SU also uses the arrow keys for axis locks. Many tools need SHIFT and CTRL/CMD modifier keys. To accommodate a pencil, the interfaces for the tools would need redesigning. It was the obvious choice to make rather than port to ChromeOS and Android and iOS.Īlso, SketchUp is a desktop application that is designed for a keyboard and a 3 button mouse. This allowed easy and fast development of the SketchUp browser app, which can run on Chromebooks and Tablets if they can run a browser. It just turned out that there are some technologies that can “translate” desktop code to web-based platforms. No, not your web version–that requires wifi. This is not the first request for tablet SketchUp, and in the other threads some people promoted the idea that paying Pro licensees should be able to use a tablet edition free because they couldn’t be using the Desktop edition at the same time.īut this puts the cost of development, deployment and maintenance upon other paying customers who have no wish or need to run on tablet or mobile. (A discount license bundle might be an option, if that makes sense to the marketeers.) Porting code to another OS is expensive, and the cost must be offset for the engineering and later ongoing maintenance. It is not likely that desktop licensees would get a free tablet license.
(So we cannot say whether the user base would support such development costs.) (This data may be available out there, but I do not have a link.)īut, what we do not know is how many or what percentage of SketchUp users would buy a tablet edition, either stand-alone or complimentary to their desktop edition license.
The number of consumers running desktop and laptop are much higher than that running Tablet. Operating System Marketshare (Desktop / Laptop)īut mobile or tablet platform market share is a different story … Note that desktop-wise, Linux use has not yet risen to the point of being economical for a SketchUp port. But iPads etc are getting more powerful and I think that will continue.
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