Wine Reviews

Google SketchUp 6 on Linux and FreeBSD with Wine

Written by Tom Wickline

Monday, 10 December 2007 04:27

About Google SketchUp 6

Developed for the conceptual stages of design, Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. From simple to complex, conceptual to realistic, Google SketchUp enables you to build and modify 3D models quickly and easily. If you use Google Earth, Google SketchUp allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse.

Wine configuration

This is with a clean configuration directory and running in a 1024x768 virtual desktop.

$ winecfg

Once the .wine directory is built the configuration tool will start and you can set a virtul desktop in the graphics tab if you wish.

Installing Google SketchUp

This should work in both Linux and FreeBSD, though I've only tested this on FreeBSD...

Download SketchUp from here.

$ wine GoogleSketchUpWEN.exe

Google SketchUp first run

$ cd /home/tom/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Google/Google\ SketchUp\ 6
$ wine sketchup.exe
err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Received unsupported sockaddr family 0x12
err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x10
err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable Unexpected address type 0x20
fixme:wgl:X11DRV_wglChoosePixelFormatARB unused pfAttribFList

On the first run the program will try to load the start-up tips and documentation, at this time Wine will ask if you want to install Gecko.. select NO and exit the three empty browser windows.

On the second run Wine will ask again if you want to install Gecko and this time let it install. There will be a single window and I suggest you turn off "show tips at start-up" all of there documentation is online and can be easily accessed through Help > Online Help Center

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my experience

wikiBuddha 2008-08-20 00:21:36

This worked for me. I'm running Kubuntu Linux and now Windows is as good as dead for me!

The
first time I ran $ winecfg, I was told it wasn't present and to run apt-get to install wine.

After that, wincfg ran a configuration script and all appeared generally well. I don't think it
ever "finished" its process, and I went on with the instructions and all the
directories matched and worked out.

I also notice I can configure Wine through the
"start" menu that has appeared after the installation.

However, a prompt
proclaimed that Mozilla could not be found and thus HTML rendering would be
disabled (although I have Firefox installed). I'll have to work on this and probably won't
be back to comment on how this went or how I fix it.

It runs imperfectly, like some
selections and actions won't appear until I've clicked the screen after the action was
performed. All in all it's acceptable and I should be able to draft some decent objects.
Yay!

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Wine and Gecko

Tom Wickline 2008-08-20 10:22:18

If you run $wine iexplore Wine should prompt you to install the gecko html engine.

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Gyarr

ethana2 2008-08-31 11:26:58

The latest version of sketchup doesn't quite work that well, it just gets close enough to tantalize
you and then it dashes your hopes and crashes.
They need to make a native linux version of sketchup,
but it's hard to get their attention sometimes. There are petitions, there are hundreds of comments
on their sketchup blog, but it seems they're either blind, incompetent, spiteful, or all of the
above..
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2484 8412179

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Please file bugs

Dan Kegel 2008-11-20 01:14:59

Hi Gyarr (and anybody else who wants to see Sketchup
work on Linux/BSD):
Please file bugs at
http://bugs.winehq.org, and/or
add comments to Sketchup's appdb page
at
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClas s=application&iId=1815
describing the problems
you're seeing, and how to reproduce them.

If we don't know about 'em, we can't fix 'em...

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Dan Kegel 2008-11-23 15:29:29

Best place (or at least the easiest to remember URL) for Sketchup Wine info is

http://wiki.winehq.org/GoogleSketchup
It links to all the bugzilla bugs, the appdb entries, and
other sources of info.

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