John - thanks for the link and the reply. Not to put to fine a point on it, that workflow is horrifying. He's actually tracing and coloring by hand? I thought the computer was supposed to make our lives easier? That is no different that how things were done 25 years ago when I was in school except I'm not getting high off the marker fumes. What is his total elapsed time in that rendering? It's probably short(er) than by hand, due to the computer but in comparison to what Impression was capable of, I see no improvement and a huge step back. Sketchbook, is good for what it is as a way to duplicate certain types of media, but it doesn't dynamically automate things the way Impression was capable of especially in relation to DWG's. That is what set it apart from Photoshop or Illustrator. It also didn't shut off that Adobe workflow by allowing you to save to layered .PSD files. I'd think that would be useful even to the most die-hard Photoshop renderer. Sketchbook is good for the Industrial Design and other Concept Design workflows, but is in my opinion totally ill suited to an AEC workflow where you are working with lot of AutoCAD based drawings and have need to update and revise them. Whoever sold Sketchbook as a useful tool for AEC workflows had no real understanding of what really is needed in the AEC realm.
I get that for some inexplicable reason you're not supporting it any more, but how much work would it be to make it work for the most current versions of AutoCAD or Windows? There was a previous comment about Impression dying because of lack of customer interest. How about making it an App? Make sure it works for the current versions and OS and sell it for $10 bucks. No other improvements! I have to think anyone who needs to color an AutoCad drawing beyond hatching would drop $10 bucks just to get layered .PSD files from a dwg.
I'm probably yelling into a hurricane here, but Autodesk has continually sold itself on making what we do easier and better, and for a short time there, you had something that did. Please consider once again supporting this important part of the AEC workflow and making our working lives easier and better once again.