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[–]Senior-Force-7175 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Following for windows version

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

done

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Also, I'm thinking about changing the name. What do you think of DraftDown?

[–]chrisemills 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DownDraft? 

[–]PFunkus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

catchy actually lol

looks sick dude!

[–]ButterscotchObvious4 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I’m a Mac user, so I’m definitely interested in this.

Aren’t you worried about a potential lawsuit?

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For what?

[–]malwolficus 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Definitely going to try this out. Any plans for a Linux port?

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Yea it would be an easy build

[–]malwolficus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use Mac and Linux daily, and Windows when I must. Happy to test the bejeezus out of a Sketchup clone, I use it weekly and hate their licensing model.

[–]shogzilla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eagerly awaiting a Linux port!

[–]findingsubtext 5 points6 points  (3 children)

I was super interested until seeing its Mac only :(

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Just built a Windows version. I don't have a Windows machine so I hope it works. https://archigraph-releases-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/sketchcraft/SketchCraft%20Setup%201.0.0.exe

[–]findingsubtext 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fantastic. I’ll give it a shot and report back!

[–]TheGreenBehren 3 points4 points  (0 children)

SketchUp began as Mac only …

[–]Dionysus60 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow. This is awesome! Im not really familiar with git hub. How do I report bugs?

[–]Distinct_Panic9523 1 point2 points  (0 children)

haha! i just saw the electron app icon. haven't changed it. lets think of a logo man

[–]f700esI'll always love you @Last 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Super cool BUT there NEEDS to be a Windows version.

[–]TampaPowers 2 points3 points  (5 children)

An electron app built with npm and vibe coded with claude. Sorry, but that doesn't exactly build confidence in this ever going anywhere.

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Give it a shot. Claude is a better engineer than 99% of engineers out there.

[–]TampaPowers 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I have used a few ai tools so far for various projects myself and none have ever managed to provide solutions that pass quality testing outright. When it comes to certain topics they fall apart completely. They are, by design, meant to satisfy the prompt as best as possible, which means they'll provide solutions even if they are potentially dangerous or contain flaws. If you really believe it is on the level of a software engineer with 25+ years experience then I trust your project even less.

ai is a tool, not a solution. You cannot blindly trust the decisions it makes. That's not even a thing in any large organization when it comes to software development. QA is a thing and so is selecting the right tool for the job. Node certainly has some good things about it, but most of it ends up as bloatware designed to do everything, but nothing well. Sketchup or something attempting to do what it does primarily has to be compatible and performant. None of what node is specifically known for. It's nice and easy to get something off the ground, but the level of engineering required to get good software out isn't done overnight and most ai is far from that as well.

It's a nice project in regards to making a tool that is like Sketchup for modeling simple things, boiling down the complexity and bloat Sketchup has accumulated over the years, but as serious replacement for it it'll need a lot more engineering than that. Put it in your portfolio, it'll certainly get some attention, but as serious contender going up against Sketchup or similar you have a lot of milestones yet to pass and the selected tools might not get you there.

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've probably put 20 hours of my time into this project. Extrapolate out another maybe 100 hours and it's going to be pretty powerful.

[–]Ok_Abbreviations2585 0 points1 point  (1 child)

As a software engineer with a a significant other working in SketchUp, why would you assume that it’s code is any better ? Node is a solid runtime, SketchUp is single threaded, gets no stability updates, occasionally freezes or crashes, struggles with size of geometries - just from the top of my head. It’s not running as a service, as long as there is no malicious dependency pulled from npm (and trust the author) there would be no significant risks.

[–]TampaPowers 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it was C#, Rust or maybe even C perhaps, but not node. C'mon let's be real here when combining vibe coding with bloated frameworks it all ends up looking impressive and may even work, but falls apart the moment you throw real workloads at it. It's a nice idea to rewrite and fix some of the problems Sketchup suffers from, but just throwing stuff together through package managers and ai is not sustainable long term.

[–]stevensokulski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to rename the M-series variant to “Apple Silicon” as this likely runs just fine on the new M5, and probably even on the MacBook Neo which doesn’t have an M-series chip at all.

[–]Nearby-Yak1389 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are your thoughts on overlaps with Shapr3D?

[–]Ok_Abbreviations2585 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats OP. What is your motivation ? Is the app able to leverage all cpu cores ? Does it have autosave ? Does it require a global lock when saving ? Are you aiming for file format compatibility? How about compatibility with plugins ? Thoughts around warehouse ? Some AI replacement maybe, saw recently that there’s AI tools emerging that can generate 3D models.

[–]Distinct_Panic9523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using this right away. Former architect turned developer here. So excited to use it. SketchUp was my favourite application.

[–]Distinct_Panic9523 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just installed it.

[–]Queasy-Cap-4453 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made a plugin that works like grasshopper for sketchup. It has an ai that makes the node setup itself that you can then adjust

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it works kinda well but needs some further finetuning. If you are interested i might also publish it open source

[–]levens1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a great start. Thank you for the hard work.

Is there a way to switch from Pan to Zoom to orbit with keyboard or mouse keys instead of clicking?

[–]NickFrong 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I’m trying to download from the GitHub and am getting a blank white page with a message saying access denied. Am I doing something wrong? I’m still kind of new to the world of open source and GitHub projects, so sorry if I’m just dumb

[–]fasteddie31003[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The link works now. Changed the name

[–]Professional-Ad3724 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did they give any other reason besides what's in the released dmca takedown? Like what is patented or trade secret that they are trying to protect?