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 ($119/year or $14.99/month).
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 of $119 USD per year. 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 $119 USD 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 6.5.1
What's new in v6.5 – Generate 3D models of existing spaces and start designing immediately with Scan-to-Design. Create more realistic visuals in-app with Ambient Occlusion. Plus, customize keyboard shortcuts, share links for real-time viewing, and enjoy improvements to Diffusion!
Scan-to-Design – Use LiDAR scanning in SketchUp to quickly generate 3D models of existing spaces, providing an excellent starting point for design and collaboration. Scan-to-Design harnesses technology from Canvas and Apple RoomPlan, offering the following 3D outputs:
• Canvas scan output will generate a textured 3D model in which the ‘room surfaces’ (walls, ceiling, floor) are drawn as planes and/or triangulated meshes that can be easily edited using SketchUp's modeling tools. The rest of the space (furnishings, etc) will be drawn as a textured, triangulated mesh.
• Apple's RoomPlan technology creates a simplified model of the space comprised of orthogonal SketchUp edges and faces, including cut-outs for windows and doors.
Models are intelligently organized, so you can toggle the visibility of different outputs using either the Tags panel or the Outliner.
Customize Scan-to-Design preferences to dial in the best output for your workflow. Access these settings in Preferences > Scan-to-Design.
Requirements: Scan-to-Design requires a LiDAR-enabled iPad and iOS17 or higher.
Omnibar – Search for tools and features using industry-standard terms, and Omnibar will recommend tools in SketchUp that match. Omnibar boosts productivity by letting you set custom keyboard shortcuts for any of SketchUp's tools or commands.
Ambient Occlusion is a beautiful shading effect that adds a sense of depth to your SketchUp models. You’ll find the settings for Ambient Occlusion in the Styles panel under Face settings.
Link Sharing = Live Viewing. Shared links now offer the recipients of those links the ability to join a real-time viewing session and see changes that you're making to the model in real-time. Viewers have the option to navigate the SketchUp model, but when you activate a scene, they'll be pulled back to see the same thing that you're seeing.
Diffusion Improvements
• Maintain Seed: After selecting a Diffusion-generated image, toggling Maintain Seed allows you to iterate on the chosen image instead of creating an entirely new image.
• Negative prompt: Use the Negative Prompt field to specify what you do not want to see in Diffusion-generated images.
Bug Fixes
We fixed a bug that was causing SketchUp's cursor within the modeling viewport to be offset from the location of the pencil, touch, and mouse input.
We're excited to hear what you have to say about these updates! Please visit the SketchUp for iPad user forums to let us know how the above is, or is not, working for you: forums.SketchUp.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/
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
- 370.1 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 £14.99
- SketchUp Go Yearly £108.99