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3D Text

The 3D Text () tool generates geometry from text you type. The text isn't just a label, it's part of your model. Think house numbers, engravings, or even a decoration.Activating the 3D Text tool opens the 3D Text options dialog.

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AI Render in SketchUp for iPad

Generative AI is transforming the way that Design and Architectural Engineering and Construction professionals get things done. AI Render integrates this technology into the SketchUp you know and love to help accelerate the creation of compelling visuals whenever you need them.

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Arc Tool

The most interesting path is rarely a straight line. To help you get a little curvy, SketchUp for iPad offers 4 unique arc tools, each with its own method of creating an arc best suited to what you want to appear in your model:

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Autoshape Tool

SketchUp for iPad has something no other versions of SketchUp have access to - the Apple Pencil. We designed the AutoShape tool to take advantage of this diverse tool and provide you with even more ways to create awesome models.

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Circle Tool

The Circle tool () does exactly what you think it does, adds circle entities to your model! Circles and other basic shapes often act as the foundation of a model. SketchUp draws circle entities that have a radius and connect multiple line segments.

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Creating and Editing Models

Creating and editing models in SketchUp for Web is a lot like creating models in SketchUp for Desktop. However, there are a few things that SketchUp for Web does that are a bit different than its desktop counterpart.

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Customizing Toolbars

Outside of the Settings Panel, SketchUp for iPad offers robust customization options to help you match the interface to your unique workflow.Shortcuts ToolbarSketchUp's floating Shortcuts Toolbar keeps your favorite tools where you need them for when you need them.

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Display Panel

The Display () panel helps you control hidden geometry in your model. The Unhide section help you control hidden geometry with the following options:

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Entity Info Panel

Each Entity in a model is made up of attributes. These attributes include what type of entity it is, the entity's measurements, and more. You can view these attributes using the Entity Info panel. After selecting an entity, you can open the Entity Info panel and see the following information:

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Environment Panel

The Environment panel helps you add or manage the environment your model is using.

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Environments in SketchUp for Web

Environments add a 360° panoramic background with image-based lighting conditions to your SketchUp models. SketchUp for Web’s Environments panel is where you can add and manipulate environments, or import your own High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) files or OpenEXR files to create a new environment.

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Eraser Tool

The Eraser tool () isn't just an eraser. SketchUp's Eraser tool can remove geometry from your model, Smooth or Unsmooth entities, and even Hide parts of your model. In SketchUp for iPad, the Eraser tool has 3 optional tool modes:

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File Management

SketchUp for Web saves your models to Trimble Connect, Trimble's cloud-based common data environment and collaboration platform. We've put together all the information you need to use Trimble Connect to manage the files for the models you create in SketchUp for Web including:

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Flip Tool

The Flip tool () helps you flip your geometry for quick reorientation or creating symmetrical copies. When you activate the Flip tool three semi-transparent planes appear, each corresponding to your selection's cardinal orientation.

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Follow Me Tool

The Follow Me tool () leads a face along a path, creating a 3D shape. Follow Me is handy when modeling things that follow a perimeter or an edge, like crown molding or gutters, or when modeling lathed or curved objects, like spindles or bowls.

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Freehand Tool

With SketchUp for iPad's Freehand tool (), you can create hand-drawn lines. The Freehand tool is handy when you need to trace imported drawings, create a 2D sketch, or decorate your model.

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Frequently Asked Questions

SketchUp for iPad questions, including separate billing and refund paths for Apple App Store and PCS purchases in New Zealand.

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Getting Started

Get started with SketchUp for iPad, with separate purchase and billing paths for Apple App Store and PCS customers.

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Getting Started with SketchUp for Web

Ready to start creating, editing, and viewing models in SketchUp for Web? Well, you've come to the right place! Here we'll cover the basics on how to get started with SketchUp for Web including:

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Hardware Acceleration

Hardware acceleration can improve SketchUp’s rendering performance. Supported browsers provide a setting to use hardware acceleration when available. Windows users can also assign high performance graphics to your browser in your operating system’s settings.Hardware Acceleration Browser SettingsTurning on hardware

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Help Panel

Having trouble with SketchUp? Check the Help panel for links to all sorts of useful information including:

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How to Use Add Location

Add Location helps you geolocate your model and add site context and terrain. In SketchUp for iPad, you can get started by selecting Add Location in the Shadows panel.If it's your first time using Add Location, a modal with some basic information about how it all works appears.

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How to Use Add Location

SketchUp’s Add Location feature helps you capture and apply geolocation data and imagery to your model. To get started, open the Main Menu or the Shadows panel and click Add Location.

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Importing and Exporting

Importing Files Importing images and drawings into a SketchUp model is a great way to enhance it and give it that spark of life. SketchUp for iPad supports importing files created in the following formats: Image (.png, .jpg) SketchUp (.skp) Stereolithography (.stl) 3D AutoCAD Model (.dwg.dxf) Follow these steps to

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Intersect Tool

The Intersect tool () takes two or more overlapping solid entities and removes all associated geometry except where those solids intersect. In SketchUp for iPad, the Intersect tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Line Tool

The Line tool () is a fundamental tool in the SketchUp arsenal. With the Line tool you can draw edges, also known as line entities. When you connect those edges and create a closed plane, you'll get a surface.

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Link Sharing

There are plenty of reasons to share your models with others. With Link Sharing, SketchUp makes it easy to show off your models without worrying about accidental edits, unexpected downloads, or your document ending up in the wrong hands.Link Sharing generates a view-only link you can share with anyone.

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Link Sharing

There are plenty of reasons to share your models with others. Maybe your stakeholders need a progress report, or maybe you want to send a copy to a client. Sometimes sending a .skp file isn’t ideal.

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Markup Tool

The Markup tool () in SketchUp for iPad uses the iPad's native Markup capabilities. This means that when you activate the Markup tool you'll see the iPad Markup toolbar appear at the bottom of the screen.

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Materials Panel

The Materials panel () is where you can find, manage, and create materials to use in your SketchUp models. Selecting the Paint Bucket tool () will also open the materials panel.

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Materials in SketchUp for Web

The SketchUp for Web Materials panel is where you can find, manage, and create materials for use in your SketchUp models.

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Measurement Tools

With the Tape Measure tool () and the Protractor tool () you can add a level of precision to your models by including accurate measurements when creating geometry. For more tips on using these measurement tools in your models see Measuring Angles and Distances to Model Precisely.

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Model Info Panel

The Model Info panel includes all the details that make up your model. There are six sections, and each section contains basic information about your model, along with the ability to make some changes.The Length Units section contains the following options:

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Move Tool

Moving and manipulating what you draw in SketchUp is fundamental to creating great models. The Move tool () is a multi-dimensional (literally) asset that helps you move and manipulate individual entities, multiple entities, or even your whole model.In SketchUp for iPad, the Move tool has the following optional tool

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Navigating SketchUp for Web

SketchUp for Web looks and works a lot like SketchUp for Desktop with just a few differences. When you first open SketchUp for Web you'll see the Home screen.From the Home screen you can:

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Offset Tool

When you create a 3D model, you often need to draw a slightly bigger or smaller version of a shape and keep the two shapes equidistant from each other. In SketchUp for iPad you can do this with the Offset tool (). Here's a few ways you can use the Offset tool:

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Opening Files

When you launch SketchUp for Web you have a few ways to open models you have previously worked on. Recent Files The Recent Files section of the SketchUp for Web Home page contains any recently opened model that still exists in your browser's cache.

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Outer Shell Tool

The Outer Shell tool () removes geometry inside overlapping groups or components, leaving only the outer faces.In SketchUp for iPad, the Outer Shell tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Outliner Panel

The Outliner panel helps organize, view, and manage the groups and components in your model.With Outliner you can:

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Paint Bucket Tool

The Paint Bucket tool () helps bring your models to life using materials. The Paint Bucket tool works with the Materials panel. Activating the Paint Bucket tool opens the Materials panel allowing you to choose the color or texture you would like to add to your model.

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Polygon Tool

The Polygon tool () adds all kinds of shapes to your model. Basic shapes often act as the foundation of a model. SketchUp draws polygon entities that have a radius and have 3 or more sides. Polygon entities act as a single line meaning they can define the edge of a face or divide a face..

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Presentation Mode

Presentation Mode helps you show off your designs to anyone using a simple and easy-to-use interface. You'll find the Presentation Mode tool in the extended toolset. Let's take a look at how it works. While in Presentation Mode you can present one scene or a series of scenes.

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Push-Pull Tool

Need to extend the overhang on your roof? How about punching a hole where you drew that circle? The Push/Pull tool () has you covered. This versatile tool can create a 3D shape from a face or cut a 3D shape out of a model. In SketchUp for iPad, the Push/Pull tool has the following optional tool modes:

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Rectangle Tool

One of the first things a new SketchUp user learns is how to draw shapes, and one of the most basic shapes is the rectangle. With the Rectangle tool () you can draw rectangles pretty much anywhere - on any axis, on existing faces, or aligned and inferred to existing geometry.

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Rotate Tool

SketchUp for iPad's Rotate tool () helps you manipulate your model by rotating selected geometry. When you activate the Rotate tool, the cursor transforms into a protractor.

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Rotated Rectangle Tool

The Rotated Rectangle () tool comes in handy when drawing a rectangle whose face is at an angle to the axes or other geometry.In SketchUp for iPad, the Rotated Rectangle tool has the following optional tool modes:

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Saving Models

SketchUp for Web saves your models to Trimble Connect. When you create a new model, you can save your model manually. After the first time you save a model, SketchUp for Web auto-saves and backs up your model.

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Scale Tool

The Scale tool () in SketchUp for iPad helps you resize geometry in your model while maintaining its proportions. Need that vase you made to be 50% smaller? Or how about when you find out a room in your floor plan needs to be 10 feet wide, but the rest of the floor plan must stay the same.

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Scan-to-Design (SketchUp Labs)

Note: Scan-to-Design is a SketchUp Labs feature. Labs features are still in active development and may change or be removed at any time. For more information see SketchUp Labs .Scan-to-Design uses LiDAR scanning in SketchUp for iPad to generate 3D models of existing spaces using the following 3D outputs:

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Scenes Panel

Scenes help you save different model views and properties. Want to show the difference between the original model and one that's been annotated with the Markup tool? How about creating a slideshow showing off how different textures work within your model? Or what about easily viewing your model at different angles?

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Search for Tools and Commands

Not sure how to do something in SketchUp? Can't remember where the button for a tool or option is? SketchUp for Web's Search tool can help you look up and activate any of SketchUp's tools or commands with just a few keystrokes.Clicking () at the top of the Main Toolbar activates Search.

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Searching with the Omnibar

SketchUp for iPad’s Omnibar is a great way to search for the tools and features you need. To activate Omnibar, tap Search () in the tool palette, or access it from the right-hand Help menu.

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Select Tool

SketchUp for iPad offers two tools to help you select what parts of your model you want to modify with SketchUp's other tools and commands - the Lasso tool () and the Select tool (). With either tool you can select parts of your model using a single, double, or triple tap, touch, or click.

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Settings Panel

The Settings panel () in SketchUp for iPad offers a few ways to customize the interface and how SketchUp works. The Settings panel contains four categories:

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Shadows Panel

SketchUp for iPad's Shadows () panel can help designate how parts of your model cast their shadows or even see how the sun would cast shadows on or around a geolocated model.

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SketchUp Assistant for Web

The AI features in SketchUp for Web offer several ways to enhance your existing workflows. With AI Assistant, you can get answers to your SketchUp related questions from AI Help, or create 3D assets with Generate Object.

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SketchUp Assistant for iPad

The AI features in SketchUp for iPad offer several ways to enhance your existing workflows. With AI Assistant, you can get answers to your SketchUp related questions from AI Help, or create 3D assets with Generate Object.

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SketchUp Go - Frequently Asked Questions

New Zealand SketchUp Go - Frequently Asked Questions guidance, including PCS purchase routes, NZD invoices, New Zealand GST, and direct Trimble purchase scope.

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SketchUp for Web

SketchUp for Web is a browser-based modelling app included with current SketchUp subscriptions.

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SketchUp for Web App Settings

SketchUp for Web’s App Settings provides a few options to help you fine tune your experience. To open the App Settings window, click the Menu (), then click App Settings.

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SketchUp for Web's Expanded Toolset

At the bottom of the Main Toolbar, click to open the Expanded Toolset. The Expanded Toolset contains all the tools not seen on the Main Toolbar.When you use a tool from the Expanded Toolset, that tool appears in one of the slots at the bottom of the Main Toolbar.

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SketchUp for Web's Features

SketchUp for Web is a browser-based version of SketchUp. There are a few key differences between the way SketchUp for Web and other versions of SketchUp work:

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SketchUp for Web's Main Toolbar

When opening a model you'll see the Main Toolbar appears on the left side.

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SketchUp for Web's Tools

SketchUp for Web provides all the tools you need to create great 3D models. To help you get started, we'll introduce you to the interface and where to find your favorite modeling tools.Tools and Where to Find ThemSketchUp for Web’s tools appear on the left side of the interface.

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SketchUp for iPad

SketchUp for iPad offers a full-featured 3D modeling experience that enables you to design on-site, on the go, and in the office. Create, edit, and mark up 3D projects anywhere with SketchUp for iPad.

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Snaps

Snaps are custom points you can add to grouped geometry. When you add a Snap you can use your new custom point to position and orient objects. Snaps can also help you create modular components in your model that are easy to, well, snap into place.

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Soften/Smooth Panel

In SketchUp, Soften and Smooth both change the visibility of edges. Softening and smoothing helps add realism to your model and can even improve performance. After selecting geometry in your model, you can open up the Soften panel and use the following options:

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Solid Tools

In SketchUp, a solid is any 3D component or group with a finite closed volume without any missing faces or faces that do not meet at an edge. With SketchUp's Solid Tools you can create new shapes by combining or cutting one solid with another. First, make sure the geometry you want to manipulate is a solid.

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Split Tool

The Split tool () divides overlapping entities along their intersecting edges, separating each solid entity. In SketchUp for iPad, the Split tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Styles Panel

Styles in SketchUp for iPad not only add a bit of flair to your model, but can also convey information about it. The Styles panel () offers a whole slew of options to help you take your model to the next level.When you open the Styles panel you'll see four sections.

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Styles in SketchUp for Web

Styles in SketchUp are a great way to help you convey information about your model without saying a word. A Style is a collection of specific settings for edges, faces, and backgrounds.

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Subtract Tool

The Subtract tool () uses one solid entity to cut another, overlapping solid entity. The geometry used to make the cut is removed from your model. In SketchUp for iPad, the Subtract tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Tags Panel and Tool

Tags help organize the objects in a model and help to control their visibility. The Tag tool () and Tags panel offer several options to help you make the most out of the Tags in your model.

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Trackpad Controls

SketchUp for Web is optimized to be used with a 3-button mouse by default. If you're using a device with a multitouch trackpad, you can switch the input device to 'Trackpad' in App Settings. With trackpad navigation you can use multitouch gestures like pinch-to-zoom or orbit/pan with a two-finger swipe.

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Trim Tool

The Trim tool () uses one solid entity to cut another, overlapping entity. The geometry used to make the cut remains in your model as a separate solid. In SketchUp for iPad, the Trim tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Trimble Connect Visualizer

The Trimble Connect Visualizer, a Trimble Connect Workflow Extension, is a great way to create quick, navigable 3D renders of SketchUp models in either a web browser or by using a PCVR device. Access to the Trimble Connect Visualizer app is available as part of the Trimble Connect subscription benefits.

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Trimble Connect in SketchUp for Web

SketchUp for Web is designed to work with Trimble Connect. Unless you choose to save a file locally, all files you create with SketchUp for Web save to Trimble Connect.

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Union Tool

The Union tool () merges two or more solid entities into a single solid. The geometry inside the new solid remains unchanged. In SketchUp for iPad, the Union tool does not have any optional tool modes.

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Using Shortcuts in SketchUp for Web

Shortcuts can help you access any of SketchUp's tools with a single keystroke or gesture. Once you start using shortcuts you may not only model faster, but with greater accuracy.Default Keyboard ShortcutsSketchUp for Web's default keyboard shortcuts are nearly identical to those you find in the desktop version.

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Using SketchUp for Web

In SketchUp for Web you'll see most of the same tools and features you find in SketchUp's desktop version - just in slightly different places. Here we'll cover how to find and use the tools and features you need to create 3D models including:

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Using Trimble Connect Visualizer

The Trimble Connect Visualizer utilizes the Unity graphics engine to render SketchUp models. Using the Trimble Connect Visualizer you can navigate your rendered model, take snapshots, and even adjust the environment.Model NavigationThe following keyboard or mouse shortcuts can be used to navigate a model in Trimble

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Visualization in SketchUp for Web

SketchUp for Web offers a lot of the same visualization features as SketchUp for Desktop. You can use Materials, Styles, and Environments, just like the desktop application. If you have SketchUp for Web’s WebGPU graphics engine enabled, you can get even more out of these visualization features.

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What You Need

Before you can start creating 3D models in SketchUp for Web, there are a few things we need to cover to make sure you can get up and running as quickly as possible.Hardware Recommendations and RequirementsSketchUp for Web works best on devices with:An accelerated video card with the latest drivers installedPlenty of

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Working with SketchUp Files

SketchUp offers several ways to help you access your projects across multiple devices and apps. These options include saving models locally on your iPad, storing them in the cloud using Trimble Connect, or saving to other cloud storage services.

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iPad Expanded Toolset

At the bottom of the toolbar you’ll see (...). Choosing that icon opens the Expanded Toolset, where you’ll find the rest of your tools.The Expanded Toolset contains the following:

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iPad Main Toolbar

The Main Toolbar appears on the left side of the SketchUp interface and contains the most common tools used when creating models.

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iPad Panels

A stunning 3D model is about more than just drawing lines and shapes. Breathe life into your models with the options available in SketchUp for iPad's panels.

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iPad System Requirements

SketchUp for iPad works with a wide range of iPad Pro, iPad, iPad Air, and iPad mini models. For optimal performance, especially if working with large, demanding files, we recommend using the most powerful iPad you can get your hands on.Here's an overview of what you'll need:

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iPad Tools

SketchUp for iPad's interface is uniquely tailored to support viewing, creating and editing models with an Apple Pencil and with multitouch.Tools and Where to Find ThemSketchUp for iPad makes it easy to find all the tools you need.

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