On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:30:35 -0500, Swingman wrote:

On 9/16/2010 2:06 PM, FrozenNorth wrote:
On 9/16/10 2:51 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:12:58 -0500, wrote:

On 9/16/2010 11:29 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:

When you -buy- SketchUp, is it a one-time deal, or do you have to buy
each new version, too?

As a Pro version owner (or "renter", depending upon the EULA de jour)
the upgrade price for me from 7 to 8 was $95.00.

The original outlay for the Pro version is circa $495.00.

OK, $500 to join and then roughly $100/yr for updates. Wow.

Can you say business write-off?
See, I knew you could.
:-)



Add my grin, too. :^)


... cheap at ten times the price, and pays for itself multiple times
each and every project.

That's the way to do it! You would probably like using Chief
Architect or SoftPLAN, too, but they're tougher to get up and running
with and are 5x the cost.


Money making software when wielded with a modicum of business sense and
without preconceived notions.

So, how many/which of the of the $500 v. Free functions are you using?
LayOut, etc? I still haven't spent the time to come up to speed with
it.

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