Sketchup Pro 2026
Information:
Collaboration in SketchUp – You can now share SketchUp models through a private invite or by creating and sharing a public link. Those you share your model with can navigate your model, take measurements, leave comments, and even see updates in real-time.
Visualization – SketchUp 26.0 introduces a Distance Multiplier and color controls for Ambient Occlusion, the ability to invert a material’s roughness map, and the much-requested ability to choose the thumbnail you prefer when viewing your materials.
Performance – Sketchup 2026.0 improves both memory and working efficiency, making Sketchup more efficient, faster, and reliable. These performance updates are especially noticeable when working with large models.
Live Components – SketchUp 2026.0 adds functionality to the Scale tool (), adding grips allowing you to place and size Live Components by inference. Since you can now use the Paint Tool () to apply materials outside of a component’s predefined options, we’ve added several quality-of-life improvements to painting Live Components.
Modeling Workflows and Interface Updates – SketchUp 2026.0 includes several notable improvements across scaling, rotating, scenes, and inferencing.
Managing Activations – You can now reset all activations and authorize your current device without leaving SketchUp for Desktop.
Interoperability – SketchUp 2026.0 now offers several fidelity and efficiency improvements for importing and exporting DWG files. This includes hatch support and preserving section planes. The IFC export workflow has also been enhanced, consolidating IFC 2x3 and IFC 4 into a single file type with expanded Export Options.
Scan Essentials – Scan Essentials includes two new point cloud modeling workflows, the Texture Projection and Mesh Generation tools. The new Scene Manager better controls the visibility of point clouds in both SketchUp and Layout. With this update, you can also easily revert to the original georeferenced coordinate system when exporting.
LayOut
LayOut Interface and Performance Updates – The LayOut interface on Windows looks and operates more like SketchUp with updated iconography, tray and panel configurations, and toolbar customization.
LayOut Drafting Tools – Four new drafting tools, Trim, Extend, Fillet, and Chamfer, are now available. These tools provide a more intuitive and effective way to create and manipulate 2D vectors.
Scrapbook Improvements – LayOut’s default Scrapbooks now include 2D Windows, Doors, Furniture, Kitchen, Bath under the Architecture category and additional plan view People libraries.
Importing and Exporting Improvements – LayOut 2026.0 brings multiple updates to DWG functionality, improving efficiency in how LayOut imports and exports your document using that file format including retaining SketchUp Tags and passing them as DWG layers.
Bug Fixes and Other Improvements
SketchUp
Collaborating in SketchUp
What We Did
You can now share SketchUp models through a private invite or by creating and sharing a public link. Those you share your model with can navigate your model, take measurements, leave comments, and even see updates in real-time.
The Details
SketchUp 2026.0 introduces several new features to help you share your models and collaborate with your peers and stakeholders. These features, found in the new Collaboration Bar, can help you share a model, control the level of access of those you’ve shared it with, and invite feedback from others.
Sharing with the Collaboration Bar
The Collaboration Bar () is available in SketchUp’s default toolbars as well as in the Large Toolset. You can also click Window > Collaboration Bar.
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