To develop terrain is important to many SketchUp modelers: your model building needs ground to stand on, or in case you are modeling the ground itself to create a landscape, SketchUp’s Sandbox tool has to be your go-to option. If you are working on a single-family home, for instance, and have to create a report of data to work with the sub-contractor, SketchUp may be more than enough for you. The idea of dedicated BIM applications is to create and manage your project.

One such plugin is Skalp, you may find a few more that will suit your work, just Google it! Not many would believe this but yes, SketchUp has BIM functionality! With the help of plugins, of course.

So, without any further due, let’s see what are the 10 things you did not know you could do with SketchUp! 1. There’s so much SketchUp can do, that I might just run out of words describing it. Right from the initial design process, it is an effective tool for conceptual designing, and just as the name suggests you can sketch-it-up! It’s like a digital version for your concept sketch that can be taken to the final rendering and animation stages.

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