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A single click on the word “Group” in the Outliner should give you that field in blank-form so you can rename it. By naming groups and components in Outliner, you can now tap the power of the search tool to filter for specific items in your model. These “groups” and “components” in Outliner can be renamed-and it is advised that you do. But with the new Outliner, the user has visibility control of these hierarchies. A model in SketchUp can consist of nested groups within groups.
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In this way, Outliner works similarly to many other professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation tools. A new eyeball icon enables the user to control the visibilities of groups and components in your model. Outliner now features small but significant changes. Still, Trimble wants users to now organize and provide structure for their models not by having zillions of layers but by using the Tags palette in conjunction with updates to the Outliner palette. In version 2020, the formerly called Layers palette is only renamed (to Tags) and other aspects largely remain the same. Speaking of palettes, in Layout 2020, they have been updated users now can control various aspects of viewports without affecting other viewports. Moreover, an important new feature in Layers 2020 is the ability to control the visibility of objects by tag from the Tags control palette. Now it is not necessary to use hundreds of formerly called “layers” to structure your SketchUp model. The improved Outliner palette dovetails with Trimble’s decision to call rename the Layers palette Tags and encourages users to use the Outliner for structuring their model by groups and components. The way you protect, structure, and organize objects in SketchUp is through groups and components, in addition to layers, now named tags. Layers tend to represent the structure, order, and the protection and visibility of objects.
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In other 3D, CAD, and BIM software programs, the use of “layers” tends to mean more than just controlling visibility. “Layers” was always the wrong word in SketchUp. The big new change in version 2020 of SketchUp is that layers are now renamed as “tags.” One might think that renaming something is hardly much of a change, but in truth, there is much more to this adjustment.
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Our primary goal with this review is to review SketchUp Studio, which encapsulates SketchUp Pro and Sefaira and to partly introduce the reader to Sefaira’s energy and daylight analysis features.īut first, let’s review the new in SketchUp 2020.
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Insofar as architects are concerned, or even AEC users at large, that subject of Ecosystem versus Modeler is one Architosh will have to in full force in another article. When I asked Hariharan Natarajan, Customer Success Manager, Trimble, if this assumption was correct he confirmed by saying that “there are lots of specialties and types of users of SketchUp and they all have unique needs.”Īnd in mentioning the vast ecosystem known as Extension Warehouse, he says, “So we have created a platform that SketchUp users can plug into and just self-serve,” meaning that what users get today with SketchUp is a powerful and popular 3D modeler where they can direct their attention to thousands of extensions written by third-parties to tailor SketchUp to their specific purposes. In other words, the assumption is that Trimble is letting third parties tackle more advanced features in modeling powers.
Trimble’s development efforts over the years have largely been focused on other areas in some regard, SketchUp as a modeler is fully matured for what the company wants in its core capabilities. We noted in our 2014 review that there really weren’t any major new modeling functionalities added to SketchUp compared to prior versions.
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SketchUp Pro is still the most popular version of the software used in AEC workflows, while SketchUp Free and SketchUp Shop are versions for personal use. These tools are now included in what is known as SketchUp Studio, Trimble’s flagship version of the software. (We’ll mention more notes on BIM and SketchUp toward the ends of the review).Īlso new since our last review six years ago, Trimble acquired Sefaira, the popular energy analysis software that works with BIM tools and SketchUp models.
For starters, while IFC export was new in SketchUp 2014 when we reviewed it that year, somewhere along the way IFC import was also supported. Since that time a lot has taken place in the world of SketchUp.
It has been since August of 2014 that we last published a review of SketchUp and in that version (SketchUp 2014) the big news was the support of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) file format in the world’s most popular 3D modeler.