Sketchup Pro 2018 Upd -

Before diving into toolbars, we need to understand the landscape. SketchUp Pro 2018 was released on November 14, 2017. At the time, the battle between traditional CAD (like AutoCAD) and BIM (Building Information Modeling, like Revit) was heating up. SketchUp positioned itself not as a replacement for either, but as the "pencil" of the digital world—fast, intuitive, and loose.

SketchUp Pro 2018 took a major step toward becoming a BIM-lite tool. The IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) importer was rewritten. You could now import an IFC file from Revit and maintain the "IfcBuildingStorey" hierarchy directly in the SketchUp Outliner. For construction managers, this meant better clash detection without leaving the SketchUp environment. sketchup pro 2018

| Action | Shortcut | |--------|----------| | Tape Measure (guides) | T | | Paint Bucket (materials) | B | | Eraser | E | | Hide selected | H (then Edit → Unhide → Last) | | Zoom to selection | Z + drag box | | Rotate view around selection | Middle-click + drag on object | Before diving into toolbars, we need to understand

Improvements included a "Draw-about-center" option for rectangles and a color-coded Freehand tool that aligns with the drawing axis. The Tape Measure tool was also updated to provide live area and length measurements. SketchUp positioned itself not as a replacement for