SketchUP Pro

SketchUp Pro is easy and intuitive, allowing anyone to model in 3D quickly and accurately.

There’s a reason SketchUp is synonymous with friendly and forgiving 3D modeling software: we don’t sacrifice usability for the sake of functionality. Start by drawing lines and shapes. Push and pull surfaces to turn them into 3D forms. Stretch, copy, rotate and paint to make anything you like.

SIMPLE IS POWERFUL

Find a 3D model of anything

Need an oven for the kitchen you’re designing? An automobile for your driveway? A rhino for your zoo? Find it all in 3D Warehouse, the world’s biggest library of free 3D models.

Turn models to documents

Eventually, some 3D models grow up to become professional 2D drawing sets. LayOut in SketchUp Pro helps you showcase your models and create drawings you’ll be proud of

Customize your SketchUp

SketchUp extensions are add-on tools that solve 3D modeling problems which might otherwise leave you scratching your head. And there are hundreds of them to explore.

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Key Features
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Key Features

SKETCHUP PRO KEY FEATURES

SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp Pro.

get good fast

Whoever asked for complicated CAD software? SketchUp is hands-down the most intuitive and easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool around making it the ideal somewhere for any level of user experience.

produce scaled drawings

Produce scaled, accurate drawings SketchUp isn’t just for 3D models. Draw plans, elevations, details, title blocks and a lot more with LayOut. When your model changes, so does your document. Simple.

think and draw in 3d

Think by drawing in 3D. We designed SketchUp to behave like an extension of your hand, so you can draw whatever you want, however you want in an easy, intuitive and familiar way.

generate presentations

Generate impactful presentation documents. With LayOut, you’re equipped for page design, drafting, vector illustration and slide presentations: everything you need to explain everything.

creATE DETAILED MODELS

Create accurate, highly-detailed models with SketchUp. Accurate to a thousandth of an inch, you can design, specify, and plan with as much or little detail as you need for all your projects.

CREAte walkthroughs

Create stunning and compelling walkthroughs. Use SketchUp Pro to turn your models into animated walkthroughs and flyovers that really sell your project and clearly explain every detail.

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SketchUp – Graphics Pipeline 2.0

What matters more than how fast, smoothly, and reliably SketchUp renders your models?

In this release, we’ve made major improvements to our graphics pipeline, allowing for performance improvements everywhere you see a .SKP.

Now, SketchUp, 3D Warehouse, LayOut, my.SketchUp, and Trimble Connect all render models using the same under-the-hood algorithms—all tuned for buttery 3D orbiting.

Couple this with ease of use, flexibility, modelling and layout enhancements and you'll quickly experience why SketchUp has become so popular across many design and industry sectors.

SketchUp – Improved Drawing Tools

We’re always sharpening ‘heuristics,’ the ins and outs that make SketchUp quick and precise.

High DPI Modeling

We’ve tuned snapping and inferencing for high definition monitors (like Apple’s Retina Display). Edge weights have also been smart-scaled.

Smart Offset

Our new Offset tool avoids overlapping and self-intersecting geometry. Clean offsets, every time you hit ‘F’ (even in LayOut!)

Perpendicular Face Inferencing

Have you mastered parallel inferencing? We’ve added a ‘Perpendicular to Face’ inference. Hover a face; SketchUp will helpfully snap to its perpendicular.

Righteous Rectangles

Our Rectangle tools now utilize the arrow-key axis-locking (just like Circle and Polygon tools). Psst… find square or Golden Section proportions; hold shift to lock that in too!

LayOut – Introducing Tables

Great documents often feature important information, so we built Tables; a great way to manage spreadsheets in LayOut. Create a Table from scratch, or import a .CSV or Excel file. Tables behave just like other spreadsheets: edit text, style cells, modify columns and rows… you get the gist. LayOut references your original spreadsheet, so updating every Table in your document is as simple as… click!

LayOut – High Fidelity .DWG Support

Many people use linework from SketchUp in other CAD applications. We’ve re-written LayOut’s .DWG/.DXF exporter to make their lives a lot easier.

One .DWG

Previously, a ten page LayOut file would export as ten separate .DWGs. Now you’ll get just one .DWG with ten separate tabs for each page.

Native Entities

In the old days, LayOut entities like dimensions, clipping masks, and labels would explode into raw geometry upon export. Now, they’ll import smartly into AutoCAD and behave just as expected.

Smart Scaling

LayOut exports are now smart enough to self-scale for paper size or model space. Drawing entities like labels and polygons scale to paper size. Model linework scales to model space. Voilà!

Color by Layer

We’ve added an oft-requested ‘Color-by-Layer’ option to CAD exports, so all entities on a given layer may export as one color. By default, black linework exports so that it renders as black on a white background and white on a black background. That’s like candy for CAD fiends.

SketchUp – 3D for every-cone

Customization for the colors that display SketchUp’s axes and inferencing. We hope people with any degree of color blindness will tweak these important color schemes to make SketchUp and LayOut work just right.

SketchUp – Persistent IDs

Now, when you make a change to your SketchUp model, any LayOut dimensions associated with the model update to reflect your edit. This is possible thanks to a new feature across the SketchUp platform called Persistent IDs. These are identifiers for geometry that help SketchUp (and its extensions) manipulate individual entities, like a specific edge or face. Basically, every sliver of your model just got smarter.

SketchUp – Extension Manager

A new utility, Extension Manager is a one-look view of your SketchUp extensions. From here, it’s easy to toggle on and off custom tools (or uninstall them entirely). Extension Manager also displays an extension’s Digital Signature, the indication it meets our standard for quality and security.

SketchUp Pro provides value, helping designers make more informed decisions, communicate project details, and share ideas with their colleagues and customers to reach a common goal.

Facilities planning and layout
Detailing
Visualising building and process modifications
Maintenance and operations management
Obtaining approvals from regulatory agencies
Line-of-sight analysis
Site logistics
Design and construction validation
Creating professional presentation documents with Layout

To find out more about SketchUp Pro, get in contact with Graitec today on (023) 8086 8947, or click on the button below to request more information or a quote.

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CAD Software

SketchUP Pro

SketchUp Pro is easy and intuitive, allowing anyone to model in 3D quickly and accurately.

SIMPLE IS POWERFUL

Key Features

SKETCHUP PRO KEY FEATURES

Other Features

SKETCHUP OTHER FEATURES

SketchUp – Graphics Pipeline 2.0

SketchUp – Improved Drawing Tools

LayOut – Introducing Tables

LayOut – High Fidelity .DWG Support

SketchUp – 3D for every-cone

SketchUp – Persistent IDs

SketchUp – Extension Manager

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