How have people been getting on with running their sketchup 2021 (or previous versions) on the Mac OS 12 Monterey public betas?

I’d like to purchase one of the new m1x/m2 MacBook Pro’s when they come out and Apple won’t say yet if they’ll be backwards compatible with Big Sur and I’m not going on to the sketchup subscription model so sketchup pro 2021 will be my last version. I’m pretty sure sketchup 2021 wont official support Monterey but it would be good to know unofficially

Thanks

Hi

I currently have a perpetual sketchup pro 2021 licence with m&s running out this November

I need to get a new MacBook soon to replace my 10 year old one with one of the new 16” m model MacBook Pro once they become available (the m1’s are just a bit small and not powerful enough long term)

Can I activate my perpetual licence on a new computer once my m&s runs out?

Thanks in advance

Hi

Perhaps a bit of a weird question perhaps but my faithful MacBook Pro is starting to run a bit low on storage. It’s still running really well so I don’t want to get a new laptop but I was wondering how viable an option would it be if I bought an external ssd drive and move/run sketchup and perhaps its renderer plugins from it?

How possible is it? Does anyone on here have experience with this?

Many thanks

Perhaps I’m being a bit daft but the below quote

“Please be advised: if you purchase a Classic Perpetual License or renew your Maintenance & Support license prior to November 4, 2020, you will not be able to upgrade and access additional features on that license every year as you have in the past.”

So say I got one last perpetual licence m&s in October - would that mean I’m unable to download any of the post nov 4th - 2020 version updates or 2021 version and 2021.1, 2020.2 updates and so forth for that last year of m&s. I’m having trouble deciding the above quote

I’m still using Adobe cs6 on the Mac and Mojave is the last OS X it will work with
I know that sketchup 2020 needs high Sierra or above to work so by that logic sketchup 2021 is last version to work with Mojave so there’d be no point me updating past this next version anyway

I do question how smart this move is from Trimble esp in a post pandemic business world - many people won’t be able to afford subscription - sketchup is no adobe or autodeck

Not quite what I was looking for

The sketchup icon is that red cube - this poster had managed to change the colour of the icon different colours so sketchup 19 had a blue desktop icon, 18 a purple icon and so on and so forth

Thank you for taking the time with your suggestion though

Hi

Probably like a lot of you I have a lot of versions of sketchup pro on my computer where it’s individual serial/licence details means they all still work

A few days ago I came across an old post where something (using a Mac I think) has changed the colour of each of his desktop sketchup icons so he could easily tell the difference

I’d love to do this colour coding myself but for the life of me can’t find this post again

Can anyone help

Thanks

Just logged in to mychaosgroup account to check my vray licence details but now can’t seem to find out the logout button

How do you logout?

I remember those quotes

At the time I was thinking we had at least another 3-5 before subscription only

Trimble has been a relatively good software company to us users over the years - I like to take them on their word

I’m only relaying what I’ve been told by a respectable retailer - it’s better to pre warn on something that never comes about then say nothing and it catches people by surprise with no time to plan/budget

I’ve had another email from my retailer

Trimble is looking to end the Classic Perpetual License model later this year

The date is not known but subscription is becoming the norm at some point this year

I imagine that sketchup would have to honour any existing m&s plans (in fact where do you buy a 3 m&s top up as that’s probably the best future proof for us classic users)

Sound like it’s happening - so those of us who are classic not intending/can’t afford to go subscription should start covering ourselves now

Tried to get more from my sketchup provider but he wasn’t giving anything else away

I guess he had already said too much (by saying the classic licence is ceasing to exist later this year/2020)

If it does happen in 2020 it would be a bit of a crappie move eliminating the perpetual option imo