Getting Started with SketchUp for Web

Prepare to start creating, editing, and viewing models in SketchUp for Web? Here you will find what you demand in social club to start using SketchUp for Web, including the web-browser and device-back up details. You volition also discover a quick tour of the SketchUp for Web interface and details nearly what SketchUp for Web can and can't exercise compared to its desktop-based sibling, SketchUp Pro.

Table of Contents
  1. Understanding what you demand
  2. Touring the SketchUp for Web interface
  3. Understanding how SketchUp for Web features piece of work differently from the desktop version of SketchUp

Understanding what y'all need

To beginning using SketchUp for Web, yous need the post-obit:

  • A Trimble ID or Google Business relationship: SketchUp for Spider web is a web-based SaaS production (software as a service). We demand to know who you are so y'all can create 3D models in a personalized work environment.

    Tip: Signing in also gives y'all access to Trimble Connect, a service that enables you to interact, share, and view 3D models. When you sign in to SketchUp for Spider web with a Trimble or Google ID, Trimble Connect gives y'all 10GB of free online storage. Trimble Connect also helps you keep piece of work upwardly to appointment across all SketchUp apps. To learn more nearly Trimble Connect, visit the Trimble Connect home page.

  • An Internet Connectedness: Considering SketchUp for Web is spider web-based, you must be online to use it. We recommend a reliable cyberspace connection with at to the lowest degree 10 Mbps download and upload speeds.
  • A Estimator or Chromebook: SketchUp for Spider web works best on devices that accept an accelerated video card, plenty of arrangement memory, and a strong processor that can handle complex models with lots of geometry. Because SketchUp for Spider web is web-based, you can utilize information technology with a recommended browser on a Linux computer or Chromebook. (SketchUp Pro works only on Microsoft Windows and Mac Bone 10.) Run across the Hardware Requirements for more data.
  • A Recommended Web Browser: SketchUp for Spider web depends on WebAssembly, a new technology requiring cut-edge browser support. For the best experience, we recommend Chrome 59+, Firefox 52+ or Microsoft Edge 84+. Although SketchUp for Web will work in Safari, we cannot confidently recommend this browser at this time.
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Tip: SketchUp is best-suited for mouse and keyboard interaction. We recommend using a three-button , curl-wheel mouse for easy orbiting, zooming, and precision positioning while modeling.

Touring the SketchUp for Web interface

SketchUp for Spider web looks and works a lot like SketchUp, but each has a unlike and distinct interface. Whether you lot're totally new to creating 3D models or an experienced SketchUp user who'due south trying SketchUp for Web for the first time, this section can help you find your way effectually the SketchUp for Webinterface.

In the following figure, you see how SketchUp for Web looks when you kickoff open up the plan in your web browser. The callouts in the figure correspond to the numbers in the following list:

  1. Open up/Model Preferences icon: When you click this icon in the upper-left, a sidebar opens where you observe an About SketchUp section, your business relationship info, templates for creating new models, your saved in Trimble Connect, a geolocation tool, the Model Info panel, and a link to upload your model to 3D Warehouse.
  2. Model name: Click Untitled to save your model to Trimble Connect.
  3. File Operations icon: Click this icon to download the open a new or existing model or save your model every bit a new file. You lot likewise observe options for inserting .skp, .jpg, or .png files or downloading your model equally an .skp or .stl file.
  4. Toolbar: This toolbar contains the tools y'all need to create 3D models. For the nearly part, these tools work just like their counterparts in the desktop version of SketchUp. In SketchUp for Spider web, some tools have a flyout card that holds additional tools. For details well-nigh the toolbar and links for more information nearly using each tool, see Creating and Editing Models.
  5. Status bar: From left to correct, you find the Undo/Redo buttons, a link to the Assistance Center, a language bill of fare, a link to the SketchUp Forums, tips and options for the selected tool, and the Measurements box for modeling accurately.
  6. Panels: Click these icons to admission panels for entity info, the Instructor, components, materials, styles, layers, views, and brandish. For details about these panels and links to more data most each one, see Creating and Editing Models.
The SketchUp for Web interface features tools and features similar to SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro

Tip: If you're not certain what a tool is, hover over the tool and a ScreenTip appears. When yous select a tool, a brief annotation virtually what it does or the options available for that tool appear in the status bar. You can also find help by opening the Teacher panel.

On the SketchUp for Web sidebar, shown in the following figure, yous tin click an icon on the left to view different panels. Hither's a quick introduction to each console:

The SketchUp for Web sidebar

Agreement how SketchUp for Web features work differently from the desktop version of SketchUp

Right now, here are a few central differences between the manner SketchUp for Web and the desktop version of SketchUp piece of work:

  • Styles: SketchUp for Web includes many preset styles. All the same, you lot cannot edit styles or create your ain fashion templates, as you can in SketchUp for Windows or Mac OS Ten.
  • Materials: SketchUp for Web also includes many preset materials, merely you can't edit or create new materials.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: SketchUp for Web shares functionality with your web browser. When familiar SketchUp keyboard shortcuts are in direct conflict with your browser, those shortcuts can't be used. Don't worry! We're working on a style to customize shortcuts inside SketchUp for Web. Keep your eyes open up for changes.
  • Extensions: Extensions are Ruby scripts that add together functionality to SketchUp. In SketchUp for Web, extensions currently aren't available. Because dynamic components also rely on Red, this feature isn't currently available in SketchUp for Web either.
  • High-resolution press: You lot can print files or download your file in .png format, merely yous cannot nevertheless print high-resolution images to scale via SketchUp for Web.

Well-nigh everything near SketchUp is built into the SketchUp for Web. If your favorite feature isn't there yet, please permit u.s. know via the SketchUp for Web (formerly my.SketchUp) user forum.

Note: LayOut and Style Builder, ii separate applications that come with a SketchUp Pro license, are not on the SketchUp for Web development schedule.