

As a quick Google search reveals, there are several Sketchup addons available to improve SketchUp and help individual designers customize it to their requirements.

Most things can always be improved and the same applies to SketchUp. Add to that functionality designed to facilitate presentation of designs with animations, images, videos and so forth, and it really is the complete package.Īs the saying goes however, nothing is perfect. It minimizes complications and it allows talent and imagination to simply do its thing. Its main features include simple click-and-release mouse control, preloaded templates, and images, and CAD files.Īlong with features like its intuitive toolbar and the fact that it can be used by not just architects but all sorts of creatives, one of the key reasons for the success of this product is that it is designed to work much like a pencil in a designer's hand. With its advance 3D modelling functionality, it really makes you feel like you are moving through an actual home.


The Pro Solid Tools has also had some other long-standing limitations that we have improved on with BoolTools. That’s why so many Solid Tools users have adopted the copy and ‘scale-up’ workflow to prevent their Solid Tool operation from failing. Even the Pro Solid Tools struggles with this problem. Successful boolean operations depend on high-precision 3D intersections, something that the internal SketchUp geometry engine struggles with at times. However, it definitely had some limitations, especially when it came to dealing with smaller complex objects. The original BoolTools plugin was indeed useful and helped fill a necessary need in the SketchUp toolset for many years (especially for Make users). After all, the Pro Solid Tools did not exist yet, and no one even knew that SketchUp was considering creating this long-requested feature. This tool provided an inexpensive way to perform some basic boolean operations and worked with both SketchUp Make (free) or Pro. About 20 months before SketchUp Pro 8 released the Solid Tools, (way back in Dec 2008!), the original BoolTools plugin for SketchUp was released.
