Sketchup Make 2017 is still functional and viable and available for free download, and I've got a massive investment in actually learning to use it.
And the company is getting a HUGE amount of pushback from users over it.
Hell, just last night I -finally- found a plugin that'll build a skin along a quadrogram of which none of the four sides are coplanar... NOT an easy task to contemplate trying to hand-draw, I tell you. The one time I tried it ended up -corrugated-.
Blender... I dunno. What I really want in a drawing package is the ability to say "I want a line -this- long" as the -default- method of operation, not something I have to go hunting through menus for. Or "I want to draw a circle centered on this face that's -this- diameter, then extrude it into a cylinder -this- long, and top it with a hemisphere". In sketchup I can do that very precisely, I don't have to guesstimate placement or size, and it takes me... about five seconds.
And the company is getting a HUGE amount of pushback from users over it.
Hell, just last night I -finally- found a plugin that'll build a skin along a quadrogram of which none of the four sides are coplanar... NOT an easy task to contemplate trying to hand-draw, I tell you. The one time I tried it ended up -corrugated-.
Blender... I dunno. What I really want in a drawing package is the ability to say "I want a line -this- long" as the -default- method of operation, not something I have to go hunting through menus for. Or "I want to draw a circle centered on this face that's -this- diameter, then extrude it into a cylinder -this- long, and top it with a hemisphere". In sketchup I can do that very precisely, I don't have to guesstimate placement or size, and it takes me... about five seconds.