Hey,
I wish to request higher Linux help for Sketchup.
I’m a paying person of Sketchup professional and in the intervening time I’m utilizing it in a Digital Machine (with Home windows), which works however shouldn’t be very best, and hell to get and preserve working. In the long run I concern utilizing a VM shouldn’t be possible and I hope you possibly can enhance Sketchup to work on Linux.
Needing to run wine (or proton with Steam) emulation is suitable for me, so supporting that as a substitute of creating a local model would additionally work. If trendy video games can run like this, it also needs to be doable with Sketchup.
(At my newest do that doesn’t work correctly in the intervening time, and particularly whenever you additionally use Format, which I would like)
I hope you possibly can work on this sooner or later, as a result of I take pleasure in utilizing Sketchup rather a lot.
It is a function request that comes up once in a while. Sadly from surveys which have been carried out through the years, there don’t appear to be sufficient Linux customers like your self who’re prepared to pay for a Professional subscription license to help the extra growth and upkeep overhead that might require. The overwhelming majority of respondents to these surveys anticipated the ought to get a Linux model at no cost. That canine simply received’t hunt.
Who is aware of what may occur sooner or later however primarily based on the previous, I wouldn’t maintain my breath ready for it to occur.
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Most Linux customers aren’t followers of paying for software program, that’s one of many the reason why they use Linux. There are different softwares which might be free like blender or freecad that may run natively on Linux. {Most professional} that use sketchup are utilizing home windows or MacOS, there may be just a few individuals such as you prepared to pay for the software program to run natively on Linux however I don’t assume they’ll cowl the price of growing the software program for a brand new OS. Linux isn’t a superb various for architects, a lot of the applications we use are solely on home windows or MacOS, and it’s onerous to alter to a brand new software program like freecad after utilizing Revit or Archicad for years, sadly within the college we’re taught to make use of paid software program, Autocad continues to be the trade customary and even when we don’t use autocad to design or make the development documentation we should export it to autocad trigger it’s the one software program utilized by the entity that approves the development in nearly all of the international locations.
Issues change. I’ll solid one other vote for a Linux model. We’re paying for Graebert Ares (a German Autocad equal) particularly as a result of they’ve a Linux model, and we’re paying for different Linux primarily based software program as properly. We do primarily software program growth, and each instrument we have now runs in a Linux setting. It’s a significant headache to need to run a separate Home windows machine for Sketchup, so we’ll proceed searching for different choices. Earlier variations are identified to run in Linux utilizing Wine, however the 2023 model doesn’t seem to work in the intervening time.
And it probably by no means will, as SketchUp 2023 migrated from the very previous MFC framework to Qt.
The platforms that Qt helps doesn’t listing any VM emulation situations.
Re: Wine, maybe it’s correct to ask whether or not Wine helps Qt v5.15 ?
Nevertheless the swap to the cross-platform Qt for SketchUp might lead … might sooner or later lead, … to a local compiled Linux version. However for which Linux? (See the Qt supported Linux distributions on the above hyperlink.)
Home windows and Mac will at all times come first within the help priorities. It’s simply how the world it’s.
