What’s new in SketchUp 2023

Trimble released SketchUp 2023 and some new features, of course import improvements within.
Do you wondering how greatful SketchUp 2023 is? Let’s take a look this article.

• Version：SketchUp Pro 2023.0
• 23.0.367 Win 64-bit
• 23.0.366 Mac 64-bit

CUSTOMIZE YOUR 3D WORKSPACE

Design delightfully. Collaborate clearly. Build better buildings.

Visualize Your Ideas

The joy of drawing by hand. The ease of super-smart 3D modeling software.

Your Design Matters

Make sustainable buildings. Change the world.

Where great ideas get to work

Design it. Make it. Enjoy the process.

CREATE

Visual your ideas – The joy of drawing by hand. The ease of super-smart software.

Your design matters – Make sustainable buildings with Sefaira.

Customize your 3D workspace – Hundreds of professionally-developed plug in/ add-ons at Extension Warehouse and 3D Warehouse

COMMUNICATE

Tell the whole story – Design in 3D. Document in 2D. Make work easier by LayOUT

On the go we got you back  – Support both desktop and mobile device

COLLABORATE

Get inspired. Share with the world – Bring efficiency to your team and the 3D community. Trimble Connect makes project information transparent, traceable and accessible.

EXPERIENCE

Gain a new perspective – A great idea can be its best with the right technology. The SketchUp Viewer family of products give you access to simple and effective project collaboration tools on mobile and MR/ VR platform.

Simple is powerful

Desktop, iPad, and web-based 3D modelers

2D design documentation

Quick insights for design research

Experience reality (XR) headset viewing

Access to plugins for extending SketchUp Pro Desktop functionality

Beautiful designs, backed by data (Windows-only)

Everything in SketchUp Pro plus:

Import Revit files into SketchUp in a few clicks

Model on point clouds in 3D and document in 2D

Create real-time visualizations and photorealistic images

Export fully rendered animations and 360° panoramas

【SketchUp Components】 Converts all Revit families into components, converts identical Revit objects to identical components, and names components using the Revit family name/family type and instance UUID.

【SketchUp Tags】 All Revit families receive tags named after their equivalent Revit categories.

【SketchUp Sections】 Creates Sections from Revit Levels, pointed downward.

【SketchUp Materials】 Revit Materials become SketchUp Materials and appear as if rendered using the Consistent Colors option in Revit.

【Geometry Optimization】 SketchUp optimizes redundant triangulation and lowers the segment count on curves in imported Revit projects.

【SketchUp Tags】 All Revit families receive tags named after their equivalent Revit categories.

Flip Tool

Like several other tools, you can activate Flip after selecting geometry or hover over the entities you want to flip. Once engaged, you’ll see three planes corresponding to the model’s orientation. Hover over a plane and click once to ‘flip’ about that plane. You can even use the arrow keys – left arrow for green, right arrow for red, and up for blue.

Copy mode, toggled by using the Ctrl key on Windows or Option on Mac, creates a flipped copy of your selection. Activate copy mode, click and drag a plane to the desired spot, and release your mouse to create a symmetrical copy.

Large Model Saving Efficiency

Multithreading is the ability of a central processing unit to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently. We’ve updated the way SketchUp saves your model to use this technology.
What does that mean for you? It means you can save bigger models faster and with less chance for errors.

Overlays

Overlays are a new SketchUp capability and associated API that allows developers to persist extension behaviors while you are using other tools. This means extensions can now continue to analyze, visualize, and create information in the modeling window as you continue using other native tools and extensions. For example, you can now use the latest update to Solid Inspector, a popular extension with overlay capability, to detect problems with your solid entities as you create or fix them.

Notable Modeling Updates

【Increased Eraser Sensitivity】 Do you know how the Eraser can sometimes annoyingly miss edges you are trying to scrub, hide, or smooth? We’ve increased the sensitivity of Eraser so you get a truer feel and outcome to your eraser strokes.

【Deselect Edges/Faces】 You can now remove faces or edges from a selection set using Deselect Edges or Deselect Faces. These new commands can be found through a Search or in the Select submenu.

【Double-Click Drawing Axes】 Moving the axes in your model just got easier! When moving the drawing axes with the Axes tool you can now double-click to instantly place them, skipping all the other alignment steps.

【Freehand Segments】 You can now modify your line segments using Ctrl + or Ctrl -, the same way you would increase or decrease segments for circles, arcs, or polygons.

【Three-point Drawing Tools Measurements】 The measurements input for the 2-Point Arc, 3-Point Arc, and Rotated Rectangle tools are now standardized. After setting the second point for these tools you can input and repeat values into the measurement box, defining the initial distance of a drawing operation.

【Section Planes in Reloaded Components】 Occasionally, components with section planes load into a model, and the active style conflicts with the saved section plane visibility properties of the component. We’ve made sure your model’s settings take precedence and the current style settings are respected when importing those components.

【Search Results Shortcuts】 When searching for a command using Search you’ll now see the assigned shortcut, if available, for your result.

Learn more about LayOut 2023

DWG References

In LayOut, the Document Setup window helps you manage inserted images and imported SketchUp files as references. In SketchUp 2023, .dwg files imported into your document can also become manageable references. When importing, just check the box next to Import as a SketchUp model reference.

Custom Rotation Start Angle

Transform objects in your LayOut documents with even more flexibility by setting a custom angle for the start of a rotation.. Using Inferences in viewports, the grid, or other guides in your document, you can now designate the 0° base angle for the rotation. To set up a custom start angle, hover over the rotation handle, hold down Shift and drag the handle to your desired start point and orientation.

Per Page Sequence Autotext

LayOut introduced Sequenced Auto-Text tags in 2022. Sequenced Auto-Text automatically changes in set increments when copied. When introduced, Sequenced Auto-Text tags worked across your entire LayOut document.

LayOut has updated the way these tags work and added the option to set your sequence per page or per document. By default, all new Sequenced Auto-Text tags are now sequenced per page. You can always change from per page or per document in Document Setup along with all other tag settings.

Viewport Improvements

Your viewport camera settings are now easier to interact with! For starters, Pan is now the default tool mode when you activate the Edit 3D View mode in LayOut. You can always switch to the Orbit, Zoom, or other camera tools with a right click inside the viewport.

Toggling Preserve Scale on Resize on or off won’t distort highly coordinated model views.

Contact us NOW

First name

Last name

Email

Subject

Message

Submit

Your form submitted successfully!

Sorry! your form was not submitted properly, Please check the errors above.