If you need the high-high-pro stuff, it probably doesn't have it but its so rare for me to need it, and the experience is so much smoother & faster. It really distills Fusion down taking the, maybe, 40% of Fusion that 70% of people use 90% of the time, and making it great. I'm a founder of a 3d design & printing shop of the three of us, one prefers Fusion, one prefers TinkerCAD, and I prefer Shapr3D.

$WINE '$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2016/SketchUp.exe'Īgreed. r: reset sketchup (does a complete reinstall) Here's a script to automate this whole business:Įxport WINEPREFIX=/home/username/.wine-sketchupĮxport sketchup_msi=/home/username/Downloads/SketchUp2016-x86.msiĮxport gecko_msi=/home/username/Downloads/wine_ Once Sketchup tells you the trial period is over - 30 days for Sketchup 2016, the version I use - you just wipe the relevant Wine directory and re-install Sketchup. How to use Sketchup for as long as you need it? The solution lies in using Wine on Linux (or wherever you want to run it) to run Sketchup. The drawings are accurate enough to use as templates for cutting wood to build trusses.

I have used it to design an extension to our house, a 22x12 meter barn, a lean-to for my wife's horses, an octagonal chicken coop and much more. Well, Sketchup itself fits the bill and can be used for free more or less indefinitely.

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