I'm roughly 300% faster in any program that gives me a command line, vs forcing me to use a limited set of shortcut keys or menu/tool palette selections. VW's NURBS implementation is not particularly useful, extruding can only be done on a limited selection of object types, drawing 3D polylines or curves is difficult, and surface creation is not intuitive either. I occasionally 3D print models for work, and I always take the geometry out of VW to clean up in Rhino, because even simple things like joins and subtractions get weird really quickly. VW's modelling is like pulling teeth compared to Rhino. I have a pretty strong background in Rhino and if I need to do any 3D modeling more complex than a simple box, I usually do it Rhino. It's often not suitable for any kind of 3D printing without a lot of cleanup. I agree with the geometry from Sketchup is often revealed to be really terrible when you bring it into other 3D programs. Maybe it is an urban myth but I believe Google stipulated that Trimble had to provide a free version for life during the sale of Su. So the flashy promos are absolutely fine because the product is free. I should also say that SU is free (SU Make) and its all you need and we have been using it seriously for years.
I am happy to answer questions on the process. There are a lot of things to be aware of when working between SU and VW but as long as you follow a set of rules you are good to go. The model into VW works very well indeed and scaled textures are respected in VW and rescaling of objects is also respected with the texture also resizing correctly. SU relies on a lot of plugins which at times is not great but there are several UV mapping tools which help enormously. In fact a large green crayon held in a boxing glove would be superior to VW for texturing. The one area where SU beats VW hands down is with texturing, which VW is absolutely awful at. VW tools are far superior and despite claims to the contrary VW is much quicker than SU. We use it all of the time and take the models from SU into VW after clean up work.
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