As long as you dont need to send your drawing files to the structural engineer, mechanical and electrical engineers, land surveyor etc. Try sending a Sketchup file to one of those guys…
I use Sketchup for design and construction documents and I also have a revit license that I don’t use because Sketchup is faster and I don’t have to recreate what I did in SU (Revit is terrible for design.) and it works great for custom homes but of course for bigger projects I wouldn’t use it. I export my sheets in autoCAD for structural, mechanical, etc.
HAHAHA good one ! 
in 10 years, news about new max have never been so scarce few days before release
this makes me really worried
when will it be released ? usually around mid april no usually ?
Maybe there won’t be anything new beside the render engine change. And you know what ? It’s fine by me : If they make a release with 0 new feature and concentrate 100% on fixing bugs and improving stability, I’d be more than satisfied and maybe even shed a tear.
April 12th.
In this case, you talk about what max 2017 should have been…
Because every release should be stable, without bugs !
2 day to go to the 2018 release (apparently) and not a peep, expect for the reduction of render features…WHAT is going on?
My MP renewal runs out in 4 days…don’t think I’m gonna do it.
You are asking in the wrong place; we have an NDA with Autodesk so we can’t really share anything until the release is out or Autodesk decide to share something themselves.
Best regards,
Vlado
Oh I understand, I’m just intrigued by all the “tumble weed” and eerie silence that abounds…you can hear a pin drop…
Well, they had 12 months and millions worth of subscription money, so it should be the bomb of a release.
I’m not getting my hopes up - they laid off the Shanghai team after 2017 shipped, and the PM went earlier this year.
They’re recruiting again, but judging by comments elsewhere it seems that Maya gets preferential treatment to Max, especially based on income from Maya rentals/subs.
Guess we’ll find out tomorrow, but after the announcement of the maintenance subs going up and up, the feature set is the least of my worries.
I am not grasping the whole pay a couple grand per year no matter what, methodology. Leasing software? What a great idea… for the investors!
hahahaha. Very funny !
This! Isn’t that why we all pay our subscriptions. I’d love to see how Autodesk subscription payments are filtered through their business. Mostly on Maya improvements no doubt !
Ok, this is what I suspected. I’ve just confirmed to my boss we won’t renew our 3dsmax subscription anymore (we’ve got the “old” perpetual lic), and stick to 3dsmax 2016 for a while. In front of that, when we see the efforts of Chaos Group on every release, even on “minor” updates … well, enough of Autodesk crap.
If Autodesk was an Airline…it would be United!