"Swingman" wrote:

"Leon" wrote

I was a snob too. ;~) It's pretty much Sketchup 7 all the way for me
now. Once you learn to tweak the programs so that the lines look the way
you want it seems to be leaps and bounds better for relatively small
drawings. I consider relatively small to include a complete set of plans
for a house. Memory may become a problem with tall commercial buildings or
large landscapes such as a city park.

You really have to learn the program to appreciate it.

Folks can't seem to grasp that SU is not CAD and doesn't claim to be ... it
is "surface modeling" software. Comparison is misleading and a waste of
time.

I agree. They are very different animals. However there IS an overlap
in what you can do with 3-D CAD, solid modelers, and Sketchup, and
this overlap tends to lead to a reaction like Leon's. And someone used
to doing conceptual drawings in Sketchup would find a solid modeler
able to produce the same shapes, but incredibly frustrating to do jobs
that Sketchup is best for. And a user of solid modelers find Sketchup
and 3-D CAD inadequate for their needs. They all have their place.

For me, the visualization help with sketchup makes it the software of
choice; its limited CAD capabilities meet my needs (combined with a
simple 2-D CAD program)
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