

This is one of the more feature packed upgrades to SketchUp that I have seen. They’ve also made improvements to the LayOut Label tool, so if you’re a LayOut user, you should check those out as well. SketchUp 2015 comes with a new tool that helps you create 3 point arcs, which dramatically increases your options when modeling curving shapes. One of the areas SketchUp has been a little short in is tools to help create arcs and curves. This allows for some pretty cool shape creations. This tool allows you to easily create rectangles that do not run along the red, green or blue axes. I’ll provide a tutorial on how these tools work in the next couple days, but for now, let’s just go over them at a high level. SketchUp 2015 added a couple of cool new tools. Now let’s talk about what everyone really wants to know about – the new SketchUp 2015 tools!


Added functionality for using SketchUp in conjunction with more BIM applications by importing IFC files.SketchUp has marked the styles that run more quickly in the style manager so you can quickly select a style based not only on looks, but also on performance. There are also styles that run more quickly. Many styles, while cool looking, create a higher demand on your computer. They’ve “badged” styles that run quickly in SketchUp.Single user license entry is easier now, but the big change is they now offer a network license manager so that multiple users at the same company can check out a license. They’ve upgraded their license manager to make it more user friendly (this mostly effects paid license users).Trials of SketchUp Pro are now 30 days, instead of 8 hours of use.I haven’t had a chance to test this, but they’re stating that this is creating big performance gains in larger models. They also made improvements to the code that creates faces.This creates better performance, faster speed, and a better experience. This is a huge deal, because it allows SketchUp users to now utilize the full processing power of their machines.

First, they upgraded their engine to run as a 64-bit application.Let’s start with the “under the hood” upgrades that affect how the software runs on your computer. This week, SketchUp came out with exciting news! They’ve rolled out their new SketchUp version – SketchUp 2015, and with it came a number of great upgrades.
