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SketchUp - Awesome for quick sales sketches!
September 15, 2017

SketchUp - Awesome for quick sales sketches!

Bryan Welborn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with SketchUp

We use SketchUp only occasionally at our construction sales company. An owner of a project may want to see how our products will look aesthetically in their build, and SketchUp makes this quick and easy.
  • Easy to learn, and very user friendly!
  • Their 3D Model library saves time from having to draw commonly used objects
  • Creating 3D curved & irregularly shaped walls is cantankerous
  • Building custom roof lines is a lot of steps. You have to draw your highest peak triangle first, then work your way down in order for the other roof lines to work, so if you've got a lot of different peak heights to draw, there will likely be a lot of trial and error to get this roof right
  • Import/Export compatibility with other programs (like AutoCAD) is not the greatest. You still have to do quite a bit of touch up in the program to get the drawing looking like it was before.
  • Again, we only use SketchUp occasionally if an owner is confused about the overall look of a product from a 2D drawing, so I suppose it has a bit of a postive ROI, but we don't depend on it primarily.
Again, SketchUp is great sales tool for helping us illustrate to an owner how a product will look, but it won't replace AutoCAD's ability to create blueprints for contractors.
SketchUp is great for interior designers, realtors, remodelers, and occasionally a general contractor to use in their sales materials to owners. But SketchUp won't replace the abilities that AutoCAD or Revit has at creating blueprints.