SketchUp

Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 18 years (2009–2026), in 9 threads.

People raised many different problems with SketchUp, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 9 complaints

Holes and overlapping geometry must be fixed manually in Blender before slicing2026-01-28
Couldn't figure out how to model anything, gave up repeatedly2025-08-17
Interface felt atrocious compared to Rhino when first tried2024-07-15
Designed for a 3-button mouse, poor trackpad use; confusing UI and icons2023-05-24
Buggy software with terrible user experience2020-09-16
Web version is useless for the commenter's needs, forcing workarounds2020-06-11
UI becomes a messy, slow mess when models get big or complex2019-09-08
User gets lost in menus, unsure whether commands are in context menu or top bar2017-01-01
Awkward to draw a line and set its length at the same time2009-01-23