Does anyone use SketchUp? Thoughts? Advice?

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I spent a couple of days messing around with it and while there is a frustrating learning curve it is pretty useful. It’s nice to be able to visualize a project in the virtual environment.

I’ve been wanting to learn it, no doubt it would be helpful. I also wanna learn SOLIDWORKS but don’t have a spare $7k to fork out 🤦🏻‍♂️

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