Welcome to our world! We’re Elmtec, a trusted UK and Ireland distribution partner for SketchUp Studio since 2010. More than 20 years of experience in the digital design side of life means we’re perfectly placed to talk about the magic of SketchUp in all its variations.
This article will discuss the brilliant SketchUp Studio, a premier subscription-based tool providing all the functionality you need to design brilliance into every project, using the power of SketchUp Pro with loads of extra features to boost your workflow. So why is SketchUp Studio such a game-changer for designers and architects? Read on to find out.
Enhanced 3D Modelling Capabilities
SketchUp Studio provides a host of advanced 3D modelling tools and features to empower lifelike, exciting designs high in precision and rich in creativity. The software lets you make complicated models with ease, generate accurate measurements just as easily and quickly, and add remarkably realistic renderings. It’s all down to a comprehensive set of modelling tools together with a truly intuitive interface, making using the software a real pleasure as well as enhancing your professional life.
The software’s clever push-pull technology means you can manipulate complex 3D geometry simply and quickly while using Studio’s intelligent inferencing system to achieve accuracy and efficiency throughout the design process, from start to finish. There’s also a huge library of dynamic components, textures, and materials to tap into, giving designers even more capabilities and adding extra versatility.
Seamless Collaboration and Communication
SketchUp Studio comes with collaboration at its heart. It’s also big on communication, half the battle when you’re dealing with design teams, clients, and a variety of different stakeholders.
Because the software is cloud-based, integral collaboration tools are perfect for real-time collaboration. So multiple people can work on the same project at the same time, with instant feedback and comments to keep the flow flowing.
Various cool built-in features include shared view links and model viewing capabilities, letting you share your work easily with anyone who needs to be involved, at any stage. The resulting quality of communication and decision-making means projects run smoothly, efficiently, and fast.
Because SketchUp Studio integrates with all sorts of popular external project management and communication tools, including Trimble Connect, you can also achieve seamless cross-platform collaboration and a speedy workflow, both of which contribute to efficiency.
Collaboration and Communication Tools
SketchUp Studio is more than a design tool. It also delivers the features you need for seamless, integrated collaboration and communication, both of which can make all the difference between a smooth, efficient project and one that takes more time and effort than you expected. The tools enable the perfect level of collaboration with everyone involved, from team members and clients to every other stakeholder along the way.
This level of highly effective communication means the workflow is beautifully streamlined. Real-time collaboration, instant feedback, cloud storage, and shared view links make everything super-easy, giving users the level of quality project coordination needed for a successful and enjoyable design project every time.
Extensive Asset Library
You’re going to love this. A real stand-out feature, SketchUp Studio comes with an excellent and far-ranging asset library, packed with everything from desirable pre-built 3D models to materials and textures. Another big time-saver, this feature means you won’t always need to start from scratch and build them yourself. Choose from ready-made furniture, architectural elements, plants, trees, wall coverings, landscape features and more, all designed to help you move the needle forward even faster.
The Trimble 3D Warehouse forms an integral part of SketchUp Studio, acting as a community-driven repository of high-quality 3D models. The user-generated content it contains is constantly updated with fresh designs created by the community. It also contains an equally large collection of plugins and extensions, created to extend SketchUp Studio’s capabilities and help you customise your workflow with impressive results. And, of course, there’s a multitude of free tutorials to help you learn even faster.
Advanced Visualisation and Presentation Tools
Choose SketchUp Studio to delve deep into an exciting collection of advanced visualisation and presentation tools, another way the software enhances your work. Hyper-realistic visualisations are yours thanks to popular photorealistic rendering plugins like V-Ray, adding light and life to projects to make the designs you create immersive.
You’ll also enjoy the thrills of SketchUp Studio’s animation features, a fast and easy way to make stunning walk-throughs and fly-overs, creating an inspiring narrative that makes it even easier for stakeholders to understand and approve your work. Then there’s VR. You can use virtual reality to take presentations to the next level, letting clients experience and engage with your designs in a fully immersive and powerfully influential way.
Time and Cost Efficiency
Because SketchUp Studio has such powerful features and an intuitive interface, you make useful time and cost savings that you can pass on to clients. Beautifully simple modelling tools and streamlined workflows make design iterations and refinement an easy matter, cutting down the overall design time.
100% accurate measurements and real-time visual feedback mean it’s hard to make mistakes but if you do, errors are easy to fix and revisions just as easy to make. This means even more time savings and even better cost efficiencies. Taking this into account, along with the tool’s famously good collaborative features, means you’ll spend less time in meetings and sending long emails, and more time creating ‘fantastic’. The improved client satisfaction and potential for better profitability all this brings make SketchUp Studio even more desirable.
To conclude, the many key benefits of SketchUp Studio empower designers to do more things, do them better, and delight clients more. No wonder we’re so proud to be involved as a trusted distribution partner for SketchUp Studio and pleased to be able to give support and expertise to the digital design community as a whole.
Would you like to discover more about the software’s superb 3D modelling capabilities, seamless collaboration tools, extensive asset library, advanced visualisation features, time and cost efficiencies, and awesome design potential? Give Studio a go – it’ll change your design life.
