With 75%+ of worldwide users; The Windows OS out paces IOS. Yet, you decide to cater to the IOS community with features only available to a minority user base with tools only IOS users can access. Not that I think features like “auto shape” are game changers; I find it insulting that you invent features not every subscriber can use but charge the same subscription price regardless of ISO or Win OS.
Yet another example of how your genius marketing guru’s missed the mark again. Perhaps they may consider the existing user base as important (if not more important) than the customers they are chasing. You need a new Marketing leader.
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You sound like you need a holiday hug.
IIRC there are some limiting technical issues regarding ‘simply’ porting the iPad version over to Android tablets - mainly to do with how many different types there are and the wild variety of hardware they operate on - and I’m sure someone from the SKP team will come along and clarify the reasons.
As a Mac user I could change the Os names in your post and complain about not having the Revit Importer and a native Trimble Connect app… but, software is different. So are computers and users.
And to clarify:
iOS runs iPhones and iPads
macOS runs desktops
Windows generally refers to ‘PC’ operating systems - last I checked there isn’t a viable mobile ecosystem similar to iOS thst is a derivative of Windows - I believe Microsoft ended support for Windows Mobile in 2020. So technically there is no user base to cater to similar to iOS.
Android is another mobile / tablet OS that has many forks and variants, likely far too many to develop something like SketchUp for. And I imagine a ■■■■ show of security issues and hardware issues.
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iOS is not the same thing as MacOS. The iPad version was developed to take advantage of what that platform can do, like the Apple Pencil which doesn’t work on either Windows or MacOS. The development of the iPad version also attracted people like @Danimaupin who never used SketchUp prior to there being an iOS version – that expanded the audience of SketchUp users to a new group of people. Even though I don’t use the iPad version as much as desktop, I’m glad they did something to expand the SU world.
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Sir, please let go of the eggnog.
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Thanks for the clarity. As you say, maybe I do need a holiday hug.
It just seems to me SU is leaving the their core customer base in search of higher subscription fees. I have be a user for 20 years. I just want to model for personal use (woodworking).
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The only feature that there was for Mac and not for windows was the pdf import as jpg, but that was added to the latest version of sketchup for windows as well. There are tools that are available just for windows, scan essentials and Revit importer from Trimble and there are also some plugins that work only on windows like WrapR.
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I read your post carefully and still genuinely do not understand what your complaint is. What feature are you imagining that Mac users get that Windows users do not get? Or is this actually about not having an android tablet app?
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The worst thing to happen to SKP was Google buying it and offering it for free…
I just do personal photography work and I pay for my software, camera, lenses, tripods, etc.
I could just draw what I see in my sketchbook instead of capturing the moment with a camera - much like you could sketch out your projects by hand.
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Man, you are always near the first to be both condescending and to attack other users from what I see on this forum. Get a grip. It’s not a great look.
If the stat is wrong then correct it but leave the condescension somewhere else. I’d be fairly surprised myself if there is more usage on MacOS or IOS compared to PC.
If they didn’t offer a free path back then, I wouldn’t be paying for it now. I would be using other software like 3ds max or something similar.
I should have said the best and the worst thing to happen was the Google purchase.
It is still offered for free today… the whole ‘make’ and ‘free’ but not for commercial use you need Pro wink wink was great for getting people into the ecosystem but sort of shitty for long term prospects of the software.
Thankfully SketchUp did not end up here:
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I’d like to know who’s ahead of me, I feel I can do still better than them.
edit : I’m sorry, you can’t expect me not to do humour and sarcasm when I see a rant post, especially if it’s based on an weird statement. It’s a cultural thing.
happy new year.
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This is definitely not the place to voice such opinions. Disparaging remarks are not tolerated here, no matter how logical, true and substantive they are.
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This post is not true not logical nor substantive.
So predictable
Quote the post and please tell me:
What in the post is logical?
What in the post is true?
What in the post is substantive to the points above?
The post is confused emotive vomit.
Prove me wrong.
Sketchup is amazing for the price. I still can’t understand the haters. I’ll swap you “auto shape” any day of the week for a Revit importer on the Mac. Just saying.
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I wonder if the Revit model to Trimble connect to Trimbim workaround works for Mac users.
Why not? The Revit project needs to be uploaded via the Revit addin, though. (Same for Windows)
Once uploaded, it can be downloaded as trimbim and imported in SketchUp like the importer does.
But, it won’t create components from families or add tags as categories.
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yeah, once it’s up there in TC it doesn’t matter what machine you’re downloading it. but it requires a PC with revit at the start.
I get why autoshape on ipad, it’s easier to freehand there. that’s why we don’t have it on desktop.
unfortunately, until autodesk decides to port revit on mac (hahahaha that would be a weird day…) we won’t see the revit importer on mac os.
except in virtual machines or crossover installs of SU I guess. maybe.