SketchUp Rendering Solutions: Below are a number of rendering extensions available for SketchUp Pro. The ones selected have been tested with SketchUp and have been recommended by our technical team.

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Introducing Enscape for SketchUp

Enscape is a virtual reality (VR) and real-time rendering plugin for SketchUp. With just one click, you can start Enscape and within seconds walk through your fully rendered project – no uploading to cloud or exporting to other programs required! All changes in SketchUp are immediately available to evaluate in Enscape. You are quickly able to explore different design options and present projects to clients. If the client wants to see something different in the design, Enscape will show the changes you make to the project immediately. Read more… Render Review: coming soon…

SU Podium V2.5+

You can make beautiful, photo-realistic renderings of your SketchUp model without the pain and frustration of learning a complex program. SU Podium runs completely inside SketchUp from start to finish. It uses SketchUp features to achieve impressive results. SU Podium is intuitive to SketchUp users. The simple interface cuts the learning curve to minutes instead of months. Read more… Render Review: coming soon…

V-Ray for SketchUp V3.6

V-Ray for SketchUp provides designers with faster rendering, better lighting tools, and the ability to create and visualize complex scenes. The render engine is designed to get you up and running in no time. It lets you create the highest quality renders possible – directly in SketchUp. Render fast, design faster. Read more… V-Ray with SketchUp Review: click here

We are pleased the announce the launch of SketchUp Pro 2018, customers can start placing their orders through our ordering website: click here

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What’s new in SketchUp Pro?

Smarter Sections

Named Sections

Just like components, section planes have names and symbols, making them easy to find, organise, and edit in Outliner. Now, it’s  easy to access and manage sections whenever you need to.

Filled Section Cuts

Filled Section Cuts are now baked into SketchUp Pro. Select a colour for your fills via the Styles dialogue and bake them into templates.

Fast Sections

SketchUp features improved performance for models that use section planes to hide large amounts of geometry. The more geometry you section off, the more you’ll benefit!

Make Better Drawings

Scaled Vector Drawing

Need to add linework that’s not in your model? Create a scaled drawing in LayOut and sketch over a 3D model to flesh out your project. Or draw from details to scale from scratch directly in LayOut.

DWG Import

Import a DWG into LayOut and find illustrations already scaled to paper size. Now SketchUp projects can live side by side with CAD linework and take advantage of DWG libraries everywhere. LayOut A+: plays well with others.

Drawing Better

Inferencing, chamfering and filleting, arcs, offset arrays, selections: LayOut is even better at everything you need to draw details or create beautiful illustrations at scale.

Got BIM?

Advanced Attributes

SketchUp now features Advanced Attribute fields for a component’s Price, Size, URL, Type, Status, and Owner. So now it’s even easier to embed projects with useful information.

Aggregated Reports

Generate Report now aggregates component data so you can do things like configure reports to sum parts and quantities for schedules and cutlists, or create detailed estimates by adding up prices by layer. It’s time to crunch model data!

IFC Import/Export

BIM works best when information moves freely between applications. You can rely on IFC in SketchUp to transfer the attributes you assign and manipulate in projects.