I think I understand that when the trial period of 2018 Pro expires, I can choose to convert it to a free version. I have not found an explanation of what features are lost in this process. Does it revert to one of the earlier free versions like Make 2016?

No, the last version of Make is version 2017. They used to convert to Make. Later versions are Pro, only. They are all seperate programs which can be used side by side. The Free version is now the webbased modeler. [image] bilyo: it revert to one of the earlier free versions like Make 2016? …

[image] bilyo: I think I understand that when the trial period of 2018 Pro expires, I can choose to convert it to a free version. I’m curious as to what gave you that understanding.

I found it here: https://help.sketchup.com/en/expired-evaluation

Interesting. There hasn’t been an 8-hour trial period for years. It’s been 30-days for a long time. That’s old and out-dated and needs to be removed. Maybe @jody can take a look at it.

[image] DaveR: It’s been 30-days for a long time That text has probably been written even before SketchUp was acquired by Google. I think the 30-day demo period was introduced in version 8.

I couldn’t remember when that change occurred but you could be right. In any case, it’s ancient text that is in need of replacement.

I still have a version 7 on my Mac, 6,5 hours left in trial!

About 7-1/2 hours left on my V3.1 trial. :wink:

OK. Understood. So. What happens when the trial period expires and I choose not to pay for a license? Do I uninstall it and install a free version? Is there a free version of 18 or is the latest 17?

Once the trial period ends, SketchUp 2018 would quit opening until you supply the license info. The last version of SketchUp Make is 2017 so if that’s what you are going to use, you might as well uninstall SU2018… Of course if you are using it for your commercially, you need the Pro license, anyway …

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Wayback machine? Google magic?

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