My old computer died and along with it went my version of downloaded Sketchup. On my new computer this morning, I tried the web based version of Sketchup free and it was absolutely terrible. It took me 5 minutes to draw a line. The UI is terrible - I couldn’t believe how few buttons there were and no options to add more like in the old downloaded versions. How on earth do they think it’s a good idea to lump together commands like the circle tool, rectangular, etc into one button, then after clicking on it having to find the command you want. Not at all happy with it.
I read in a thread here from earlier in the year that one used to be able to download Make, but that’s apparently be done away with in place of the Shop version which requires a fee of $119 a year I believe.
Am i correct in that most all the other modeling software has a free trial period and then a fee is required to keep using it? I don’t want to spend the time figuring out how to use something then have to pay for it.
An understand these companies need to make money but I’m a little PO’ed that after years and years of free Sketchup they’re now charging. $119/year is not in my shop budget.
I tried reaching out to Dave Richards whom I’ve talked Sketchup with before but he seems to have vanished?
Surely not everyone who uses free Sketchup is no paying? What free programs are people using? Or is there more to Sketchup Free that I’m missing?