SketchUp

September 17, 2024

We're thrilled to announce the release of SketchUp for iPad version 6.5.5! This update brings exciting improvements, and essential bug fixes to enhance your modeling experience. Let's explore what's new in this version! IMPROVEMENTS Named Section Planes in Outliner • We’ve brought section plane naming, selection, and editing support to the Outliner! While SketchUp for iPad has supported section planes created on the Desktop for a while, we’re now bringing the ability to see, name, and edit section planes to the Outliner on iPad, helping keep your model organized how you like it. Graphics Settings Tab • You can now find graphics settings for the app in the graphics tab. This is where you’ll find settings for SketchUp’s graphics engine and texture handling, making it easier to manage and optimize your visual settings alongside your BUG FIXES • We Fixed several bugs with Live Components where users would see endless loading or failure entirely when trying to edit a live component through the entity info panel. SketchUp for iPad’s Live Component connection service has been improved and stabilized to prevent these bugs. • We fixed an issue where undocking the measurements box would cause any values typed into the input box to be overwritten. • We resolved an issue that would prevent a user from using the divide (/) and multiply (x) modifiers when copy/moving or copy/rotating an object. • We fixed a bug where a SketchUp model without a thumbnail preview would be unable to publish to Trimble Connect. The app will now auto-generate a thumbnail if one is missing. • We fixed a bug where if a user selected multiple tags at once in the Tags panel and then deleted them, the panel would become unresponsive. We’ve listened to your feedback! We’ve tackled issues to make working with live components smoother and more stable. We hope this helps in your work and lets you unlock the power of configurable components! Additionally, we know how crucial the measurements box is for inputting and editing move, copy, and rotated selections. We’ve worked hard to maintain and improve these workflows based on your input. Thanks for all the great feedback—keep it coming! Share your thoughts with us here: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/

July 31, 2024

Here's what's new in v6.5.4 (2088)! BUG FIXES • We fixed a bug on the iphone app where tapping on the EULA link would cause the app to crash Your input helps us continually improve SketchUp for iPad, so please keep sharing your thoughts with us on our community forum: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/ Happy Sketching!

July 23, 2024

Here's what's new in v6.5.3 of SketchUp for iPad! Dynamic Type Support SketchUp for iPad now supports OS-level text size preferences, improving accessibility and providing a more cohesive visual experience. You can adjust your iOS text size in device Settings or via the Control Center. BUG FIXES • We fixed a bug where transitioning between scenes in the ‘Get Started’ tutorial would cause the app to crash • We fixed a bug that prevented eraser strokes from appearing when editing an existing markup until after the markup session was completed • We eliminated an issue where on smaller iPads the shortcuts toolbar would be cut off when in Portrait mode Your input helps us continually improve SketchUp for iPad, so please keep sharing your thoughts with us on our community forum: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/ Happy Sketching!

June 18, 2024

We're excited to bring you the latest update for SketchUp for iPad! This release focuses on improving existing features, and addressing key issues reported by our community to ensure a smoother and more efficient design experience. Read on to discover what's new and improved in version 6.5.2 (2077). IMPROVEMENTS Scan-to-Design • We’ve enhanced the alignment of Canvas and RoomPlan outputs, making them easier to work with. Omnibar • Compatibility: Omnibar is now available when using SketchUp with iOS versions prior to iOS 17. • Improved Search: Typing a search term now surfaces top results, with the top result highlighted for quick access. Use arrow keys to scroll through search results and just press enter to activate the highlighted result. Keyboard Shortcuts • Shortcut symbols now support localized languages, enhancing usability for non-English users. • Modifier key combinations are now also supported when setting shortcuts Accessibility • We’ve updated the application font to SF Pro to match the iOS system font, supporting font accessibility and a more cohesive visual experience. BUG FIXES • Edge Aliasing: Fixed a bug that was causing edges to appear aliased, ensuring crisp and clear visuals. • Graphics engine preference switch: Added a preference switch, allowing users to toggle between the classic and new graphics engines. This switch can be found in the 'This Device' section of the About tab. • Errors Generating Autoshapes: Resolved an issue where attempting to generate component-based autoshapes would fail, restoring the speedy generation of shapes and components. • Language Setting Crash: Fixed a bug where setting the app language to another language would cause a crash, improving stability for multilingual users. • AR Viewing Mode Freeze: Addressed an issue where enabling AR viewing mode without allowing camera access would freeze the app, ensuring smoother AR experiences. • File Opening Crash: Fixed a bug that caused the app to randomly crash when attempting to open files over 10MB, enhancing reliability for large projects. Your input helps us continually improve SketchUp for iPad, so please keep sharing your thoughts with us on our community forum. Thank you for using SketchUp for iPad! Happy designing!

April 19, 2024

What's new in v6.5 – Generate 3D models of existing spaces and start designing immediately with Scan-to-Design. Create more realistic visuals in-app with Ambient Occlusion. Plus, customize keyboard shortcuts, share links for real-time viewing, and enjoy improvements to Diffusion! Scan-to-Design – Use LiDAR scanning in SketchUp to quickly generate 3D models of existing spaces, providing an excellent starting point for design and collaboration. Scan-to-Design harnesses technology from Canvas and Apple RoomPlan, offering the following 3D outputs: • Canvas scan output will generate a textured 3D model in which the ‘room surfaces’ (walls, ceiling, floor) are drawn as planes and/or triangulated meshes that can be easily edited using SketchUp's modeling tools. The rest of the space (furnishings, etc) will be drawn as a textured, triangulated mesh. • Apple's RoomPlan technology creates a simplified model of the space comprised of orthogonal SketchUp edges and faces, including cut-outs for windows and doors. Models are intelligently organized, so you can toggle the visibility of different outputs using either the Tags panel or the Outliner. Customize Scan-to-Design preferences to dial in the best output for your workflow. Access these settings in Preferences > Scan-to-Design. Requirements: Scan-to-Design requires a LiDAR-enabled iPad and iOS17 or higher. Omnibar – Search for tools and features using industry-standard terms, and Omnibar will recommend tools in SketchUp that match. Omnibar boosts productivity by letting you set custom keyboard shortcuts for any of SketchUp's tools or commands. Ambient Occlusion is a beautiful shading effect that adds a sense of depth to your SketchUp models. You’ll find the settings for Ambient Occlusion in the Styles panel under Face settings. Link Sharing = Live Viewing. Shared links now offer the recipients of those links the ability to join a real-time viewing session and see changes that you're making to the model in real-time. Viewers have the option to navigate the SketchUp model, but when you activate a scene, they'll be pulled back to see the same thing that you're seeing. Diffusion Improvements • Maintain Seed: After selecting a Diffusion-generated image, toggling Maintain Seed allows you to iterate on the chosen image instead of creating an entirely new image. • Negative prompt: Use the Negative Prompt field to specify what you do not want to see in Diffusion-generated images. Bug Fixes We fixed a bug that was causing SketchUp's cursor within the modeling viewport to be offset from the location of the pencil, touch, and mouse input. We're excited to hear what you have to say about these updates! Please visit the SketchUp for iPad user forums to let us know how the above is, or is not, working for you: forums.SketchUp.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/

April 10, 2024

What's new in v6.5 – Generate 3D models of existing spaces and start designing immediately with Scan-to-Design. Create more realistic visuals in-app with Ambient Occlusion. Plus, customize keyboard shortcuts, share links for real-time viewing, and enjoy improvements to Diffusion! Scan-to-Design – Use LiDAR scanning in SketchUp to quickly generate 3D models of existing spaces, providing an excellent starting point for design and collaboration. Scan-to-Design harnesses technology from Canvas and Apple RoomPlan, offering the following 3D outputs: • Canvas scan output will generate a textured 3D model in which the ‘room surfaces’ (walls, ceiling, floor) are drawn as planes and/or triangulated meshes that can be easily edited using SketchUp's modeling tools. The rest of the space (furnishings, etc) will be drawn as a textured, triangulated mesh. • Apple's RoomPlan technology creates a simplified model of the space comprised of orthogonal SketchUp edges and faces, including cut-outs for windows and doors. Models are intelligently organized, so you can toggle the visibility of different outputs using either the Tags panel or the Outliner. Customize Scan-to-Design preferences to dial in the best output for your workflow. Access these settings in Preferences > Scan-to-Design. Requirements: Scan-to-Design requires a LiDAR-enabled iPad and iOS17 or higher. Omnibar – Search for tools and features using industry-standard terms, and Omnibar will recommend tools in SketchUp that match. Omnibar boosts productivity by letting you set custom keyboard shortcuts for any of SketchUp's tools or commands. Ambient Occlusion is a beautiful shading effect that adds a sense of depth to your SketchUp models. You’ll find the settings for Ambient Occlusion in the Styles panel under Face settings. Link Sharing = Live Viewing. Shared links now offer the recipients of those links the ability to join a real-time viewing session and see changes that you're making to the model in real-time. Viewers have the option to navigate the SketchUp model, but when you activate a scene, they'll be pulled back to see the same thing that you're seeing. Diffusion Improvements • Maintain Seed: After selecting a Diffusion-generated image, toggling Maintain Seed allows you to iterate on the chosen image instead of creating an entirely new image. • Negative prompt: Use the Negative Prompt field to specify what you do not want to see in Diffusion-generated images. We're excited to hear what you have to say about these updates! Please visit the SketchUp for iPad user forums to let us know how the above is, or is not, working for you: forums.SketchUp.com/c/SketchUp-for-iPad/

March 12, 2024

Here's what's new in v6.4.3 (2049)! IMPROVEMENTS • We’ve updated the iconography that is being used to denote where your files are being stored. - The Trimble Connect storage option is denoted by a cloud icon. Files stored in Connect for which you have view-only access will display a locked cloud icon. Files that live in Connect and are available for offline viewing will display a filled cloud icon with a checkmark. - Files that are stored locally on device in the Sketchup app folder will display a files app icon with the SketchUp app icon overlaid atop it. - Files stored elsewhere in the Files app, either locally, or in a 3rd party cloud service, will display a Files app icon. BUG FIXES • We fixed a bug that was causing SketchUp to crash when importing certain types of DWG files. • The Offset tool offers a shortcut whereby you can double-tap after performing an offset in order to repeat the same offset in the same direction. We fixed a bug that makes this shortcut perform more reliably. • We fixed a bug that was resulting in some weirdness when attempting to customize the radial shortcut menu. • Other misc bug fixes & improvements.

January 24, 2024

Here's what's new in v6.4.2 (2042)! IMPROVEMENTS • SketchUp Diffusion is now available for you to add to customizable linear and radial shortcut toolbars. • We made a change to the way that Diffusion and Markup scenes interact with Styles, specifically overlay watermarks. It’s now the case that when a scene is deleted in SketchUp for iPad, the Display Watermarks toggle (located under Styles > Watermark Settings) will be automatically toggled off. • We’ve added the option to clear the clipboard so that you can fully dismiss the context menu toolbar when nothing in the model is selected. BUG FIXES • We’ve restored the default keyboard shortcuts (which were inadvertently jumbled in the last release). • We fixed an issue that was affecting the layout of the information that is presented on the About screen in Portrait orientation in iOS 15. • Miscellaneous fixes for missing or incorrect translations and minor Dark Mode inconsistencies.

December 21, 2023

What's new in v6.4.1 (2037) – Create rendered images in seconds using GenAI with SketchUp Diffusion! SketchUp Diffusion is a new feature that allows you to combine an image of your active SketchUp viewport with a text prompt to create a new, AI-generated image. Diffusion offers a number of options that allow you to define the visual style of the rendered image and control the extent to which either the snapshot of your SketchUp model and/or the text-based prompt, influence the output: • You can access Diffusion from the overflow tool palette (top row). • Once the Diffusion panel is open, you’ll see a snapshot of your SketchUp model viewport and can add a prompt that describes the image you’d like to generate. • Style presets offer shortcuts to generate images with a specific aesthetic. • Settings sliders provide control over the extent to which either your SketchUp model or the text prompt influences the rendered output. • After tapping the Generate button, you’ll see that the service returns three variations that you can tap on to preview. • Add Scene lets you save a selected image as an overlay in your SketchUp viewport. • You also have the option to share/save a selected image. • You can use the Refresh button located in the top right corner of the Preview image to update the input for Diffusion with a fresh snapshot of the SketchUp viewport. • Learn More will take you to the Help Center. • Feedback will take you to the main SketchUp Diffusion section here in the SketchUp Forums. Snaps – SketchUp for iPad now includes the Snaps capability that launched recently in SketchUp for Desktop. • Any existing snaps in your model become visible when tools that can interact with them are active. • You also have the option to add snaps to an object. You can do so by entering Edit Component or Edit Group mode, selecting a face, and then choosing Add Snaps from the context menu toolbar overflow list. • The red rotate grips that used to be available when using the Move tool have been disabled. You can reactivate them via the Preferences panel, under the General Settings tab. IMPROVEMENTS • Autoshape now supports touch input! Simply long-press before sketching one of the supported Autoshape glyphs, and voilà! BUG FIXES • We fixed a bug that was causing the app to crash on iOS 15. • SketchUp for iPad users who have purchased a SketchUp Go subscription via the Apple App store now have access to SketchUp diffusion in China. We’re excited to hear what you have to say about these updates! Please visit the SketchUp for iPad user forums to let us know how the above is, or is not, working for you: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/sketchup-for-ipad/86

December 5, 2023

What's new in v6.4.0 (2033) – Create rendered images in seconds using GenAI with SketchUp Diffusion! SketchUp Diffusion is a new feature that allows you to combine an image of your active SketchUp viewport with a text prompt to create a new, AI-generated image. Diffusion offers a number of options that allow you to define the visual style of the rendered image and control the extent to which either the snapshot of your SketchUp model and/or the text-based prompt, influence the output: • You can access Diffusion from the overflow tool palette (top row). • Once the Diffusion panel is open, you’ll see a snapshot of your SketchUp model viewport and can add a prompt that describes the image you’d like to generate. • Style presets offer shortcuts to generate images with a specific aesthetic. • Settings sliders provide control over the extent to which either your SketchUp model or the text prompt influences the rendered output. • After tapping the Generate button, you’ll see that the service returns three variations that you can tap on to preview. • Add Scene lets you save a selected image as an overlay in your SketchUp viewport. • You also have the option to share/save a selected image. • You can use the Refresh button located in the top right corner of the Preview image to update the input for Diffusion with a fresh snapshot of the SketchUp viewport. • Learn More will take you to the Help Center. • Feedback will take you to the main SketchUp Diffusion section here in the SketchUp Forums. Snaps – SketchUp for iPad now includes the Snaps capability that launched recently in SketchUp for Desktop. • Any existing snaps in your model become visible when tools that can interact with them are active. • You also have the option to add snaps to an object. You can do so by entering Edit Component or Edit Group mode, selecting a face, and then choosing Add Snaps from the context menu toolbar overflow list. • The red rotate grips that used to be available when using the Move tool have been disabled. You can reactivate them via the Preferences panel, under the General Settings tab. IMPROVEMENTS • Autoshape now supports touch input! Simply long-press before sketching one of the supported Autoshape glyphs, and voilà! • We repositioned the Cancel and Done in MarkUp mode. BUG FIXES • We fixed a bug that affected the ability to input measurements when using the Offset tool. • We fixed a bug that was affecting Shadows and scenes. The time zone setting for shadows now persists properly when switching scenes. • Tapping Select None no longer alters the active tool mode in the Select Tool’s toolbar. • We cleaned up miscellaneous UI issues in Dark Mode and missing or incorrect translations. • We addressed UI inconsistencies in the About tab of the Home screen and Soften Smooth panel. • We fixed some UI issues that were affecting the layout of the Home screen in the iPhone version of the app. • We fixed the bugs that resulted in the most frequent crashes. We’re excited to hear what you have to say about these updates! Please visit the SketchUp for iPad user forums to let us know how the above is, or is not, working for you: https://forums.sketchup.com/c/sketchup-for-ipad/86