

Bonzai3d vs sketchup how to#
But I felt the most important thing I did was give them directions here and showed them how to install and use a plugin (ThomThoms CleanUp).Just to report that using wine 1.1.43 the menu icons now appear and the application loads perfectly :D They were coming from AutoCAD I think - so I showed them how to make 2D face-me components, optimize component use and library, set up layers properly, optimize the viewport for navigation of heavy scenes, etc.

But it is really more like a platform - you really need the plugins to make it worthwhile for much of anything". As part of that conversation I made this statement: "The mistake most people make when first trying SketchUp is they think it is a complete program in itself. I was helping a local landscape design specialist (a couple doors down from my office) get up to speed with SketchUp the other day - they were getting bogged down in performance issues.
Bonzai3d vs sketchup full#
whenever I teach I always point people to these forums and give them a full rundown on how to install plugins, because SketchUp is simply not complete without them. I think many people simply ignore the plugins when they talk about SketchUp - which for me is a joke because I think SketchUp is virtually unusable without the plugins. Aside from accurate arcs and circles I'm not sure where the perceived problem might be.
Bonzai3d vs sketchup pro#
Still, this does not answer the question of "why is SketchUp not a true CAD application?" Obviously the free version lacks Layout, which means it is not optimized for paper output - but SketchUp Pro can create create technical drawings using Layout quite well. Here is the wikipedia page I got the quote from.

since many "true CAD" packages offer 32-bit versions as well. I work with single precision 32-bit floating point data all the time (audio) - so I was not automatically thinking they were referring strictly to 64-bit.
