SketchUp 2025 for Desktop
1. Enhanced Environments Panel
The new Environments panel allows users to toggle and add 360° image files to their SketchUp models. This feature includes a sky dome and dynamic lighting for improved reflections.
2. Photoreal Materials
Introducing Photoreal Materials, a new face style that utilizes physically based rendering (PBR) textures. These materials interact dynamically with light and the surrounding environment, enhancing realism in your models.
3. Generative AI for Textures
A groundbreaking generative AI tool is now available when editing materials. This tool automatically creates PBR textures for materials lacking them, streamlining your modeling process.
4. Trimble Connect Integration
New options for Import, Reload, and Save Out are now part of SketchUp’s native Trimble Connect functionality, enhancing collaboration and workflow.
5. Apply Tags to Scenes
The Apply Tags to Scenes context menu option allows you to apply the visibility of selected tags to specific scenes, improving organization in your projects.
6. Extension Migrator
The Extension Migrator is a new tool from SketchUp Labs that simplifies the migration of extensions when updating to the latest version of SketchUp.
7. Purge Unused Assets Reminder
To prevent model bloat, a reminder will now appear by default when saving a file, asking if you want to purge unused assets.
8. Improved Modeling Tools
SketchUp 2025 introduces enhancements to key modeling tools, including the Rotate tool, Arc tools, Snaps, and the Text tool, for a more efficient user experience.
9. Interoperability Enhancements
Improved IFC and Revit interoperability allows for smoother collaboration with other software.
10. V-Ray Installation on Windows
The Windows Installer now provides an option for Studio subscribers to download and install V-Ray for SketchUp, enhancing rendering capabilities.
11. Removal of Style Builder
The Style Builder application is no longer included in SketchUp and will not receive support moving forward.
LayOut Updates in Sketchup 2025
1. Enhanced Move, Rotate, and Scale Tools
The Move, Rotate, and Scale tools have been updated to function similarly to their counterparts in SketchUp, improving usability.
2. Join and Split Tools
The new Join and Split tools allow users to separate line segments in a selected entity or merge segments into a complete entity.
3. Zoom Window Tool
The Zoom Window (Z) tool enables users to zoom into a specific area of their document for detailed work.
4. Photoreal Materials and Environments in LayOut
LayOut now renders any Environments or Photoreal Materials from SketchUp models in viewports, with new configuration options for Environments and Ambient Occlusion in the SketchUp Model panel.
5. Pages Panel Print/Export Functionality
Users can now export individual pages or a range of pages from their document using the new Pages panel feature.
