I didn’t learn your total remark however I noticed stuff about robots and sport design. That’s not what Sketchup was ever supposed for, you might be utilizing absolutely the improper product for these issues. I do agree with the enhancements you suppose may very well be made, however once more, utterly improper product man. You have to be utilizing blender, cinema 4d, and so on to make robots and do sport design, much better applications for that sort of stuff. Blender is FREE.
I used to be a Mentor on a First Robotics highschool group for numerous years. I did use SketchUp just a few occasions to assist with determining the sport problem that 12 months. @DaveR remains to be a Mentor I consider. Curious to know if he makes use of SketchUp as a part of that.
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Belief me, I attempted utilizing Blender. My mind doesn’t have the capability to get round it, Sketchup’s extra easy consumer interface works finest for me, 
Additionally, yeah, I’m conscious Sketchup isn’t supposed for it, however isn’t it nice that you should use Sketchup in a method that it wasn’t supposed for, and get really good outcomes? 
That’s why I’d hope for, sooner or later, extra in-depth efficiency updates to permit Sketchup to deal with greater than what it’s succesful now.
I don’t essentially imply that by way of options, however undoubtedly imply it by way of general efficiency. Let Sketchup unlock the complete potential of my CPU/GPU/RAM/no matter it has to as a way to deal with my hobbyist workloads 
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If I’ve issues that I wish to isolate all to themselves in Structure I make a separate tag for every of them, like stair 1 to 4, in order that in Structure its simple to override one stairs scene to get simply one among them within the viewport. However Condoc does this, a number of tags utilized per object. Haven’t tried it although.
Sketchup shouldn’t be a CAD, is constructed round a polygonal 3d core (I consider that I learn somewere on Sketchucation that it was initially based mostly on some previous sport engine).
By the best way, by it’s nature may very well be extra suited to create robots than to create a real circle. 
There’s no motive why one shouldn’t do some severe freeform modeling out of it. Really we already do (in fact utilizing a plugin military), and we may do it even higher with a bit extra native help in some areas that will make potential to construct much more highly effective plugins.
a flip equal for older SketchUp model & Make 2017…
Work in progress…
There’s now every x, y, z planes and it work. Subsequent step : transfer planes for extra interactions…
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The older variations is not going to be up to date.
It’s a useful gizmo and it’s superior that you should use it for issues like that. I agree with each you and @colin
Yep!
The extension warehouse wants to truly be a working STORE ie I pay for issues utilizing the shop.
Then it’s a lot simpler to cost $2 or $10 for an extension, and builders can have far more incentive to replace them, enhance menus, icons, and so on.
It’s an untapped useful resource.
