What other free sketchup alternatives also use the 3d warehouse AND have a similar interface to sketchup itself?. Blender is too difficult to follow for this senior citizen…also, no way I can afford a sketchup pro subscription on a senior fixed income.

Name: Someone Built an Open-Source SketchUp — Trimble Won't Like This
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Description: Just came across this in Youtube today.. [Someone Built an Open-Source SketchUp — Trimble Won't Like This]

RWK. I do like Sketchup Pro for some things and it is easy to learn and fun to use even as a beginner and a bit, so I think you should persist with the Pro version because of Layout and the powers to generate scaled drawings and you are not needing it for actual production design or construction w…

[image] RWK: Blender is too difficult to follow for this senior citizen…also, no way I can afford a sketchup pro subscription on a senior fixed income. I empathize with you. I have felt this way at times, myself. But I just haven’t found anything else to scratch my itch to create… Presuma…

[image] tkhoatson: [Sorry, I gave wrong information, above. Apparently SU Free has changed, so I am no longer able to download models in earlier formats. So my brief encounter with SU Free has come to an end - it is completely useless to me.] there is a free extension by eneroth that allows y…

[image] ateliernab: there is a free extension by eneroth that allows you to open recent files in older sketchup, on PC. That worked! I was able to get things imported into SU 2015. :sunglasses: Eneroth saves the day! :tada: Thanks, nab, for the pointer. :wink:

Just came across this in Youtube today.. [Someone Built an Open-Source SketchUp — Trimble Won't Like This]

[image] gsharp: Just came across this in Youtube today.. More will definitely appear. I already see quite a few independent Photoshop alternatives popping up on X, often built by just one person or a very small team.

[image] gsharp: Just came across this in Youtube today.. “If you can’t beat them, join them” might apply here. Maybe at some point SketchUp needs a free and open-source version of its own. That could be a better way to compete with projects like this.

The real threat to SketchUp may not be another SketchUp alternative at all. If customers can create what they need with AI or some completely different tool, they may stop hiring people to build SketchUp models in the first place. That means SketchUp could decline from the outside in. Not because …

[image] gsharp: Just came across this in Youtube today.. Has anybody else had a look at this? I downloaded it out of curiosity, and I’m impressed. I opened a SketchUp model which loaded easily. All the dimensions are spot on to 6 decimal places, :flushed_face: the model displays well, and th…

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Just came across this in Youtube today..

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