this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2024
29 points (100.0% liked)
Linux
5235 readers
119 users here now
A community for everything relating to the linux operating system
Also check out !linux_memes@programming.dev
Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I have used Sketchup for more than 4 years, and after looking around for Alternatives to use on Linux, the only thing that can do the job is Blender, it's not just for animations and 3D printing, in fact blender can do anything you can imagine, if not by itself, then by the addition of addons
Out of the box, Blender doesn't behave like Sketchup, but it can do so by enabling some preinstalled addons ( like Archimech, Measure it, Precision Drawing Tools, Stored Views, Auto Mirror.. Etc ), also there are free and paid addons on the Blender Market
For modeling Blender is waaay more powerful than Sketchup ( but SU is much more simpler and I find myself using Addons - in SU - for the stuff I can do in Vanilla Blender directly )
For Printing: they both suck ( in a paper printing use case ), if you wanna print in Blender you'll need to export to a 3rd party program like Inkscape or LibreCAD, or use an addon
Sketchup printing is just painful, save a view, save the file, fire up Layout, import view, then print...like why ?!!
Okay! I may have misunderstood what Blender could do. I'll look into that more