Since Trimble acquired Google’s 3D flagship - Sketchup 8 - really no significant improvements
were introduced, looks they want to discount year by year nearly the same succesfull product.
But just now it happend: SKP goes subscription…
For many it would sound bad, we see, if it is so fantastic for Trimble themselves.
https://www.sketchup.com/plans-and-pricing#for-professional
Time to reaseat fully into Blender archviz workflow ?
These days every major piece of software seems to be going with subscriptions now, so this is just the new industry norm unfortunately. Blender has no equivalent to Sketchup’s 3D modeling workflow, so I don’t really see it going anywhere.
Quite excact equivalent really does not exist but…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZau_wpR-U
plus Archipack, Archimesh, MeasureIT and some other tools AND all the power of Blender itself
with some adjustment can speed up arch workflow to resemble SKP. No charge, no subsription. ))
Been a SketchUp user since version 3, doing archviz for my school projects up to my professional career. After moving to Linux some 8 years ago, I had to make do with running SketchUp with wine (not an emulator) for the longest time. Finally I decided to give blender a go (it runs superbly with Linux, without the overhead of an emulator) and never looked back since. Reading all this hoopla about subscription bullshit made me realize I made the right choice.
Subscriptions are the death of a thousand cuts. If I was doing my workflow with subscription based software it would be costing me about 500 a month with ease, between art and cloud backup options.
We really !!! need good snapping tool for Blender, I still have a hard time getting AutoCAD file into Blender. I am planning to give up SketchUP too. Any one know how to convert dwg file to Blender? I have a hard time importing DXF. There are small little things that work so well in SketchUP, and Blender doesn’t.