Dear Trimble, So, 14 months ago, I previewed much of this current scenario. My first ask was about how to implement plugins in the cloud to which I was told SU was actively pursuing a strategy. Didn’t happen (yet). [image] What’s up with SketchUp Make? SketchUp Free …

I don\t know about the roadmap stuff or what GAAP is, however I have only ever worked for two companies, one private in London and one public in Sweden. If I spoke about future plans and roadmaps outside either of them I would expect to have lost my job without question. Certainly my current employ…

Yeah, but you are an employee. It should be your company the one giving the roadmap… And we should not forget that we are asking for a roadmap because SketchUp’s development has been so limited for the last years, that one can only be worry about sketchUp’s future.

I understand the motivation to going online. Have you considered publishing the object model that runs within the browser? This would enable people writing Chrome extensions or enhanced browsers to interact with the model using Javascript. In that case the scripts/extensions would be loaded locally. …

[image] chippwalters: And now you’re going to a subscription based model without a reasonable customer value proposition It 's exactly one of the feelings I have, an other one being sort of “imposed way” that no one asked me for, with no way to get out of it without loss… It’s for me a loyalt…

Here is my response Open letter

Wow! @Solo , if you really are that cynical and skeptical, then there’s not much that anyone could say to convince you. There are very simple reasons that this profile has only been active for a week.

In this age of information one really needs to investigate everything one reads online, like I said it just appears suspicious.

[image] Devine: Wow! @Solo , if you really are that cynical and skeptical, then there’s not much that anyone could say to convince you. There are very simple reasons that this profile has only been active for a week. And they are?.. I’m inclined to see it from @solo ’s perspective. Very suspic…

There you go Pete there are reason mate, simple reasons…

An open letter to Trimble

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Solo February 14, 2019, 2:00pm 21

How odd, you joined this forum a week ago and now suddenly a pro Trimble open letter all in it’s own thread, advertised in another, kinda suspicious to me.

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