KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rust and WebGPU

Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by BHSPitMonkey on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:58AM (#50421591)

To this day I still use the 2017 freeware version (through WINE) for drafting all my home projects. It's just so darned intuitive to me (for anything without too many curves, at least) and I can't be bothered to learn anything else. The web version works in a pinch but it has always felt slower and less capable to me.

Going to have to try this!

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Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by 0x0203 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:28PM (#50429490)

Would you be willing to share how you got it to run in wine? I've tried many times with the old 2017 installer I had from back then, and have never had any luck. I've gotten it to run once or twice, but it's never been actually usable. I've kinda given up, so maybe newer versions of wine work better now?

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Re:KetchUp – Open-source SketchUp alternative built with Rus... by BHSPitMonkey on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:57PM (#50460082)

I followed instructions from the AppDB entry [1], possibly supplemented with a web search for a problem or two. After setting up fonts and 2x hidpi scaling it's reasonably nice to use (every once in a while a failure related to auto-saving pops up, but it's inconsequential).

[1] https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

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