In addition, there is a risk for companies like trimble to absorb outside solutions. General rule in computers and softwares, just because an individual can do something doesn’t mean a company can. Therefore Trimble cannot (anymore) include Google Map in the geo-localisation system.

But Google doesn’t not support licencing google map to external companies. I mean, it used to work that way during the google years. it’s not brain surgery, I’m sure a dev could work something out of google earth and export straight from it into SU. I’m using Qcad, the free version had DXF only, the paid opens DWG, part of the fee pays for the licence.įinally, you’ll find the same idea with google map. But DWG are proprietary files, and therefore, you can’t just open them as you want. you’ll find a lot of free CAD programs that can open DXF, the free version of a 2Dcad file. We had several export formats, and now we have only mp4, because of licensing fees (that was the consensus at the time)Īutodesk has the same system with DWG. Same thing happened a few years ago with video export.

or at least, can’t unless trimble pays a shitload of money. So a random developer can take one of these tools, fork it a bit, make it work, and release an extension.īut a sketchup developer can’t. some will allow you to use them as long as you make no money reselling it.

There are tools existing out there on the web to do that.

Sketchup freecad