Sketchup purchase and exchange rates

[Angelsoft]

I see someone has decided to re-subscribe.

The latest price of Sketchup Pro $399 (up considerably from last years $349), and that European re-subscriber is paying EUR379. At the current exchange rate of 1 Euro = $1.16, the renewal should be EUR342.

I have already brought this to the attention of the Trimble accounts team some 8 days ago, but have not had the courtesy of a reply!

I am in the UK and have been asked to renew at £349 although $399 converts to £299 at the current rate. I appreciate I may be granted a 25% discount but that does not negate the increase, the exchange rate discrepancy and the tax i am liable for.

I have 24 hours to decide whether or not to renew, and Blender is beckoning.

Can anyone persuade me to subscribe?

[ateliernab]

@Angelsoft

Can anyone persuade me to subscribe?

Well, it’s good, it doesn’t crash.

@Angelsoft

I have already brought this to the attention of the Trimble accounts team some 8 days ago, but have not had the courtesy of a reply!

and I’m gonna guess you won’t. Why should they ?
And I don’t think your ultimatum is as powerful as you think there…

[kevin58]

@Angelsoft

Blender is beckoning

If you want to use Blender, go for it — it’s free. Just keep in mind that it’s a completely different type of program compared to SketchUp.

By the way, do you use LayOut?

[BSo]

If you don’t need layout and just want to 3d model. I think formz is the closest to sketchup. There is a free version if you want to try out. Other free option is onshape which is a parametric program.

[franciscofiallosb]

@Angelsoft

The latest price of Sketchup Pro $399 (up considerably from last years $349), and that European re-subscriber is paying EUR379. At the current exchange rate of 1 Euro = $1.16, the renewal should be EUR342.

The prices of products are different for Europe and US, it usually costs more in Europe than the US, apple prices for example, an iPhone in the US costs say $899 and in Europe it costs €899 both prices before taxes, software companies use to do the same, also the exchange isn’t a fixed rate, companies are not changing their prices every time the rate changes unless it’s a huge difference due to some economical catastrophe.

@Angelsoft

I am in the UK and have been asked to renew at £349 although $399 converts to £299 at the current rate. I appreciate I may be granted a 25% discount but that does not negate the increase, the exchange rate discrepancy and the tax i am liable for.

You should’ve bought a new license until December 5th, it had a considerable discount.

@Angelsoft

I have 24 hours to decide whether or not to renew, and Blender is beckoning.

I love blender, if it had architectural features it would probably be the only software I’d use, it even has two native and powerful render engines but it lacks of a tool like SketchUp’s Layout to go from 3D to 2D which is a huge part for my work.

I use it every now and then because I have a lot of fun playing with it, specially using geometry nodes and the texture node editor to create things that you can’t do on sketchup. If you can do all your work using blender and you don’t need sketchup features that blender doesn’t have you should definitely give it a try, the learning curve is steeper than with sketchup but once you learn how the program works you’ll have a lot of fun with it.