Run SketchUp Make in container

Running SketchUp on Linux requires installation of Wine. That can certainly be done as it is packaged for example for Fedora but I prefer to keep my core workstation installation free of software that I only use from time to time or which I only use for specific purpose.

This repository helps me to run SketchUp Make 2017 from container image, installed separately from by workstation packages.

Build image

This repository does not distribute the actual SketchUp Make binary. Download the Windows version from

https://www.sketchup.com/download/make

and place it to this directory.

Then run

sudo docker build --build-arg=uid=$(id -u) -t sketchup .

Run the container

The container image expects the directory with .skp files bind-mounted to /data directory in the container. This is an example command to run the container, mounting the current directory:

sudo docker run --read-only \
	--tmpfs /tmp -v /tmp/.wine-$(id -u) \
	-e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \
	--security-opt=label:type:spc_t --user=$(id -u):$(id -g) \
	-v /tmp/.X11-unix/X0:/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 \
	--device=/dev/dri/card0:/dev/dri/card0 \
	-v $(pwd):/data --rm sketchup

SketchUp and Wine will store some config and state information in subdirectory .sketchup-run/ of the directory mounted to /data, creating that subdirectory upon the first run if needed. It should be safe to remove that subdirectory.