Why do interior designers use SketchUp?

SketchUp is a widely used piece of software in the interior design and architecture community and is great for bringing architectural or design plans to life. The software helps you take 2D drawings and turn these in to fully customised 3D models - complete with furniture, accessories and custom joinery.

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2: Why should I learn SketchUp over other 3D programs like Revit?

SketchUp and Revit are both widely used in the interior design industry and both have pros and cons. Generally those who use SketchUp prefer it because it's much easier to learn and it's also much less expensive to purchase. Obviously as a SketchUp user I'm going to be favouring SketchUp over Revit (or other 3D programs like 3D Max) but there's quite a bit written about this online if you want to do a search to see which option is best for your needs. Although I’ve never used Revit myself as I understand it the main differences between SketchUp and Revit are: SketchUp is very easy to learn whereas Revit is much more of a technical program and has many more technical commands - plus a much steeper and more complicated learning curve. SketchUp is much less expensive than Revit - in fact I believe an annual subscription for SketchUp is around the same price as one month of Revit. I would say SketchUp is more suited to Interior Design (vs more complicated bigger picture architecture that Revit copes well with). SketchUp allows you to create quick 3D models plus interesting, custom details for your interiors. If you want to create extremely complex architectural construction drawings, SketchUp may not be the best tool to choose. Revit on the other hand is amazing for providing the full power of the complexities of all those intricate architectural and construction details but because it's complicated in terms of it's technical ability - it means creating simple 3D sketches for interior design are far more difficult than SketchUp makes it. Overall if you don't need to produce really complicated drawings (i.e. you’re not an architect) with all the internal details of how walls join together, how a roof goes on - that sort of thing - then SketchUp is fantastic as the learning curve is so much lower and the cost of the software is extremely affordable. Once you’ve learned how to use SketchUp you can draw up a house in a relatively short period of time (e.g. a few hours once you have the know how). In my own work as an interior designer over the past 8 years I’ve only used SketchUp and found it more than adequate for my workflow. You can read more about how I use SketchUp and Layout in my interior design workflow with clients in this blog post.

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3: Can you use SketchUp on an iPad?

SketchUp have an app for iPad, that was released officially in 2022 and it’s got some great features. But lots of people ask me whether they can learn how to use SketchUp on the iPad itself, rather than have a laptop or desktop computer to learn on. While the iPad app is fantastic for showing people around your models on the go (e.g. on site visits or in client meetings) and it has some great markup tools embedded in the app, I don’t recommend you actually learn how to use SketchUp on the app itself. Instead I suggest you learn how to use SketchUp on a desktop or laptop computer and use this for your main modelling work and then use the iPad app to compliment the work you do in SketchUp. Learning on the app will be slow and frustrating and you won’t get the full picture of how SketchUp works that way.

4: Can you create photo realistic renderings using SketchUp?

Yes you can make photo realistic renderings in SketchUp by using plugins like Enscape or V-Ray (or others, there are heaps of them). I don't teach how to use those photo rendering plugins in my courses but many of my students have gone on to teach themselves how to use rendering programs once they have finished my SketchUp courses. It’s not super difficult to do that once you know how to use SketchUp itself.

5: How much does SketchUp cost?

SketchUp have a wide range of different versions of their software ranging from a completely free web-based option through to more expensive options with advanced features. For the purposes of beginners who are learning how to use SketchUp for Interior Design, I suggest the following three options for the SketchUp software: Purchase SketchUp Pro (the full paid version of SketchUp), which you do locally in your country. If you Google you should find the local distributor and prices or search on the international SketchUp website to find your local reseller - www.sketchup.com/resellers Start with the 30 day free trial of the full SketchUp Pro (paid version) to see if you like it and make sure the software works for you. This is the option that most students in my course opt for when they are first starting. Again, you'll find the download for this from your local reseller. Use the free version of SketchUp. This is a web based version of the software that does have some limitations in terms of customisation options. It also can’t be used for commercial work. But we still have lots of students who do the course on this version of the software and it’s a good starting point for those who want to have a play around in SketchUp before committing to paying for a license. However many people who start the course on SketchUp Free do end up moving over to the paid (Pro) version down the track, just so they can benefit from the full features of the software. Overall most of my students start on the 30 day free trial of SketchUp Pro and that’s definitely what I would recommend as a starting point.

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Yes you can!

You can see examples of what’s possible with SketchUp and Layout here.

In fact there are many architects who only use SketchUp for their workflows - so it's definitely possible to do very detailed work inside SketchUp when you know how (and when you combine SketchUp with Layout). As you can see from some of my example designs below you can still create scaled plans, elevations, joinery/cabinetry drawings and all of those types of things in SketchUp - it's an extremely powerful piece of software. If you do happen to work with CAD software or you have plans from an architect or draftsperson that have been created inside CAD (e.g. these have a file extension of .dwg) you are also able to import these in to SketchUp and use these as the basis of your SketchUp modelling as SketchUp is compatible with CAD file formats. We learn how to do that in my course.

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