Good for you! Seriously!
For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my “post Windows” attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥
you have to keep in mind that you can’t even install SU24 with Wine, so a portable version is a must which mean sail the high seas is the only way to obtain it (appnee dot com)
- here is how I did it in order (you need a portable SketchUP2024 and latest version of visual c++ 64bit and 32bit)
- 1, install Lutris (not sure if it work with Bottles or plain wine but this is the only way I know works)
- 2, install Wine normally (sudo pacman -S wine) it should come with system 9.17 or higher
- 3, open Lutris and let it download dependencies
- 4, create a new “game” entry inside Lutris set Runner to system 9.17 and executable location to visual c++ and install it normally
- 5, if you try to run SU now (change location from visual c++ to SketchUP exe) it will crash to fix that you need to install a windows component inside winetrick (by click on the glass wine icon on the bottom>winetrick>Select the default wineprefix>install a Windows DLL or component>ucrtbase2019)
- 6, now you should be able to run it but you might see a black screen, to fix that you just have to restart the app a few time then you should be able to click on the check box and it take you to the home screen, it will crash the first time you open a template/model then you can just reopen it and can create a template just like normal
- 7, you’re Golden
what do you mean with “set executable location to visual c++” ?
It’s excitable inside lutris “game” configuration menu
couldn’t make it work
Every place I click to download the 2024 Sketchup portable sketches me right the fuck out.
I have that feeling with almost every proprietary binary from a website nowadays.
Man I used to do SketchUp all the time in middle/high school, so nostalgic.
I still use it from time to time for 3d printing
That one misaligned arrow bugs me…
Its working completely offline? You might want to add it here https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1815
Yes it’s working completely offline you can’t even access the werehouse, I’m not sure if they allow it on there because you need a pirated version of SU to work, here is my rough instruction
I literally used sketchup today for the first time since moving to fusion 2 years ago. Had to modify a really old model. It was dreadful compared to fusion and sketchup crashed once when merging edges but surprisingly i still knew how to do what I wanted
What is fusion here?
Autodesks hell in the cloud called fusion 360.
A real* CAD which is free for hobbyists**.
*If you use sketchup long enough, you know I’m right.
**With increasing restrictions and only win/mac compatibility.
Btw, is it for anything good now?
Not familiar with Sketchup. is it analternative to sweethome3d?
What is your task bar on top, I like that?
It’s KDE panel+application title widget
Yeah it’s just plain KDE panel, for the buttons I use “application title bar” from KDE widget store that’s all I used for the panel customization
Oh nice, thank you
With the help of AI and patience from God I was able to get this working. It does work, although I wouldn’t say it’s running flawlessly.
Having said that, these are hands down the worst instructions I’ve ever read. I would not have been able to do this without asking multiple AI what the hell you were talking about.
Nevertheless, thank you. I’m glad I found this.
