Sketch Up

Running
SketchUp
On Linux
Well OK, there's
no native installer,
but make
lemonade from
lemons and run
SketchUp on Linux
anyway.
Contents
1 Wine
1.1
Installation
of
SketchUp
1.2 Use
SketchUp
with an
external 2d
graphics
editor
1.3 Set
SketchUp
files to be
opened in
SketchUp
1.4 Make
SketchUp
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beautiful
1.5 Enable
thumbnails
(in Gnome)
1.6 Use
SketchUp <
8.0 with
Google
Earth
1.7 Make
Plugins
work in
Wine
versions <
1.2
1.8 What
does not
work
1.9
References
1.10
SketchUp
in Wine
survey
2 Oracle
VirtualBox
2.1
Installation
2.2 Setting
up a
shared
folder
2.3
[optionally]
Optimizing
the virtual
system
3 Building
Maker
Wine
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Installation of SketchUp
Install the Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer "Wine":
Go to the software center (or the equivalent of your distribution), search
for Wine and click on install. The official stable version is wine1.2.
However, it is recommended to use the latest (unstable) version 1.3.X
which has many significant improvements. You can get the latest
versions here http://www.winehq.org/download (or for Ubuntu add this to
your software sources http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa
/ubuntu). You can't expect that SketchUp works well with older Wine
versions < 1.2.
In your profile folder you will find a folder ~/.wine/drive_c (show hidden
files with ctrl+H). That is the equivalent to C:\ on Windows, and there will
be the program files and the SketchUp and Plugins folder like you are
used to it on Windows.
1.
Download and install SketchUp by right clicking "Open with Windows
Application Loader Wine".
The installation should work without problems, if not, see in the tricks
below.
2.
Use the program Winetricks to install some extras (original windows
files, that are not rebuilt by the Wine team) to make the installation work
and to make webdialogs work. If Winetricks didn't come with your version
of Wine, you can get it here: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks).
Go to ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files and rename the folder
'Internet Explorer' into 'Internet Explorer backup' or something.
1.
Start Winetricks either from the menu or by typing winetricks in
a terminal. Choose the default Wine prefix and choose to install
additional Windows DLLs.
2.
Then select the checkboxes for 'vcrun2005' (needed for the
installation), 'gecko', 'ie8' (needed for webdialogs) and 'flash' (for
streetview imagery).
3.
After installation of IE, delete the newly created folder 'Internet
Explorer' and rename the backup into 'Internet Explorer'.
4.
Open Applications Wine Configure Wine. On the "library" tab,
add an overwrite for wininet (this makes uploading work) and
for ctl3d32 (this can be helpful for the component
options/attributes window). Those two should be listed as "(native,
built-in)".
5.
3.
If you open SketchUp from the
Application menu (under Wine
Programs), you will see the error
message "SketchUp was unable to
initialize OpenGL!" and a bugsplat.
Now we need to change a
setting in the Windows registry
so that SketchUp will use hardware
acceleration. This setting is
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available in the Preferences of
SketchUp, but as we could not open SU, we will change this setting in
the Wine registry.In the Application menu, click on wine Browse C:\
and open windows/regedit.exeIn the tree structure, go to the
key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7\GLConfig
\Display, and change HW_OK to 1.
Additionally, go to the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google
\SketchUp6\SnappyInstructor and change "Show" to 0.
That's it.
The success largely depends on the version of Wine and your Linux
distribution. If you still encounter problems, try some of the
following tricks that formerly had been necessary:
5.
If you encounter problems with webdialogs, check that you never
installed anything that has to do with .Net framework and that you don't
use a msstyles window theme in Wine configuration. Eventually try from
an empty wine prefix (see here for more instructions).
SketchUp 7.1 crashed before the install dialog appeared: SketchUp tried
to connect to the internet. Disconnect from the internet, start the installer
and connect to the internet later.
If it crashes in the "Welcome to SketchUp" dialog when you click "Start
Using SketchUp", uncheck the box "show at startup". The corresponding
registry setting is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp7
\WelcomeDialog "ShowOnStartup"="0"
In SketchUp 6, these registry changes can be necessary:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6
\GLConfig\Display]
"FIRST_TIME"=dword:00000000
"HW_OK"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\SketchUp6
\Google SketchUp TOTD]
"HelpPage"="0"
"ShowOnStartUp"="false"
Older versions of SketchUp, Wine and Linux had problems with Intel
chipsets. This made it necessary to disable "DRI" in the configuration of
your X server, the graphical user interface of Linux. Open a terminal and
type (example: Ubuntu)
gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Search for the "Device" section and add the option to disable DRI.
before:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
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after:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
Option "NoDRI"
EndSection
Then save it and restart your X server by pressing the key combination
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
Use SketchUp with an external 2d graphics editor
Copy this script into a text editor and save it in /usr/bin (or download it
from here). You can replace gimp by any other program you like. Make
sure it is executable by right clicking properties permissions.
#!/bin/sh
IMG=$(winepath -u "$*")
/usr/bin/gimp "$IMG"
exit 0
1.
Now open window preferences in SketchUp. In the application section,
you choose this script (from "Z:\usr\bin").
2.
Set SketchUp files to be opened in SketchUp
The newest version of Wine is supposed to do the correct file format
assignments automatically. If this is not the case, you can save the following in
a text file and rename it as skp.sh. Make sure that the path matches to the
location of your SketchUp.exe file. Then move it into ~/.wine .
#!/bin/sh
QUICKPARLOCATION="c:\\Programme\\Google\\Google
SketchUp 7.1\\SketchUp.exe"
PARAM=`winepath -w "$*"`
wine "$QUICKPARLOCATION" "$PARAM"
exit 0
Right click on any SketchUp file, properties, go to the "open with" tab and
select the sh script (as custom command)
Make SketchUp beautiful
Add an icon for SketchUp files: Save this image in the folder ~/.local
/share/icons and rename it as
application-x-wine-extension-skp.svg
1.
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Wine applications look very minimalist and old like Windows 2000. But
you can change the colors or use a windows theme to make it look more
like your other GTK applications.
Open Applications Wine Configure Wine. On the "Desktop
Integration" tab, you can either modify the colors of the user
interface by selecting an element and then a color or font. Or you
choose a windows theme file (*.msstyles, *.theme, that you can find
from www.deviantart.com). Note that this can cause conflicts with
webdialogs.
For having smooth, antialiased text in Wine, there exists a script that
can enable this setting. Run these two commands in the terminal and
choose the smoothing mode 3:
wget http://files.polosatus.ru
/winefontssmoothing_en.sh
bash winefontssmoothing_en.sh
2.
Enable thumbnails (in Gnome)
With a little python script, we can extract the thumbnail image that is stored
inside a SketchUp file and add it to the system's thumbnails. Unfortunately
SketchUp in Wine is not yet capable to create thumbnails (or export png
images), so this works only for files that already contain a thumbnail (for
example from Windows, or from 3D warehouse).
Download this python script and save it in /usr/bin . Make sure it is
executable by right-clicking properties permissions.
1.
Now you need to register it as a thumbnailer in the Gnome.
In Gnome 3, save this file in /usr/share/thumbnailers.
If you have Gnome 2, paste these two commands in the terminal:
2.
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers
/application@x-wine-extension-skp/enable
--type=bool true
gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers
/application@x-wine-extension-skp/command
--type=string "python /usr/bin
/skp-thumbnailer.py %i %o"
If you want to create lots of thumbnails for already existing files (or nested
directories) at once, you can do this manually with this bash script. It will create
thumbnails for all files in the current directory or in a directory that you can pass
as an argument.
Use SketchUp < 8.0 with Google Earth
Importing terrain from Google Earth can work in SU6-SU7.1 if you use the
Windows version in Wine instead of the native Linux version.
Install Google Earth in Wine (make sure you have not the GoogleUpdater, but a
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complete installer >10 MB, go to the download page and choosing "advanced
setup".
importing terrain from Google Earth works, but it might look like GE
freezes for a minute.
exporting a model to Google Earth does not work, because Sketchup in
Wine ( <1.3.7) can't create Collada files.
Make Plugins work in Wine versions < 1.2
Ruby plugins are written in a Windows text format instead of UNIX format (the
difference is that windows uses 2 symbols for a line ending and displays them
as one). So you will need to convert the Ruby scripts into UNIX format using the
program tofrodos (unfortunately only available for the terminal, but that should
not be too difficult). You can find and install tofrodos either in the software
center or on the terminal:
Open the terminal and copy this line
sudo apt-get install tofrodos
and press enter to install that program.
1.
If you have downloaded a Ruby script and want to convert it, open the
terminal and go to that folder (example: your Desktop) by typing
cd ~/Desktop
2.
To convert all Ruby scripts (that have the extension .rb) in that folder,
copy this line into the terminal and hit enter
fromdos *.rb
3.
Now you can move the scripts into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Google
/Google SketchUp 7/Plugins
4.
What does not work
Thanks to many efforts from both the Wine developers and the Sketchup team,
Sketchup has become very stable. Nevertheless there are some negligible
annoyances and only few functions that do not yet work.
in some installations, the integrated IE browser ("Get models from 3D
warehouse" etc.) displays a blank page.
workaround: Installing 'ie8' and 'gecko' via Winetricks as described
above should fix that.
When uploading to 3D Warehouse, the upload button didn't have an
effect.
workaround: Installing 'ie8' and 'gecko' via Winetricks as described
above and disabling msstyles themes should make uploading work,
however in Wine <1.5.4 thumbnails of uploaded models are black.
- because of the black thumbnails issue, you would probably prefer to
export as kmz and upload it on the 3D Warehouse website (upper right
corner).
- or you use a SketchUp plugin that uses a work-around to upload
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models with thumbnail: [Plugin] Upload model with custom thumbnail
When hovering the border of the 3d view (especially after having moved
an inspector window), the view pans up/down/sidewards without
stopping. This is caused by both a bug in SketchUp and an issue with
mouse input in Wine.
"Make unique texture" can log you out from your user session
(eventually depends on the graphics card)
fixed in Wine 1.3.3: the Ruby Console didn't not recognize the enter
key.
fixed in Wine 1.3.7: kmz/collada xml exporter and importer didn't work
( you could use VirtualBox instead).
fixed in Wine 1.4-rc3: the inspector windows (materials browser, entity
info etc.) can randomly stick to the cursor and move over the screen.
fixed in Wine 1.5.4: black images resulted from 2d Export, file
thumbnails, component/scene/style thumbnails and the print preview
(see this bug report of Wine).
fixed in Wine 1.5.4: Sketchy styles didn't show edges.
fixed in Wine 1.5.4: in exported 3d models, distorted textures and color
shifts were not correctly baked into the textures.
(...)
References
SketchUp 8.0
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=21290
SketchUp 7.1
SketchUp 7.0
Sketchup 6
more sources:
http://robsworldoftech.blogspot.com/search/label/Sketchup
http://www.indragunawan.com/2008/08/google-sketchup-6-on-linux.html
http://www.aksels.de/software.php#sketch
If you create models on Linux and upload them to 3D
warehouse (ie. via VirtualBox), please let me know for
adding them to our collection.
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SketchUp in Wine survey
Please help us to get an overview about usage of SketchUp in
Wine by filling out this form:
https://spreadsheets.google.com
/viewform?formkey=dGRhNGoybGpKdkh1b0UybWV4SGNqSVE6MQ
Oracle VirtualBox
VirtualBox (previously Sun VirtualBox) is a virtual machine that allows to use

different operating systems within your running system. Thus it can demand
much resources depending on the requirements of the guest operating system
(recommendation: Windows XP).
A virtual machine is the tool of choice to have a reliably working SketchUp or if
Wine doesn't satisfy you.
Installation
VirtualBox comes in two versions: an opensource edition (OSE) and a
commercial version which is free for personal use (PUEL) and contains some
additional features like USB support.
for installing the OSE version, go to the software center (or the
equivalent of your distribution) and search for
virtualbox-ose
for the PUEL version, you can download a debian installer
from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
After installation, VirtualBox offers a comfortable wizard for creating a virtual
harddisk and machine. You'll need either a Windows install CD or an iso image.
Setting up a shared folder
Select the virtual machine and click on the "change" button (yellow gear), on
the bottom of the list you can add a shared folder, to which both the Linux and
the virtual machine will have access. It might be useful to create a symbolic link
to the shared folder on your desktop. Then you can simply drop SketchUp files
onto that folder.
[optionally] Optimizing the virtual system
As even Windows XP costs you around 2GB disk space and 300MB RAM, it
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could be useful to remove Windows components that you wouldn't use either.
That way it can be possible to reduce the requirements of XP to 300MB disk
space and 50MB RAM.
The program nLite (for XP) or vLite (for Vista) offer a "minimal" preset and lots
of expert options (which could result in a not working disk image). The program
creates a disk image which you can use instead of the original Windows install
CD.
Building Maker
Building Maker is a web application that allows creating 3d buildings by placing

the outlines of boxes on 2d photos. Unlike to other web applications, it officially
requires the Google Earth Plugin and otherwise redirects you to an error
message. Effectively the Google Earth Plugin is not essential (it only adds a 3d
preview), all the rest works with standardized web technology that is available
on Linux like on other systems. So we need to fool the Google website and
make them believe the plugin is installed.
First you install the Windows version of Firefox. It is a free browser
that runs perfectly in Wine (in contrast to Internet Explorer).
1.
Then you need to install the Windows version of the Google Earth
Plugin. In order to get the Windows version, it's best to access the
download page from the just installed Firefox. As far as I know, Google
only offers the Plugin bundled with Google Updater which doesn't work in
Wine. So it's best to download the full installer for Google Earth by
going to the download page and choosing "advanced setup" (the full
installer is > 10MB).
2.
Finally you can install it and open the Windows version of Firefox and
go to the Building Maker site. Now it should give you access to the tool
without redirect. It is recommended to avoid the 3d preview because the
Google Earth Plugin doesn't really run well in Wine, it works just enough
to make the website believe it is installed.
(For the 3d view, it would be necessary to set this registry key (~/.wine
/drive_c/windows/regedit.exe):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Google\GoogleEarthPlugin
\Render\RenderingApi=1 )
3.
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