Product Updates

Performance and correctness improvements to the simulation engine.

⚡ Improvements

• BVH Acceleration: Implemented Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) spatial indexing to significantly speed up GA simulations on complex geometry.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• String Handling: Fixed a crash caused by non-UTF-8 characters in project data.

A focused improvement release polishing the GA simulation experience with better controls, clearer feedback, and cross-platform stability.

⚡ Improvements

• Simulation Options Dialogue: Configure simulation parameters before running an analysis.
• Simulation Estimate: Get an upfront time estimate before committing to a full simulation run.
• Reverberation Time Parameters: Exposed additional RT parameters for more detailed control.
• Ray Tracking for Escaped Rays: Improved tracking now captures rays that exit the room boundary.
• Windows Animation Handling: Resolved simulation animation issues on Windows computers.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Licensing Server: Improved the connection error message to provide clearer guidance when the licensing server is unreachable.

A major leap forward in simulation capability. SketchAcoustics now uses a Geometrical Acoustics (GA) engine to model how sound energy decays over time, giving you reverberation time (RT) estimates directly in the model.

🚀 Features

• GA Reverberation Analysis: Simulate and calculate RT (reverberation time) for rooms of any geometry using a Geometrical Acoustics approach.

This update expands the acoustic analysis toolkit with material-aware simulations and more robust geometry interaction.

🚀 Features

• Material Assignment Tool: Assign acoustic materials to surfaces directly within the model.
• Material Properties in First Reflection: Acoustic material data now feeds into First Reflection analysis for more accurate results.

⚡ Improvements

• Room Mode Calculator: Multi-face tagging now works correctly after Orbiting and Panning the viewport.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Extension Installation: Resolved a missing library that caused installation failures.

Stability improvements across the board, with special attention to Windows compatibility and the room mode overlay system.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Room Mode Indexing: Corrected indexing logic that caused incorrect frequency calculations.
• Room Mode Overlay: Fixed overlay not reappearing after opening a new project.

⚡ Improvements

• Release Pipeline: Streamlined the release process for faster and more reliable updates.
• Windows Compatibility: Updated extension filepath handling to work correctly on Windows.

A brand-new simulation engine lands in this release, enabling architects and acoustic designers to identify and visualise room modes without leaving SketchUp.

🎵 Room Mode Simulation

• Room Mode Engine: Calculate resonant frequencies for any room geometry directly in the model.

A quick follow-up patch ensuring the Room Mode Simulation Engine ships with all its dependencies properly bundled.

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Build Pipeline: Fixed the room mode simulator pipeline to import all necessary libraries and packages.

The first Closed Beta of SketchAcoustics is here. This initial release lays the foundation for in-model acoustic analysis directly inside SketchUp.

🚀 Features

• First Reflections Calculator: Analyse early reflections directly in your 3D model.
• Dispersion Angle Control: Modify dispersion angles to fine-tune reflection paths.
• Listener Placement: Add one or more listeners to visualise how sound reaches each position.