Until the web based versions are able to run extensions I do think it is helpful to have a “free” version of SketchUp still available that can run extensions. I don’t think what he is asking is to start offering SketchUp Make again as a product but to reinstate the download link for SketchUp Make 2017 (the last version of Make offered). Many of us think the same thing, so it’s time to make it known loud and clear before it’s too late! Going up the slope will then be impossible.

These employees will then find themselves unemployed and SketchUp will be more unpopular than ever. We understand the rhetoric about paying employee salaries, but what’s the point if SketchUp goes bankrupt in a few years because of counterproductive political decisions? Moreover developers cannot develop extensions for the web version and it may never be the case!

It is true that SketchUp Free currently exists but this version for the Web has far too many drawbacks to hope for the same success as SketchUp Make. Users who feed the 3D Warehouse free of charge every day will also be fewer and fewer. This will result in the loss of many extension developers who will no longer be able to sell enough extensions to live on. The loss of users of the Make version will have a monumental impact on the notoriety of SketchUp. We know it seems impossible to convince Trimble to change this policy to reintegrate a Make version but we have to try anyway!Īlthough their policy is financially favorable to them in the short term, we are not convinced that this is the case in the long term. Unfortunately this decision has negative consequences for many independent developers who have contributed to the success of SketchUp. In order to be consistent with their policy Trimble has decided to permanently remove SketchUp Make 2017.

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