Sketchup for linux???

jarynzlesa · 7 Mar 2014, 16:56

hi, sorry for this topic, but i can not find thread for sketchup for linux. where can i download sketchup for linux??

AndrewS · 8 Mar 2014, 02:51

hi, sorry for this topic, but i can not find thread for sketchup for linux. where can i download sketchup for linux??

There is no SketchUp for Linux. SketchUp runs natively on Mac and Windows only.

There are some folks in the community who have made SketchUp run successfully under the Wine Windows Emulator for Linux , but no official support is provided for that method of operation.

I know that SketchUp 8 worked with Wine. I don't know about 2013 and 2014 though.

Andrew

jarynzlesa · 8 Mar 2014, 06:24

thank you very much. I am not a window cleaner, but I work with windows. My friend prefers penguins and would like to try sketchup. thx again.

Aerilius · 10 Mar 2014, 19:57

Tell your friend to look for the latest information about Wine (is not an emulator ). Take also a look at this link . It changes a lot, so old threads might be outdated. There is barely any effort to get it work (except disabling software rendering). It works beautifully with hardware acceleration, and Ruby runs better.

I haven't noticed any effort for the Windows/OSX version to share cross-platform technology, that would save time and money and that could ever result in another operating system support.