Who uses SketchUp Pro? Everyone. Hundreds of thousands of
professionals in (take a deep breath) 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 all the time, every day. It’s the all-purpose antidote to
complicated, expensive CAD software.
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.
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 on the
way. And just in case, every SketchUp Pro license includes a year of
free technical support.
No software is an island
We 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 plugins that provide extra features and tools, our
all-new Extension Warehouse is your ticket to add-on nirvana.
