Category: technology

SketchUp 2017 vs Big Sur

Oh how I hate these days. Let’s start with the good stuff first: I’ve been a SketchUp user for… forever. Like pre-Google-acquisition-forever. I cried when Google sold the assets, and SketchUp was no longer free for hobby-users like me (I use it on the order of once per year…).

Then Trimble (new or newnew owner) said I’d have to have an account with them to get the basic (online) version. So I created one, hated the online version and went back to the (still free, thanks Google I guess) 2017 version. Worked perfectly fine for all I use it for.

Then Big Sur came along, and while everything still works in SketchUp, all the dimensions are flipped. OpenGL they say. Apple’s bug they say. Here’s the thread:

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-make-2017-mac-os-big-sur-dimension-tool-text-up-side-down/142431/51

Obviously I was going to try to see how things work online today… however, after logging in, trimble greets me with a message of incompetence:

Not sure where to take it from here. I hate these days.

Google Cloud VM Instance Recommendations

Today, when I logged into my Google Cloud VM Instance Overview, it greeted me with a recommendation! I pay about 5USD/month for that instance, and it’s running hot (according to the graphs). – Therefore I was more than happy to hear that I could basically continue running this at 0 cost.

Clicking on that “Save $5/mo” turned up this:

Seems like Google wants to tell me something…