Several of your questions were followed by vague observations. Re, efficiency, … It is not always the paramount goal in some situations, for reasons that may not be apparent.
The discussion of details, behind the answers to your questions, fall under that (clause 2.5,) in my opinion.
(Mentioned in passing within some of the online EULAs.)Īnyone else who may think they know, is also under the EULA* agreements, which has a non-reverse engineer clause. Anyone else who may know (ie, distributors, partners, etc.,) are surely under a non-disclosure agreement of some kind. The “under the hood” and “behind the scenes” details of the SketchUp installers and licensing are privy only to Trimble employees. Most of the above questions are inappropriate for public discussion. (The following is given in a “ matter of fact” manner.