Landscape Architecture
Landscape architects use SketchUp Pro on all kinds of projects. From residences to large-scale urban parks, SketchUp Pro is a simple but powerful tool for exploring and presenting your ideas in 3D.
Use the Sandbox tools to work with terrain
SketchUp Pro includes a unique set of tools called the Sandbox for working with terrain information. You can use the Sandbox tools to create smooth terrain from imported contour lines. You can also use the Sandbox tools to alter the form of your terrain by creating berms, hills, ridges and valleys, and to add roads, paths, building pads and more.
Share information with Google Earth
You can use SketchUp Pro and Google Earth together to get instant context information for your project's site. Import aerial imagery, 3D terrain and geographic location data for any place on earth by clicking a single button in SketchUp Pro. Clicking another button sends your model back to Google Earth, where you can view it in the context of the rest of the world. It's really that simple.
Get hundreds of thousands of entourage objects from the 3D Warehouse
The Google 3D Warehouse is a giant online repository of 3D models. You can visit the 3D Warehouse to find trees, people, vehicles, outdoor amenities - anything you need to add realism and detail to your designs. Best of all, everything on the 3D Warehouse is free to download and use however you like.
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 landscape 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 Landscape 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
- use the Sandbox tools to create and modify 3D terrain
- 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 - trees, vehicles, figures - 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