Phasing them out of updates is reasonable and anyone still has the option to do a free SketchUpPro-30 day trail which is fair. It can also be used to activate the desktop versions of Sketchup Pro 2020 and Sketchup Pro 2019.
In fairness to Trimble, Sketchup Make/free users had it good long enough. Sketchup Studio for Students is a 12-month subscription to all the components and a licence for the desktop version of SketchUp Pro 2021 including maintenance and support. We should work together for a better product! If anyone is listening please make this happen! This year, updates mostly seem like minor fixes and beta updates, not really exciting.įrankly, a pay as you go model of $25 per month ($300 total for year) makes SketchUp more accessible to anyone willing to try it out, and gives direct user feedback to Trimble should people start canceling their monthly payment/service.Last year, updates with inferencing and Layout were amazing and exciting!.As consumers we should be skeptical and hold them accountable for what is delivered down the road. Merely claimed as to why they are switching to subscriptions. Trimble claims it will be able to provide better bug fixes and updates but it is not guaranteed. However if Trimble insists on a subscription model we as consumers should push for a monthly subscription with the option to cancel monthly payments at any point similar to Adobe CC. However looking deeper I am glad to see a 50% lower cost option for the Pro-license. My initial response to the subscription model was negative like the general consensus. The architecture office I work for uses sketchup for 3D and Autocad for drawings… Just a fellow daily SketchUp Pro user, never really felt the need to contribute or comment on the forum until now.