SketchUp Review

PROS: What I like about SketchUp is its fast and high-quality rendering capability. It helps when clients need immediate visualizations of the project and for quick decision making. Plus it has excellent importing and exporting capability so it's flexible with other CAD applications and plug-ins.

CONS: Nothing major because beginners immediately learn how to use the application

PROS: SketchUp is a great application for creating designs in 2D. In my case, I used it to plan repairs and renovation needs for my apartment and I find it easy to use and effective in portraying what I wanted to happen in reality.

CONS: I have a problem with the layout and SketchUp integration and I find it difficult to switch from different tools because there are no shortcuts.

PROS: SketchUp is a great tool for beginners of drawing 2D and 3D. It also helps that the app has a free version and a free trial version.

CONS: More integration for design software

PROS: SketchUp's simple design is an effective way of drawing and modeling for a short time. It is perfect for brainstorming and developing ideas with clients and the team; perfect for collaborated project meetings.

CONS: App crashes sometimes when files are getting bigger and more complicated. I hope for the tool to have a mirror tool.

PROS: SketchUp is a simple and easy application for 2D drawing and 3D modeling. It is great for fast projects and presentations. And has importing and exporting capability.

CONS: Nothing major, just that to utilize the tool, the user needs knowledge with similar 3D modeling products.

PROS: Its simplicity helps beginners be familiar with tools used in 3D modeling. It also makes quick projects to be made easily. I like that V-Ray rendering is also available now in here.

CONS: I can't make complex designs using SketchUp. I have to switch to Revit or Rhino whenever I need to create spheres or curves.

PROS: SketchUp is the simplest drawing and modeling tool I have encountered in my career. Even though it is not much capable of complicated and complex designs, it is helpful when collaborating with clients and other teams due to its import/export flexibility and capability to be integrated with Revit and other plug-ins.

CONS: Nothing. The tool is used best when utilized by a capable user.

PROS: We are using SketchUp for construction, interior design, urban planning, and graphic design. Although its design is simple, we can create detailed designs and intricate 3D models through SketchUp. Plus, designs can be exported and imported.

CONS: Saving and opening projects with a lot of warehouse items takes a lot of your patience.

PROS: SketchUp has various tools for drawing and modeling which give the user the freedom to create designs yet is so simple that a beginner will have no difficulty in using it. It has export and import capabilities for better rendering quality and it can be integrated with other plugins and other CAD applications for a more complex and intricate design. Best for architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, construction, and presentation.

CONS: As long as SketchUp is installed with a capable device, it will function with the utmost quality.

PROS: SketchUp is the application for easy yet high-quality drawing and 3D modeling. The user has options on the interface and it can be personalized further so it adapts to your workflow. Its tools are easy to handle, and their app is always up-to-date. I really love that importing from different formats and exporting to different formats does not reduce the quality of the renders.

CONS: Fatal Errors. It happens on my PC whenever it handles heavy files, but at the very least the file is recoverable whenever the app crashes.

PROS: Easy to use. Guides you in creating 3D models. Perfect for color comparison, material testing, and model review.

CONS: None.

PROS: I like how you can use SketchUp. It's comparable to sketching up cartoon figures. It adds a bit of fun to creating important models. I've been using this with Infraworks Software.

CONS: The one thing that I disapprove is how they carried out their texturing. I feel it needs to be more user-friendly including its export area. I faced issues where certain texture won't push through whenever I'm exporting things to another format. I tend to face this problem whenever I import files directly to Infraworks.

PROS: Being able to put up a design and presenting them to customers quickly. At the moment, I'm using SketchUp for designing photo voltaic solar installation for both business owners and home owners. Thanks to my fluency in architecture design, Sketchup makes it possible for me to visualize design with my customers. This can be done by means of a presentation in rendering a layout for their approval.

CONS: Trying to think about the things I ate. Unfortunately, I'm running out of ideas. I've been designing with Sketchup for a long while now. UI is super friendly. I'm constantly customizing the toolbar settings.

PROS: The simplicity in which you can create 3D and editing it is one of the many wonderful things with SketchUp. Once you come up with a basic drafted plan in Autocad, the massing model can successfully be made within minutes. I've been utilizing SketchUp for urban planning and building scale. It gave me precise output in terms of quality.

CONS: Two things I hate with SketchUp. One is not having the ability to edit and the poly-lines manipulation suck (a lot simpler to do via AutoCAD). Poly-lines with curves has a tendency to be in segments. This could be problematic it as the process of selection becomes tedious from time to time which could lead you to miss out on some segments.

PROS: SketchUP is a simplified tool that gives you exceptional results. I frequently compare this tool to a bunch of lego bricks. You're only given some pieces to work with. But in the end, there's so many ways to build things.

CONS: We utilize SketchUp Pro in modelling intricate buildings. It comes complete with finishes, lighting, furniture, equipment, and others. We're utilizing Layout in geting our designs memorialized in the form of Construction Documents. Our team spotted several inconsistencies and problems both programs.

PROS: SketchUp makes it possible for any user to craft a 3D model with a precise scale. It allows for the conceptualiziation and visualization of designs in a real-world scenario. What's most useful is being able to import Google Earth maps into a SketchUp creation. It not only envisions how a space would appear, but it also invovles the landscape and buildings around it.

CONS: Unless you're running a high-end PC (like those intended for intensive gaming and graphics), SketchUp models will relatively slow down in a shorter period of time. This could be due to the huge size in files. Response delays to commands and migrating throughmodels when utilzing 3D items over 2D items are significant factors. It can be challenging to move, stretch out, and rotate objects.

PROS: Easy to use 3d modeling tool. Quickly create models, images etc. for illustration purposes.

CONS: I paid for sketchup pro which was advertised with a set of features. One feature was the "add location" tool which allows you to geolocate and pull in google earth imagery and terrain data. I just discovered that Trimble disabled this feature in the version I bought and the only way I can get the feature back is to pay them more money! This is robbery. Plain and simple. If you bought a car with navigation and then a year later you go to use the nav and it says "we're sorry, you can't use this anymore. Please contact us". When you contact the dealer they tell you that you have to pay more money to use the nav. If a car manufacturer did that there would be a class action lawsuit in no time flat. They offer ZERO solutions for this problem other than paying them more money which is NOT going to happen. They should have offered people who had the older version a free one time upgrade to the version that has that feature. Instead, their response is, sorry, those features don't work now.

PROS: Just about everything! I like how you can convert basic lines/shapes and start making your own dream building. Simplified shortcut commands allow for hand motion. You can translate your concentration from what you have in your head. Then moving that to the screen.

CONS: Basically nothing. I guess when you tend to overwork and your screen suddenly "bug splats." It can be annoying to experience from time to time. But that's understandable for the time spent in creating a model. If there's one tiny problem I'd go for it's the time of expiration of their license.

PROS: So many things to like with SketchUp! The best thing about it is its features is being able to own a free version. It lets you work on a certain number of PCs without any issues. Great interoperability with other programs. Having the ability to work on all PCs is with backwards compatibility is uber simple.

CONS: If I need to nit-pick, it would be not being able to rotate the view in a 2D plan view. I find this annoying. But to be fair, it's what you get from a by-product of a single-window. I'll include this in the wish list! Text editing wasn't that great.

PROS: SketchUp happens to be simplest CAD programs for learning. The UI is direct to the point. It's easy and simple. Once you have an idea of the commands, you can learn as you playing along.

CONS: I don't favor how SketchUp would segregate lines into segments. I was hoping there was some kind of an option in keeping the line in one piece. This is way better than breaking things up by intersection.