SketchUp Pro 2020 Classic (Perpetual License)

SketchUp Pro is used by professionals in architecture, construction, engineering, landscape architecture, kitchen & bath design, urban planning, film & stage, woodworking, and a range of other fields every day. SketchUp is the intuitive, all-purpose antidote to complicated, expensive CAD software.

With a Single-User License, you may authorise SketchUp Pro on up to two computers. Only one computer may be actively using the license at any one time.

What's New in SketchUp?

Introducing a new Outliner
In an effort to increase model performance, you no longer have to create Layers upon Layers – you can manage and organise your model straight within Outliner. Use the eye icon to toggle between the major sections of your model, such as main floor plans and furniture.



New grips on bounding boxes
When you grab a point that is obscured in an object (such as a back corner or centre point) and start to move it, your object will automatically go transparent when something in your model interferes with the object you are moving. This works with both the Rotate tool and Move tool.

Better control of hidden objects
You’ll notice in your drop-down menu that hiding objects are separated from hiding geometry. This will give you the ability to better manage hidden geometry and hidden objects for an even easier modeling experience. For example, now you can hide objects that are nearby (like trees, bushes, or a building) while still being able to edit hidden edges in a landscape or smoothed surface!

Updates to your SketchUp dictionary
There are a few updates to the naming conventions used when talking about SketchUp. This isn’t going to change how you use SketchUp, but we want to make sure you’re up to date with how some things are going to be referred to.

Objects are now a collective term for: groups, components, and dynamic components. Layers are now referred to as “Tags”.

What's New in LayOut

More power to adjust model views
LayOut now understands a lot more about your SketchUp model and what you’ve overridden. This means you can safely change a style or camera angle directly in LayOut without accidentally losing your changes.

How do you know what’s different in your LayOut viewport versus your model? When you make changes in LayOut, parts of the menu bar will go dark grey, alerting you that you’ve made an override.

Keep in mind – just because you made some changes in LayOut, doesn’t mean you’re stuck with those. You can always re-sync your viewports back to your SketchUp model if needed.



Improved customisation of your drawings
You can now take your LayOut documents to the next level with different models and views. If you have one SketchUp model that exists across several viewports, you can now re-link just one of those viewports to another SketchUp model. Previously, you had to delete that viewport, insert a new SKP model, and reset all your scale settings and viewport sizing.

You also have the ability to toggle Tag visibility within your LayOut document. Now you don’t have to create extra scenes just for your LayOut files, which will save you a lot of time going back and forth between LayOut and SketchUp.

More Features of SketchUp

Files Tab
When selecting File > New, or viewing the template dialog in SketchUp Pro or LayOut, three tabs will be displayed where users can access New, Recent, and Recovered projects. Recovered files are easy to access across SketchUp and LayOut.

Learn Tab
SketchUp Pro for Desktop and LayOut include links to SketchUp’s Learning Management System, forums, and YouTube channel, so users can access the learning content they need it.

Licensing Tab
From SketchUp Pro for Desktop and LayOut, users can easily access information related to their license(s). When selecting the licensing tab, they will be taken to the Account Management Portal where to view entitlement information.
 
Toolbar
There’s a “My Account” icon in the top upper-right hand side of the screen. Here, users can manage account preferences and license(s) from the online account management portal, and sign out.

Line Styles
Dashed lines are incorporated into SketchUp Pro to better convey design ideas, whether to demarcate a property boundary or locate places for demolition. These dashes are properties of Layers and are controlled from the layers panel. Even better, components on Layers will inherit the dash pattern. In LayOut, dashes will show in the viewport at any screen scale and in all render modes. Dashed lines may be exported as EPS, PDF(HLR), and DWG/DXF or printed directly from SketchUp.

DWG Importer/Exporter
Import/export of the 2018 DWG file format is now supported to make it even easier to move between different applications. Improvements have also been made to the import and export of line styles and materials.

Tape Measure Tool
Upgrades to the Tape Measure tool mean less time opening up Entity Info. The length of selected edges, areas of faces, and coordinates of guides and intersections can be viewed from an inference tip.

More Features of LayOut

LayOut File Locking
It is difficult to accidentally overwrite LayOut files with unintentional edits. If a file is opened in two separate LayOut instances, it will temporarily lock the file as “read only.”

DWG Support
As well as support for the 2018 DWG format, it is simple to export and adjust units when importing DWGs.

SketchUp Dashes Control
With dashed lines in SketchUp, LayOut has the ability to modify how those line styles are displayed. With the SketchUp model viewport selected, the SketchUp Model inspector will allow for modification.

Export for SketchUp
‘Export for SketchUp’ is included in the DWG/DXF exporter, placing all LayOut entities into the Model Space so that SketchUp better interprets the data. Groups are read as components and fills/patterns are read as faces.