How much SU costs?
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And 'Solid Tools' - which opens up several other >=v8 Plugins too...
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@frederik said:
@mitcorb said:
The main difference in the free and pro versions is the inclusion of Layout with its ability to output to large format printers.
Not to mention the ability to import/export various formats (i.e. 3DS, DWG, DXF, FBX, OBJ etc)
From LayOut you can also export multi-page document 2D Export to DWG as well as PDF...
@mitcorb said:
And changing the north angle!! I can't believe they removed that from the free version lol
Oohhh... What about StyleBuilder and Advanced Camera Tools...?
They looks sooooo appealing! 
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If I had given out all the candy in one reply, you guys wouldn't have been able to contribute. And thanks. This is one helluva informative thread. My apologies to our friend Filberts.
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I suggest designating one person responsible for Pro duties and then the others using the free version.
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@frederik said:
Oohhh... What about StyleBuilder and Advanced Camera Tools...?
Interestingly (or not?) I do not use those too much...
@tig said:
And 'Solid Tools' - which opens up several other >=v8 Plugins too...
...and did not use to use Solid tools too much either until I started to develop my latest tutorials (where you are "supposed" to use them to show the potential - especially against the good, old Intersect tools).
However Solid tools have alternatives, too.@mitcorb said:
"And can i use free version of sketchup in enterprise? it is legal?"
It is my understanding that you may use the free version of Sketchup in enterprise. Files produced in the free version can be opened in the professional version and vice versa.Indeed it is currentlyallowed (or better to say "not forbidden") to use SU Free in a commercial environment - but be prepared that this may change any time. When Google took over and released the first free version (5 "Beta"), it was not allowed. Then during version 6, it was explicitly allowed then this clause was removed in version 7 - although its opposite was not reinstated.
Who knows what comes next - after all, now a company bought SU in order to make profit with it (and not only to use it as a toy) and they can change the TOS any time (for futurereleases of course).
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@mitcorb said:
Dang! Now there is no excuse not to have pro
Maybe anybody knows some free SU8 free versions plugin for exporting SU files to dwg files?
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@unknownuser said:
Maybe anybody knows some free SU8 free versions plugin for exporting SU files to dwg files?
Seems you can use some free progs like DoubleCad
Export skp file from SU inside DoubleCad then save in DWG
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I think Version 5 was the last time I could export DWG on the free version. Which version was it back in early 2008?
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I only remember that V5 had a free 8 hour license. I didn't download until V6.
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The free version could never export to dxf/dwg. Version 5 free was even more restrictive: you could only export 2D images at screen resolution, no animation export and not even sandbox tools.
The free and pro versions could peacefully co-exist on the same computer however so one could install both, use the free for modelling and the pro (trial) for the extra stuff until it ran out of the 8 hours.
I purchased Pro when 6 came out but started with 5 free originally.
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I was under the impression that with an .OBJ exporter one could get whatever geometry one needed out of Sketchup for free. Couldn't anyone just convert .OBJ to .DWG with any of several converters?
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TIGs OBJ exporter works perfectly, checked and re checked.
I can export complicated scenes into blender/cycles for rendering.
Blender now supports collada (the new fixed version I mean). So, I can import export in SU without issues.
3ds importer is also workable though the limitations (64k faces for single mesh, 8digit names for textures)
This last is broken on all OSX free SU 8, works well in SU7 free.But, as long SU keeps exporting ridiculous geometry, giving no control to the user on this matter, who really cares?
I started using blender as an assist app to SU. UV editor, organic modeling.
Then, after cycles render engine implementation and the new blender UI, I started using SU as an assist to blender, importing there.
Meanwhile, I learned blender, new great tools similar to SU and much more advanced came. So, you see my point
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