Whoops! I’m using SU 2020.

I would imagine a lot of the hobby modelers that still rely on Make 2017 are finding it harder to use the program, especially if they can’t use anything from the 3DW (at least not without the Eneroth load newer version add on). Still, that doesn’t seem to explain the increasing ratio of European/Asian to American/Canadian models available for download.

I don’t know if there’s an active Archive Project effort at preserving older models. Did the 3DWH have a wider selection 10 years ago? (I started using SU about 5-6 years ago.)

Hopefully, I'm posting this in the right subforum.

I'm an urban planner who uses Sketchup to make illustrations for comprehensive plans, zoning codes, and the like.

Over the past several years, I've noticed that there's fewer new models of North American-style buildings -- houses, small apartment buildings, commercial buildings, and the like. For every usable building model that looks like something I'd see in an urban or suburban setting in the US, it seems like there's a hundred reflecting architectural styles that would way out of place on this side of the Atlantic or Pacific. Lots of uber-modern concrete-and-glass "casa moderna" European houses, similar minimalist modern Indian/Malaysian/Indonesian homes, ornate Russian dachas, and the like; seemingly tens every day. Nothing wrong with that, of course, but now, only a few new models reflecting North American architecture get uploaded every month.

So, are the North American model makers disappearing? If so, why? (For what it's worth, I've got over 100 models to my name in the 3DWH, with only a couple of "remix" .skps.)