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
86 Plan to Renew
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
Kamila M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Engineering
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
Cool product, I like it
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SketchUp from other similar products?
3d modeling
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Making 3d models
What do you dislike most about this product?
No dislikes
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Totally recommend
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Client's Interest First
- Transparent
Joseph C.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2023
fantastic tool for 3D and 2D.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SketchUp from other similar products?
The non-commercial usage of SketchUp Make, the personal version, is completely free. However, SketchUp Pro is the name of the high-end edition of the program. This is the version intended for usage in professional or more solemn contexts.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The popular drawing program may be employed; this may come in handy when creating landscapes or buildings. It's a masterstroke of marketing, letting prospective purchasers picture themselves in the homes.
What do you dislike most about this product?
At now, there is room for development in SketchUp's import compatibility. To make rapid adjustments on, say, winding roads or highways, it would be useful to have tools that extend in the same manner independent of size or slope. A separate plugin is not required to re-import the PDFs. PDFs are often the only option when it comes to file types.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Warning: there are several essential features of the program that have had to be disabled. When compared to programs like Revit, it's clear that SketchUp wasn't made to produce CDs. Purchasers like it since it illuminates the thought process behind the creation of the goods.
Pros
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Unique Features
- Efficient Service
Ina M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
fantastic resource for 3D and 2D artists.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates SketchUp from other similar products?
Free for non-commercial usage, SketchUp's personal version is known as SketchUp Make. Conversely, the premium software is called SketchUp Pro. This is the version intended for business and other professional applications.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
A viable alternative is the popular drawing program, The design of buildings, sites or both can benefit from it. It's great marketing and helps people see themselves in the homes they're considering buying.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There is room for development in SketchUp's import compatibility. On curvy roads or highways, for example, having tools that extend uniformly independent of size or slope might facilitate last-minute adjustments. It's possible to re-import PDFs without installing a new plugin. PDFs are often the only option when it comes to transferring documents.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Warning: we've had to drastically limit the application's functioning in several areas. When compared to programs like Revit, which were made to make CDs, it's clear that SketchUp wasn't one of them. Customers like it because it clarifies the thinking that went into the product for them.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Trustworthy
- Efficient Service
