Money isn’t necessarily the main point I was going for. Blender would be so much better, after the six months it takes to understand it. If using SketchUp doesn’t earn you one day of extra work per year, I think you should stop using it. The new subscription rate of $299 is like less than one day of extra client work. M&S is equal to one morning of extra work per year. I have no idea if that is good or not, but for the sake of argument, lets say that you charge clients at around $40 per hour of work. Before being at SketchUp I was being paid as a part time employee. The discussions brought up something interesting (in other forum topics), and I have idea about that. You can torture me if you like, I’m not going to tell you. I secretly know of ongoing improvements to the web application. You ought to keep a copy of the installer around, in case it isn’t there when 2021 is released. It was a pleasant surprise that 2017 Make was kept around on the downloads page. But I have been through a few rounds of what was the same as M&S renewal back then.įree users. I haven’t had to pay for SketchUp from 2013 onwards. But by then I was a Top Contributor in the Google forums, and later a beta tester. Do as best as you can to take this as a personal opinion, and not a statement from SketchUp.įor some context, I used the trial during v3 and v4 (it was 8 hours then, you could make it last ages), bought v5 for $495 because I needed it for a personal project, free upgrade to v6 when Google took over, $95 to v7, $95 to v8. There is a chance that I will get into trouble tomorrow about this reply. Now you’re just making it more challenging and expensive for developers and your users. It was built with the community in mind to help make it grow. This subscription model doesn’t fit with how SketchUp works. What’s going to happen is you’ll update your software more often but now developers with their extensions that make SketchUp actually worth using will always be playing catch up or be out of date entirely. You obviously know Blender is taking the top tier and maybe thats the reason you’re doing this. You are one of the top 10 largest 3D Modeling softwares and you’ve NEVER added a subdivide tool! We all pay for SubD or Artisan. I was already getting tired of paying for extensions to do the absolute basics of 3D modeling, such as UV’s, Array objects, and subdivide. Then you go asking for more money when you’ve only just supplied a U.I. You guys are updating/adding things that nobody is asking for because you know other developers will make it or have made it already. The reason other softwares can get away with this is because they make everything in the program themselves and people will pay that company to keep enhancing the tools and U.I. If this wasn’t the case and the SketchUp team developed all of the tools and you could just download the software and have all the tools you would ever need right there already installed, then yes I can understand you moving to a subscription based license. Which is fine, this is how SketchUp grew to be where it is. You’ve built your whole software around relying on other developers to make the extensions and tools for you for free. Without the community SketchUp would be nothing. You haven’t provided any new tools that make a difference to my workflow that is worth upgrading, the community has, which I’m really grateful for. The reason I still use 2017 for my freelance is because I’ve had no reason to upgrade. File problems when trying to open newer files. Extensions no longer working in 2020 because developers don’t always have time to update their extension. I’m working in SketchUp everyday and can tell you that I only notice two differences between version 20. I use both Sketchup Pro 2017 for my freelancing and SketchUp Pro 2020 subscription license for my full time job. But I feel SketchUp moving to only subscription base is a terrible move. Normally I don’t voice my opinions on this type of stuff.
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