

Wherever possible, we do offer educational discounts for students, teachers, and academic institutions. Our focus is on adding value to our product with consistent improvements and new features, not finding ways to remove it for customers who we’ve enticed with a free tier. As a result, most products with a free tier will gradually remove features or apply limitations in an effort to force customers to move to a paid tier. Offering a free tier inevitably leads to unpaid costs (free tiers still require storage, bandwidth, support and more). We believe this commitment to long-term sustainability is a responsibility to our customers, who can trust that we’ll continue to be here and support their work, as we have for more than 10 years. Our business model is simple - we sell our product at a fair price - and we’ve been profitable since day one. We want to operate in a way that’s sustainable. Viewers can browse and comment on designs in their web browser, and even inspect files and download assets for developer handoff.īeyond free Viewers, though, we have no plans to offer an entirely free tier. If you can create a 3D image of a building or monument in your city then you're the type of person who should be using SketchUp.With our Standard and Business plans, you can invite unlimited Viewers to your Workspace for free. Plus, the application has been designed so that you an upload your models onto Google Earth and thus share them with the rest of the program's users. Its a multi-purpose tool for both industrial design, architecture and decorating. It also lets you render moving video scenes in MOV and AVI. SketchUp lets you export your creations to different graphic formats, such as JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG for 2D and 3D rendering, DEM, DDF, DWG, DXF, SKP for object and 3D scenes. If you're not good at creating your own models, the program also includes a huge database with resources that have been created by other members of the community and which you can use for free, they include all kinds of things, from furniture, to human figures and any other kind of decorative element. It also lets you include colors and textures in your models. After that, you can create windows, doors and all other shapes you can think of.

All you have to do is draw a rectangle with the pencil tool and drag it with the mouse to add volume.

The tool includes all kinds of modelling options, from creating basic geometric figures to manipulating vertices and planes, not to mention its texturing, lighting and rendering options.Ĭreating a geometric shape is very easy. It comes with a complete tutorial which helps you learn how to use all of its tools in no time at all.

SketchUp is a three-dimensional graphic design program that lets you easily and quickly build and model all kinds of 3D models.
