The most intuitive way to design, document and communicate your ideas in 3D

Make everything easier

SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of schematic design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs--wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp.

Get good, fast
Whoever asked for complicated CAD software? SketchUp is hands-down the most intuitive and easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool around

Think by drawing in 3D
We designed SketchUp to behave like an extension of your hand, so you can draw whatever you want, however you want.

Create accurate, highly-detailed models
SketchUp is accurate to a thousandth of an inch, so you can design, specify, and plan with as much or little detail as you need.

Produce scaled, accurate drawings
SketchUp isn’t just for 3D models. Draw plans, elevations, details, title blocks and a lot more with LayOut. When your model changes, so does your document. Simple.

Generate presentation documents
With LayOut, you’re equipped for page design, drafting, vector illustration and slide presentations: everything you need to explain everything.

Create compelling walkthroughs
Use SketchUp Pro to turn your models into animated walkthroughs and flyovers that explain every detail.

Simple is Powerful

• Find a 3D model of anything
  Need an oven for the kitchen you’re designing? An automobile for your driveway? A rhino for your zoo? Find it all in 3D Warehouse, the world’s biggest library of free 3D models.
  
  
• Turn models into documents
  Eventually, some 3D models grow up to become professional 2D drawing sets. LayOut in SketchUp Pro helps you showcase your models and create drawings you’ll be proud of.
  
  
• Customize your SketchUp
  SketchUp extensions are add-on tools that solve 3D modeling problems which might otherwise leave you scratching your head. And there are hundreds of them to explore.

1. Model and Document
   With LayOut, insert SketchUp model views wherever you want in your document. These “viewports” are living, breathing views of your project. When your model changes, all of your viewports update too.
   
   
2. Make beautiful drawings
   LayOut brings the “feel” of SketchUp into 2D space in an incomparably beautiful way. Line work, shadows, textures, text, dimensions, title blocks: all exactly the way you want.
   
   
3. Intuitive vector drawing
   LayOut’s drawing tools are just like SketchUp’s: simple, smart, and fun. And everything you draw is vector smart, so scaling and rotating can be done with the utmost precision.
   
   
4. Dimension, detail, explain
   Use dimensioning tools that snap to the edges of SketchUp models and quickly set the format, scale, and precision of displayed measurements.
   

• Find a 3D model of anything
  3D Warehouse is the world’s largest repository of free 3D models, and it works seamlessly with SketchUp. That means entourage, furniture, equipment, case work, the entire kitchen sink (literally) is all handy in a few clicks.
  
  
• Find a model from a trusted manufacturer
  With manufacturer partners like Herman Miller, Formica, Thermador and many others, we’re working to make 3D Warehouse the best place on the web to find a model of a specific, real-world object. Now when you specify an oven for a kitchen, you can be sure you’re working with accurate geometry, not to mention beautiful models
  
  
• Present on any device
  When you upload your models to 3D Warehouse, it’s easy to pull them down onto your phone or tablet using the SketchUp Mobile Viewer app. Then, get hands on with clients and collaborators wherever, however you’d like.

Customize Your SketchUp

Extensions are add-on tools built to solve the kind of modeling problems that might otherwise leave you scratching your head. And there are hundreds for you to explore.
Browse Extension Warehouse

What's New in 2016?

Reference, sync, comment, report, and share: SketchUp 2016 is more connected than ever to the projects, information, and people you work with.

Trimble Connect
Trimble Connect is a new way to store, sync, reference, share, and collaborate on design/build projects. Sign up for a free account, then start uploading .skp, .pdf, .dxf, .ifc… however you work, Trimble Connect helps you work smarter together.

Reload 3D Warehouse models
In SketchUp 2016, 3D Warehouse models can work as reference objects in any project. Download a model from 3D Warehouse, then reload it to update changes to every instance of that component.

Generate Report 2.0
We thought you should have more control of what information SketchUp Pro exports from models, and how it’s organized. So we reworked ‘Generate Report’ tool to do just that.   

LayOut cloud references
With this release, LayOut’s reference objects are web friendly. That means your LayOut projects can reference and update files that are stored and synced with services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Trimble Connect Sync.

A new LayOut API
We’re proud to announce our first step towards an extension ecosystem for LayOut. Using this new API developers can now create and customize .layout files from SketchUp models.

Simple, intuitive, just right

Every day, we obsess over making SketchUp seamless and efficient. Here’s what our obsession yielded in SketchUp 2016.

Enhanced inferencing
Learning and utilizing SketchUp’s inference engine makes for fast and precise modeling. In this release, we’ve oiled that engine. With slicker inferencing and locking, SketchUp is humming along, smoother than ever. See it in action.

Customizeable Utility Trays on Windows
On Windows machines, we’ve re-worked SketchUp’s floating utility dialogs (Styles, Scenes, Components, etc.) so that they neatly stack inside customizable, completely collapsible trays. Simple, clean, just right.

Refreshed Textures
Textures make your models pop off the screen (and the page). In this release, we’ve reworked our default material libraries, adding contemporary textures and entirely new categories. Press ‘B’ and go wild.

Small dimensions
A smart tweak to LayOut dimensions, our new ‘small dimension’ leaders ensure that text never interferes with arrows or extension lines, and that your dimensions always have room to stretch out when you’re working in confined spaces.

Loveable LayOut layers
We’ve improved pretty much everything about LayOut’s layers. Whether you’re grouping objects across layers, drawing objects on shared layers, or unearthing the bottom of a stacked viewport, our new layers are just plain better. Learn more.

Details, details, details: find a bunch of them in our release notes.

What else is new?

SketchUp Mobile Viewer 2.0
Our mobile app now works on phones and tablets, and connects to Trimble Connect and Dropbox. Check it out>

SketchUp Skill Builders
All year long, we’ve been exploring SketchUp tricks and digging into the working ways of our favorite SketchUp professionals. Check them out>

Like many computer programs, SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro require certain hardware and software specifications in order to install and run. These are basic requirements, though, so you may want to use our recommended suggestions to improve performance. The following list of requirements and recommendations apply to SketchUp Pro 2016, SketchUp Make and all previous versions of SketchUp:

Windows 10, Windows 8+ and Windows 7+

Software

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher.
• SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 4.0. For more information about the .NET framework, click here.

*SketchUp for Windows can run on either 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows, note that you must download and install the appropriate version for your operating system.

Recommended hardware

• 2+ GHz processor.
• 8+ GB RAM.
• 500 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 1 GB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.
  • SketchUp's performance relies heavily the graphics card driver and it's ability to support OpenGL 2.0 or higher. Historically, people have seen problems with Intel based cards with SketchUp. We don't recommend using these graphics cards with SketchUp at this time.
• 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
• Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.

Minimum hardware

• 1 GHz processor.
• 4 GB RAM.
• 16 GB of total hard-disk space.
  
• 300 MB of free hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 512 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.

Mac OS X 10.11+ (El Capitan), 10.10+ (Yosemite) and 10.9+ (Mavericks)

Software

• QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorials.
• Safari.
  *Neither Boot Camp, VMWare nor Parallels are supported environments.

Recommended hardware

• 2.1+ GHz Intel processor.
• 8 GB RAM.
• 500 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 1GB MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.
• 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
• Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.

Minimum hardware

• 2.1+ GHz Intel processor. Power PC is no longer supported
• 4 GB RAM.
• 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 512 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 2.0 or higher and up to date.
• 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.

Compatibility Changes

SketchUp 2016
With the release of SketchUp 2016 we’ve removed support for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and earlier.

Unsupported environments

Windows Vista and older
These versions of Windows are no longer supported.

Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and older
These versions of OS X are no longer supported.

Linux
A Linux version of SketchUp isn't available at this time. However, you may be interested to see how others have had success running SketchUp on Linux using Wine.

Virtualized Environments
At this time, SketchUp doesn't support operation in a virtualized environments such as VMWare or Citrix.
Per the SketchUp Pro Terms of Service: You may not use or host the Software in a virtual server environment.

Boot Camp/Parallels/VMWare
Neither Boot Camp, VMWare nor Parallels are supported environments.
Note: SketchUp will run on multiple-processor machines; however, SketchUp will only use one processor. SketchUp doesn't support hyper-threading or multi-threading at this time.