Typical uses

For , SketchUp 8 Portable is often faster and less frustrating than its modern successors.

As software moved toward heavy installers and licensing servers, the "Portable" version of SketchUp 8 emerged as a community-driven workaround. It was designed to:

: Some users simply install SketchUp on one machine, then copy the entire program folder (usually in C:\Program Files\Google\Google SketchUp 8 ) to a USB drive.