SketchUp Desktop 2020.0

一月 28, 2020

Version:
20.0.363 (Win 64-bit)
20.0.362 (Mac 64-bit)

What's New in SketchUp 2020.0?
What's New in LayOut 2020.0?
New SketchUp Installers
SketchUp Release Notes
LayOut Release Notes
SketchUp API Release Notes

What's New in SketchUp 2020.0?

We've spent a lot of time in 2019 learning more about what you, the user, wish SketchUp did better. We've been eyeing your comments on the forum and discussing ideas during our training events to see what trips up your workflow. So, thanks for speaking up! You helped us discover how you're using SketchUp and how we can improve your design process, resulting in workflow improvements galore! They're so good you'd think we'd been sneaking into design firms or something :).

Now, let's get to the good stuff...

SketchUp Desktop 2020: your [3D] creative space

This year, we focused on data structures and modeling behaviors. We want to make sure we continue to be the more intuitive, easier to use software that boosts your ability to crank out those stunning design projects.

Outliner

This leads us to our BIG model organization change. In an effort to increase model performance, you no longer have to create Layers upon Layers. You can do your main model organization straight within Outliner. We recommend using this (and our friendly eyeball icon) to toggle between the major chunks of your model.

Another bonus: Groups and components that are hidden by tag (formerly known as layers) now show up in the outliner.

Grips on bounding boxes and automatic transparency

Grab that sofa and put it in the corner! Just try it out, we need not explain more.

Selected groups and components now display grips on the bounding box corners, allowing for quick and accurate placement. If you'd rather grab the midpoint, center or centroid of the object, press the down arrow to cycle through the available grip points.

When you grab a point in an object and start to move it, your object will automatically go transparent as soon as something in your model interferes with the object you are moving. This works with both the Rotate tool and Move tool. Fancy, huh? This will literally ‘transform' your workflow. Don't take our word for it: start positioning those objects in hard to reach places to see that SketchUp magic!

Hidden objects

Announcing a big change to hiding objects in your models! You'll notice in your drop-down menu that we decoupled hiding objects from hiding geometry. How will this change your workflow? Well, this will give you the ability to better manage hidden geometry and hidden objects for an even easier modeling experience. For example, let's say you want to edit hidden edges in a landscape or smoothed surface, but you still want to be able to hide objects that are nearby (like trees, bushes, or a building)... yes you can do that in SketchUp! Landscape architects, rejoice!

The SketchUp Universe: Nomenclatures

After many conversations, we decided to update some of our naming conventions. This won't change your workflow, but we want you to know that it's not just you — we are talking about a few things differently now. We think they make logic a little more prevalent.

Objects are now a collective term for: groups, components, dynamic components and Section Planes. This just means we don't have to say "groups (slash) components" anymore. Now you can save those syllables for words like "stupendous" and "dapper" (Why, thank you! We think you are too.). Also, Layers are now referred to as "Tags". 'Layer' has been a rather unintuitive thing to call this organizational utility. Most new users with experience in Photoshop (and LayOut!) are disadvantaged by calling them layers, since it implies a 2D stacking order.

Don't worry these two terms are merely document naming conventions and won't hinder your workflow.

What's New in LayOut 2020.0?

It's all about taking back control...document control that is! For LayOut, we focused on improving the interaction between SketchUp & LayOut to save you time and [brain] energy. Way less going back and forth updating scenes in SketchUp to ensure your drawing comes out perfectly, now you have more editing ability right in LayOut.

Model Views

LayOut now understands a lot more about your SketchUp model and what you've overridden. Meaning, you can safely change a style or camera angle directly in LayOut without accidentally losing your changes (winning!). How do you know what's different in your LayOut viewport versus your SketchUp model, you ask? When you make changes in LayOut, parts of the menu bar will go dark gray, alerting you that you've made an override. Don't worry, just because you made some changes in LayOut, doesn't mean you're stuck with those. You can always resync your viewports back to your SketchUp model if you need to.

Customization

Take those LayOut docs to the next dimension with different models and views. If you have one SketchUp model that exists across several viewports, you can now relink just one of those viewports to another SketchUp model. Previously, you would need to delete that viewport, insert a new SKP model, and reset all your scale settings and viewport sizing. More efficient now? Yes!

And that's not all folks! You also have the ability to toggle tag visibility — straight in your LayOut doc! What does this mean for your workflow? This means you don't have to create extra scenes just for your LayOut files, saving you a ton of time going back and forth between LayOut and SketchUp.

New SketchUp Installers

What's New?

We are now using a different technology to install SketchUp, LayOut, Style Builder, Viewer, and Checkup.

If you are online when running the installer, you can now use a single installer file that will download selected languages at the time of installation.
If you will be offline when running the installer, you can download the "offline" installer which contains all supported languages.
English will be installed by default for everyone.
Rerunning the installer will allow you to add or remove languages.
To install on macOS, double-click on the large SketchUp icon in the installer dialog box.

Network Administrators can also perform a "silent installation" (similar to the MSI option from previous versions) when adding SketchUp to multiple computers across the network. You can learn more about how to install here.

SketchUp Pro 2020 Installer

All SketchUp-supported languages can now be installed using a single installer file, rather than a separate installer for each language.
You must be connected to the internet when running this installer for localized languages. Languages selected in the installation dialog will be automatically downloaded and installed (in addition to English).
Installation of Czech and Polish can only be done using the "offline" version of the installer.

SketchUp Pro 2020 Offline Installer

An offline installer is also available. This is an installation file that contains all languages bundled together, and is a much larger file. After it has been downloaded to your system, it can be used to install, add or remove languages even when you are not connected to the internet.

Known issues with the installers

(Win) The installer may fail with a message saying that the "COM Surrogate" application must be closed prior to installing SketchUp. Restart your system to resolve this problem.
(Win) Right-clicking on a .skp file may show incorrect "Open with" options if previous versions of SketchUp have been installed on your system.

SketchUp Release Notes