(Google) Trimble Sketchup Pro 2013
GSUPRO2013
Hundreds of thousands of professionals in architecture, construction, engineering, commercial interiors, light construction, landscape architecture, kitchen & bath design, urban planning, game design, film & stage, woodworking, and plenty of other fields use SketchUp Pro all the time, every day. It’s the all-purpose antidote to complicated, expensive CAD software.
A Subscription is now compulsory with your SketchUp Pro license. Customers with existing licenses will need to purchase a subscription, this can be for either 12 or 24 months.
New in SketchUp 2013
Introducing Extension WarehouseWhat if adding new extensions to SketchUp was as easy as installing an app on your smartphone? In 2013, it is simple to turn SketchUp into exactly what you need it to be. Need a special tool? There’s an excellent chance someone’s already built it. Now you can research, download and install extensions without ever having to leave SketchUp. Every useful extension in one place—that’s the all-new Extension Warehouse |
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Pattern FillsDrawing a sectional view? Now you can fill shapes in LayOut with hatching and other patterns. Choose from a large library of standards—construction materials, geometric tiles, dot screens—or create your own favorites. Patterns can be rotated, scaled or used as-is. You can even combine Pattern Fills with solid colors to create an endless number of variations. |
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Copy ArrayLayOut lets you create multiple copies of an object with your keyboard. Move a copy, type how many copies you want, type the letter ‘x’ and Enter. |
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Speedier Vector RenderingWhen you need to print a drawing really big, sometimes it’s helpful to vector-render your SketchUp model views. Doing so makes lines look smooth and reduces wait times for all but the most complex models. In the latest version of LayOut, vector rendering is faster than it’s ever been. |
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Faster Screen RedrawEvery time you zoom, pan or move an entity on the page, LayOut has to re-draw the picture you see on your screen. For this version, Trimble have massaged the code so there’s a noticeable improvement in the speed at which this happens. LayOut should feel snappier, especially as your document gets more complex. |
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Numbered Pages in the Pages panelAnother small but incredibly useful tweak: LayOut’s Pages panel now displays page numbers, which makes it easier to print and export portions of your document. |
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Curved Label Leader LinesCreating a jauntily curved callout line for a label used to be a five-step, two-handed operation. In the latest version of LayOut, curving a label line is now just a simple: Click-drag. |
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Dashes in DimensionsTrimble have added dashes to LayOut’s dimension labels to make them easier to read. |
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Smarter Toolbars in WindowsIt used to be that the toolbars for all of your delicious plugins would move around your screen between SketchUp sessions. Trimble have re-engineered Windows UI to make things a whole lot better. In 2013, you can even drag native tool icons between toolbars. Make SketchUp look the way you want it to. |
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Zoom In MoreLayOut’s maximum zoom capability has been increased by a factor of ten, from 1000% to 10,000%. |
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Video ExportExporting a movie from your SketchUp model is as simple as setting up a few scenes and choosing a few menu options. It’s easy to export videos in any of the three most popular web formats: MP4 (H.264), AVI, and WebM. SketchUp Pro provides complete control over pixel size and other video export settings. |
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Windows XP
Software
- SketchUp Pro: Microsoft Service Pack 3+.
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher.
- SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 4.0.
Note: SketchUp will run on 64bit versions of Windows, but it will run as a 32bit application.
Recommended hardware
- 2+ GHz processor.
- 2+ GB RAM.
- 500 MB of available hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 512+ MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.
- SketchUp's performance relies heavily the graphics card driver and it's ability to support OpenGL 1.5 or higher. Historically, people have seen problems with Intel based cards with SketchUp. We don't recommend using these graphics cards with SketchUp at this time.
- 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
- Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.
Minimum hardware
- 1 GHz processor.
- 512 MB RAM.
- 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.
Pro licensing
- SketchUp doesn't support network licensing over a Wide Area Network (WAN).
- At this time, licenses aren't cross platform compatible. For example, a Windows license won't work on the Mac OS X version of SketchUp Pro.
Windows Vista and Windows 7
Software
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer 8.0 or higher.
- SketchUp Pro requires .NET Framework version 4.0.
- SketchUp will run on 64bit versions of Windows, but it will run as a 32bit application.
Recommended hardware
- 2+ GHz processor.
- 2+ GB RAM.
- 500 MB of available hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 512+ MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date. SketchUp's performance relies heavily the graphics card driver and it's ability to support OpenGL 1.5 or higher. Historically, people have seen problems with Intel based cards with SketchUp. We don't recommend using these graphics cards with SketchUp at this time.
- 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
- Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.
Minimum hardware
- 1 GHz processor.
- 1 GB RAM.
- 16 GB of total hard-disk space.
- 300 MB of free hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 256 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.
Mac OS X 10.7+, and 10.8+
Software
- QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorials.
- Safari.
- Neither Boot Camp nor Parallels are supported environments.
Recommended hardware
- 2.1+ GHz Intel™ processor.
- 2 GB RAM.
- 500 MB of available hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 512+ MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.
- 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
- Some SketchUp features require an active internet connection.
Minimum hardware
- 2.1+ GHz Intel™ processor. Power PC is no longer supported
- 1 GB RAM.
- 300 MB of available hard-disk space.
- 3D class Video Card with 128 MB of memory or higher. Please ensure that the video card driver supports OpenGL version 1.5 or higher and up to date.
- 3 button, scroll-wheel mouse.
