![]() ![]() I am a bit surprised that there seem to be no working groups of industry architects who are willing to work with Trimble to bring that end of things along. External plugins and applications make for a complete (if not necessarily sleek) modeling experience for any SU user, so why bother? Layout seems to be a major complaint with architects. Trimble could decide to throw major funds at improving SU Pro tomorrow if it wanted to but appears to be more interested in merging with the rest of BIM world in terms of interoperability and Trimble Connect capabilities than in putting major effort into developing SU itself. While Autodesk is a software company, Trimble is an instrumentation company. Trimble is a corporation of similar size to Autodesk in terms of annual revenue. I thought that a subscription would give Trimble both the funds and the confidence to shift into a new gear in terms of upgrading the software. Maybe some new organisation will buy SU off Trimble and ride to our rescue as a white knight! But it’s becoming clearer and clearer that my decision to turn down the subscription offer (despite early discount) was right and may go on being right for some time. There is a huge body of people out there, myself included who very much like the base product and use it daily. If I were still paying for it, I would be livid. We now seem to be seeing hastily released software, of largely dubious value even if it worked, and allowing end users to troubleshoot the bugs. But the experience, particularly since release of SU 23, seems to be the very opposite. I didn’t take up a subscription because my impression was that incremental improvements were getting less and less valuable and I thought I could afford to wait awhile until they built up to a point where it was worth diving in again. I haven’t paid Trimble a penny since my last annual payment. I have never taken up the subscription model and so am still using SU21. respectfully, Ben Bush Partner at Hillview Design Colaborative Richmond, VT I appreciate the software’s ability to aid this process but right now I am tearing my hair out The new features that come with 2023 don’t balance the frustrations and while I can return to SU2022 I would rather continue to employ a software that grows to meet the needs of our design/build team. I am sure you are aware of a lot of these bugs but after just few days use: multiple bug splats, tool trays that wont’ keep their shape size and position, materials that don’t behave as usual when using the eye dropper, flip missing from the right click context menu, slower performance and screen freeze, trouble renaming with right click in outliner… IDK I am not a programmer but consider myself an experienced user and have happily used your product every day to design, document buildings. I look forward to every new version and have always been tolerant of the glitches that show up with a new release but I am finding 2023 to be more frustrating than rewarding. I use Sketchup and Layout exclusively with my small architectural design company. ![]() I look forward to seeing 2023 improve I have been a huge proponent of sketchup and have been using the product since around 2004. I am posting this because I was asked to after filing a tech support request.
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