Hi, I have currently through BuildingPoint 2 x Sketchup Pro 2020 and 2021 perpetual licences, and 1 x sketchup Prop Perpetual 2021 running on 10.14 Mojave. I am considering a new or second hand mac computer upgrades and cant find clear information of software system requirements specific sketchup versions can operate on. If I get 2 new Mac, I get Monterey as the OSX, so don’t know if my 2020 or 2021 SU Pro wont work, and will force me into new 2022 Subscriptions for my 2 desktops. Below is what I think is the case, Does anyone know where I can check this or if i have it correct?
Sketchup Pro 2020 ( YES 10.14 Mojave + 10.15 Catalina + 11 Big Sur) (NOT 12 Monterey)
Sketchup Pro 2021 ( YES 10.14 Mojave + 10.15 Catalina + 11 Big Sur + 12 Monterey)
Sketchup Pro 2022 ( NOT 10.14 Mojave ) ( YES 10.15 Catalina + 11 Big Sur + 12 Monterey)
Generally speaking, you don’t need to be too worried about what Mac to get as they all seem to work with SU pretty well. I have not yet upgraded to the latest OSX nor to SU 2022, but until just over a year ago, I was still using a late 2012 Mac and upgrading to a new one didn’t make a huge difference.
It’s all a different matter if you want to run a render engine, but that’s not SU.
Thanks Simon. I hope it is that easy, but as I understand it new macs coming with Monterey have a very different operating system, and many of my other programs, (Vectorworks, FileMaker Pro 16, MYOB, Microsoft V16.16 and many Adobe CS4 photoshop, lightroom, acrobat pro, indesign, … will just not work at all on Monterey. I would be surprised ( but pleased ) if SU Pro 2020 and 2021 are any different. Just wanted to get clear info so I can go in eyes open. If what I own under the old perpetual licences don’t work then I have to factor in being forced onto 2 SUpro subscriptions. The cumulative subscription load is overwhelming.
Likewise. Because of PowerCADD in particular, I’m not going past Mojave for a while.
Another consideration I haven’t done in a while, but I’ll look at again is a dual partition drive with Mojave on one and a newer OS on the other. On startup, you can choose which one to boot with. You still have to have legacy hardware to use the older OS though.
