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Subject: Re: "Microsoft has eradicated all memory of Paint 3D from the store,
 and its predecessor is only getting better"
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On 11/7/2024 7:14 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 10:00:10 -0500, DFS wrote:
> 
>> On 11/7/2024 2:24 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 01:30:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... Paint3D was a nice tool for throwing something together and it's
>>>> annoying that they killed it for seemingly no reason.
>>>
>>> No money to be made from such entry-level tools, I guess. Same with
>>> Google SketchUp, and that Adobe thing -- Dimensions, was it?
>>
>> That home reno show Fixer Upper used SketchUp; the designs were almost
>> photo-realistic.
> 
> They weren’t rendered in SketchUp, then.

Yes they were.



>> SketchUp isn't dead.  They still have a free web version, and 3
>> subscription plans.
> 
> But no free desktop version. That’s dead and gone.

There's a free web version, and it's better than any GuhNoo hobbyist 
crapware out there.