[lug] sketchup

[Quentin Hartman]

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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