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Design at Starbucks — Brewing the right stuff

Having designed thousands of Starbucks in 3D, David Daniels and his team of designers rely on SketchUp to tell the unique story of each new location.

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Designing hospitality interiors at Alexander James International

Specializing in the hotel & leisure market, Alexander James International is an interior design firm that creates marvelous work in SketchUp.

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No one wants to waste time learning complicated computer programs. SketchUp is hands-down the most intuitive, not to mention powerful, easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool on the planet. If you want to be productive within a couple of hours, you’ve come to the right place.

- Get good, fast
  
  No one wants to waste time learning complicated software. SketchUp Pro is hands-down the most intuitive and easy-to-learn 3D drawing tool on the planet.
- Think by drawing in 3D
  
  We designed SketchUp to behave like an extension of your hand. The idea is to get out of your way so that you can draw whatever you want, however you want.
- Iterate quickly through design ideas
  
  We love how architects use layers and layers of tracing paper to develop and improve their ideas. Similarly, SketchUp was born to be simple to let you iterate.
- Produce scaled, accurate 2D drawings
  
  SketchUp isn’t just for 3D models. Draw plans, elevations, details, title blocks and other graphics with LayOut. When your model changes, so does your document. Simple.
- Generate presentation documents
  
  SketchUp Pro includes LayOut, an incredibly powerful tool with features for page layout, drafting, vector illustration and slide presentations.
- Create compelling visualizations and walkthroughs
  
  Use SketchUp Pro to turn your models into animated walkthroughs and flyovers that explain every detail of your design.

I used to produce hand-rendered visuals. SketchUp’s uncomplicated nature made the transition easy and effective. Now SketchUp has become invaluable for our design team.

- Michael Reekie

Alexander James International
Our design process is very iteration-heavy. The reason we use SketchUp is because we can do so many iterations so quickly.

- Brent Linden

Allied Works

- Find a 3D model of anything
  
  Need an oven for the kitchen you’re designing? An automobile for your driveway? A rhino for your zoo? Find it all in 3D Warehouse, the world’s biggest library of free 3D models.
- Turn models into documents
  
  Eventually, some 3D models grow up to become professional 2D drawing sets. LayOut in SketchUp Pro helps you showcase your models and create drawings you’ll be proud of.
- Customize your SketchUp
  
  SketchUp extensions are add-on tools built to solve the kind of 3D modeling problems that might otherwise leave you scratching your head. And there are hundreds of them for you to explore.
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Model and Document

With LayOut, insert SketchUp model views wherever you want in your document. These “viewports” are living, breathing views of your project. When your model changes, all of your viewports update too.

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Make beautiful drawings

LayOut brings the “feel” of SketchUp into 2D space in an incomparably beautiful way. Line work, shadows, textures, text, dimensions, title blocks: all exactly the way you want.

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Intuitive vector drawing

LayOut’s drawing tools are just like SketchUp’s: simple, smart, and fun. And everything you draw is vector smart, so scaling and rotating can be done with the utmost precision.

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Dimension, detail, explain

Use dimensioning tools that snap to the edges of SketchUp models and quickly set the format, scale, and precision of displayed measurements. Customize your callouts via controls for line weight, stroke style, text format, line spacing... You get the picture, so will your clients.
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Find a 3D model of anything

3D Warehouse is the world’s largest repository of free 3D models, and it works seamlessly with SketchUp. That means building materials, furniture, plants, automobiles, the whole shebang is all handy in a few clicks.

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Find a model from a trusted manufacturer

With manufacturer partners like Herman Miller, Formica, Thermador and many others, we’re working to make 3D Warehouse the best place on the web to find a model of a specific, real-world object. Now when you specify an oven for a kitchen, you can be sure you’re working with accurate geometry, not to mention beautiful models.

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Present on any device

When you upload your models to 3D Warehouse, it’s easy to pull them down onto your phone or tablet using the SketchUp Mobile Viewer app. Then, get hands on with clients and collaborators wherever, however you’d like.