SketchUp 8 Maintenance Release Available

The Google SketchUp team has been working a lot... Some of the issues that 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. 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.

Here a video showing this important fix:

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).

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.

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."

This is only a small list. You can read the full list at the official release notes: Here

You can read more about the shadow bug: Here

So the latests versions of SketchUp Free and Pro are:

For Windows is 8.0.4811 

For and Mac is 8.0.4810