They developed an app that offered all of the core modeling features SketchUp users know and love, but was also built for today’s increasingly mobile, connected workflows. When developing a professional-grade design tool for a device as incredible as the iPad, the SketchUp team recognized the opportunity to do something different. With Apple Pencil in hand, designers can sketch in 3D fluidly, focusing more on exploring ideas and less time learning software.
Whether meeting in-person or virtually, SketchUp for iPad users can walk through designs easily from their iPad, and mark up changes or iterate in 3D on the fly as they receive feedback.Įxplore early-stage design concepts quickly. Using an Apple Pencil, users can write and draw over top 3D models instead of communicating changes on layers of trace paper or in long email threads.Ĭreate more engaging client meetings. Instead of documenting existing conditions with pen and paper, users can draw in 3D straight from their iPad and leave the site with an accurate 3D model. To augment 2D plans, design professionals can bring 3D models to the job site and get all stakeholders on the same page. With SketchUp for iPad, users are able to:Ĭommunicate more effectively with contractors. SketchUp’s Beta testers quickly applied the app to their professional projects and found immediate efficiency gains. The SketchUp team collected feedback from thousands of users – inadvertently launching the largest Beta program in SketchUp history – and finetuned the app to meet the rigorous and nuanced needs of AEC professionals. If you build it (with customers), they will comeĪlthough SketchUp for iPad was commercially released in late April, the app was launched to a Beta group over a year ago. With a simple UI, intuitive drawing tools, and a direct integration with the cloud collaboration platform, Trimble Connect, SketchUp for iPad empowers designers to work in 3D anywhere. SketchUp, one of the most popular 3D modelers in the world, set out to meet this “new normal” for designers by launching a new mobile app: SketchUp for iPad.
Whether meeting with a client over Zoom, visiting a job site, or sketching on the train, design professionals aren’t tethered to their desks– and neither should their 3D tools. Now, more than ever, architects are working outside the office.
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