[lug] sketchup

[Quentin Hartman]

Looks like recent versions of sketchup work fairly well in Crossover:

https://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/search?name=sketchup

It's not an officially supported product though, which means that crossover
isn't doing anything super special to make it go and that it has a good
chance of working in mainline Wine.

Not done it in Wine myself, though I have used Sketchup (2016 I think?) to
do some pretty involved designs. It's a great tool, but I just ran it in
winders.

Q

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:05 PM, Michael J. Hammel <
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> I tried it (and other apps) on Wine and never had much luck.  I don't
> know what it is about my setup but Wine typically has messed up colors
> or functionality disabled.  So I was never able to get SketchUp
> working.
>
> Alternatively, I used Blender to model some changes to our small
> trailer (slide out bed, cabinets, etc.).  It's not obvious how to give
> exact measurements which you need when trying to get specs for building
> what you've modeled.  But you can do it.  Sadly, I can't remember the
> details (it's been two years).  I'd still recommend Blender for this
> kind of thing (and modeling for 3D prints too, for that matter) because
> the UI is professional (if confusing to the uninitiated) and runs
> perfectly under Linux.
>
> Just another 2 cents.
>
> On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 14:36 -0700, Stephen Queen 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
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