During a recent foray with Sketchup, I realised that the desktop product had disappeared (for hobby use anyway), and replaced with a web vesion. I continued to use Sketchup with its 3D design environment for occasional projects. As is the way with a lot of Google stuff, it got cancelled, and in this case, rather than just being dropped, was sold to a company called Trimble. It was a free to use Google product, that I presume Google hoped people would use to produce architectural models with which to populate Google Maps (and thus add value to Google Maps). Since then I’ve had occasional dalliences with CAD – A stint with AutoCAD LT in the 90s, and more recently with Sketchup. As a lowly Production Engineer working with pencil on A4 pads, I was keen to see the future of computer assisted working. Mind, the A0 inkpen plotter they also bought cost £10,000. Who remembers Mountford & Laxon’s MLD2? Back in 1988, the draughting department of the company I used to work for installed this on an IBM AT with a secondary 17″ 16 colour monitor. I’ve dabbled with various CAD systems – going back to the dim, distant past. Save some time learning to use Fusion 360 by spending 10 minutes reading the following.
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