Architecture
Architects use SketchUp Pro at every stage of the building design process. From simple massing studies to highly-detailed models, SketchUp Pro is a simple but powerful tool for exploring and presenting your ideas in 3D.
SketchUp Pro: pencil meets processor
Let's face it: drawing on the computer hasn't exactly lived up to its hype. CAD may be good for drafting, but conceptual design is a whole different matter. Architects tell us that SketchUp works the way they think, allowing them to go back and forth between pencil and computer to visualize complicated spatial relationships in 3D. Finally, there's a piece of design software that's fast enough to keep up with your imagination.
See your ideas jump off the screen
It's amazing how much you can learn from an interactive 3D model. SketchUp lets you do more than just draw buildings - you can take your project apart, spin it around, take a walk inside, cut live sections and even make instant animations to show clients. It's the napkin sketch, all grown up.
SketchUp is reinventing Computer-Aided Design
SketchUp Pro is everything traditional CAD software isn't - it's quick to learn and intuitive to use, meaning it stays out of the way of your creative process. You'll spend less time hunting for tools and reading manuals, and more time doing what you get paid to do: practicing architecture.
Do more with your models
When it comes to the models you build, SketchUp Pro is by no means the end of the road. With the exporters and professional layout application that are built into SketchUp Pro, you can create documents for print and digital presentation, send 2D views to AutoCAD, and even export your whole 3D model for rendering or further design development.
See how Architects are using SketchUp
Some more things you can do with SketchUp Pro:
- create endless iterations while meeting tight deadlines
- represent your ideas quickly, accurately and attractively
- add live section cuts to produce dynamic plans and sections
- make quick animations
- take a 3D walk-through of your design
- carry out live, accurate shadow studies
- save pre-set views to show during presentations
- get aerial imagery and terrain for your site from Google Earth
- access the world's biggest repository of entourage objects - figures, cars, trees - for free
- produce drawings of your model that appear hand-drawn
- get instant area take-offs
- apply materials and colors to surfaces
- build models of existing structures from photographs
- create professional, multi-page presentation documents with LayOut