Any Google Sketchup members here?

[phylodog]

I've used Google Sketchup for years for all kinds of projects. It's been an extremely useful program but unfortunately I cannot get it to run on my macbooks any longer. I'm guessing they abandoned updating it or something. I'm trying to see if there is an alternative out there that is as easy to work with?

 

[Kurr]

I am a fan of Fusion 360

 

[WebSnyper]

Not familiar with it, but looks like Sketchup was purchased by Trimble some time back and they offer some paid versions and a free web version now:

https://www.sketchup.com/plans-and-pricing#for-personal

SketchUp - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AndreusMaximus]

I've used Sketchup for quite some time as well (though not for anything super involved, so I'm not an expert with it.) Like WebSnyper said, the last downloadable version they came out with was in 2017; since then there's a browser-based version, but I've never tried it, and have no plans to. It still use the 2017 version, as it works fine on Windows 10 for me, but if that's not an option, you can try the browser version. Other than that, I'm afraid there really don't appear to be any other options out there for modelling programs that I've found that match the sheer level of simplicity that Sketchup has.

 

[phylodog]

I've tried the web version but it's different enough that I'm completely inefficient with it now and it gets frustrating.

 

[phylodog]

I've been working with the free web version. I'm gettin it done but I sure do miss the old.













Most likely cause I'm getting old. Sure sounds that way.