"How does Tinkercad differ from Sketchup?"

thomthom

@mike lucey said:

Mr Backman is so 'off the mark' that I think very few will take what he is saying seriously.

...by any SketchUp user. But people with no experience keep hearing these statements and thinks SketchUp is not a serious tool Which is why you keep hearing comments like this.

Mike Lucey

That used to bug me also Thomas but I came to the conclusion that most sensible people 'see through' this silly 'SketchUp Knocking' and the people that don't initially I imagine eventually check it out for themselves ..... hence the 30M downloads.

numerobis

@thomthom said:

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/06/interview-with-tinkercad-founder-kai-backman/

@unknownuser said:

How does Tinkercad differ from Sketchup?

Both Tinkercad and Sketchup are 3-D design tools. The main difference is that Sketchup is a desktop sketching tool that isn’t suited for designing physical objects while Tinkercad is a web app that is actually a real Computer Aided Design program suitable for real design.

I believe he hasn't really observed what SketchUp is capable of. Any suggestions of some nice examples to put him to shame?

I think he means that Sketchup doesn't support curves.

But other than that it really looks like it is made for idiots...
and it looks like a cheap copy of autodesk's 123D (cloud based, 3d-printing, sharing)

sketch3d.de

@numerobis said:

I think he means that Sketchup doesn't support curves.

assume this too (w/o reading the article), NURBS modeling and analytic entities are of course more exact than mesh-based modeling and polylines... but at the end of the day, when it comes to machining, all the exact NRUBS curves need to be converted to polys anyhow because machine tools are driven by stepper motors (max. res. ~1/1000mm).

with 'CAD' = 'Computer Aided Design' SU is of course CAD, what else.

Norbert