2017 Lost and sad
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I have been a SKU user since 2010 as a hobbyist and have always enjoyed it. Recently my pc crashed hard during a lightning storm and I lost everything on the HD and the motherboard was cooked. I do have some of my drawings on usb due to transferring them as dxf files for CNC cutting. Now I can't get 2017 Make or Layout (what I was using) and everything now is cloud based which doesn't work for me being rural with iffy internet at best. Is there anyway I can get old versions of the free 2017, along with the plugin export extention for .DXF or .STL? My CNC is an old home build that doesn't like all this new fangled wizardry too. Thanks for listening.
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SketchUp Make 2017 installers are still available for download on archive.org.
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Thanks for the link I checked it out for giggles and got AI to put it together on my Computer and it works
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@L-i-am That is interesting Liam. How involved is it to get AI to do the job?
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Just get chat GPT and asked it to put the code together to put SU 20217 on my computer I think I just sent the link to chat on this thread it came back with text plus an "exe" file
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Golly gosh.
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The link contains a downloadable .exe for 2017. Simple download and run it, usually best down with right click Run as admin.
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@Box Must have missed the .exe. I did look
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@Box But there are so many .exe's. All gobbledygook to me, that is why I am so impressed with Liam's approch. (BTW: I'm on 2019, just curious about AI)
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EN in the file name tells you it is an english version.
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Aah, I need to get out more, obviously. Have we hi-jacked this thread?
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The Gemini AI says:
The term "gobbledygook" was coined in 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas.
During World War II, Maverick was the chairman of the Smaller War Plants Corporation. Frustrated with the excessively long, vague, and pompous language of bureaucratic memos, he issued a memorandum to his staff telling them to "stay off gobbledygook language." He defined it as "talk or writing which is long, pompous, vague, involved, usually with Latinized words."
Maverick explained that he came up with the word by thinking of the sound a turkey makes—a "gobbledygobbling" sound. He felt that the pretentious and convoluted language of officialdom sounded just as ridiculous as a turkey's gobble.
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