trombonobasso

I don't think there's such an animal as an intuitive computer program. That's a bit of hyperbole perpetrated by people who write and/or market software. Drawing up plans for a project is a complicated undertaking no matter how you do it, and it takes time and patience to learn how. No matter how much Google tells you that Sketchup is intuitive, you're going to have to spend a lot of hours figuring out what's intuitive for Google's programmers.

If you knew nothing about woodworking and you walked into a well-equipped shop, it would take you some time to figure out how to use the tools. If you're an accomplished woodworker entering someone else's shop it would still take some time to adjust your workflow to your new environment.

Sketchup isn't worth my time because arthritis has pretty much taken woodworking out of my life, but if it hadn't, I'd be spending hours figuring it out. I do a lot of computer graphics now, and I use Adobe illustrator as my main tool. I recently ran across a comment by a long-time Illustrator user that it was not an intuitive interface. I thought, no, maybe it wasn't a couple of years ago, but it feels pretty familiar now, though I've just scratched the surface. I don't think Sketchup is nearly as complex as Illustrator.

I'm not a geek. I just figured out that if a program can accomplish what I need, I'm smart enough to master it. I just have to decide whether or not I want to invest the time. If I'm lucky, a new program will function similarly to one I already know: then, it's "intuitive." Otherwise, it's a nightmare until I get a grip on it. Your choice.