LayOutGoogle listens to your requests and attempts to implement many into SketchUp enhancements and new features. Google SketchUp (free) and Google SketchUp Pro 6 contain the following enhancements and new features:
A new matching feature provides a way to set up a camera view so that the modeling environment matches up with a photograph. Matching can be used to match an existing model with a background photo or one can start from scratch with a photo and then trace over it in 3D!
A style is simply a saved collection of SketchUp display settings. No more fussing with many settings every time you want to change or customize your model's appearance. No longer is it necessary to use scenes (formerly known as pages) to save your display settings. With a single click, you can quickly apply a style to any model by selecting it from the new Styles browser.
You can personalize your own styles and save them as part of a library, and you can easily share your style files with others.
Watermarks are images placed in the background or foreground of the drawing area and span the entire area just as sky and ground. Watermarks are great for creating backgrounds, such as simulating paper textures beneath a model. Watermarks can also be used to place logos and other graphics directly on the screen. Watermarks are part of Sketchup's new styles system for easy management.
Sketchy Edges is a new way to render edges to look as if they were drawn by hand. Sketchy Edges are part of SketchUp's new styles system.
Add atmospheric haze to a model with the new fog display.
Now its easy to create signs and letters directly in SketchUp using the new 3D text Tool. Choose from simple outlines, filled surfaces and fully extruded 3d text using most fonts on your computer.
LayOutSketchUp 6 features a set of LayOut tools for 3D designers who need a page layout program to communicate complex concepts. The new feature will provide simple tools to place, arrange, title and annotate SketchUp models, photographs and other drawing elements to assemble presentation and documentation graphics for both print and screen.
We've made the text and dimension tools more versatile by supporting font sizes that remain fixed relative to a model. We've also improved the quality on screen, in images and in printing.
SketchUp is now faster, up to 5x faster depending on models and hardware.
Now its easy to tell SketchUp exactly which direction you want using the arrow keys. Left = red, Up & down = Blue and, Right = Green. We've also added toggle functionality so you don't have to hold the keys down.
The components and materials browsers have been streamlined to improve ease-of-use.
We've made the intersect feature more robust. We've also added two new ways to intersect: Intersect Selected Only and Intersect With Context.
Paste in place is an improvement to copy, cut, and paste functions. The precise location is remembered for quick placement of pasted selections. These enhancements are great for moving geometry in and out of components or groups without having to reposition your selection.
Two point perspective views are now possible in SketchUp. Easily recreate this classic style used by draftsmen and illustrators to create 3D renderings of buildings.
Use modifier keys to invoke operations like copy at any time during an operation.
Interaction with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth is built into Google SketchUp Pro 6 and no longer requires a plugin.
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