New in Sketchup 8

Google Sketchup 8 is here!

Discover the new features of this version during Adebeo’s SketchUp training sessions or during the presentation seminar on Friday, September 17th in our Lyon office! Contact us (see sidebar)

SKETCHUP 8, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Because everything is somewhere!

When you’re drawing in an existing context, creating a light and shadow study or modeling structures using photos. Sketchup 8 gives you access to a huge library of geographic resources:

Nouveauté SketchUp 8

  • Access geolocation with Google maps. Google has built these maps directly into Sketchup. Geolocation is now simple and requires only one software (Google Eath is no longer needed).
  • The land is now integrated directly into Color
  • Photo modeling has been improved. You can now use multiple photos to model existing buildings simply.  This makes modeling from photos even easier.
  • Sketchup meets Building Maker. Buildings from builder maker are now available in Sketchup 8.

 

 

Even more improvements in Sketchup 8

Google has spent a lot of time creating new tools and more precise settings to continue being the most intuitive software on the planet:

  • On the PRO version: Sketchup 8 brings a powerful set of tools for adding and subtracting models
    • Union: to merge 2 models
    • Intersection to converse that the common parts to 2 models
    • Subtraction to subtract one model from another
    • Separate one model from another
    • Adjoin to add a model part to another one

     

  • Scene thumbnail: the scene panel includes a thumbnail for each scene
  • Hidden line: to display in dot-dash the hidden edges
  • Angular dimension in Layout
  • Pull/push on a pre-selected face
  • Calculation of volumes
  • External skin to preserve only the external surfaces of a model?
  • Import/export AUTOCAD 2010 (PRO)
  • Autocad 2010 export in Layout
  • Customizable lines in Layout
  • More precise movement in Layout

 

 

Sketchup 8 Training

Google offers a migration from your PRO version to Sketchup 8 PRO for $95.
Contact Adebeo for Sketchup 8 training.

 

Download

To download it, just go to http://sketchup.google.com/intl/fr/download/ and click on ‘download Google SketchUp 7’ (Google has not yet updated its button).