Sketchup Pro 8 and 2103 - -What's the difference?

[Sketchrender]

Just saw a notice, but can't find any updates of what's new.

 

Anybody know?

 

I bought me pro licence 3 months ago, I now have to pay €77 for the update.

 

Phil

Edited May 22, 2013 by philip kelly

[Sketchrender]

Jasus, I have to answer me own post.

 

I wrote to them, and I got a reply.

This for 120 reader of this post is the list of new updates.

 

http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro/new-in-2013

 

Also they are starting down the road of a yearly update, so be warned.

Its a model all the software companies are following getting money in each year to finance the re coding obviously.

 

Phil

[Chris MacDonald]

Aside from the script warehouse (which we pretty much have here) - there is nothing new, is there? Seems like a release for the sake of a release.

[Sketchrender]

Exactly the point I was trying to make, get people to pay every year.

And for very little most of the updates are too layout, and not SKup.

They are doing very little with the software as far as I can see.

[Speaker]

The main news would be that they are dividing the free and Pro versions more strictly:

SketchUp Make is the same as the previously free version, but now it can't be used for commercial work

SketchUp Pro now with a price of 590$ and a yearly support cost of 95$

So, if you still want to keep using the free version, stick with SketchUp 8

 

 

The release notes here:http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/141303

 

From the user responses I can see that there have been good improvements in speed and stability, most noticeably with many of the plugins. The program opens up much faster as well.

 

They have addressed one of the biggest problems - the toolbars, and they implemented a plugin repository providing a built in extension warehouse to make plugins instantly visible to millions of people, that includes a notification for version updates and easy installisation of plugins, that had been a huge request by the plugin developers.

 

Looks like the changes, like the introduction of the new SDK, and the support for plugin developers, increasingly point toward SketchUp being as a platform, for Trimble's services and third party tools, so that the user could shape the program to ones own needs. And seeing what amount of attention LayOut is getting, SketchUp Pro seems to be looking as a better and better package.

It is speculated that at the end of the year SketchUp should receive a huge maintenance release, concentrating on things like improvements for the Ruby API. If so, that should really shed some light to what direction is Trimble actually going with SketchUp.

Edited May 25, 2013 by Speaker