2024 offers a new layer of realism and innovative visual styles directly within the SketchUp interface, along with updates that amplify productivity. Additionally, SketchUp has introduced a new Labs feature that will speed up 3D scanning and design on iPad.
Start a 7-day free trial >>Unlock more realistic visuals directly in SketchUp in the latest 2024 release. Now, you can elevate your models by adding depth in-app, and avoid switching between software for many of your conceptual visualization needs.
A new SketchUp Labs feature, Scan-to-Design [Labs], expedites your as-built modeling workflow directly on iPad. Leveraging Canvas' scanning and Apple’s RoomPlan technology, scan a space in SketchUp's iPad app. SketchUp converts that data into a 3D output so you can start designing immediately.
Along with streamlined in-house visualization, SketchUp 2024 includes performance upgrades to boost productivity, ranging from a new graphics engine to easier ways to share your ideas with stakeholders. All of these stunning visualization, collaboration, and performance features mark a remarkable year for SketchUp, inviting you to explore your creativity like never before.
In addition to color, materials, and other styling elements, SketchUp has added another tool to your belt to help you achieve greater depth and richness in your 2D drawings. LayOut supports Ambient Occlusion styles, allowing you to easily toggle them on and off when creating 2D drawings. When you turn on Ambient Occlusion in the SketchUp Scenes you use in LayOut, the visuals will automatically update throughout your LayOut file.
SketchUp has enhanced the visual outputs and made complex rendering and animation processes more accessible than ever. Improved import and export functionality for USDZ and glTF files allows seamless transitions between SketchUp and other industry-standard tools. Use these files in real-time applications like NVIDIA Omniverse or Epic Games’ Twinmotion for rendered animations and advanced XR viewing experiences.
“SketchUp's improved USDZ interoperability demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the mission of AOUSD and the USD standard. As a participating AOUSD member, we believe we can unlock greater interoperability between industry tools and champion more robust 3D visualization and presentation workflows for our customers.”
Chris Cronin, Vice President, Architecture & Design and EDU
Effortlessly capture detailed as-built conditions and instantly turn your scans into 3D models using your iPad with a new SketchUp Labs feature. Thanks to Canvas, Apple, and Trimble’s cutting-edge technology, Scan-to-Design [Labs] captures spaces better than other methods like reference photos and can save extra trips to the site to check out details you may have overlooked.
Unlike other scan solutions that can take days to generate a 3D model or require extra tools to import, Scan-to-Design [Labs] empowers you to scan, create a model, and start designing in SketchUp in seconds.
Whether you're in the early stages of design or have reached a major project milestone, we understand the importance of keeping all stakeholders in the loop. SketchUp’s Link Sharing feature was extremely popular on Web and iPad, so they’ve also made it available on Desktop. Instead of exporting one-off, flattened visuals or spending time documenting, formatting, and exporting project updates, simply share one link.
Your link can show the whole model or Scenes you’ve selected and is viewable without a SketchUp subscription. An unlimited number of people can access your view-only model, which they can navigate in any web browser. Toggle file visibility on and off for all viewers directly in SketchUp.
Ready to give it a try? Follow this link to view a model designed by the SketchUp team.
Both new users and long-time experts have reasons to be excited about 2024. Stay in an uninterrupted creative flow with quicker, smoother, and more accurate tools.
The SketchUp 2024 release takes a giant leap forward in delivering enhanced visualizations — and lays the groundwork for big things to come in your professional design workflows.
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