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SKETCHUP VERSION 8 PRO
And finally another Pro features is that Dashed Lines are fully configurable in LayOut 3 in the Pro version. Entity Info now displays volume data and reports it in SketchUp Pro. SketchUp 8 now has Push/Pull pre-selected faces, which helps you confirm the face you are affecting. Back Edges turns obscured edges into dashed lines and forms an alternative to X-Ray view mode. There are several new features that all SketchUp users will find important right away. This extends to LayOut 3 where you can export your drawings from LayOut 3 into other programs like AutoCAD or DWG/DXF capable CAD systems. Pro also features the latest AutoCAD DWG/DXF 2010 formats for import/export. In Pro you now have precise move options in LayOut so you can create custom snap points. There is a video of some of these tools in action here.Īlso very powerful in the pro version are several features aimed at helping modeling be faster and more precise, integrating with other professional tools and working with angles. The Solid Tools in SketchUp 8 Pro will allow faster and more capable modeling, featuring union intersects, deletes, adds, subtracts, splits and trims. We are not sure yet how the company added “true solids”….whether they wrote their own modeling kernel or have incorporated a third-party modeling engine.
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New in SketchUp 8 are Solid Tools, only available in the Pro version. What’s Really Hot in SketchUp 8įor quite awhile now modeling pros have talked up SketchUp’s famed ease-of-use but often criticized its lack of being a true solids modeler. Since the search giant acquired the Colorado developer the major releases of SketchUp have come at a slower pace, but not without some major feature additions and improvements. Google recently announced SketchUp 8, the latest version of the popular 3D modeling application originally developed by Software and acquired by Google in 2006.