Google SketchUp 8 Pro

SketchUp Pro 8 software

Google SketchUp Pro is 3D modeling software for professionals. SketchUp Pro is easy and intuitive, allowing anyone to model in 3D quickly and accurately. Using 3D models, designers can make more informed decisions, communicate project details, and share ideas with colleagues and customers to reach a common goal.

Google SketchUp Pro is a simple but powerful tool for exploring and presenting your ideas in 3D. SketchUp Pro is everything traditional CAD software isn't -- quick to learn and intuitive to use.

Create 3D Models

Using SketchUp Pro, you can create 3D models, either by starting from scratch or by using existing data. Import drawings, CAD plans, photos, aerial imagery and other information, then use the modeling tools in SketchUp Pro to develop your ideas into 3D.

Add data to your model

Within SketchUp Pro, you have the ability to add attributes to your model with Dynamic Components. At any point, create a report summarizing the attribute data in your model. Use these reports to extract quantities and take-offs throughout the evolution of your model.

Export and Share

Some projects require the use of traditional CAD applications or renderering applications to develop construction drawings, photo-realistic images or to share information. SketchUp Pro 8 can export your 3D model in a number of 2D and 3D formats for use with other applications.

Present and Document

For many of your projects, SketchUp Pro, which includes LayOut, is all you will need. LayOut is the 2D companion to SketchUp Pro for creating deliverables like permit and construction drawings, presentation documents and full-screen digital presentations.

Also Includes

LayOut 3 Document
LayOut is the 2D companion to SketchUp Pro. Create professional design documents, dimensioned drawings and presentations from your 3D models, to communicate your ideas to clients and partners. Revise your model in SketchUp Pro and the changes are updated automatically in LayOut.

"The drawing presentation in the program is impressive. LayOut has also decreased the time required to create CDs because of the tight integration between SketchUp and LayOut."
- Mitchel Stangl - Mechanical Engineer - Stangl Associates

Present
With LayOut you can add text, dimensions and 2D elements to your 3D models to create interactive presentations. Display as an on-screen slideshow or create high-resolution printouts for sharing with customers or project teams.

Style Builder
We put the Sketch back in SketchUp
Only Google SketchUp Pro includes Style Builder, a tool for creating one-of-a-kind, sketchy-edge Styles for your SketchUp models.

Turn hard-lined computer drawings into approachable sketches.

Help your audience see the big picture by removing just the right amount of detail from your drawings. Hand-drawn sketches add nuance and personality to a concept, which can help to convey meaning or set the tone for an idea.

Make your models and drawings a part of your visual brand.

When you create a custom Style and apply it to your SketchUp model, no one else in the world is able to make models that look like yours. Your models and drawings will be totally unique.

Turn any stroke into a custom Style.

Scan in, photograph or draw the strokes you want to use. Sketchy-edge Styles can be based on anything: wavy pencil lines, quick pen strokes, marks from a fat stick of graphite. If you can see it, you can turn it into a Style.

Google 3D Warehouse
Find, share and store 3D models online
The Google 3D Warehouse is a collection of 3D models of buildings, bridges, cars, spaceships, futons, dinosaurs and everything else in the universe. It's completely free for everyone to use, and it's getting bigger every day.

Find a 3D model of anything you need.

With models contributed by 3D enthusiasts and product manufacturers from all over the world, there's a very good chance you'll find what you're looking for in the Google 3D Warehouse. You'll find things that exist, things that used to exist, and things that only exist in the minds of the people who built and uploaded them.

Share your 3D models with the world.

Anyone can contribute their models to the 3D Warehouse. If you've made something you're proud of, you have products to sell, or you'd like to advertise your modeling services by posting examples of your work, this is where to do it.

Collaborate securely with anyone, anywhere.

When you upload a model to the 3D Warehouse, you can specify who gets to see it, who gets to download it, and who gets to collaborate on it with you. We've added a flexible but straightforward permissions system that gives you complete control over your models.

requirements

Windows XP

• SketchUp Pro 8: Microsoft Service Pack 2+.
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher.
• Google SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 2.0. For more information about the .NET framework
• 1 GHz processor.
• 512 MB RAM.
• 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher.

Windows Vista and Windows 7

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher.
• Google SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 2.0. For more information about the .NET framework
• 1 GHz processor.
• 1 GB RAM.
• 16 GB of total hard-disk space.
• 300 MB of free hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 256 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher

Mac OS X

• Mac OS X® 10.5+ and 10.6+.
• QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorials.
• Safari.
• 2.1+ GHz Intel™ processor. Power PC is no longer supported
• 1 GB RAM.
• 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
• 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.