Planning a new release means reinforcing and enhancing what SketchUp is all about: simple, seamless, fun. SketchUp users have a feature wish-list of what they personally feel that would turn SketchUp into the perfect tool. Fulfilling all of those wishes would add layers of CAD-like complexity, making SketchUp completely unrecognizable to a person who just wants it to work like a pencil (with superpowers, of course).
For years, though, a number of people have been making SketchUp do precisely what they want it to. Today, thanks to a truly amazing community of developers and the universe of plugins, add-ons and extensions they’ve built, SketchUp can weld, scatter, bend, and do just about anything else you can imagine. In SketchUp 2013, it’s now easier for everyone to find and use these great, customized tools.
To that end, SketchUp 2013 includes Extension Warehouse (beta), the first step towards making it much easier to find and install extensions, to truly customize your SketchUp. Today, this one new feature is actually about 100 features. Sometime soon, it will be a few hundred, and—with the help of SketchUp developers everywhere—maybe a few thousand.
No one uses plugins and extensions more than professional users, who have an amazingly wide array of use cases. But all SketchUp Pro users have one thing in common: at some point, they need to document, share, present, or sell the work they’ve done. So in SketchUp Pro 2013, LayOut is now a full-fledged documentation tool for creating scaled, annotated, and dimensioned drawings from your models. Hatching and pattern fills, speedier vector rendering, better zoom, more useful callouts: LayOut is more powerful, more precise, and more customizable than ever.
Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is available at a student discount price of $49.
Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 is free for instructors.
Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Lab licenses are available at a school discount price of $15.
Trimble SketchUp Pro 2013 Laptop Licenses.
If you have a non-expired SketchUp Pro 8 license purchased from Creation Engine, please email your name, school, and serial number to sketchup@creationengine.com for your free update to SketchUp Pro 2013.
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