What is SketchUp?
It is 3D modeling software that’s easy to use and has an extensive database of user-created models. You can use it to sketch (or import) models to assist with all kinds of projects—furniture building, video game creation, 3D printing, interior design, and whatever else you can think of.
SketchUp is a tool in the Architecture Design Tools category of a tech stack.
SketchUp is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to SketchUp's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses SketchUp?
Companies
3 companies reportedly use SketchUp in their tech stacks, including property-management, Design, and Polo Educacional Sesc.
Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use SketchUp.
SketchUp Integrations
Amazon EC2, Asana, MATLAB, Amazon Cognito, and Pattern Lab are some of the popular tools that integrate with SketchUp. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with SketchUp.
SketchUp's Features
- Lighting effects
- Textures, A layer manager
- Animations
- Unique access to Trimble's 3D warehouse.
SketchUp Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to SketchUp?
Blender
It is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
