Is SketchUp Now Open-Source? Trimble Won't Like This
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@diredjo
Who is saying you have to agree?
Look, wanting the product to succeed AND see the realities of the market AND how litigation is a massive part of life these days. The real world has a way of smacking folk down. Language use has been suggested as needing a bit of help.
Do not be surprised if Trimble litigate. -
How about transporting DYNAMIC-COMPONENTS into Python PlugIns? Perhaps thorough AI?
That should be possible if you have the unencrypted source code. But I doubt Trimble would hand it over. And decrypting it would probably lead to copyright issues...
But of course, you can write your own plugin
I think it’s still a little too early to invest any time in that. But if it turns out well, it will surely be a very interesting plugin platform, and then maybe even a plugin converter could be developed. -
I agree with @mike-amos - There's clearly strong demand for a 3D tool as easy as SketchUp, but using the SketchUp name / marketing angle might get you in hot water with Trimble. But I could be wrong here, a lot of motivated people are chomping at the bit to dethrone established software and it's hard to keep them at bay. I know of a company in the real estate SaaS here in Belgium that's trying to cease and desist challengers but there are a lot of motivated people that want to take their share of that juicy real estate SaaS market here in Belgium.
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PushPull [FollowMe]'
i seen this may problematic, a general names is extrude and sweep
Look, wanting the product to succeed AND see the realities of the market AND how litigation is a massive part of life these days.
for this, a case similar with Intellicad with Autocad and it seems not a problem.
apologizes when i answered with doubting since i'm not a lawyer.
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@diredjo
You misunderstood my point.
SketchUp might think they 'own' some tool-names like PushPull and FollowMe - but then calling 'equivalent-tools' say Extrude [or perhaps Pull or Push] and Follow [or perhaps Sweep or Follow or FollowPath or ExtrudeAlong] would be cleaner and safer naming ways. There are easy ways to avoid 'passing-off' accusations... -
Fact is, "Sketchup" is a trade mark and has property rights to it, downright calling a program that acts like Sketchup in many ways "open source Sketchup" is misleading and false advertising. Trimble could already be talking to lawyers and arranging to completely ruin someone's LIFE.
Trade mark, copyright etc do not come cheap and when they pull the trigger with lawyers it will already cost them money so they will want THAT back for starters. Take a good look at the folk who made fan films in the Star Trek genre to see just how it can blow up in your face.
I hope this works out, I really do as competition is GOOD.
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The developer did not put "Sketchup" in the name. That's the YouTube influencers doing. It's simply Ingetrazo. So I don't see a problem with Trimble coming after the developer because of using the word "Sketchup".
I been watching this very closely and been testing it myself. I'm not happy with the way Trimble abandoned older loyal users like myself. Years ago I worked and saved money to buy a Pro license for around $700. Recently built a new PC and found out my Pro version of Sketchup can no longer be authorized. I do have 2017 free version but it's not Pro like I'm used to. So my main 3D pipeline been completely upended by both Trimble and the new overlords of Thea Render who both decided to abandon the very users who enthusiastically supported them in the past. Thea Render also discontinued support for the perpetual licenses we paid real money for. So I give a warm welcome to Ingetrazo and wish it all the best. If this new program gets proper texturing tools which Sketchup always lacked, it would be incredible. So far the plugins have started pouring in and I'm excited.
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Can someone tell me how to use the follow me tool in Ingetrazo. When I have tried, I could not get it to work like it does in SketchUp.
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@ntxdave I got it to work fine. Just select the edge/s you want to follow, click on the follow me tool, then click on the face of the shape you want to follow the edge. I had a simple rectangle right at the corner.
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helleo, it works for me on simple extrusion
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Thanks guys. I do not know what I was doing wrong before but I now have it working. Still a lot to learn about using this tool. Things like learning how to select multiple items (like multiple lines and how to set the axis for something I am drawing) but at least I am moving forward.
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@ntxdave It's also way early in its development.
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@TIG @Li-am pour contourner la securitè pour risque car .. "origine inconnue" j'ai eu l'idée d'aller voir dans les propriétés du fichier exe, et j'ai trouvé la mention : ce fichier est bloqué car il présente un risque ou provient de l'exterieur, : cliquez pour débloquer... Et ça marche nickel !!
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@juju C'est effectivement tres prometteur, je ne l'ai installé que depuis ce matin , tres semblable à SKP, mais pas en français, ça pénalise...
mais on va s'y faire , je déplore que l'aspect general soit sombre., notamment le plan de travail qui n'est pas blanc comme sur SKP mais ...Gris, c'est un peu déstabilisant , et quand on n'a pas une vue terrible... mais heureusement que ce que l'on trâce est en couleur.... je ne pense pas pas qu'on puisse changer ça .... peut être en augmentant le luminosité de l'ecran?? J'avais aussi un probléme d'unités, moi j'utulise plus facilement les mm que les mètres , je trouvais un plugin pour ça, mais je crois avoir vu dans la vidéo que le choix d'unités de mesure est natif dans l'application, à verifier -
YOUCAN CHANGE ANY UNITS IN THE PREFERENCES (tu peux passer en mm avec l'option dans les préférences)
Sauf que ça ne change rien si on active l'extension Bevel... (Except that it makes no difference if you enable the Bevel extension...)
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@krass Merci ainsi qu'à tous ce qui suivent ici.. ob le changement d'unités c'est fait
j'aussi trouvè à mettre le chantier (ecran de travail) en mode clair, c'est bien mieux à présent je n'ai pas la commande pull/push dans la barre d'outils (normalement elle est dans celle du haut... (vu la video de L'air du Bois) lui il a le pull/push, pas moi :-(, je suis allé dans Help et search command, là je la trouve et elle se met aussitot sur mon chantier, prête à servir... Mais ce serait bien si je pouvais l'avoir directement dans la barre d'outils.. car là c'est un peu galère... et puis les raccourcis clavier c'est pas mon truc . Merci à tous ceux qui peuvent me dire comment faire -
ce serait pas ici pour tout afficher? moi j'ai la barre déplaçable
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@Krass merci.... je viens de faire ça... mais non toujours pas le pull/push
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en fait j'ai un peu bricoler avec ITRZ pour me faire la main, et j'ai eu plein de bug, genre èvider une face et...ça efface des traits...
alors s'il y a des developpeurs ... @pixelcruncher ..@patrick .. qui passent par là??? et qui auraient vent du probléme??
si non je vais attendre un peu en faisant avec SKP Make 2017... sauf que je risque d'avoir un probleme car mes fichiers .skp sont passés quasi automatiquement en .igz vais-je pouvoir refaire dans l'autre sens ?? j'ai l'impression que ça va être ...ardu ... alors help!!
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