Trimble sketchup make 20157/3/2023 ![]() I discovered an upgrade from May/2015 for the 3dConnexion Space navigator, that took a very long time to download at ‘dial-up’ speeds, at least twice as slow as the previous Windows 7 Home Premium that was on this machine a few hours ago. You’re absolutely right however, the SketchUp (Trimble) people would list which OS’s were supported, I assumed that Windows 10 and SketchUp had an inevitable marriage coming up, the sooner the better for all involved. I normally scan the readme file of anything (new) I put on this machine, Microsoft mentioned nothing regarding SketchUp from what I read quickly. Pardon my colloquial use of “the most popular OS in the world”. The sales pitch is that these things will make our lives easier, but the reality is they are trying to sell us stuff we don’t need. I get a feeling that this could be a very useful OS for the next few years and MS tries hard to make that work, but then, they take something that’s ‘not broken’, and fix it, applying all their stupid ideas. So now we have pop up advertising embedded into our Operating System. One very annoying item A pop up advertised the Office Suite for sale. I read about the wi-fi situation and the new web browser from MS and made the appropriate changes (MS ‘Edge’ is not the default browser on my machine now), and I disabled a sharing option and anther similar service that uses your computer in a ‘bit stream’. Most of this ‘functionality’ only adds overhead to slow down everything, and is there only at the insistence of the marketing people. When you close and save a file and put it somewhere, it stays there but they make finding the place you put it very difficult, because it moves from folder to folder. If I don’t think the same way Windows does, the files go all over the place, turning up in various ‘libraries’ that I’ve not created. It tries to guess which files I’ll want to see later and organizes them that way. The Windows Explorer, not the web browser, the program that lets us use the directory in Windows OS’s, is improved in Windows 10, but I’ll have to use it for months to know if I like it. But the new driver made a difference with the Spacemouse, it responds more accurately, but the biggest improvement in speed was modeling in Monochrome, turn off all the features like shading etc. Between Time Warner and Microsoft’s OS, the download speeds were slower than dial up, in the '90s. I also downloaded a new driver for my SpaceNavigator/SpaceMouse, which took almost an hour, to down load. However, I’ve found that keeping things small (file sizes etc.,) is more important with Windows 10 than before. One would think that using SketchUp everyday for over a year, and following Microsoft’s progress with Windows 10 that somewhere along that path, someone would mention that Trimble has yet to re-write SketchUp for the most popular OS in the world.
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