10 must-have SketchUp plug-ins

Google has always prided itself on the simplicity of SketchUp’s toolset. In fact, the last new tool to be introduced to the standard set was the Follow Me tool, which came in with version 4.0 (we’re now on 7.0) and added the capability to extrude profiles along paths. But version 4.0 also saw the introduction of the Ruby scripting interface. This enabled anyone with scripting skills to write plug-ins for SketchUp to extend its core functionality, and that’s exactly what users did – in their thousands. We’ve sifted through the add-ons currently available to bring you our list of the 10 most vital plug-ins. Some of these plug-ins automate tasks that would take a fair bit of planning and desk time, while others add capabilities that would simply not be achievable using the base toolbox. 01. SketchUp is founded on its Push/Pull tool, which enables you to easily extrude planes into volumes. 02. Its Sandbox tools notwithstanding, SketchUp doesn’t do organic curved shapes particularly well.

CAD addict: SketchUp: List of Plugins If you are new to Ruby Scripts, check this post on How to Install SketchUp Plugins. There are other online resources to find Ruby scripts online. Some of the best online libraries where you can find and download SU Plugins are, as far as I know: Kitchen design plugin released! It’s finally here! After years of development, testing, and more testing the SketchThis Kitchen Design Plugin is finally ready for public consumption. If you need to design kitchens, and you’ve been stuck with slow, outdated, expensive design software, today is great day for you. Even with Sketchup’s meteoric rise as one of the most popular and easiest to use 3D modeling tools, there’s never been a dedicated plugin to make designing kitchens so fast and easy… Until now… This plugin features an incredibly flexible library of Dynamic Components built by kitchen designers, for kitchen designers. Speaking of the cloud, every aspect of this plugin is hosted in the cloud. The plugin runs on any version of Sketchup 8 or later.

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