SketchUp 4+
Create & Collaborate in 3D
Trimble Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The world’s most popular 3D modeler is now available for iPad.
For architects, interior designers, construction professionals, set designers, and creatives of all backgrounds, SketchUp for iPad is a powerful, intuitive 3D design and communication app. Explore everything SketchUp for iPad has to offer free for seven days, or purchase via an in-app subscription.
SketchUp for iPad Premium Features
CREATE IN 3D
-Draw in 3D using an Apple Pencil, mouse and keyboard, or multi-touch gestures.
-Autoshape turns doodles into 3D models in seconds, making it easier than ever to get started in 3D.
-Use Markup mode to create handwritten annotations overtop 3D models.
-Search millions of pre-made components, materials, and configurable objects that are freely downloadable from 3D Warehouse.
MERGE PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL WORLDS
-Experience your designs in the real world with augmented reality (AR) viewing features.
-Directly import image objects and apply photo textures from your Photos library, iOS Files App, or by taking pictures using your iPad camera.
-Import satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and location information to create accurate shadow studies and design with real-world context.
WORK ON THE GO
-With unlimited cloud storage, you can seamlessly sync files across your devices – and work on them using SketchUp for iPad, SketchUp for Web, and SketchUp Pro desktop apps.
IMPORT/EXPORT
-Import SKP files from the Files app or Trimble Connect
-Export: Images, animations, and 3D Models in STL, OBJ, and USDz format
When using SketchUp on your iPad and iPhone without a paid subscription, you are still able to explore and present your 3D projects for FREE; here’s how:
-Navigate your projects using intuitive multi-touch gestures.
-View your projects from any of the standard views or custom scenes.
-Switch between perspective and orthographic camera views.
-Turn Tags on or off to control the visibility of parts of your model.
-Adjust the look and feel of your model by controlling Edge and Face styles, Shadows, Hidden Geometry, Section Planes, and Section Cuts.
-Take measurements and get information about edge lengths, the area of faces, the volume of solids, and component and group definitions.
-Merge your models with the world around you by viewing them in augmented reality.
REQUIREMENTS
This app requires iOS 15 or higher with a minimum of 1024Mb of RAM (Retina iPads or newer, iPhone 5 or newer). For additional information and instructions, please visit the SketchUp Help Center: https://help.sketchup.com/sketchup-ipad/system-requirements
The AR model viewing feature uses ARKit and is compatible with iPhone 6s and newer, iPad Pro, or any 2017 iPad or newer.
SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS
SketchUp lets you create and edit 3D models on iPad via an in-app subscription. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account on confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before your subscription expiration date. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to your subscription expiration date. You can manage your subscriptions at any time, and/or turn off auto-renew, by visiting your Account Settings after your initial purchase is complete.
If you are a SketchUp Free user, please note that you will only be able to access the free viewing features on your iPad or iPhone.
What’s New
Version 6.5.4
Here's what's new in v6.5.4 (2088)!
BUG FIXES
• We fixed a bug on the iphone app where tapping on the EULA link would cause the app to crash
Your input helps us continually improve SketchUp for iPad, so please keep sharing your thoughts with us on our community forum: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/
Happy Sketching!
Ratings and Reviews
Just fine
This app is working just fine for its purpose. The only downside I’ve found so far is you can’t quickly switch between add/remove selection because app is not responding. You need to do it with a certain speed or double tap on + or - but that second way not working so well so you could keep the overall progres in a speed which suits you.
iPad version great, Mac version not so
I’ve used Sketchup for for 8 years. I finally succumbed to the paid browser version because I could use it on my iPad. The iPad version is very good, I’d recommend the bigger iPad Pro if you are going to use Sketchup a lot. The Apple Pencil is a great tool and all this works very well for my limited abilities. The BUT is the enormous frustration working on the same model on a desktop. The mouse click on a function doesn’t always change the mode you’re in, you have to sometimes click slowly and deliberately to ensure the programme knows what tool to use next. Inexplicably you lose standard tools from the side bar. For example, you can lose the Pan icon while using Orbit; or, using Dimension tool you lose the Tape Measure. To recover the items you have to go to the fetch icon (dog chasing a ball - who knew that!?) and type in Pan or Tape to recover the icon. So, mouse actions are either too sticky or not sticky enough - and you pay for this! Sketch Up 2017 (the free version) does NOT have these issues. And if you contact Trimble you’ll get valley speak idioms such as “reaching out to us”. If you’re frustrated then ‘right-on’ language will fry your bean.
Disappointing
After constantly checking for a general release of SketchUp for iPad for the last year I was disappointed to realise that without a subscription the software is nothing but a glorified model viewer.
I miss the good old days when general users could have free access to the software and you only needed to pay if you were a commercial user. Where Google at the time actually released a program you could download and not the web browser, internet connection requiring desktop version we have today from Trimble.
I used the free version at home to quickly upgrade my skills when using the program at work and to design a few home improvement projects around the house.
Sadly SketchUp has gone down the subscription route, even for general/casual users.
Although I am a Trimble Tekla user I no longer use SketchUp at work. And although I do have a few home improvement projects I was hoping to design using this app, due to the subscription model I think I’ll give it a miss thanks! I’m not that desperate to create a 3D model of my kitchen, not for the price they are asking anyway and especially not for a piece of software that has only just come out of beta.
You would think that companies would want as many people as possible to learn their software in the hope that that would boost commercial sales due to an increased interest. But everyone must pay to play.
Such a let down.
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Information
- Provider
- Trimble Inc.
- Size
- 417.3 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Trimble Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- SketchUp Go Monthly £17.99
- SketchUp Go Yearly £108.99
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