Here's a brief description of what's new:

Tool and Inference ImprovementsĪs always, we are looking at ways to improve our core modeling tools and inferencing. The Extension Manager can be found within the Window menu on both Windows and Mac. This is a complete replacement for the extension and extension loading policy areas previously found within the System Preferences dialog. In addition, users can set their extension loading policy through this same dialog. Users will be able to install, uninstall, enable, disable and update extensions from this new dialog. The Extension Manager is the new way to manage how extensions interact with SketchUp. In SketchUp 2017, we are now scaling content in the modeling window so that you can better see the masterpieces you are creating! This work includes larger, scaled inference graphics and linework and updates to our inference icons. In SketchUp 2016, we scaled the User Interface (toolbars, cursors, etc). The SketchUp 2017 modeling window is now “DPI aware”. If you see this error dialog, try upgrading your graphics card driver - upgrading your driver is a good first troubleshooting step and often solves the error. If your machine does not meet these requirements, you will see an error dialog when launching SketchUp, LayOut, Style Builder, and Viewer that lets you know which requirement you did not meet and which will prevent you from running SketchUp until you fix the error. These tests include checks like compilation of SketchUp's GLSL shaders and support for OpenGL framebuffer objects. A graphics card that passes a series of tests that are run by SketchUp 2017 to assure that your card is capable of rendering SketchUp models.

We will no longer support software rendering!

A graphics card that supports Hardware Acceleration.

A graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.0 or above.

This new graphics pipeline has stricter hardware and software requirements than in previous versions of SketchUp. This was a massive change that will allow us to innovate far beyond what we have been able to do in the past. With SketchUp 2017, we have completely reworked our graphics pipeline - i.e., the way we display SketchUp models.

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