There are several threads about this issue on the official Trimble forum. Seems like you have to temporary disable your WindowsDefender to 'fix' this. Some strange technical thingie I can't reproduce.

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/unable-to-update-sketchup-2023-due-to-a-md5-checksum-issue/223665

Update 2023.0.1 was released on the official download page. It addresses a few bugs. https://help.sketchup.com/en/release-notes/sketchup-desktop-202301

Wow...impressive. Thanks for sharing this.

Imagine what a few years world-wide development and even more faster hardware will do with this tech;

• Use AI for generating optimal floor plans, elevations and sections for a given program
• easily create design variants
• nice renderings of course

How will the architects role in this change?
Interesting times...

@panixia said:

..I have a workaround for this....

shell = WIN32OLE;;new("WScript.Shell")
> shell.SendKeys "InsertYourWeirdSendkeyShortcutHere"
> 

Just be aware that this fix won't last forever. I'm using it in one of my plugins and SU2022 is already warning me it will be deprecated in a next version of Ruby.

Underwhelming but not unexpected. I see no reason to update to 2023.

Now that everybody is on the subscription train, its no more letting your wallet speak for you by skipping a year (or two) until actual good improvements are added. Its pay up or you will loose access to your SketchUp files and you can't edit them anymore-time now.

Anyone already tried the BlenderBIM addon for Blender? Just saw the news they received some funding from Epic a few days ago. According to the press release, this will also be spend in 'creating a productive workflow capable of generating drawings and diagrams for commercial output'. Could be interesting!

https://blenderbim.org/features.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9au6q3ihMk

v2021 - my 2 cnts - will test more when starting up a new project next week

• layer groups - why not implement scene groups at the same time?!
• smaller file size
• layout bug where SketchUp dimensions were 'cut' depending on the position on the paper seems fixed - hurrai

• prefer the old logo
• wishlist of 2015 (or earlier) can be copy-pasted again

...back to work

Nice update and generous to give a discount to existing users.

This will affect people who keep their classic license and don't go the subs way end of this year. Not that I will ever download 100 models a day from the warehouse but maybe some others do.

Rhino & Blender:

Interesting suggestions/videos but in its current state to me it looks like it will take a lot more time and is much harder to do compared to stuff I do easily now with SU&LO.