typed it. You should now be able to see the text when renaming components or groups via this method.

Add Location:

• (Mac only) Previously if you launched the Add Location dialog, kept it open, and then closed the SketchUp model, the Add Location dialog would no longer open. This issue has been fixed.
• Previously when navigating to a location and then taking a snapshot, the maps portion of the dialog re-sized in a way that was visually jarring. We have improved the appearance of the dialog in this case.

Animation:

• In some cases, animations exported on the Mac in SU8 were not as smooth as they were in SU7.1. The underlying issue has been fixed.
• (PC only) You are now able to select a codec other than the default.
• (PC only) Estimated file size is now correct (previously it was reported always as 0).

3D Warehouse:

• Previously, uploading large models to the 3D Warehouse might fail. You should be able to upload models up to 10MB.
• (Mac only) Previously, when you searched in the Components browser and then clicked on a results link for the first time, you were sometimes brought to the wrong model in the 3D Warehouse. This has now been fixed and clicking on links should always bring you to the correct model.

Outer Shell:

• When performing Solid tool operations on coplanar geometry where some of the geometry is on a hidden layer and some is not, geometry could incorrectly be removed. This issue is now fixed and the Solid tools ignore the hidden geometry in this specific case.

Toolbars:

• Previously, when adding new Ruby toolbars and relaunching SU, existing Ruby toolbars could unexpectedly reposition themselves and Restore Toolbar positions would not restore toolbars to their original positions. This issue has been fixed. (Note: it is still possible for Ruby toolbars to become repositioned when deleting plugins.)

Scenes:

• Geometry will not disappear when generating scene thumbnails in a model where hidden layers were created via Ruby.
• (Mac only) Scene thumbnails are only created if the Scenes dialog is open.
• (Mac only) When creating a scene via the View menu the scene thumbnail is now created immediately.

Match Photo:

• Previously, when opening a model or creating a new matched photo scene, the active scene was not selected causing confusion as the settings shown in the Scenes panel could differ from the settings of the active scene. This issue has now been fixed.

Localization:

• (Mac only) When using the “Save as” context menu for a component, the model will now be saved even when saving to a folder with international characters.
• Many translation fixes for localized versions of SketchUp.

EPix:

• Five separate fixes for EPix export including correctly exporting similar-looking materials and materials that matched the background color, exporting the default front face color, and exporting edges correctly.

Ruby:

• The View.pick_helper(x,y,aperture) method now respects arguments passed to it allowing the Bezier.rb and BZ tool plugins to work again.
• Over ten fixes for Ruby issues and a few new methods for Ruby developers. Please see the SketchUp Ruby API site for details.

Crashes:

• We’ve resolved some of the top SketchUp crashes (as determined by our Bug Splat and BreakPad data). SketchUp should be more stable now.

Other:

• (Mac only) On machines where Arial Bold and Arial Italic fonts were missing or corrupted, the Components dialog could be blank or unresponsive. This issue has been fixed and the Components browser should now work even in this case.
• Images correctly hide when editing components with “hide rest of model.”
• Walk tool no longer bounces when walking.
• Measurement toolbar works as expected when in the top toolbar.
• The customizable Standard Views tool palette no longer shows cryptic numbers for the tooltips.
• Watermarks behave as expected during scene transitions and when switching to a Matched Photo scene.
• The full text is visible for Entity Info for components or groups.
• Launching SketchUp by dragging and dropping a model to the SketchUp.exe now does a proper validity check.
• Previously, after switching scenes, the ground plane/edge effects and shadows over a background matched photo image degraded/flashed as you moved the mouse over the model. This flashing occurred until the model was modified. This issue should now be fixed.

Known issues

• The shadows strings fix will, in some models, make shadows look better, but in other models, may cause different kinds of shadow artifacts to show up. Because of this, the shadows strings fix is implemented as a toggle button on the new Shadow Strings Fix toolbar and is turned off by default.
• (NVIDIA graphics cards only) Users with NVIDIA cards are more likely to see the “shadow strings” bug reported above, especially when the eye is in shadow. Toggle on the Shadow String Fix to work around this issue.
• (PC only) If you have an English operating system set to a different language, you may have problems with Microsoft’s .NET installation dialog box. In this case we suggest installing .NET separately then restarting your SketchUp installation.

LayOut

The following issues have been fixed:

Preserve Scale on Resize - we worked on preserving scale to handle typical user workflows in a more efficient way.

• LayOut now rescales SketchUp models after editing.
• When editing a SketchUp model, “Preserve scale on resize” should be automatically disabled.
• Setting the scale of a model no longer changes the style back to the style seen in the “Last saved SketchUp view.”

DWG/DXF export bug fixes:

• Dashed lines scaling is improved in export to DWG/DXF. (Note: if you're planning on viewing your export in Model space, you'll want to export to model space; if you're viewing in Paper space use that export instead.)
• Fixed three bugs affecting DWG/DXF Unicode character export.
• Rotated entities in scaled DWG/DXF export are place correctly.
• Export scale is correct when exporting to DWG/DXF model space.
• Metric scaling should be the correct scale.
• (Mac only) Previously, when exporting to DWG/DXF for the first time the page range of “All” wasn’t honored. This has been fixed.
• (Mac only) Lines break on a space when possible for DWG/DXF export.
• (Mac only) When lines break mid-word in a DWG/DXF export, the lines are complete.
• (Mac only) Previously, if you had text on more than one page of a DWG/DXF export, text would scale at an incorrect size on subsequent pages. This has been fixed.

Localization:

• Fixed three bugs affecting DWG/DXF Unicode character export.
• (PC only) Previously, some Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters didn’t display properly at all or in Display mode. These characters should now be correctly visible.
• Various translation fixes including template names.

Fonts:

• Previously, undoing a font color would link that action to the previous undo item, and you couldn’t undo just the font change. Now font color changes are their own undo item.
• Previously, if you had mixed-sized fonts in the same text box, the box would render differently than seen in text edit. Text now renders the same in both conditions.

Other bug fixes:

• The "Scale to weight" drop-down in the Shape Style inspector better handles systems where a comma is used as the decimal separator.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using Document Setup > References > Relink to link to invalid SketchUp file.
• Many Template fixes to make settings more consistent from template to template.
• Previously, you were not able to use a window select to select a clipped image unless you selected the entire hidden image bound. This issue has been fixed.
• Previously, when editing inside a group, clicking outside of a dimension, text, SketchUp model, or path editor would exit the entire group edit. This issue has been fixed.
• Previously, getting the center, endpoint, or on edge inference, would cause on face inferences stop working. This issue has been fixed.
• (Mac only) Fixed a crash that occurred when trying to edit a SketchUp file after doing so in presentation mode.
• (Mac only) Pan cursor correctly shows up with the shift key activated.

Style Builder

• Previously, applying any color (other than black) to the strokes caused many of the lines to drop out in the Style Preview model. This issue has been fixed.

Released 9/1/2010

Check out what's new in this release of SketchUp.

Good to know:

• We've added the ability to pre-select a face when using the Push/Pull tool. The Push/Pull tool now behaves similarly to our other tools (e.g. Move), but be sure that you don't have an incorrect face selected prior to activating the tool.
• The Scenes dialog has been reworked to show scene thumbnails. The first time you open the Scenes manager with a pre-SketchUp 8 file, we generate thumbnails for all of your scenes. You can always stop this process or tell SketchUp never to generate thumbnails for that model.
• The timezone drop-down has moved from Model Info to the Shadow Settings dialog box. We've also added additional UTC offsets, including fractional hour offsets.
• We upgraded our API's Ruby interpreter from version 1.8.0 to 1.8.6, which is a better supported, more stable version. This gives API users the benefits of hundreds of Ruby bug fixes, but version 1.8.6 is also more strict on Ruby syntax. If a script is broken, you may need to contact the script's original author to get an upgraded version.
• The DWG and DXF import and export features now support 2010 versions of AutoDesk software.
• The Display shadows setting is now a button, not a checkbox. You can find it next to the timezone drop-down in the Shadow Settings dialog box.
• Match Photo's opacity, background photo, and foreground photo settings have been moved to the Styles dialog box.
• (Mac only) The Display shadows checkbox has been removed from the customized Shadows toolbar. You can get the same functionality by dragging the Shadows toggle separately to your customized toolbar.
• (Mac only) The Eraser and Zoom extents tools have been removed from the main toolbar. See this article for more information.
• (PC only) You can now save toolbar positions via the View > Toolbars > Save Toolbar Position menu item and then restore them via the View > Toolbars > Restore Toolbar Position menu item.

The following notable issues have been fixed:

• The reported area of materials is now correct with scaled or internally rotated components.
• (PC only) Importing shortcuts on the PC now allows you to overwrite our defaults if you had changed them.
• (Mac only) Disabling Auto-activate paint tool now actually disables the auto-activation of the Paint tool.
• This new release contains fixes for two security issues:
  1. The authors of the third-party libpng graphics library published a vulnerability warning for older versions of the library. It is unclear whether the way SketchUp uses libpng could be exploited, but the library was updated to version 1.2.44 as a precaution.
  2. SketchUp could fail to properly handle certain types of invalid edge geometry when parsing a malicious .SKP file, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash. We would like to thank Dave Weston from the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Center (MSVR) for reporting this issue to us.

Known Issues:

• Materials created by Building Maker can look excessively black during LOD processes or when “Shading without textures” is enabled.
• Building maker system requirements message can be incorrect when launching Building Maker via SketchUp. You do need to have Internet Explorer 7 installed, even though Chrome is listed as an option.
• When editing a component and hiding the rest of your model (using Model Info > Components) images aren't hidden.
• Solid tools and Outer Shell operations do not maintain Dynamic Component attributes.
• Selecting a hidden group or component with the outliner does not reveal the component.
• (Mac only) DWGs with 3d solids, body and region entites can no longer be imported due to a DWG library bug.
• (Mac only) In rare cases, memory can increase rapidly when editing components with the Component browser open. If you notice this you'll want to save your model and restart SketchUp
• (PC only) Importing shortcuts may cause a multitude of dialog boxes - one for each default shortcut you override.

LayOut 3.0
Released 9/1/2010

Check out what's new in this release of LayOut.

Good to know:

• You can export your LayOut files to DWG/DXF.
• You also have more control over dashed and dotted line patterns.

The following notable issues have been fixed:

• Exporting to PDF would fail if your document included a font that was not licensed for embedding. We now substitute a different font so that you can still export, but the export may look different from your on-screen document.
• LayOut 2 often couldn't open corrupt files. LayOut 3 can open many of these files, though some data may be missing.

Known Issues:

• We changed the way dimensions offset from their connection point. As a result, when you open a LayOut 2 file with dimensions in LayOut 3, the offset point will be on top of the connection point. To reconnect a dimension to another entity, you must first move the offset points along the extension line to get them out of the way. You can then select the connection points and move them.
• Dashed lines from LayOut 2.1 files will look different when opened in LayOut 3; the spaces between dashes and dots are now four times longer than they used to be. To get the dashes to look like they did before, select the lines and then select .25 x in the Dashes Scale drop-down.
• (PC only) Exporting to PDF with a “dash-dash-dot-dot-dot” line style does not export correctly.
• (PC only) Custom icons and toolbars will not be saved when upgrading.
• (Vista and Windows 7) SketchUp's "Send to LayOut" command may not work if LayOut is already open. You can fix this by following the steps below:
  1. Right-click on the LO3 desktop icon.
  2. Select Properties.
  3. Click on the Compatibility tab.
  4. Check Run this program as an administrator.
  5. Click Apply.

The following issues have been fixed:

• (Windows only) SketchUp 7.1 M2 Pro now requires Windows XP, SP2 as a minimum operating system version. SketchUp 7.1 M2 Free is not impacted.
• (Windows only) The BugSplat dialog has been updated for the French and Spanish builds.
• (Mac only) A language identifier has been added to the .dmg file so that users can identify which language version of SketchUp they're installing.
• Several SketchUp dialogs have been translated. Prior releases had these dialogs always in English, even in the localized builds.
• Several URL links have been corrected to go to the appropriate pages.
• In SketchUp, an error is now displayed if an attempt is made to create a material with an invalid texture file.
• This new release contains fixes for two security issues:
  1. The first is a pointer arithmetic error leading to memory corruption, which is triggered when parsing a malicious .3DS file. We would like to thank Francisco Falcon from CORE Security for reporting this issue to us.
  2. The second is an integer overflow leading to heap corruption, which is triggered when parsing a malicious .SKP file. We would like to thank Dave Weston from the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Center (MSVR) for reporting this issue to us.

• (Mac only) LayOut would crash on a Mac running OSX 10.4 when attempting to export more than one page of a document to a PDF. This has been fixed.
• (Mac only) LayOut had a bug that could cause a multi-page document exported to PDF to have the pages out of order. This has been fixed.

The following issues have been fixed:

Good to know

• Please note that installing SketchUp 7.1 will overwrite version 7.0.
• SketchUp 7.1 models are fully compatible with SketchUp 7.0 and LayOut 2.0. If you save a model in 7.1, it will automatically be able to be read by SketchUp 7.0 and LayOut 2.0.

Known Issues:

• Mac - SketchUp may crash if you open a large file and navigate through the model a lot, or try exporting to a 2D format. Enable 'Hardware acceleration' in the 'OpenGL' section of the Preferences dialog box to work around this issue.

LayOut 2.1:
Released 9/22/2009

Known Issues:

• If you've made changes to the default scrapbooks or templates that shipped with LayOut 2.0 (without renaming the files), those changes will be overwritten when you upgrade to LayOut 2.1. To save your changes, follow the Windows steps in this Help Center article before you upgrade.
• When upgrading from LayOut 2.0 to LayOut 2.1, any customized toolbars and customized toolbar icons will be replaced with LayOut's default configuration | Windows only.
• The Measurements box won't respond to any value you enter when used with the Dimension tool.
• If you create a file in with bulleted or numbered lists and save that file in LayOut Version 1 format, LayOut Version 1 will crash when attempting to open the file | Windows only.

The following issues have been fixed:

Crashes:

• Crash when auto-folding a face with holes. When auto-folding a face (either by using Move tool or the Scale tool) that contained several holes , SketchUp could crash. This crash has been fixed.
• Crash when saving and printing with some ATI cards. Some PC users with ATI graphics cards could consistently crash when saving models and when printing. This crash would occur only when "Use hardware acceleration" in Preferences > OpenGL was checked. This crash has been fixed.
• Crash with Push Pull when undoing actions and typing values in the VCB. When using the Push Pull tool, undoing certain actions and then typing data to change the Push Pull distance, SketchUp could crash. This crash has been fixed.
• Crash on launch when 'My Documents' is unavailable. SketchUp could crash on launch on PC systems where "My Documents" was set in a way that is was no longer available. SketchUp now handles this condition and no longer crashes. Users may, however, notice that SketchUp (as well as other applications on their computer) may be slow to do file operations in this case. Making 'My Documents' available fixes this slowdown.
• Crash when creating an array with an endpoint inference. When using the Move tool to make copies by typing values in the Measurements box, SketchUp could crash if the Move tool was inferring an endpoint prior to the copy action. This crash has now been fixed.
• Crash when starting up SketchUp on some machines. Previously, in very limited cases, SketchUp could crash on launch when showing the licensing dialog or the Welcome dialog. Though we could never recreate this issue internally, we have added additional checks that we believe should fix this issue.
• Crash when performing actions in models with very large textures on some machines. When opening models with extremely large textures or when working on those models, SketchUp could crash on some machines. We have added checks which should prevent this crash.
• Crash when opening the Layers dialog in models with corrupt layers. Previously, on the Mac, SketchUp could crash when opening models with corrupted layers with the Layers dialog open . SketchUp now handles this data without crashing.
• In models that contain component instances within other instances not placed in the model, projecting textures could cause SketchUp to crash with certain geometry. This crash has been fixed.

Dynamic Components:

• Dynamic Component can become unusable when entering an invalid formula. If a Dynamic Component formula was entered with a missing quote, it was possible to create a Dynamic Component that no longer worked. This issue has been fixed.
• Dynamic Components can lose their smartness when SketchUp is launched from the system dock. When double clicking on the SketchUp application in the Mac OS's system dock, Dynamic Components could fail to display dynamic behavior. This issue has been fixed.
• Invalid error when editing a custom attribute in this case. When editing a custom Dynamic Component attribute and then pressing the Tab key, it was possible to see an error that made no sense. SketchUp no longer issues an error in this case.
• Page not found error when using File > Generate report on some localized systems. The Generate Report functionality (File > Generate Report) could show a "page not found" error on non-English systems. This functionality should now be supported with all locales.

Exporters:

• Stand alone edges are no longer exported to KMZ. Model edges were previously not exported to the kmz exporter and Google Earth. The exporter has been revised to export edges again.
• Textures uploaded to the 3dwh are downsampled in Google Earth. Models uploaded to the 3dwh (vs placed in Google Earth directly from SketchUp) could show downsampled textures when viewed in Google Earth. Textures should now appear as expected.
• On the Mac, the export to DWG could fail when exporting to a folder with foreign characters or to a name with foreign characters. The DWG exporter should now produce a valid DWG in these cases.
• Models placed in Google Earth can be incorrectly rotated. Some models, when placed in Google Earth, could be slightly incorrectly rotated. This issue, which has been around for many releases, was addressed in this release. To fix the issue, when taking a snapshot, SketchUp now sets the North angle in Model Info > Location to point to geographic north which is then respected by the Google Earth exporter. As part of these changes, you can no longer set the North angle to be different per each scene as this functionality was also a bug (i.e. one location should not have two different North angle settings).
• 5x5 textures are not exported accurately. When exporting 5 x 5 textures to 3ds, SketchUp could export only a subset of the texture. This issue has been fixed.
• Materials without textures can have incorrect UVs when exported to Collada. When exporting materials without textures to the Collada DAE exporter, materials could have coordinates that were invalid. This issue has been fixed.

Content:

• We received feedback that the new standard CAD style we shipped with the SketchUp 7 release was not as good as our SketchUp 6 CAD style. There were also some grammatical errors with some of the styles. We updated our style libraries to address these issues.
• Previously, some of SketchUp's materials (e.g. chainlink and construction fencing materials), had gray halos around the clear alpha portions of the image. These materials have been modified to attempt to improve their visibility, especially from a distance.

Other:

• Measurements box text can be incorrect when switching tools. When switching between tools, the Measurements box could show text from the previous tool. The Measurements box should now show correct text when switching between tools.
• The status bar no longer updates on the Mac. When performing actions on the Mac that show progress in the status bar (e.g. Sandbox actions), the status bar did not update. The status bar should now show progress for lengthy tool actions.
• Strange error message when launching SketchUp after saving a template in this case. If autosave kicked off prior to saving a new template using the Save as Template feature, SketchUp could issue an error message the first time it was relaunched. This error message should no longer occur.
• SketchUp not properly licensed on Vista when running as a non-administrator. On Vista, if a user executed SketchUp as a non administrator and then licensed the product, SketchUp would not be properly licensed. Running as an administrator is no longer necessary for licensing to work.
• Incorrect error message when entering a prior version license. When entering a pre-SketchUp 7 license in the SketchUp 7 license dialog, an error message was issued that didn't make sense. This issue has been fixed.
• 'Page not found' error when viewing Help menu items with non English locales. Previously, choosing the 'Help Center' or 'Welcome to SketchUp' choices from the Help menu could show a 'page not found' error on non-English systems. This functionality should now be supported with all locales.
• Invalid login page when signing out of the 3D Warehouse using these steps. When editing models on the 3D Warehouse and then signing out of 3dwh via the "G" button on the status bar, it was possible to end up at a login page that didn't work. In this case, SketchUp now returns the user to the 3dwh home page.
• Inability to sign into the 3dwh from within SketchUp on some Mac European systems. On Mac systems, some European users were previously not able to sign into the 3dwh from within SketchUp but could sign into the 3dwh from outside of SketchUp. We changed the code and believe we have fixed this issue.

The following functionality has been added.

• It is now possible to add a model to Google Earth relative to the ocean floor. See this article for details on how to use this functionality.
• A get_glued_instances method has been added to the Ruby Face class.

LayOut:

The following issues have been fixed:

• Crash when updating a SketchUp model reference - On Windows, if you saved a large multi-scene model in SketchUp and were attempting to update that change in LayOut, LayOut could crash. We believe this crash has been fixed.
• Crash when opening a file or editing text when the file was created on another machine - If a document contained fonts that weren't installed on your computer, LayOut would attempt to substitute those fonts with another font. If your computer didn't have that second set of fonts (that LayOut was attempting to substitute), LayOut could crash. This crash has been fixed.
• Crash when label's leader was collapsed on itself - Previously, LayOut could crash if you moved one endpoint of a label's leader line so that it was coincident with its other endpoint. This crash has been fixed.
• Crash when clicking on a corrupt page - If you attempted to change pages in a corrupt file, LayOut would crash. LayOut now recognizes these files as invalid and will not open them.
• Windows Crash when clicking on a dialog box name - If your dialog box names had become corrupt, LayOut could crash when clicking on the dialog box name. This has been fixed.
• Crash when selecting a scrapbook - If you deleted or moved a scrapbook file from its Windows directory while LayOut was open, and then attempted to select that scrapbook from the Scrapbook panel's drop-down list, LayOut could crash. This crash has been fixed.
• Exported PDFs now have the 'scale to fit printable margins' setting turned off by default - In the original release of LayOut 2, PDFs that were exported from LayOut and printed from Acrobat may have had the 'scale to printable margins' setting turned on. This would cause PDFs printed from Acrobat to print slightly off scale. The default has been changed: the 'scale to fit printable margins' setting in Acrobat is turned off.
• Text with custom line spacing failed to export to PDF - If a block of text used a custom line spacing (such as 18 pts), that text would not export to PDF. This issue has been fixed; the text now exports.
• Unexpected Spaces switch - On Macs running OSX 10.5 (Leopard), you could unexpectedly switch 'Spaces' if you launched LayOut in one Space, moved LayOut to a second Space, and then hovered over an inference point in your '.layout' document. This issue has been fixed.
• Windows leak with Context menus - There was a small memory leak when right-clicking on an object to view a context menu. This has been fixed.
• SketchUp Model panel resized - On the Mac, it was possible to resize the SketchUp Model panel so the fog and shadow controls were hidden. The minimum vertical size of this panel has been changed so that the fog + shadow controls are always visible.
• We've made a few changes to some of the default Templates + Scrapbooks:
  Arrows scrapbook:
  
  • The SketchUp arrows are now raster-rendered. Previously, they were vector-rendered.
  • The labels are now on locked layers, so they can't be copied into your doc from the scrapbook page.
  • The 'Preserve Scale on Resize' setting for the SketchUp arrows is now turned off. Previously, when you copied in an arrow and attempted to scale it, the arrow itself did not scale; it was cropped instead. Now the arrow will scale.
  Titleblock > Contemporary > Arch D Landscape template:
  
  • The 'Cover Page' layer had hidden entities on the 'Inside Page.' These extraneous entities have been deleted.
  Paper > Plain Paper > Letter Portrait + Tabloid Portrait templates:
  
  • The active layer was changed to 'Default.' Previously, the shared 'On Every Inside Page' layer was the active layer.
  Paper > Graph Paper > A3 Landscape, A4 Landscape, and A4 Portrait templates:
  
  • The 'User Content' layer name was changed to 'Default.' The layer names of these templates are now consistent with the others.

Windows

To save changes made to the default Templates:

1. Navigate to 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Templates.'
2. Find the template files you want to save, and copy them to 'C:\Documents and Settings\~your user name\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Templates.' The templates will now appear in your 'My Templates' folder in the Getting Started dialog. Alternatively, you can rename the template files you want to save. The upgrade will not overwrite the default files if their names have been changed.

To save changes made to the default Scrapbooks:

1. Navigate to 'C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Scrapbooks.'
2. Find the scrapbook files you want to save, and copy them to 'C:\Documents and Settings\~your user name\Application Data\Google\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Scrapbooks.' Alternatively, you can rename the scrapbook files you want to save. The upgrade will not overwrite the default files if their names have been changed.

Mac

To save changes made to the default Templates:

1. Navigate to 'Hard Drive\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Templates.'
2. Find the template files you want to save, and copy them to '~user name\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Templates.' The templates will now appear in your 'My Templates' folder in the Getting Started dialog. Alternatively, you can rename the template files you want to save. The upgrade will not overwrite the default files if their names have been changed.

To save changes made to the default Scrapbooks:

1. Navigate to 'Hard Drive\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Scrapbooks.'
2. Find the scrapbook files you want to save, and copy them to '~user name\Library\Application Support\Google SketchUp 7\LayOut\Scrapbooks.' Alternatively, you can rename the scrapbook files you want to save. The upgrade will not overwrite the default files if their names have been changed.

The following issues have been fixed:

• Upgraded libtiff and libpng libraries to the latest versions for a variety of minor performance improvements.
• This new release contains fixes for two security issues:
  1. The first is a pointer arithmetic error leading to memory corruption, which is triggered when parsing a malicious .3DS file. We would like to thank Francisco Falcon from CORE Security for reporting this issue to us.
  2. The second is an integer overflow leading to heap corruption, which is triggered when parsing a malicious .SKP file. We would like to thank Dave Weston from the Microsoft Vulnerability Research Center (MSVR) for reporting this issue to us.