As I wrote before, you were using SketchUp Go due to being signed into your Pro subscription. Your students were not.
Maybe you should create a new sign-in with a different email address and password to use while demonstrating SketchUp for Web. If you create a free account so you are forced to use SketchUp Free instead of Go you won’t have all these features the students don’t have.
Thanks for the tips. I believe this is all going to get straightened out. I’m not at all sure what I was using before, but I do remember creating an account, so I assumed it was the free version.
Another thing to consider is that with a brand new account there’s a short trial period of SketchUp Go. It used to be a 30-day trial but I believe now it is a 7-day trial like the trial for SketchUp for Desktop. If you set up a new account immediately before starting the class you would have the features of Go available. If students ahad set up their accounts previously the trial period might have already elapsed.
It sounds like you are teaching a course for hobbyist users. You could just avoid showing features that aren’t available to non-paying users or you could demonstrate those added features making it clear that they would need at least a SketchUp Go subscription. Let them decide if a Go subscription is worthwhile for them. It might be.
I did think of using the free trial version, but discovered the new 7 day limitation, plus I want them to be able to use the program indefinitely. Some of them may very well be contractors, and they would surely go for the Pro version down the line. So I don’t want to use any tools that are not available in the free version. All of this was so simple before, but “progress” can make things more challenging. Some time ago I download the free version of form Z, and it was much simpler than Sketchup.
You should make it clear to your students that they can’t use the free version for their work if that’s their plan. They would need at least a Go subscription if not a Pro or Studio Subscription.
I haven’t seen any loss of features in SketchUp Free over time. If anything they’ve added features.
Just asking but why aren’t you teaching them Form Z then?
While I realize that there is much you can do much easier in Form Z, it’s a different program that would require a substantial investment of time to learn, and I can do all I need in Sketchup. Of course, the reason Sketchup is so popular is the price. My hope is that Sketchup will get up to speed in the future. I was very disappointed in the last upgrade. The last real progress I’ve seen is the flip tool. That was big. Here’s a list of things I’m looking for:
Move important Layout features into Pro, and get rid of Layout.
Allow right-click grouping of single entities (lines, circles, etc.)
For dimensions, add "baseline dimensioning, and add angle dimensioning.
Make zooming in and out consistent, in contrast to having cursor on an object when zooming in or out.
Cutting openings in layered solids, such as walls with siding and paneling.
Right Click an object to access and edit all properties!!!
Polyline
Bezier Curve
OSNAP needs substantial improvement. Look at AutoCAD OSNAP options.
Group selection for actions, such as Push Pull
Enable pasting objects from the Windows clipboard
Line drawing option to specify line to be perpendicular to the surface of an object.
Add a tool to shape objects, groups, and components, which should include the ability to add nodes to the shaping window.
Of course there’s more, but I want to be reasonable.
don’t forget that they may be eligible for the 55$/year student price.
sure, it’s not free, but it’ll get them the whole studio pack EXCEPT vray. so web (go) + ipad + pro + revit importer and the point cloud thingy.
I will highlight that! Thank you.
Taught my first of four classes at Adult Ed last night, and ran unto an unexplainable problem. Got to the point where I was going to have the students start modeling exactly what I was doing. But when it came to entering numbers into the Measurements, none of the three students could get anything in. I tried on each of the laptops, but nothing would work. They’ve emailed me this morning to tell me they’ve tried everything with USB keyboards and numerical keypads, and nothing works. They can type numbers in a word processer, but not Sketchup. Have you ever heard of anything like this before?
The only times I’ve run into the complaint of not being able to type dimensions into the Measurements window is when the user has been clicking in the box before entering the numbers. There’s never any reason to click in the Measurements window. The other time people complain about it is when they’ve modeled something and completed it, then select it and try to type in the dimensions. With some CAD programs if you draw a rectangle you draw it at some random size. Then you select one side and enter the desired dimension followed by clicking on the adjoining side and typing its dimension. SketchUp doesn’t work that way but some users try to do that.
I made sure they were not clicking in the window to enter the measurements, and I tried doing it myself on their laptops. It seems to have something to do with the free version of SketchUp. My laptop has a separate numerical keypad, and works perfectly. Nothing is making sense here. I’m contacting the school to see if we can make arrangements to have access to their computers. That may be the only thing that will work.
I doubt it. If that was it every SketchUp Free user would be complaining of the same thing.
What browser are they using? What kind of laptops?
They are all Windows laptops from different manufacturers. One of them had a Surface Pro, which is what I have used in the past.
All four of us were connected to SketchUp through the school WIFI. As I mentioned, they enter numbers into a word processor. This problem seems to defy logic.
Not only the free one, this only works for 7 days, then you buy the “GO” version, which is online, it is called SketcUp web. I agree with you, it has been deliberately degraded to the maximum, it is something like a mockery to whom we trust that this company had a civilized assertive philosophy, but has fallen into the hands of the corruption of savage capitalism, creating a program that is a macabre torture “to annoy the customer by completely distorting the ease of use, and selling a setback Bizarre, regarding X-rays, look for it in STYLES
pro trial is 7 days. during this week, you also get a full go version.
this is where the confusion lie.
GO PRO and STUDIO are not versions. they are licences. tomorrow they could be renamed BLUE GREEN and RED.
you have on the other hand 3 sketchup versions : the ipad one, the web one, the desktop one.
GO gives you access to the ipad one + an extended (a little bit) web one.
well, in sketchup pro, if you remove the styles toolbar, then you can switch to xrays in the style panel too…
and you have a search tool, top left, to find simple things like that.
In 2003 the SketchUp free trial period was 8 hours so today it is 21 times longer.
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