Description: Who Uses Sketchup Pro? Everyone
Description: Who Uses Sketchup Pro? Everyone
enclosed 3D shape. It lets you add attributes to objects, and can spit out lists and reports
with deliciously useful data.
A world of context - literally
In about two minutes, you can choose a section of the world to bring into your SketchUp
Pro modelup to a square kilometer at a time. For free, youll 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.
New Features and FYI's:
-An Extension Warehouse has been created and integrated with SketchUp. Users can now
manage hundreds of extensions installed on their computer via the Extension Warehouse.
-The word SketchUp now refers to a product family of which there are two members:
SketchUp Pro and SketchUp Make.
-Toolbars for SketchUp on Windows operating systems have been improved. They are
now customizable and more reliably stay put once they have been docked.
-Scene-based animations can now be exported to high-quality video from SketchUp.
-Toolbars and cursors have been updated and made consistent between SketchUp,
LayOut, Style Builder and SketchUp Viewer.
-We have a new SDK. See the getting_started.html and migration_guide.html in the
SDK package for details.
-Lots of little tweaks, bugs fixes and improvements were made to existing features.
-SketchUp no longer will take a long time to open and close with an unstable Internet
connection.
-(Mac) SketchUp does not support OS X 10.6 and older versions of OS X. Users with
these platforms will see an error on launch.
-(Windows) XP SP3 is now required to run SketchUp on XP.
Extension warehouse/Ruby plugins:
-We are installing only the following extensions with the product : Advanced Camera
Tools, Dynamic Components, Sandbox Tools, Photo Textures. The other SketchUp 8
extensions (Ruby Script Examples, Ocean Modeling, Utilities Tools, Shadow Strings Fix
toolbar, Solar North toolbar) are available for download on the Extension Warehouse.
-The plugins directory on the Mac has moved to ~/Library/Application Support/SketchUp
2013/SketchUp. We no longer install anything into the Macintosh
HD/Library/Application Support/SketchUp directory.
SketchUp Toolbars :
-Toolbars now stay put and you can customize toolbars containing non-Ruby tool icons!
-The SketchUp 8 Save toolbar positions menu choice has been removed as it is no
longer needed - toolbar settings are saved when exiting SketchUp.
-View > Toolbars shows just one menu choice now. Customization of toolbars has been
moved to one dialog.
-SketchUp 2013 does not have the ability to create 2 column vertical toolbars (a
limitation of the libraries we used as the basis of our new toolbars). If you want to create
a setup similar to what is in SketchUp 8, you can either create a few new custom toolbars,
docking them side by side to create 2 columns, or you can dock some of our smaller
toolbars side by side.
-To customize non-Ruby toolbars, bring up the View > Toolbars dialog. You can move an
icon from one toolbar to another by dragging it or pressing the Alt key. Holding down the
Ctrl key allows you to copy an icon. Right clicking on a toolbar gives you some
additional functionality.
LayOut:
-Changes were made to improve overall performance with LayOut.
-Shapes can now be filled with image-based patterns in addition to solid colors. This is
called Pattern Fill.
-LayOut now has the ability to create multi-copy arrays, similar to the way SketchUp
works.
-Text leader lines can now be curved.
-Users can now zoom in to a document up to 10,000%.
-To better reflect standards, dimensions now have dashes to separate feet from inches.
What's new in SketchUp 2014
Get good fast - Theres a reason SketchUp is synonymous with friendly and
forgiving 3D modeling software: we dont 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. If you want to be
productive within a couple of hours, youve come to the right place
Find a 3D model of anything - Why model everything from scratch? Whether its a
chair for the room youre designing or a rhino for your zoo, youll find almost
anything you need in SketchUps 3D Warehouse, the worlds biggest repository
of free 3D models. And anyone can use 3D Warehouse to store and share models. Upload
your best work and become a SketchUp legend.
Turn models into drawings with LayOut - At some point in most 3D projects,
youll need to turn your model into a set of drawings that gets the point across.
LayOut in SketchUp Pro lets you add model views to pages, choose drawing scales,
adjust line weights, and add dimensions, callouts, and graphics. Make a change to your
SketchUp model, and find it reflected automatically in LayOut. And when its time,