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SketchUp Studio, Student annual subscription. Includes individual student use of Sefaira, SketchUp desktop, LayOut, Style Builder, SketchUp Viewer for XR and Mobile apps, SketchUp for Web, Pro learning and Trimble Connect for Business.

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SketchUp Pro is the award-winning program that finally delivers a smarter way to think about 3D modeling. The new version is the best release of Sketchup yet - you won’t believe how easy it is to use. We’ve vastly simplified the process of building and documenting 3D models.

What is SketchUp?

SketchUp is a deceptively simple, amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. SketchUp was developed to combine the elegance and spontaneity of pencil sketching with the speed and flexibility of todays digital media.
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Why Buy Sketchup Pro

Note: SketchUp Make is a free version of SketchUp, for non-commercial use ONLY. If you are using SketchUp commercially, you will need to purchase a license of SketchUp Pro to be compliant.

Developed for the conceptual stages of design, this powerful yet easy-to-learn software allows for quick and easy 3D form creation - the result is an interface that supports a dynamic, creative exploration of 3D form, material and light.

SketchUp Pro combines a compact yet robust tool-set with an intelligent guidance system that streamlines the 3D drawing process.

Who uses SketchUp Pro? Everyone.

Hundreds of thousands of professionals in architecture, construction, engineering, commercial interiors, light construction, landscape architecture, kitchen & bath design, urban planning, game design, film & stage, woodworking and plenty of other fields use SketchUp Pro every day. It’s the sensible alternative to complicated, expensive CAD software.
Many architects use Sketchup in combination with VectorWorks and Autocad Lt.

A smarter way to think about 3D modeling

SketchUp Pro is like a pencil with superpowers. 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. More advanced? Start modeling from CAD and terrain data, photographs or even hand sketches. Build models with custom behaviors and attributes. SketchUp Pro is as simple and as powerful as you want it to be.

Turn your models into drawings with LayOut

At some point in every project, you need to produce a set of drawings that shows your model: plans, sections, elevations, perspectives. LayOut in SketchUp Pro lets you add model views to pages, choose drawing scales, adjust line weights and add dimensions, callouts and graphics. Changes to your model are reflected automatically in LayOut. When it’s time, export PDFs, images and CAD files.

Produce scaled, accurate drawings

SketchUp is not 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.

Generate presentation documents

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

Create compelling walkthroughs

Use SketchUp Pro to turn your models into animated walkthroughs and flyovers that explain every detail.

Get good, fast.

There’s a reason SketchUp is synonymous with friendly and forgiving 3D modeling software: we don’t sacrifice usability for the sake of functionality. With handy contextual tips, a dedicated Instructor panel for beginners, and mountains of online resources, help is always at hand.

No software is an island

Trimble built SketchUp Pro to slide right into your existing workflow. Ready for some alphabet soup? With importers for DXF, DWG, 3DS, DAE, KMZ, TIF, JPG, PNG and a few more, you can bring in drawings, models and images to your heart’s content. SketchUp Pro also exports all of those formats, plus PDF, OBJ, FBX, XSI, VRML, MP4, WEBM and AVI. OMG.

Slides are boring. Present from SketchUp Pro.

Scenes let you save views of your model to pull up anytime. Styles provide endless visual effects to make your work look precise, sketchy or anything in between. Section Planes slice through models for creating sectional views. Go fullscreen, walk around, add labels and export flyover animations. Present from SketchUp Pro and get your point across every single time.

Models and plugins aplenty

Need a particular chair for the room you’re designing? A lamp for your carriage house? A rhino for your zoo? You’ll find almost anything you need in SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse, the world’s biggest repository of free 3D models. And as for extensions that provide extra features and tools, our all-new Extension Warehouse is your ticket to add-on nirvana.

BIM ready, from the first click

Where does building information modeling begin? In SketchUp Pro, start by tagging groups and components with industry standard classification types. Then, geo-locate your model for shadow studies and site context. Continue on, further enriching components with data attributes or programming functions. Build smart spreadsheet reports, or wrap up your entire project in a tidy IFC file, ready for further modeling and analysis with the next instrument in your BIM tool box..

A world of context—literally

In about two minutes, you can choose a section of the world to bring into your SketchUp Pro model—up to a square kilometer at a time. For free, you’ll get aerial imagery, a 3D terrain model and lat-long data to produce accurate shadow studies. From there, you can import pre-modeled buildings for site context and use Google Maps Street View imagery to model anything else you need.

A place for everything and everything in its place

Your mother always told you that the key to 3D modeling success was tidiness and organization. Make your models easy to work on and easy to present. Use groups and components to divvy up your geometry into logical chunks. Layers come in handy for separating big pieces of your model, and the Outliner is a way to see everything at once.

SketchUp LayOut

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.

LayOut is used for generating presentation documents. With LayOut, you're equipped for page design, drafting, vector illustration and slide presentations: everything you need to explain everything.

After you insert a SketchUp models into a LayOut document, you can design the document to highlight your 3D model's best features. If you ever need to change or update your original SketchUp model, you can update the model in LayOut so that all the details are synched automatically.

Model and Document

With LayOut, insert SketchUp model views wherever you want in your document. These "viewports" are living, breathing views of your project. When your model changes, all of your viewports update too.

Make beautiful drawings

LayOut brings the feel of SketchUp into 2D space in an incomparably beautiful way. Line work, shadows, textures, text, dimensions, title blocks: all exactly the way you want.

Intuitive vector drawing

LayOut's drawing tools are just like SketchUp's: simple, smart, and fun. And everything you draw is vector smart, so scaling and rotating can be done with the utmost precision.

Dimension, detail, explain

Use dimensioning tools that snap to the edges of SketchUp models and quickly set the format, scale, and precision of displayed measurements

Getting Started with Learn SketchUp Part 1

Learn the fundamentals of SketchUp by following along with these Sketchup Tutorials.

Getting Started with Learn SketchUp Part 2

Learn the fundamentals of SketchUp by following along with these Sketchup Tutorials.

Getting Started with Learn SketchUp Part 3

Learn the fundamentals of SketchUp by following along with these Sketchup 3D Tutorials.

Getting Started with Learn SketchUp Part 4

Learn the fundamentals of SketchUp by following along with these Sketchup 3D Tutorials.

Is SketchUp Easy To Learn?

SketchUp is great for 3D modelling, to be truly proficient it is important you are aware of your surroundings. You will find many of the more involved functions are hidden from view. Make your way to the System Preferences panel to tailor your modelling environment to your specific needs.

Is SketchUp easier than AutoCAD?

While AutoCAD is better suited to 2D & 3D mechanical, civil, and architectural engineering designs, SketchUp is great for 3D modelling and basic rendering of objects. SketchUp is easier to use, and many users say it is less fussy than AutoCAD.