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#XREF EXTENSION MANAGER SKETCHUP EXTENSION UPDATE#

We’re excited to share this preview with you and want to let you know we have even more design improvements to come in future versions! We’ll continue to evolve and improve the Extension Manager UI and your continued feedback is instrumental. We’ve also streamlined extension categories to make it easier for you to explore extensions by their purpose, such as extensions that personalize your theme, for example, or help you document your codebase. You’ll now be able to learn more about each extension without ever opening a browser to visit an extension’s repo or even leaving the IDE! The new design puts the content you care about front-and-center and brings rich extension descriptions right into the Extension Manager. After you restart Visual Studio, you’ll find the updated Extension Manager at Extensions > Manage Extensions. To use the new Extension Manager, make sure you have Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3 or later installed from the preview channel and go to Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features and enable the feature called Extension Manager UI Refresh (requires restart). Enable the new Extension Manager in Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3 As we continue to work towards our official release, we’ll release blog posts with updates along the way about how we’re using your feedback to build the best Extension Manager.

#XREF EXTENSION MANAGER SKETCHUP EXTENSION UPDATE#

This update of our Extension Manager is about solving some of the issues you’ve shared and improving your quality-of-life as a user. these could then be a shortcut key and life is beautiful.We know from speaking with developers that while you value extensions, you sometimes experience challenges installing and using them.

'unload all xrefs' and 'reload all xrefs'. then one more function would be very cool. but I have lots of room under the tools menu. it would be really cool if you could tell me how I can move the xref manager to the Tools pulldown, as my plugins menu already drops down past the bottom of my screen. so I want to be able to quickly unload the context model, and reload it at will)Ģ) What is the advantage to/workflow suggestion of converting components to xrefs? Though I convert them to become xrefs, aren't they still making my file bigger? (hence why one may want an 'unload' option)ģ) Is there a way we could have an option kind of like ACAD where you can define the automatic insertion point of the xref to be the origin of the current model? This is important because sometimes the origin is difficult to snap to, buried deep inside/under other geometry in your model, and you just want your context model to pop in with the same 0,0 origin. I want the 'addition' model to stay 'small' in size. (I'm doing a hospital addition, I have a huge hospital/site/context model I want to xref into my 'addition building' model. How do I 'unload' the file, so that my model is much smaller, but then I can reload the file quickly again to see the xref again next time I open my model to work. but I want to unload it, that is, I want to keep the info and path to the xref inside the SU model without completely deleting it. so I know xref-ing very well.ġ) I need to know: I know I can choose to DELETE the xref in the xref manage. I'm wondering if you have a tutorial explaining how it all works, as I'm a bit confused (I've been using AutoCAD for years and years, and am one of the office's 'CADMasters' (their word, not mine). Thanks for this, TIG! I have finally found the time/necessity to experiment with this thing. No more stuff in our menus that isn't absolutely necessary, please! Cdubea wrote:Can I ask an ENORMOUS favor? Can your menus be included in the right mouse button and TIG - PLEASE, TIG, NO! My R-Click menu is already WAYYY too long as it is.Ĭhris, simply set up a shortcut button to the xref options, Try 'x' if you didn't assign that to 'explode' already.

Xref extension manager sketchup extension