r/Sketchup

For the past couple of months I’ve been working on a topography tool for the AEC industry. I’m an architectural technologist so I kinda sit between the technical building engineering side and the design software side of things at the company I work at.

Honestly what pushed me to build it was just the sheer amount of hours that go into modelling site topography correctly. Because it matters, a redrawing the topo way too late in a project is a massive headache. And most of the time you’re starting from 2D surveyors data and just figuring it out from there.
So I built something that pulls from private, local and open source elevation datasets and spits out 3D files or CSV data that works in Revit, Rhino, Archicad and SketchUp. Not to replace surveyors data, just to have something accurate to cross reference against and to stop rebuilding the same thing from scratch every project.

It’s called topo-grapher.com if anyone’s curious. Free tries for everyone and anyone, would genuinely love to hear if it’s useful to anyone else. (Side note works a lot better on a desktop and right now somewhat limited country wise)

Also like there are other companies actually doing similar stuff but I found that they aren’t giving you data you can check out against real surveyor data or manipulate the file once you got it, rather it would be a blob of a file mostly for aesthetics. So that was a part of the drive on this. Thanks in advance for feedback if you have any!

We’ve been testing AD Design lately for interior design workflows on SketchUp, and I thought it might interest some people here working on production-oriented projects.

It’s a plugin suite focused on speeding up repetitive tasks like:

• walls & openings
• cabinetry/furniture creation
• stairs
• interior detailing
• duplication/alignment workflows

The idea isn’t really to replace modeling, but more to reduce the amount of manual operations during project development.

What’s interesting is that it seems built around real interior architecture and woodworking workflows rather than generic modeling tools.

We currently offer a 1-week free trial, so it’s easy to test on an actual project and see if it fits your process.

Curious to know if some of you already use it in production environments.

https://addesign.adebeo.com/ad-design/en/index.html

Can anyone give me a sketchup project of residential home to practice using D5....

Architecture student ,idk if is suitable for me to use sketchup instead of autocad. Here’s how I use it , I would do a 3d model in sketchup then export all of my drawings to dwg and edit details in autocad , sketchup works faster for me personally because u literally only need to do one model and end up having all of ur drawings ( not detailed ofc)but I feel weird when I’m the only one using this kind of method

I’ve been building a SketchUp workflow for one of the most annoying parts of using SketchUp with CAD drawings: importing a DWG/DXF and ending up with messy linework instead of clean faces you can push/pull.

The idea is to clean the file before/around import, flatten the linework, remove common CAD junk, and then generate faces inside SketchUp without having to redraw everything manually.

I’m not sharing a plugin file yet. I’m trying to validate whether this is actually useful before I package it properly.

For people who use SketchUp with AutoCAD/DWG/DXF plans:

- What usually breaks when you import CAD into SketchUp?

- Do you currently use tools like Make Faces, Eneroth Face Creator, FaceUp, S4U MakeFace, or manual redrawing?

- Would a “clean CAD -> make faces -> ready to push/pull” workflow be useful enough to pay for?

I’d be happy to share a short demo once I clean it up a bit.

I paid for a Sketchup subscription, and their software crashes my computer every time I open the program. I sent many request for help and only got automated emails. I am demanding a refund and now they are giving me the run around and refusing to refund my money. Trembles' fake support and customer service is a joke. This company is unethical. STAY AWAY!

I paid for a Sketchup subscription, and their software crashes my computer every time I open the program. I sent many request for help and only got automated emails. I am demanding a refund and now they are giving me the run around and refusing to refund my money. Trembles' fake support and customer service is a joke. This company is unethical. STAY AWAY!