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SketchUp Pro

An amazingly powerful software tool for creating, viewing, modifying and communicating 3D design concepts

Sketchup is ideal for better communicating early concept ideas in basic detail to your clients via dynamic 3D presentations, Email and the Web.

Instead of requiring users to learn a vast, complicated set of commands, SketchUp combines a compact, yet robust toolset with an intelligent guidance system that streamlines the 3D drawing process.

Features

Benefits

• Design Exploration
  This is the main focus of SketchUp that offers many features that are unprecedented in 3D digital tools.
  In-Place Component Editing allows architects to visualise changes in one building element dynamically throughout an entire project.
  Materials add visual realism and provide immediate feedback with unmatched power and flexibility in colour and texture assignment.
  New Auto-Folding Geometry allows users to quickly explore complex forms. Interactive Scale Tool, Linear and Radial Array, Mirroring and Object Grouping make design modifications easy.
  Dynamic Components allow users can easily animate mechanisms that follow kinematic relationships. Navigation tools simulate camera movement around and within the model.

• Presentation Tools
  Styles and Watermarks allow you to apply a range of artistic touches that transform computer models into individualized presentations that appear to be rendered by hand.
  Users can also blend models with images for perspective photo-montage.
  Section tools apply an interactive cut-away view that makes it easy to look inside your model.
  Shadows are geographic and can be animated to develop a single-day (or more) sun study for any location in the world.
  Layout tools combine multiple presentation views onto sheets for printing or within full screen slideshows.

• Integration
  SketchUp has features that provide better integration throughout the entire design process. 3D models can be exported effortlessly and accurately to CAD software (dwg, dxf) for design development.
  The 2D Hidden-Line Vector format allows users to export to 2D CAD or illustration software. Printing options allow drawings of any scale or size to be printed using any standard printer. Image Objects allow users to draw over scanned sketch drawings, and to easily incorporate aerial and site photographs in their designs.

• TourGuide Technology
  TourGuide Technology allows the user to create powerful visualisations of their designs in an instant by combining selected views. These dynamic, real time animated 3D slideshows or fly-throughs are extremely useful for schematic design validation, sun/shadow studies and client presentations.

• Improved conceptual design communication; Faster validation of design alternatives, Eases adoption of 3D modelling techniques

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