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Recommended alternatives to SketchUp? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, a couple years ago, somebody published the 2017 free desktop client of SketchUp on the chocolatey repos, and I managed to snag it before it got taken down. I use it primarily to make woodworking plans.

I'm wrapping up my transition plan to Linux, but I'm not really up to date on SketchUp alternatives. The only ones I know of are Blender (afaik more for animation and 3D printing) and FreeCAD (CAD seems like overkill, since I'm just doing simple cuts and joinery).

Are there good Linux/FOSS alternatives to SketchUp that have similar features, or is the web client the only reasonable option?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you're looking for something Foss the closest things I know are FreeCAD, and apparently there's a blender addon that adds parametric cad functionality. I've found FreeCAD frustrating, but I've not tried the blender addon/extension or whatever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! I'll look at both (somebody suggested a workbench for FreeCAD).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

It's worth knowing that the new versions of FreeCAD are way better, but that those improvements haven't made it into the stable release yet (I think...). Also there's a fork maintained by a company that apparently makes some improvements but has some tradeoffs like cloud saves or something

There was a ton of useful info in this video, if you're considering free cad it's probably worth checking out :)

https://youtu.be/p8Pk1ayx6LQ

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Get the weekly version of freecad, it's like a month or two away from full release and changes a lot. As in gets rid of a ton of frustrations.