Keep up with the times with SketchUp Pro

As times progress, the tools in your hands and the thoughts in your mind need to be updated to adapt to the waves of industry disruption.

At Trimble, we firmly believe that to do a good job, one must first have good tools. When you have more flexible and outstandingly featured design software and suites, you can better integrate them into your workflow. SketchUp Pro and other included suites, when applied in any aspect of BIM, are sure to meet the needs of you and your company’s team for perfect design and work efficiency.

The advantages of using SketchUp described below are only included in the latest SketchUp Pro subscription license.

Excellent Usage Advantage 1: One account, full access to complete SketchUp application services

SketchUp offers a rich array of BIM application tools, including various collaboration tools such as cloud services.

SketchUp, LayOut | The most widely used 3D modeling and drafting tool for BIM needs.

3D Warehouse | Over 4 million models, the world’s largest cloud model library, available for free download.

Extension Warehouse | Specific extension applications for various industries, making modeling faster, estimates more accurate, and renderings more realistic!

PreDesign | Provides important data such as site geography, climate, and sunlight analysis.

Trimble Connect | A cloud collaboration platform for subscription users that offers unlimited storage capacity, cross-platform real-time viewing, and model file assembly.

SketchUp Viewer | Free support for VR headsets, AR devices, and BIM IFC information annotations.

V-Ray for SketchUp | A rendering program at Hollywood industry standards, supporting image, VR file, and dynamic video output.

Scan Essentials | A powerful tool for scene recovery, supporting point cloud files from mainstream scanners.

Revit Importer | Import from Revit to SketchUp for modeling work, then use IFC files to import back to Revit for industry collaboration workflows.

Excellent Usage Advantage 2: Cloud Management of Products and Users

Users can directly manage their account, view contracts, download software, and assign product users on their account management platform.

Excellent Usage Advantage 3: Flexible Login Usage, Not Tied to a Single Computer

You only need to log in with a Trimble ID to use SketchUp! In other words, you can use SketchUp freely on different computers and in different locations.

Excellent Usage Benefit 4: iPad is also your portable drawing board

As long as you are a SketchUp subscriber, you can use SketchUp for iPad on your iPad to fully enjoy SketchUp’s design capabilities, including 3D Warehouse. Don’t forget, AirDrop, AI shape recognition, AR augmented reality viewing, on-site material capture with the camera… and more, fully utilize the mobile features of the iPad and the user-friendly design of SketchUp!

Excellent Usage Advantage 5: BIM Cloud Collaboration, No Time and Space Limits

There are no limitations on the number of members, projects, or files used in the cloud space! Additionally, all files with the same name have version history, allowing you to access or revert to previous versions at any time.

Excellent Usage Advantage 6: Exclusive VR/AR/XR App

https://www.sketchup.com/en/sketchup-viewer/downloads

At this link, you can directly download the SketchUp Viewer for VR/AR devices (Augmented Reality), available in both desktop and mobile versions.

Using this convenient extension, you can publish any model you work on in the SketchUp desktop version to any AR or VR device with SketchUp Viewer.

SketchUp Viewer for XR (Mixed Reality): Currently supports the Meta Quest platform.

Supports Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest Pro, and Meta Quest 2.

Excellent Usage Advantage 7: Point Cloud File Operations

The coordinate point data collected through 3D scanners is a very useful tool for digital archive restoration, which is applicable to existing old building reconstruction and heritage preservation, especially for SketchUp users.

Excellent Usage Advantage 8:  Simplify design models with Revit Importer

Revit Importer, as the name implies, is a plugin that allows Revit models to be imported into SketchUp, converting groups and building elements into SketchUp’s native tags and components. It optimizes the model geometry, creating a lightweight and organized SketchUp file that is ready to use at any time.

Excellent Usage Advantage 9: Showcasing Work on Mobile Devices

With the support of Trimble Connect, you can confidently place your files in the cloud with 3A encryption on Google enterprise-grade servers: Trimble Connect. Then, using a regular smartphone or tablet, you can access your masterpiece directly via a web page or app! No need to install SketchUp!

Excellent Usage Advantage 10: Massive models, unlimited downloads

With 3D Warehouse, you can have unlimited access to over 4 million models, many of which are from well-known suppliers of global brands! Currently, 3D Warehouse supports access for SketchUp 2020 and later versions!

Excellent Usage Advantage 11: Cross-version Use of SketchUp

Subscribers can use one account to freely navigate the latest version of SketchUp, as well as the two previous versions of SketchUp. For example, right now, you can use SketchUp 2024 and also activate the 2023 and 2022 versions!