SketchUp 2019 release

sketch3d.de · 11 Mar 2019, 15:50

Is there something that is essentially stopping us from developing our own opensource SketchUp "clone"?

lightyears of knowledge in highly complex development of a 3D kernel as well as an accelerated OpenGL display output, glueing a programming API and last but not least connecting/developing vector-based 2D/3D data exchange interfaces for multiple platforms... just to name the most difficult stuff.

masterpaul · 15 Mar 2019, 18:32

@sketch3d.de said:

@masterpaul said:

Is there something that is essentially stopping us from developing our own opensource SketchUp "clone"?

lightyears of knowledge in highly complex development of a 3D kernel as well as an accelerated OpenGL display output, glueing a programming API and last but not least connecting/developing vector-based 2D/3D data exchange interfaces for multiple platforms... just to name the most difficult stuff.

I think I would rather pay developers to create an opensource alternative than to pay that yearly for pro every year that brings nothing new to the table.

Mike Amos · 16 Mar 2019, 10:20

Thing is, there are already open source alternatives. Why Trimble are behaving as they are suggests they do not care about migration. I shall leave it to others to work out why.

monsterzero · 16 Mar 2019, 19:25

I still miss the way I can build in Sketchup and have yet to really dive into modeling in Blender. There are some Skethup-like "tools" and plugins for Blender but I've yet to really get into those. It still might be that I have to use Sketchup for modeling quickly and then importing into Blender. Not a bad trade off given Blender is free. I've realized a lot of my work is still really embedded in the "walled-garden" of Sketchup for now.

Nothing against Sketchup, but I need a little more power. Lighting, rendering and rigging. And now that I see Blender can really do some great edge outline looks, I can really stay in that platform for most of my work.

If anyone wants to tackle Blender mods for instance, push and pull, and sketch modeling for 2.8, I'd love-love to see that.

sketch3d.de · 18 Apr 2019, 09:20

yawn

Pixero · 18 Apr 2019, 09:49

I think that to have any success in convincing the Blender team to add SketchUp like features it needs to be done both in mass and in detail.
It's easier to understand how to implement something if it is described in detail and broken down into digestable chunks.

GD3Design · 19 Apr 2019, 08:57

Two months in and they fixed a few bugs.... See folks, the subscription model really works for you!
https://help.sketchup.com/en/release-notes-0

(I miss reading the daily rants on this thread...so felt I had to resurrect it) (also wanted to hear how all the new blender users were faring)

rempage · 8 May 2019, 10:38

Sorry if it's slightly off topic. Does anyone know who designed the SketchUp 2019 cover building?

sketch3d.de · 8 May 2019, 10:43

better ask this in the offic. forum .

Pixero · 8 May 2019, 11:48

I think I read it was Peter Guthrie and his company The Boundary.

rempage · 9 May 2019, 08:24

Thanks. It's The Boundary indeed. Sadly you can't find it on their website.

rv1974 · 10 May 2019, 08:07

2019 DWG Import is disasterous- constantly skips geometry in multiple files. Blocks exploding is not a good option. The best workaround so far is to import into 2018 and re-open in 2019.

valerostudio · 18 Jun 2019, 19:17

@rempage said:

Thanks. It's The Boundary indeed. Sadly you can't find it on their website.

Interesting thing is that on CG Architect, in their latest article, when the Boundary lists all he software tools they use, SketchUp is not on the list.

juju · 19 Jun 2019, 07:12

@valerostudio said:

Interesting thing is that on CG Architect, in their latest article, when the Boundary lists all he software tools they use, SketchUp is not on the list.

Secret weapon much?

mozzie · 25 Jun 2019, 00:22

I'm still using Pro v8 - I gave up once the "trust us - it'll be great" licensing came in.

The loss of Geolocation was a blow, but I am now able to work through using public/ Gov terrain information and imagery using QGIS, Spirix shapefile importer, the wonderful Toposhape and Superdrape (thanks TIG!).

john2 · 15 Sept 2019, 15:59

@pixero said:

I think I read it was Peter Guthrie and his company The Boundary.

I got curious, googled and found this. Interesting videos of their work too.

Pushing The Boundary with architectural visualization

What's your architectural vision? We sat down with Henry Goss from The Boundary and discuss the architectural fundamentals into his elaborate illustrations.

(blog.sketchup.com)

chippwalters · 19 Sept 2019, 05:00

@masterpaul said:

Edit:

There's a destructive push pull in development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZau_wpR-U
https://blenderartists.org/t/destructive-extrude-beta/678275

That's not available in Blender 2.8 because of the new boolean engine they are using. It may make a comeback in 2.81 as they are working on an even better boolean engine which should be ready by then.

chippwalters · 19 Sept 2019, 05:06

@pbacot said:

I think that it is metric units only.

English units are supported.
Here's one of the videos from my Definitely EEVEE series on rendering SketchUp scenes in Blender 2.8.

chippwalters · 19 Sept 2019, 05:10

@monsterzero said:

If anyone wants to tackle Blender mods for instance, push and pull, and sketch modeling for 2.8, I'd love-love to see that.

Here's a couple of videos which talk some about using modifiers to create models. Once you use modifiers, it's hard to think of modeling any other way

chippwalters · 19 Sept 2019, 19:00

@mozzie said:

I'm still using Pro v8 - I gave up once the "trust us - it'll be great" licensing came in.

The loss of Geolocation was a blow, but I am now able to work through using public/ Gov terrain information and imagery using QGIS, Spirix shapefile importer, the wonderful Toposhape and Superdrape (thanks TIG!).

You also could check out:
http://terrain.party/