[lug] sketchup

Ron Wright halsaves at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 19:28:19 MST 2018


The product manager for Sketchup (and many of the developers) lives right
here in Boulder.  I know him well.  I don't believe there is any short term
risk of Sketchup Free becoming any thing other than free.  It is a core
mission for them to get people doing 3D from all walks of life across the
globe.

Ron

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:12 PM Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted to follow up on this and let people know how this turned out.
>
> I gave freecad one last try. I couldn't even get through the 2d draft work
> bench tutorial in about 5 hours. I couldn't get the join tool to work
> correctly so that I could  create an array. I also struggle getting the
> lines to snap correctly. I don't know if I'm missing something, or if it is
> buggy. I'm just tired of struggling.
>
> I then tried to load sketchup using  playonlinux. That failed miserably. I
> did not want to spend a lot of time figuring out what the issue was.
>
> I have since then been going through the tutorials on sketchup free, the
> browser based sketchup. I'm very pleased with the ease of use, and the
> learning curve is an easy slope. I have a fear that because it is
> proprietary, after I've used it for a while, the other shoe will fall.
>
> Thanks to all who commented.
> Steve
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Spent a few minutes messing with the in-browser sketchup using Chrome on
>> Ubuntu and it works really well. All the tools I used for the work I've
>> done in the past for planning projects (house remodels, deck design, some
>> furniture design) were there and worked as expected.
>>
>> Unless you need features that are only in the pro version, seems like an
>> awful easy way to go.
>>
>> Q
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Simos <blug at chinesetearoom.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:36:07 -0700
>>> Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I've been struggling to learn how to use freecad. It has a very steep
>>> > learning curve, and is awkward for me. I feel like it is holding me
>>> back
>>> > from doing projects I would really like to complete. I see a lot of
>>> people
>>> > use sketchup. This is a proprietary program (ugh) for windows. After
>>> some
>>> > checking, I see that some people have successfully loaded and designed
>>> with
>>> > it under linux using playonlinux and wine.
>>> >
>>> >  Has anyone on this list done this?
>>> > If so what are your impressions?
>>> > Should I keep struggling with freecad, or bite (byte?) the bullet and
>>> load
>>> > sketchup?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks for your opinions,
>>> > Steve
>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> I've been compiling & using Wine for many years now (mainly for games
>>> but also
>>> for some Windows applications) so I know my way around it pretty well. I
>>> signed
>>> up and downloaded the trial version of SketchUp Pro and installed it in
>>> a clean
>>> dedicated Wine prefix. It's a bit tricky to install (needs at least .net
>>> 4.5.2
>>> & the Visual C++ 2014 runtime, which I installed with winetricks) but I
>>> got it
>>> installed and running on my Debian 9 system running Wine development
>>> (3.0 RC5)
>>> without much hassle. Here's a screenshot of it running with a couple of
>>> basic
>>> shapes I created:
>>>
>>> https://s18.postimg.org/94rkvkmah/sketchup.png
>>>
>>> It's a bit flaky but from the little testing I did it seems to work well
>>> enough.
>>> Menus, buttons, the camera, shapes, drawing, materials, saving &
>>> loading, etc.
>>> all work OK. I wouldn't do any production work on it but for learning
>>> the tool
>>> you should be fine.
>>>
>>> FYI, the current version available from the vendor is now SketchUp Pro
>>> 2018,
>>> which the Wine AppDB does not yet have:
>>>
>>> https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1815
>>>
>>> Ratings for previous SketchUp versions (and older versions of Wine) vary
>>> from
>>> bronze to silver which means it works but will have glitches. Wine
>>> itself is
>>> also a rolling target so a newer Wine version might screw up a previously
>>> working setup but in general it gets better. You may also want to try
>>> older
>>> versions of SketchUp such as 2017 if you can find them.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>> Simos
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