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I have thought Sketchup to hundreds of people in online and in person classes. Nowadays I don't do that anymore because Trimble effectively killed off a vibrant

by a1371 4y ago

I have thought Sketchup to hundreds of people in online and in person classes. Nowadays I don't do that anymore because Trimble effectively killed off a vibrant community by putting Sketchup desktop behind a paywall. I think the web version is great, but it doesn't have extensions, and it has limited exporting functionality. You can't have the freedom you used to have in 2018 anymore. I think Sketchup was at it's best when it was under Google. Their interest was to put it in more hands for the sake of Google Earth. So they gave users a lot of freedom.

LegitShady 4y ago
I stopped using sketchup entirely when they went to the browser version. I still have an old version I use to open up files I made before they locked the desktop version behind a paywall. I started learning blender instead and in the long run was much better off for it.
I_complete_me 4y ago
The story of SketchUp mirrors the story of the internet a lot IMO. Once a beautiful product that people wanted to explore, invent, help, have fun, create, enjoy. Then it's popularity drew in the "big pockets" and it all went downhill. I made a lot of money from my skill with SketchUp professionally but I long for those young boy days. If I get to heaven they will have SketchUp on Linux and I will know that I have lived a good life.