Popular solid modeling tool SketchUp has just released a new version, the first version since leaving Google to become part of Trimble Navigation last April. Now named by the year, SketchUp 2013 has some nice new features including the new Extension Warehouse, and a newly branded free version called “SketchUp Make”.
With the rename of the free version to SketchUp Make, we have a clearer picture of who the free version is intended for. “Hobbyists, kids and backyard spaceship builders” is how the SketchUp Make splash page reads with clarification in the license agreement that the free version is “not licensed for commercial work.”
