What’s up with SketchUp Make?

[DanRathbun]

@eneroth3

I think creating a small application that is really just a wrapper for a browser engine could fix a number of Free’s issues. The window chrome with address bar, tabs, links and all that noise would be cleaned away. Shortcut collisions would be solved, and, maybe most of all, it would feel like a proper application and not a web app.

You can try this now, on SketchUp 2017+.

From the Ruby Console (in a new SketchUp instance with empty model.)
Change the language code if you like.

WD = UI::HtmlDialog.new(dialog_title: "SketchUp Free")
WD.set_url("http://app.sketchup.com/app?hl=en")
WD.show

@jbacus, It seems to be much more responsive to orbit and drawing, than it does under full blown Chrome.
And much faster loading as well! (Old Toshiba Satellite i5 notebook with Intel HD4400 graphics.)

Although copy and paste from the dialog into SketchUp proper is a “no go”.