
SketchUp 2025 is Here!
To properly introduce ThomThom - this version's scale figure - I decided to go with a Nordic look for this post's title image
As of this week (February 25, actually), the latest iteration of SketchUp - version 2025.0 - is now available. Desktop users can click on the Help > Check for Update menu item and download it (or get it here) and iPad users can see new (version 7.0) features once the app updates. Users of the web app will apparently need to wait a little bit longer to see the new visualization features appear.
What’s New in SketchUp?
There are a bunch of new features, some of which were teased at last year's Basecamp/Dimensions conference. Let's dig into those...
PBR Materials and Environments
Now that SketchUp has a new graphics engine under the hood, it was apparently possible for the developers to implement not just ambient occlusion (which was introduced with SketchUp 2024), but also PBR (physically-based rendering) materials and environments. With those...