Though it had been developed for the conceptual stages of design. Once you do this, you can upload to Sketchfab. SketchUp is a simple, yet amazingly powerful tool for creating, viewing, and modifying 3D ideas quickly and easily. If you made your model in SketchUp Free, you can only export the model as an STL file. SketchUp offers a browser-only version of the software called SketchUp Free. If you run into performance issues, check out this Sketchfab forum post about "exploding" your model components.
The biggest culprits here are often trees and plants with lots of leaf components. Some SketchUp Pro models fail to process or perform poorly in the Sketchfab viewer due to the way SketchUp Components and Groups are handled. If you decide to export and upload your model manually, we recommend using the OBJ format, which you can do from either the Desktop application or the Cloud application.īefore uploading your 3D models from SketchUp Pro to Sketchfab, we recommend you check out this great tutorial from Alex Schreyer on how to prepare and upload your SketchUp models. However, the best way to upload your 3D models from SketchUp Pro to Sketchfab is through the Sketchfab Exporter plugin.
If you're using the Pro version of SketchUp, you have a lot of options for exporting 3D file formats. Plus, you can upload to Sketchfab directly from the application. You can create buildings, furniture, interiors, landscapes, and more. When Trimble acquired SketchUp, it forked the product into several tiers, keeping the free desktop version around as “SketchUp Make.SketchUp is a 3D modeling software primarily for architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers. The SketchUp web app is decent and might be good enough for many people, but for a long time, the desktop version was completely free, too. If you want the latest full desktop app, you’re looking at $300 a year for personal use. At the time of this writing, the only modern free version of SketchUp is a web app. SketchUp has changed hands a few times over the years, once having been owned by Google, and currently owned by a company called Trimble. Trimble even warns it might have security problems as it hasn’t been updated since 2017. However, as of May 2022, the official SketchUp website is no longer offering the free version (SketchUp Make 2017) for download. Update, 5/23/22: This worked when we published it in 2021. Or does it? You can still download a free desktop version if you know where to look. Originally released as free open-source software, the popular 3D-modeling program SketchUp now comes with a premium price tag.
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