SketchUp in the Cloud?
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Hello All!
Have not been here in a while and i had a odd idea...
with all this talk about Google's OS, I have been thinking about the programs I use, that would still require windows.
It all came down to one program.... Sketch Up. Programs like Photoshop and Gimp are replaced by Aviary. Microsoft Office is replaced by Google Docs. Even Video and Audio editors are starting to appear. So my though was, what about a toned down online version of SketchUp?
At the Beginning it would have just the basic tool set. and the upload to Google functions. You would log in with your Google account to access your saved data. I don't know...What do you think guys? Any thoughts?Tell me what ya think,
Taylor,
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Not sure I understand the reasoning. What would be the advantage? Why have an online version rather than downloading it?
My guess is that it could probably work, albeit without plugins and probably a number of other features. That being the case, it would probably mostly wind up as more of a toy than a tool which would only add to the vast amount of low quality models on the warehouse.
-Brodie
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Why think small? Soon google will have it's own cloud computing (wherein you use their servers not only for storage, but for processing). One could potentially log into google.com/sketchup, enter their password (with attached payed accounts), and run sketchup from any old crap computer, macbook or smartphone, since it would just be streaming video.
Google could take it one step further, and allow multiple people to access the same file at the same time. Once everybody's done, send it off to google's proprietary renderer, walk away, and every receives a .png in their email within an hour or two.Sorry if that gets things too far off topic... a dumbed down online version of sketchup would be fantastic, if only for showing clients / friends / family what you're working on.
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Not at all, that was basically my idea.
theoretically you could then run sketch up from any net-book/laptop/Tablet/Phone with internet access
It should also be able to run with the full amount of features.At the very least one for quick sketching on a web computer would be great.
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Here's a recent post about the same topic: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=292757#p292757
Someone had SU 'working' in Chrome, but it totally messed up the local installation...
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Um, SU only needs one core to run, so them having the 'Processor power' could be easy, string together a kajillion old x386's and off you go.
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As one of the fortunate ones to be a part of the Chrome OS beta, using Google's supplied ChromeBook, I'm with you in a big way.
Put something together, and I would be happy to test things out for you.
I need Google Earth, SketchUp, and PhotoShop in the cloud, and I'm blowing windows off of my desktop!!
Let me know if you need to connect up with others testing the CR-48 and Chrome OS also. I moderate on a couple of forums, so I know a few folks there.
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While I can see the lure of cloud computing, I don't think I'll ever convert to it myself. My reason for this is fairly simple: Severe thunderstorms.
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The current state of cloud computing is still prematare. I see its huge potential
when quantum comnputing becomes mainstream in 2035, cloud computing tech stocks
have been facing sell off pressure throughout the globe recently.And because of the way SU is being envisioned as a solid CAD platform
but one that relies heavily on plugin's , commercial and free, i do not
see this as operationally feasible at the time being. It might be interesting in the
future where all the plugins load up automatically in a cloud, but
again, its still too premature.Once SU can seamlessly handle and display as many poly's as 3DSMAX then, maybe
Google should look at this.I do see SU running on 3D screens in the next 7 years before this cloud happens in full blast....
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Well, you can already access (and work with) SU on other people's computers with different applications so I do not think this would be very complicated to accomplish although it is indeed in a very premature state. A lot depends on connection speed (and internet availability at all) and of course, there would always be the issue that of course, this would (maximum) be the "basic" version with no plugins and such.
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It's already been on the cloud but got googlewhacked recently.
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SketchUp does not run in the cloud. The above example "Roozz" was scamware. It messed with the local install of SketchUp because it did install SketchUp locally into 'Program Files'.
"Spoon" is at least as clever to install unobtrusively into '%USER%\Local Settings', but it doesn't succeed to display the application inside the browser (it's displayed in a normal window).Running a local app in a browser is really not the point of cloud computing (we do already run media plugins or pdf viewers in the browser; there exist plugins that can put any application inside firefox, also SketchUp).
Those plugins Roozz/Spoon don't give platform-interoperability. In the best case, such a plugin would create a VCN connection to a computer/server that runs those applications on a real Windows/OS X.I think Google did good to remove SketchUp from Roozz (which is dangerous) and possibly the same for Spoon. On the other side, Google likes web applications and confirmed that they keep an eye on a future SketchUp Web App, when the technology is ready:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/sketchup/thread?tid=39d42ddba38c76b3&hl=en
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