I hope they talk to the community to about what's going on and what their plans are. Not very much has happened to the core program in terms of modeling features. Most of the excellence of SketchUp for the last four years or so have come from the community.
I expect a huge + out of this will be a new set of forums and better collaboration between SketchUp and users. Those who were worried when was acquired by Google had little to worry about- the product got better and better. It's not good for those who contributed a lot to Google Sketchup. Is SketchUp going to fragment to the different user groups?
Is the same developer team going to continue? Posted by John Bacus, Product Manager, SketchUp With a strong wind at our backs and plenty of sunshine ahead, this voyage just keeps getting more exciting. Thanks to Trimble, we’ll be able to continue to make SketchUp into the tool that we-and you-have always hoped it would become. Thanks to Google, more people than we ever imagined possible have been introduced to SketchUp.
The free version of SketchUp is an important part of our world as well, and that isn’t changing in the least. Our mission has always been to make 3D modeling tools that anyone can use. If you’re one of the many, many people who use SketchUp for something else-from education to woodworking, geo-modeling to movie-making-rest assured that there will be a SketchUp for you, too. Together with our new colleagues at Trimble, we plan to continue making our tools for the building professions as innovative, intuitive and (dare I say) fun to use as we always have. With Trimble’s commitment to invest in our growth, we’ll be able to innovate and develop new features better than ever before.įor those of you in the architecture, engineering and construction industries, the knowledge and experience Trimble will add to the SketchUp effort are obvious. Designers, builders and makers of things have always been the heart and soul of SketchUp. We’ll be better able to focus on our core communities: modelers who have been with us from the beginning, as well as future SketchUppers who have yet to discover our products. That’s why I’m sharing today that the SketchUp team and technology will be leaving Google to join Trimble. But there’s still so much we want to do, and we think we’ve found a way forward that will benefit everyone-our product, our team and especially our millions of users. With over 30 million SketchUp activations in just the last year, we’re awfully proud of our accomplishments. In its time at Google, SketchUp has become one of the most popular 3D modeling tools in the world.