What is SketchUp?
SketchUp is a premier 3D design software that truly makes 3D modeling for everyone, with a simple to learn yet robust toolset that empowers you to create whatever you can imagine. SketchUp is useful from the earliest stages of design to the end of construction. Programming, diagramming, design development, detailing, documentation, RFIs—wherever you need drawings, you need SketchUp Pro.
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86 Likeliness to Recommend
87 Plan to Renew
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80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+88 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love SketchUp?
Pros
- Efficient Service
- Respectful
- Acts with Integrity
- Effective Service
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
3D Modeling
Visualization
Raster Data Manipulation
2D/3D Conversion
Collaboration
Printing Support
Technical Drawings
Simulation
Libraries & Templates
2D Drawing
3rd Party Integration
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Usability and Intuitiveness
Business Value Created
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of IT Administration
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Vendor Support
SketchUp Reviews
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2024
Easy to use, but will take a little practice
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Vishal G.
- Role: Consultant
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2026
Unmatched for quick 3D modeling
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SketchUp from other similar products?
Gives you instant access to the world's largest library of free prebuilt 3D models and real manufacturer components.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The push-pull workflow lets you take a rough idea and build out a 3D model in minutes without getting bogged down by complex menus
What do you dislike most about this product?
Heavy geometry and complex high-polygon files cause the viewport to slow down drastically.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It is fantastic for fast spatial optimization and early bubble diagrams, but you will definitely need to transition into Revit once you start dealing with heavy BIM data.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Inspires Innovation
Paras R.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Construction
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Oct 2025
Sketchup widely recognized for BIM
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SketchUp from other similar products?
The software sets itself apart by offering unparalleled speed for visual concepting and iteration, backed by the enormous 3D warehouse. Importantly, the Layout tool connects rapid 3D design with crucial documentation more effectively than simply conceptual tools by converting models into expert, scaled 2D building papers.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The smooth integration of Layout with 3D models is my favourite feature as a civil engineer. It makes it to possible to quickly create accurate, scaled 2D construction drawings and presentation materials straight from the model, which greatly improves the efficiency of visualising and communicating complicated site ideas.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Although the modelling is easy to use, I find it annoying that its built-in capabilities lack sophisticated civil design tools, necessitating an excessive dependence on costly third-party extensions for crucial tasks like quantitative reporting and detailed terrain grading.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For civil projects, Sketchup Pro is excellent in 3D visualisation and design communication. Give top priority to becoming proficient with Groups/Components and specialised extensions for BIM-level data such as quantity takeoff and terrain modelling. For expert 2D construction documentation, use LayOut.
Pros
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
