You should definitely download the free version and spend a couple of hours playing with it. With Dynamic Components and emerging plug-ins like, for architecture, SketchUP Pro appears like a product that could eventually challenge current BIM offerings. These days I am encountering small residential (mostly one person) offices that have dumped AutoCAD or AutoCAD Lt and are doing everything with SketchUP. Now, after that bit of rambling, I find it interesting to learn that more and more AEC firms are using/requiring SketchUP when there are several BIM products on the market that can do so much more and far more productively. Autodesk, however, looked farther out and found another product to imbibe: Revit. "Autodesk Attention Deficit Disorder" or "It's not making us money so let's dump it"). It actually had a far superior GUI but as is often the case with Autodesk, there was no steam behind it (yet another victim of A.A.D.D.
Autodesk attempted to compete by purchasing a French product that they included with Architectural Desktop I believe it was called "Architectural Studio". I believe SketchUP came out in 2000 or early 2001. It is totally enigmatic isn't it? And then again, perhaps it totally makes sense and questions the logic of products that cost four or five thousand dollars. Architecture Engineering & Construction Collection 1.
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