6 Great SketchUp Plugins You Should Know
SketchUp is a popular 3D modeling software that’s intuitive and easy to learn. It’s mostly used by architects and interior designers, but it’s also very popular in the maker community.
Once you’ve mastered the SketchUp basics and start modeling more complex things, it’s very common to get “stuck” with the native tools because they’re not able to do exactly what you need. But don’t worry — that’s what plugins and extensions are for.
Plugins are tools developed by members of the SketchUp user community who want to enhance the native tools by making them more powerful. Most are free and available for download in the SketchUp Extension Warehouse or in the Sketchucation Plugin Store.
The most recent release of SketchUp allows you to run the software entirely online. It has three versions: Free, Pro, and Shop. Each has its own pricing, range of tools, cloud storage, and compatibility, but only the Pro version allows you to download the software and install it on your computer.
Additionally, the Extension Warehouse is only available for the Pro version. That said, you can still download the 30-day trial version of SketchUp Pro in order to try out the plugins we list in the following.
