SketchUp Changelogs

SketchUp 2024

April 2024

Ambient Occlusion
A new style setting that adds visual emphasis to corners and edges, increasing perceived depth and realism within the SketchUp interface. This style is also available in LayOut and on iPad.

Trimble Connect Integration
Trimble Connect is now a native integration within the desktop application. You can access your cloud-saved files almost instantly and saving your file preserves progress and updates the file’s version history in Trimble Connect.

Link Sharing
Generate view-only shareable models to distribute to colleagues and clients. The recipient doesn’t need to have the software installed.

Ground Mesh in Scan Essentials (Studio only)
Quickly and efficiently turn a terrain point cloud into an accurate, quad-face based, ground mesh with a chosen resolution. The Ground Mesh tool automatically extracts terrain information – whether from a full point cloud, a segmented or classified cloud. Choose from Fit Cloud, Rectangular, and Bounded options.

Scan-to-Design (LABS) on SketchUp for iPad
Scan existing spaces and watch as SketchUp transforms your scan data into clean, organized 3D geometry, creating an immediate starting point for conceptual design.

Add Location
Simplify the process of adding site terrain to your model. Adjust contour and tessellation density to suit your needs with the mesh density slider. Select low density for lighter, faster files and higher density for more detailed and precise terrain.

New Graphics Engine for SketchUp
Experience substantial upticks in re -draw and model load speed when you orbit, zoom and pan. You have the option to toggle the new engine off or on based on your hardware and system.

New Graphics Engine for LayOut (LABS)
LayOut’s new graphics engine brings the on-screen drawing of SketchUp and LayOut entities into a more modern infrastructure and improves performance in file navigation and responsiveness.

Draft Mode in LayOut
Enabling the Draft Mode in LayOut improves speed and responsiveness as you navigate or draw in your file – especially noticeable with heavier, more complex files.

IFC4 updates
Benefit from enhanced mapping to IFC class attributes, and maintain data-rich models for improved project performance and BIM exports.

New 3D file formats
Import and export support for USDZ and gITF file formats.

Versionless
Now you don’t need to ‘Save As’ to access documents in 2022 or later.

Omnibar on SketchUp for iPad
New navigation tool with advanced search functionality that helps you find what you need faster and allows you to create and activate custom keyboard shortcuts.

Read more about SketchUp 2024 in this blog.

SketchUp Viewer for Meta Quest

October 17, 2023

SketchUp Viewer for Meta Quest is available for the Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 3 VR headsets.. AEC professionals and their customers can view and present 3D models using immersive technologies that enable interaction between the physical and digital world.

SketchUp Viewer for Meta Quest is a free viewing application for anyone with a Meta Quest headset. To create 3D models on desktop, mobile or web, you need a SketchUp subscription.

SketchUp 2023.1

September 7, 2023

New Iconography
All toolbars and associated tools have been redesigned to have the same look and feel as SketchUp for Web and SketchUp for iPad.

Snaps
Very easily connect groups or components in predefined ways.

Horizon Color
Convey the perfect mood with different colours for the horizon.

Render Controls in LayOut
Work faster in LayOut with a lower viewport resolution and export the final result at high resolution.

Auto-Associate Labels
More automation, as annotations such as titles and scales are automatically updated.

SketchUp for iPad 6.2

March 16, 2023

Hover
Hover over the iPad with Apple Pencil (only available on the new M2 iPad Pro) to find mid and end points, draw without guides or assistive geometry, align objects or see tool prompts.

Custom Toolbars
Create two customizable toolbars with eight of your favourite tools.

Save As & Reload
Work independently on different parts of a 3D model and test alternatives with these new features.

Flip
Mirror components easily and predictably over the visualized surfaces.

Dark Mode
Dark mode to prevent tired eyes in the evening.

Tag Folders
Create and edit Tag Folders, which also work on Desktop and Web.

Solid Tools
Use 2 or more objects to create new geometry.

DWG Import/Export
Import and export DWGs on SketchUp for iPad.

SketchUp 2023

February 2023

Flip Tool
Flip transformations will no longer be guesswork in 2023. With the new Flip Tool, the result of the flip transformation can be visualized in advance, saving you precious time with predictable modifications.

DWG-file as a reference file in LayOut
In LayOut, you can now also use a DWG file as a reference file. Receive notifications when a file is outdated or changed and update or relink it using the File Reference Manager. All style changes, such as line thicknesses, scale and viewport positions, are retained!

Revit Importer in SketchUp Studio
Convert Revit models seamlessly into SketchUp files for improved collaboration between project phases and different design teams. Revit families and layers are hereby translated into groups, components and tags in SketchUp. This saves you hours of cleaning up models.

And more…

• New Windows Installer with the additional options for SketchUp Studio: Scan Essentials, V-Ray and the new Revit Importer
• Faster storage of large models using multithreading
• Improved Rotate Tool in LayOut

Read more about SketchUp 2024 in this blog.

SketchUp for iPad 6.1

October 19, 2022

Presentation Mode

1. Curate that perfect walkthrough with a client, virtually or in person, with a simple user interface and easy-to-use presentation controls.
2. Mark up a 3D model in real-time with a client to streamline collaboration.
3. Drive the conversation forward by sliding to your next pre-built, 3D scene.
4. Let collaborators get hands-on with their feedback, with some guardrails. Lock the model viewport on your iPad, so they can view the model without the risk of accidentally editing geometry. Or, give the Apple Pencil to collaborators and let them mark up overtop your model while in Presentation Mode.

Teamwork

1. Share your 3D model with anyone (even non-SketchUp users) using a link.
2. Enjoy real-time updates; making changes to your models will prompt collaborators in-app to refresh for the latest version.
3. Revoke access at any time by stopping link-sharing.

Outliner
Now, you can organize objects in a clean hierarchy and control their visibility within the Outliner tree.

Other improvements

• Use the Rotated Rectangle tool to draw rectangles at precise angles in fewer clicks.
• Add text in 3D to your model with the 3D Text tool. Type into the dialog panel, adjust the text and watch it come to life in 3D.

SketchUp for iPad

April 19, 2022

Experience SketchUp in New Ways

• Work on the go, whether you’re working on or offline;
• Create in 3D with the ease of drawing manually without sacrificing precision with the Apple Pencil;
• Access projects anywhere thanks to the mobility of iPad;
• And share creations while traveling through AirDrop, text, email, or sync files with your favorite storage app.

Auto Shape
With this new machine learning feature, you transform scribbles into 3D shapes in an instant. Even better, you can bring in Live Components: parametrically configurable objects that redraw themselves in real-time. What a time saver!

Markup Mode
Do you like to edit designs with a red pen? Well, there’s a great solution for this! Using the Apple Pencil, make notes and sketches on 3D models with a variety of styles, colors and strokes. When you’re ready to turn those red lines into actual designs, use the Apple Pencil to quickly iterate in 3D.

AR View
Experience your projects in the context of reality with iPad’s powerful augmented reality view capabilities. You’ ll walk through pre-stored scenes in AR and explore your model at a very intense 1:1 scale.

Draw Your Way
Use Apple Pencil, mouse and keyboard, or multi-touch gestures to create in 3D. Whatever feels right for you!

Add Foto-Texture
Draw inspiration from the real world into your projects using your iPad’s integrated camera. Take a photo and apply it as texture to any surface in your model. Simple.

Always Connected
Trimble’s cloud-based project management solution, Trimble Connect, is now at your fingertips. With Trimble Connect, you work on your preferred device – ranging from SketchUp Pro, SketchUp for iPad, to SketchUp for Web. You’ ll always have the most recent file, so you’ re always ready when the work demands it.

Cross-App Functionality
SketchUp for iPad also functions perfectly with other apps. With the USDz export feature, you can create in 3D in SketchUp for iPad and then draw or paint in various other apps, such as Procreate and Morpholio Trace.

SketchUp 2022

January 2022

Support for Apple M1, macOS Monterey and Windows 11

Search Tool
Quickly find and activate native commands and installed Extensions.

Lasso Select Tool
Draw custom selection bounds without reorienting the camera, create multiple discrete selections in one click-drag operation and select entities much faster with stylus inputs.

Tag Tool
Improve model organization by tagging objects directly in the modelling window.

Stamp Copy
Make multiple copies of an entity and stamp them with a simple click for naturally dispersing objects across a given area.

Freehand Tool
With smoother curve entities, you can create organically drawn lines and Follow Me extrusions with more natural variance.

Scene Search
With Scene Search, a new search filter adjacent to the Scenes tab, you can now quickly identify and jump to your desired scene.

Tangent Inference Lock
With the 2-Point and 3-Point Arc tools, you can now quickly specify and lock arc tangency from an existing edge or arc, allowing you to create curved faces in a shorter amount of time.

Other improvements in SketchUp

• Explode command now 2-3x faster
• Less ‘clipping’ in displaying geometry
• Improved Tape Measure tool: the Measurements box now will hold the value of a guide or measurement, even if you move your cursor
• Maximum image export size based on available system memory

Auto-Text in LayOut
Without further text processing, use automatic tags to, for example, quickly annotate drawings, create numbered pages, and index legends or use the information embedded in SketchUp models to create more powerful and efficient templates.

Find & Replace in LayOut
Replacing or changing certain text (parts) in a selection, a page, or a document is a much quicker process.

Zoom Selection in LayOut
Jump to your desired Zoom level in a given selection in LayOut, lowering the likelihood of unwelcomed

SketchUp 2021.1

June 8, 2021

Modifier Toggles
The most explicit change is that more tool modifiers behave as toggles that can be turned on and off by tapping a key. This means fewer press-and-hold modifier interactions for tools and more predictable modeling outcomes.

For any tool, you can identify what modifiers are available in the Status Bar (at the bottom of the screen) and confirm the current modified state of the tool by examining the cursor or on-screen modeling behavior. With more modifiers behaving as toggles, we think it’s easier to switch the tool state before you complete a given operation.

Sticky Modifiers
Persistent modifier tool states across multiple operations. This means being able to make multiple copies of objects with Move or being able to hide edges with Eraser across view changes using Orbit. To get out of a modified tool state, either hit the modifier key again or change tools.

Pre-lock Inferences
As you may already know, many SketchUp tools feature the ability to ‘pre-lock’ an inference direction or drawing plane. In this release, this pattern has been applied to other tools. You’re now able to pre-lock an inference direction before the first click with the Line, Tape Measure, and Move tools.

Push/Pull Updates
In SketchUp 2021.1, you’re likely to notice some differences with Push/Pull. In addition to making the Push/Pull Copy modifier a persistent toggle, Push/Pull’s hidden modifier, Stretch, has been also formalized.

Stretch is a modifier state that has actually existed in SketchUp for years but has never been referenced in the Status Bar or the Push/Pull cursor. ‘Stretching’ a face is roughly equivalent to moving a face perpendicular to its drawing plane, and especially useful at the earliest stages of form development.

Alongside improvements to Push/Pull noted above, a change to the front-face orientation when modeling in SketchUp has been made. Now, SketchUp will always orient newly drawn faces with the front side facing up, when drawing on the ground plane, and with the front face ‘facing’ the camera in other cases. For example, if a face is drawn over the top of an existing face, the new face will still inherit the orientation of the face that it is drawn on. Push/Pull and Follow Me operations behave more predictably with these changes, resulting in correctly oriented faces.

Performance Improvement for Big Mesh Extensions
Some SketchUp extensions are designed to create or manipulate large amounts of geometry. Of course, the bigger the mesh an extension is adding to SketchUp, the longer it will take to generate. We’re pleased to announce an improvement to how efficiently SketchUp’s API generates large meshes. Once you get meshes above 20,000 polygons, the improvement is especially noticeable. If you’re eager to explore this new API, check out extensions such as Artisan, SubD, Bezier Surface, and Skimp.

Updates to the Extensions Menu
Going forward, the Extensions menu heading will always be visible, regardless of whether extensions have been installed there or not. Extension management and developer tools has also been relocated to this menu.

Unit Translation for Live Components
Live Components continue to evolve in SketchUp Labs to make them more useful. Specifically, Live Component parameters now display in the same unit format that you are using in your SketchUp model. So, when you are lining up a measurement with the Tape Measure tool, it’s a lot quicker to type that measurement into a Live Component parameter.

2021.1 also includes an improvement in the draw time of Live Component editing.

IFC 4 Classification and Export
In addition to support for the IFC 2×3 schema and file format, SketchUp Pro now includes an IFC 4 classification set and the ability to export IFC 4 files.

LayOut Improvements
In 2021.1, a faster way to set the scale of a viewport has been introduced. Now, you can simply type in the desired scale in the Camera tab of the SketchUp model panel. This new type-to-input will neatly parse a number of inputs: 1:50, 1” = 50”, 1/50, .02, 2%, or even 6” = 25’ will all quickly apply a 1:50 scale to a viewport.

SketchUp 2021

November 2020

A new look for the SketchUp brand
After eight years, SketchUp has unveiled a new style to continue the evolution of the product and brand. The new logo is derived from the simplicity of a cube and built using advanced tools within SketchUp. So, it’s truly a shape built in 3D. Plus, the new style meshes well with the rest of the Trimble ecosystem.

PreDesign: a new way to start SketchUp
Subscription only!
Alongside SketchUp Pro 2021, the brand-new early-stage research tool, PreDesign, is launching. This tool provides designers of buildings, outside spaces, and master plans with the information they need to properly factor climate insights into their initial concepts, getting designs started in the right direction before the modelling process begins.

PreDesign improves design outcomes—projects will be better informed and designers will have more information to influence preliminary solutions. Knowing this, Predesign will be a new way to ‘start’ architectural design projects in SketchUp.

Live Components
A new type of configurable object for SketchUp. These components will be available for all users to find, download and configure live in SketchUp!

Users can access live components (example) by opening 3D Warehouse and navigating to the collection of models – hosted by SketchUp Labs. Simply choose an object and insert it into your SketchUp model. When you double-click to edit a Live Component, the ‘Configure Live Component’ dialogue will allow you to control the components ‘parameters’. Unlike Dynamic Components, Live Components redraw themselves as you make adjustments.

Better model organization
Create 3D models that are simply better than anything else out there, especially large complex models. That’s exactly why SketchUp 2021 has a much better model organization:

• Tag Folders – It will be easier for designers who maintain large and complex models with a long list of tags and scenes. With Tag Folders, you can organize and catalogue tags based on attributes, building levels, or design options. This feature is also available in LayOut, allowing users to turn off/on bigger chunks of a model viewport when composing 2D drawings.
• Tag Filtering – The new filtering option in SketchUp’s Tags panel makes it a lot easier to search for tags in your model and quickly control individual tag visibility, make tag-based selections in the modelling window, or edit tag properties and styling. If you have long tag lists organized with a particular naming hierarchy, tag filtering will rapidly speed up the creation of folders allowing you to filter down to a prefix and add the tags you’re looking for.

SketchUp Labs
Live Components is the first feature released under a new program called “SketchUp Labs”. The SketchUp Labs program represents a change in the way SketchUp develops and releases features. Features released as part of this Beta program are still under development, but provide value to the user community.

Releasing a Labs capability will allow SketchUp to collect feedback earlier so they can better prioritize future development. Features that are part of the Labs program may be less polished, but it figures that’s well worth providing new features to customers faster and being able to test them earlier in real workflows.

SketchUp Pro 2020.2

August 12, 2020

Linear Inference Toggles for the Line Tool in SketchUp
Inferences allow you to work conveniently in SketchUp, but they can also get in the way of details or tracing images, for example. That’s why the Line tool now lets you use the ALT key on Windows / CMD key on macOS to turn the inferences on / off.

Weld Edges in SketchUp
‘Weld Edges’ has been added to SketchUp’s native tools. This means you can merge edges and arcs into a single polyline without installing an extension. To merge edges and arcs, right-click and select ‘Weld Edges’.

LayOut: Control Line Width, Colour, and Pattern by Tag
Creating various scenes and stacking viewports is no longer necessary to make impressive 2D drawings. The line style of SketchUp tags can now be determined in LayOut. You can now determine the edge width, color, dash pattern and dash scale in one simple viewport.

LayOut: Smoother Operations in Larger Documents
Good LayOut documents are an arrangement of viewports, images, vector graphics, and labels. This makes operating on selections gets slower. To help speed up larger files, LayOut now previews these transformations instead of drawing them in real-time as you work with a selection. When you complete a move, copy, or scale operation, LayOut then redraws your action. This is a subtle change, but it brings a new feel and a lot more efficiency to LayOut.

SketchUp Pro Subscriptions

June 2, 2020

On June 2, 2020, SketchUp developer Trimble announced a significant change in how customers could purchase SketchUp products. As of November 4, 2020, SketchUp Pro Classic, Permanent Licenses, and Maintenance renewals were no longer available.

There were several reasons for SketchUp’s shift to subscription-based products. With a subscription, users received regular updates, dedicated technical support, simplified authorization via login, and access from multiple devices. Additionally, the subscription provided access to extra products and services such as;

• Trimble Connect Business for unlimited cloud storage,
• Viewers for Hololens, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality,
• Premium Browser version of SketchUp.

SketchUp Pro 2020.1.1

May 28, 2020

This is a Windows only update to fix a frequent crash that occurred with users on the positive side of the UTC time standard (for example UTC+01:00). This crash would occur due to an error encountered when converting some local times to UTC when reloading a SketchUp file then saving.

SketchUp Pro 2020.1

23 april 2020

Empty Objects
You can now right-click on an empty space and create a grouped object or component from scratch. A pop-up window will allow you to name the component right from the start. So, no more glued geometry and therewith a better organized model.

Scenes Panel
Hidden geometry and objects can be saved on a Scene-by-Scene basis. This gives you better visibility control per Scene.

Section Planes & Scenes
You can now save Section Plane visibility per Scene. Before, only top-level visibility for Section Planes could be saved per Scene.

Hidden Objects are Now Editable
If you select a hidden object in the Outliner, it will appear as a mesh so you can easily make edits.

Control Visibility of Multiple Objects in Outliner
You can select multiple objects in Outliner and control the visibility of all selected Objects.

Improvements to Grips
You can now use the Rotate tool when toggling through all grips – just like the Move tool!

LayOut: Performance Improvements
Faster selection and deletion in LayOut.

LayOut: Improved Select Tool
When you click-drag to create a crossing or window selection, you won’t mistakenly move anything now!

SketchUp Pro 2020

January 2020

Introducing Outliner
A BIG model organization change: Outliner. In an effort to increase model performance, you no longer have to create Layers upon Layers. Manage and organize your model straight within Outliner. Use the friendly eyeball icon to toggle between the major sections of your model, such as main floor plans and furniture.

New grips on bounding boxes
When you grab a point that is obscured in an object (such as a back corner or centre point) and start to move it, your object will automatically go transparent when something in your model interferes with the object you are moving. This works with both the Rotate tool and the Move tool. This will literally ‘transform’ your workflow. Don’t take our word for it: start positioning objects in hard-to-reach places to see what happens!

Better control of hidden objects
You’ll notice in your drop-down menu that we separated hiding objects from hiding geometry. How will this change your workflow? Well, this will give you the ability to better manage hidden geometry and hidden objects for an even easier modelling experience. For example, let’s say you want to edit hidden edges in a landscape or smoothed surface, but you still want to be able to hide objects that are nearby (like trees, bushes, or a building)…well you can do that now!

Updates to your SketchUp dictionary
SketchUp has a few updates to the naming conventions it uses when talking about SketchUp. This won’t change your workflow…but it makes sure you know SketchUp is saying a few things differently now.

Here’s the run-down! Objects are now a collective term for groups, components, and dynamic components. This just means we don’t have to say “groups (slash) components” anymore. Also, Layers are now referred to as “Tags”. Keep in mind that these two terms are merely naming conventions and won’t influence your workflow.

LayOut 2020: document control
It’s all about taking back control… document control that is! The focus for LayOut was on improving the interaction between SketchUp & LayOut to save you time and [brain] energy. This means way less back and forth in SketchUp updating scenes to ensure your drawing comes out perfectly. Now you have more editing ability, directly in LayOut.

More power to adjust model views
LayOut now understands a lot more about your SketchUp model and what you’ve overridden. This means you can safely change a style or camera angle directly in LayOut without accidentally losing your changes (!!).

How do you know what’s different in your LayOut viewport versus your model? When you make changes in LayOut, parts of the menu bar will go dark grey, alerting you that you’ve made an override. Keep in mind: just because you made some changes in LayOut, doesn’t mean you’re stuck with those. You can always resync your viewports back to your SketchUp model if needed.

Improved customization of your drawings
Take those LayOut docs to the next level with different models and views. If you have one SketchUp model that exists across several viewports, you can now relink just one of those viewports to another SketchUp model. Previously, you had to delete that viewport, insert a new SKP model, and reset all your scale settings and viewport sizing. More efficient now? Yes!

And that’s not all! You also can toggle Tag visibility — straight in your LayOut doc! What does this mean for your workflow? You don’t have to create extra scenes just for your LayOut files, saving you a ton of time going back and forth between LayOut and SketchUp.

SketchUp Pro 2019.3

October 22, 2019

The third Maintenance Release of SketchUp Pro 2019 included support for the new macOS Catalina (10.15) and introduced a new login system for accessing various services.

New Login System
A login system was introduced for users of both Subscriptions and Classic Licenses. This occurred through an external browser window to access 3D Warehouse, Extension Warehouse, Trimble Connect, and ‘Add Location’. This meant that users of the SketchUp Pro Classic License also needed a Trimble ID or Google ID to access these services.

SketchUp Pro 2019.2

July 18, 2019

The second Maintenance Release of SketchUp Pro 2019 included several performance and stability improvements as well as some new and improved features:

• Transparency of materials when exporting a PNG;
• Setting line scale when exporting an image;
• Improved file import: drag and drop directly into the drawing, as well as fewer double and messy edges on DWGs and DXFs;
• Dimensions in several units, e.g. millimetres for the length of a wall and square metres for the surface of a floor;
• Invert Selection;
• Undo selection of accidentally selected lines with the eraser tool;
• Easier to place cross-sections that also get a name after placement;
• ‘Send to LayOut’ button in the Large Tool Set to send the 3D design directly to LayOut;
• Improved dimensions in LayOut with e.g. isometric dimensions;
• Subscription only: easily import large sites at full resolution with ‘Add Location’.

SketchUp Pro 2019

February 2019

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Welcome Screen:

• Files tab: direct access to New, Recent and Recovered projects;
• Learn tab: access to SketchUp’s Learning Management, forum and YouTube channel;
• Licensing tab: easily access information related to license(s).

Toolbar
‘My Account’ icon in the top upper-right-hand side of the screen, where users can manage account preferences and license(s) from the online account management portal, and sign out.

Line Styles
Add dashed lines to demarcate a property boundary or locate places for demolition.

2018 DWG / DXF import and export

Tape Measure tool
The length of selected edges, areas of faces, and coordinates of guides and intersections can be viewed from an inference tip.

LayOut – New Features

File Locking
If a file is opened in two separate LayOut instances, it will temporarily lock the file as “read-only” preventing unintentional edits.

DWG support
It is now simpler to export and adjust units when importing DWGs.

Dashed Lines
With the introduction of dashed lines in SketchUp, LayOut now can modify how those line styles are displayed.

SketchUp Export
‘Export for SketchUp’ has been added to the DWG/DXF exporter, so that SketchUp better interprets the data, groups are read as components and fills/patterns are read as faces.

SketchUp Pro 2018

November 2017

SketchUp Pro – Nieuwe Features

• Filled Section Cuts;
• Section planes have names and symbols, making them easy to find, organize, and edit;
• Section planes are now an entity in SketchUp Pro: search for them in the Outliner, group them and control visibility at the Layers panel;
• Components now feature attribute fields like price, size, URL, owner and status;
• Aggregated Reports: ‘Generate Report’ now aggregates component data so you can do things like configure reports to sum parts and quantities for schedules and cut lists, or create detailed estimates by adding up prices by layer;
• BIM: improved IFC export to collaborate even better with other 3D applications;
• Draw rectangles from its centre, just like polygons and circles;
• STL import and export for 3D printing;
• Anti-aliasing on Mac;
• Improved upgrade: settings and preferences will be taken over from an older version.

LayOut – New Features

• Scaled vector drawings: no more recalculating, select the scale and draw 1:1 on A4 format for example;
• Direct DWG import;
• Editing groups work the same as in SketchUp, so the visibility of the rest fades away temporarily;
• Accuracy until 6 digits behind the comma;
• Multi Viewport: displays a dimension between 2 views of the same design;
• Label information will also show the new advanced attributes;
• Lock entities for better control over the document;
• Improved drawing tools.

SketchUp Pro 2017 M3

September 21, 2017

SketchUp Pro and LayOut
The release fixed several potential compatibility issues for those who upgraded to macOS High Sierra (macOS 10.13).

SketchUp Pro 2017 M1

December 12, 2016

• SketchUp: Fixed an issue in which SketchUp could not be launched due to an OpenGL error on some machines;
• SketchUp: Fixed a crash that could occur on startup on some machines;
• SketchUp: Fixed an issue in which layers were not sorting correctly when sorting by visibility in the Layers dialog;
• LayOut: Fixed an issue when inserting an Excel file containing unicode characters on the sheet tab title the file would fail to load

SketchUp Pro 2017

November 7, 2016

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Performance Improvements
This release contains some major improvements to the graphics pipeline, resulting in faster orbiting and drawing.

Transparency Improvements
Transparency is now rendered at higher quality and faster too! SketchUp is also better at displaying multiple transparencies to provide a more realistic sense of depth across several clear faces.

Smart Offset
No more overlapping and self-intersecting geometry, just hit ‘F’ for clean offsets!

Perpendicular Face Inferencing
Hover a face and SketchUp will helpfully snap to its perpendicular.

Righteous Rectangles
The Rectangle tools now support arrow-key axis-locking.

High-DPI Modeling
Tuned snapping and inferencing, and smart-scaled edge weights on high-definition monitors.

Colour Blindness
Customization for the colours that display SketchUp’s axes and inferencing, so that people with colour blindness can tweak the colour schemes to make SketchUp just work for them.

Easier Storage
Customizable storage paths for components, materials and templates.

Extension Manager
A new utility with a one-look view of your SketchUp extensions, making it easier to toggle on and off custom tools.

LayOut – New Features

Tables
Great documents come with important information. That’s why you could now add tables to LayOut: from scratch or import a .csv or Excel. LayOut references your original spreadsheet, so updating is also as easy as ‘Click’.

High Fidelity DWGs
LayOut’s DWG exporter has been overhauled and now offers One DWG with separate tabs with multipage documents; LayOut entities like dimensions, clipping mask and labels will now longer explode into raw geometry and behave as expected in AutoCAD; LayOut exports are now smart enough to self scale for paper size or model space; ‘Color-by-Layer’ option, so all entities on a given layer may export as one color.

Easier Selecting
Select an object in LayOut without accidentally moving it.

Persistent IDs
Points, edges and faces now have an identifier. When making a change to a SketchUp model, any LayOut dimensions associated with the model update to reflect the edit.

SketchUp Pro 2016

November 18, 2015

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Support for Mac OS X El Capitan and Windows 10.

Trimble Connect is now integrated into SketchUp Pro. Connect is Trimble’s platform for storing, syncing, referencing, sharing and collaborating on design and building projects. Trimble Connect will be accessible directly from the File menu and will allow users to upload, download and update SKPs from the project folders.

SketchUp Pro 2016 allows the user to reload 3D Warehouse models. Every instance used in the model will be reloaded, so it is a helpful method for working with proxy models if you break something or collaborate through the warehouse.

SketchUp Pro 2016 offers slicker inferencing and locking. This improvement is an entire set of smart tweaks to inferencing and locking, including off-axis inferences, expanded arrow key locking, improved arc/circle inferencing, axes tool flexibility and inference hidden section planes.

SketchUp on Windows now has customizable utility trays, which means the user will be able to group dialogues under separate tabs.

In SketchUp 2016, the material library has been refreshed with 40 new contemporary textures and entirely new categories.

High DPI toolbar icons, cursors and graphics for a much cleaner look and better display on high-res screens.

Extension security control system that lets users control which extensions will load:

• Off: SketchUp will load any extension;
• Approve Mode: users will be prompted to load a non-certified extension;
• Secure Mode: only certified extensions will be loaded.

Improved SketchUp C API with over 100 new classes and functions.

LayOut – New Features

LayOut has an improved layer system, including multi-layer groups, maintaining layers when copy/pasting, a ‘Move to’ layer command, differentiating between shared and non-shared and layer visibility on new pages.

Say goodbye to missing references! With this release, LayOut’s reference objects are now web-friendly. This means that LayOut projects can reference and update files that are stored and synced with services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Trimble Connect Sync. LayOut will notify the user when there’s an update for the web reference available.

LayOut now has small dimensions to ensure that text never interferes with arrows or lines.

Optimized PDF export from LayOut with up to 10x smaller documents.

With the LayOut API, developers can build extensions to automate the creation and customization of .layout files from SketchUp models.

SketchUp Pro 2015 M3

February 5, 2015

SketchUp Pro 2015 M3 was the third service release for version 2015. M3 is a small update with several bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue where a Rotated Rectangle would incorrectly rotate when entering a length/width without an angle;
• Fixed two crashes with the Push/Pull tool when using the VCB;
• Fixed a crash with the Offset tool when using the VCB;
• IFC: added the ability to export transparent materials;
• IFC: added the ability to export geometry that was classified as IfcSite, IfcBuilding, or IfcBuildingStorey;
• A few bug fixes in LayOut;
• And more…

SketchUp Pro 2015 M2

January 12, 2015

SketchUp Pro 2015 M2 was the second service release for version 2015. M2 is a small update with several bug fixes:

• Fixed a crash that occurred at program startup on some computers;
• Fixed a crash that could occur while exporting certain complex models;
• Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the number of segments in a circle or polygon;
• Added all currently supported IFC export Types to the IFC exporter Options dialog;
• Fixed a rare crash in LayOut that would occur during the close process;
• And more…

SketchUp Pro 2015 M1

December 4, 2014

SketchUp Pro 2015 M1 was the first service release for version 2015. M1 is a small update with two bug fixes:

• Windows: SketchUp crashed when installed on an external hard drive;
• LayOut (Mac): flyout picker button disappeared as you typed custom text.

SketchUp Pro 2015

November 4, 2014

SketchUp Pro – New Features

64-Bit
Besides an overall speed increase, this is especially an improvement when working with complex models, exporting images and animations or using a rendering plugin.

Friendlier Licensing
Licenses can now be used on a Mac or a PC. Also, networked licenses have been made easier too.

New Arc Tools
Two-point arcs will be displayed as a tangent arc instead of a dotted line. A three-point arc allows drawing an arc by specifying 3 points. The pie-tool contains a protractor now.

Rotated Rectangle Tool
Rectangle can be created in arbitrary orientations during creation.

Face Finder
This tool, which creates faces when modelling, has been improved and will make actions like ‘Explode’ significantly faster and even more reliable.

BIM-Tools
FC import is also possible now and the classifier tool has been enhanced

Fast Styles
Special badges have been added to indicate whether the Style being used will help SketchUp’s rendering performance.

Improved Polygon Tool
The polygon tool now allows the creation of both circumscribed and inscribed polygons via a modifier key (Ctrl on Windows, Option on Mac).

Materials
Delete all materials in a model with one click.

LayOut – New Features

64-Bit
LayOut is also 64-bit now, enabling speed improvements when working on large documents.

Two segmented labels
The new two segmented leader labels can easily be aligned with other labels to give drawings a polished and professional appearance.

Autotext labels
A label can display information from the model at choice now, like a BIM classification, an attribute of a dynamic component or simply the surface of a face. Because the labels are auto-text, the labels will automatically update when updating the 3D model!

Spell Checking
The Windows version now has spell-checking (only Windows 8.0 and 8.1); Mac already has this feature.

Multiselect
Perform actions on more than one layer or page by shift-selecting multiple layers or multiple pages.

Dynamic Vector Model Loading
Vector models will now load when the page is viewed instead of when the document is loaded. This offers a performance increase when documents are opened.

Shared Connections
Possibility to make connections between entities and autotext on shared layers.

Infrastructure
The versions of some of the 3rd party libraries have been updated. These include the PDF exporter and the UI and text editor on Windows.

SketchUp Mobile Viewer – Android

July 10, 2014

Version 1.0 of the Android viewer is officially available for devices with a 7-inch or larger screen size, running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) or above. It is highly recommended that your device have at least 1024Mb of RAM.

SketchUp Mobile Viewer – iOS

April 15, 2014

The SketchUp Mobile Viewer app lets you explore, and present SketchUp models on your iPad. The app’s touch interface provides navigation controls for Orbit, Pan, and Zoom, allowing you to swipe and pinch your way to 3D nirvana. And you’ll notice that models are rendered with certain Style settings based on your Last Saved View, including the Sky, Ground, and Background colour, as well as Face settings.

Additional navigation controls include a Zoom Extents tool and a Cameras list that gives you access to SketchUp’s standard camera views (Top, Front, Left, etc) along with any camera positions that were saved as Scenes in your model.

After starting up the app and logging in to your 3D Warehouse account, you’ll find your public and private 3D Warehouse models displayed on the home screen. From there, you have the option to view your models and/or download them for offline use.

The SketchUp Mobile Viewer also lets you search and browse the entire public 3D Warehouse, meaning you can explore the millions of glorious creations available in what we consider to be the biggest and best repository of 3D models out there. After clicking a search result, the app’s detailed view provides a high-resolution thumbnail along with key model details like title & description, author name, and file size.

SketchUp Pro 2014

february 27, 2014

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Renewed 3D Warehouse
3D Warehouse has been rebuilt from the ground up, which makes it easier to use. All models work with a full 3D preview and contain information like file size, number of polygons and used materials.

BIM Tools
Tag geometry with industry-standard object types (walls, slabs, roofs, etc.) and export it as an IFC file for use in other BIM applications.

New Arc tools
Create arcs in three different ways.

Faster Shadows
An average speed improvement of 15x when working with shadows in big, complicated models.

LayOut – New Features

• Faster vector rendering for reducing wait times with large models;
• Auto-text tags (e.g. ‘Today’s Date’, ‘Page Number’ or ‘Project Title’) for more accuracy and saving hours of work;
• Smart labels with relevant information, like the surface of a face or the name of a component;
• Long-document functionality has been much improved.

SketchUp Pro 2013

May 21, 2013

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Extension Warehouse
Need a special tool? You can now explore, download and install extensions without having to leave SketchUp Pro.

Video Export
Export HD videos at 720p, encoded in popular formats like H.264 AVI and WebM.

Smarter Toolbars (Windows)
Drag tool icons between toolbars and make SketchUp look the way you want it to.

LayOut – New Features

• Speedier vector rendering for reducing wait times for large models;
• Zoom function has been increased by a factor of ten, from 1000% to 10000%;
• Copy array for easily creating multiple copies of objects with your keyboard;
• Pattern fills for filling shapes with hatching and other patterns;
• Slimmer arrowheads, so your documents like nicer and arrowheads have better alignment with line segments;
• Curved label leader lines for creating jauntily curved callout lines with a simple click-drag commando;
• Dashes in dimensions for better readable dimensions;
• Page Numbers in the Pages panel, which makes it easier to print and export portions of your document.
  

SketchUp Pro 8

September 1, 2010

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Advanced Camera Tools
All SketchUp Pro users now have full access to the Advanced Camera Tools. You can use the Advanced Camera Tools to build simulations of real-world cameras (place dolly, pedestal, truck, pan, tilt and roll cameras) in your SketchUp models. The ATCs also provide you with precise controls for settings like focal length, aspect ratio and image width (NEW in M2, December 2011).

Ruby Script Management
New Ruby Extensions can now be installed from the ‘Extensions’ screen of SketchUp’s ‘Preferences (NEW in M2, December 2011).

Solid Modeling Tools
for additive and subtractive modelling with volumes.

Improved geo-modelling
Google Maps built right into SketchUp Pro, including more accurate 3D terrain and aerial imagery in colour.

Back Edges
Allows you to see obscured lines as dashed lines, so you will have a detailed view of the geometry of your model.

Volumes
Volumes of any solid will now be displayed in Entity Info.

Push/Pull preselect
Works just like all the other SketchUp tools. Just select a face and then Push/Pull without changing the view.

Scene Thumbnails
Shows you image previews of each scene.

LayOut – New Features

LayOut 3.0
Show angular dimensions and share your work in the DWG/DXF format.

SketchUp Pro 7

November 17, 2008

SketchUp Pro – New Features

Dynamic Components
Create components with parametric behaviors, like a stair which automatically adds more steps when resized, or a cabinet whose doors can open and close!

Tabular Reports
Assign your attributes to components and generate tabular reports from your SketchUp models!

2D Edges
Two lines crossing in a single plane will break into four segments at their point of intersection.

3D Warehouse Browser
This browser allows you to find and download models and collections right inside SketchUp Pro.

LayOut – New Features

LayOut 2.0
Export your presentation in the JPG or PNG format and work faster with complex models and large paper formats with Vector Rendering. Also new are dimensions and snaps for endpoints, cross points, etc.

StyleBuilder – New Features

StyleBuilder 1.0
Create your sketchy-edge style for SketchUp Pro. Not as a download, but as an official feature of SketchUp Pro.

SpeedUp
Overhauled render engine to work more efficiently with large and complex models.

SketchUp Pro 6

January 9 2007

SketchUp Pro – New Features

LayOut
Application for presenting your SketchUp models.

PhotoMatch
Your 3D model from a photo, placing your model in a photo or projecting a photo on your model.

Styles Manager
New sketchy-edge styles and an easily editable library for all your styles.

Background images and Watermarks
Place a background behind your design or your logo as a watermark in front of it.

Fog
Place fog in your model to create an atmosphere or depth. You have control over the depth, transparency, colour and transition to create your atmosphere!

3D text
Put in your text and drag it into 3D or use it as 2D with the contours of the text.

SketchUp 5

May 2005

New Features

SpeedUp
SketchUp 5 is now significantly faster for many modelling operations.

SandBox Tools
The Sandbox is a new set of tools that allow users to create terrain and other surface forms from contours or scratch.

Smoove, Stamp and Drape Tools
Draw a grid and pull points of it upwards to create landscapes.

Render Away
Add depth to drawings with the new Depth Cued Edges. Change the appearance of your presented work with Endpoints, Edges Off, Transparent Maps, and improved FaceMe Shadows.

Component Management
Organize and manage models with the Outliner, Group & Component locking, Make Unique and Replace Selected.

Improved import and export
SketchUp has improved friendly 3D exports and added new import formats such as DEM and 3DS.

Snappy dialogues
Dialog boxes stick together, so you can organize your screen real estate more easily. New toolbars and icons have been added to give the interface a new look.

Getting Started Window
When you open SketchUp 5, you’ll see a Getting Started window that will lend a hand in learning the basics of SketchUp 5.

Improved Walk Tool
Collision detection in the Walk tool.

Transparency in images
Transparency in images will now be supported.

SketchUp 4

2004

New Features

Follow Me Tool
Extrude a surface along a path, to create for example a profile list.

Intersect
Let volumes intersect with each other to deduct them from each other.

Texture Tweaking
Scale, rotate, stretch and move textures locally.

RUBY API
By using the RUBY script you can add more functionality to SketchUp and automate certain tasks.

FaceMe Components
2D Components will now always face the camera.

SketchUp 3

2003

New Features

Soften Edges
SketchUp’s edges can be softened and smoothed to achieve a real-world appearance. Edges are automatically hidden when softened.

New Snaps
The snaps now also identify the equidistant chamfer of a corner and tangents.

Transparent Textures
SketchUp has got transparent textures from now on.

Text and Annotation
Add text and annotations to your SketchUp model.

Dimension Tool
Add dimensions to your drawings.

Animations
Export animations from the TourGuide Pages.

SketchUp 2

2002

New Features

Offset Tool
Use the Offset tool to create copies of lines and faces at a uniform distance from the originals. You can offset edges of faces either inside or outside of the original face.

Section Tool
Use the Section Plane tool to create section cuts enabling you to view geometry within your model.

Autofold
SketchUp will Autofold faces automatically when a move or stretch operation creates non-planar faces.