The TOP SketchUp Extensions for ARCHITECTURE in 2024!

In this video, I talk about some of the top extensions for architectural modeling applications in SketchUp in 2024! (Somehow I ended up with 29 :p)

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Introduction
0:11 - Where to find them
0:27 - Flex Tools
0:58 - Component Finder
1:50 - Instant Fence and Rail
2:18 - Instant Wall
2:36 - Instant Road
2:57 - Instant Stair
3:35 - Instant Roof
4:07 - Architextures
4:55 - Lattice Maker
5:17 - 1001Bit Tools
6:18 - DropGC
6:47 - Profile Builder
7:38 - TIG Roof
8:09 - JHS Powerbar
9:08 - Tools on Surface
9:37 - Joint Push Pull
10:07 - Placemaker
11:02 - Medeek Foundation
11:22 - Medeek Wall
11:45 - Medeek Truss
12:06 - TopoShaper
12:45 - Edge Tools
13:05 - Animator
13:45 - Three beveling and rounding options
14:48 - PathCopy
15:25 - Skatter
16:17 - ThruPaint
16:47 - Clothworks
17:16 - Material Replacer

[Thesketchupessentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know if you're using the extensions on this list (or if I forgot something) in the comments below!

[_Breakdown]

Great video Justin - - thanks so much for sharing 🙂👍🏼👍🏼
2:59 - - Instant-Stair
9:04 - - Tools-on-Surface

[dinkledank]

Justin thanks for all these videos, you are the man, at sketchup and a hero to us this is a great deed. I am learning this software and have been gradually for a few years now. It will be a big difference for me against my competition making oak framed buildings which is what i love to do. htis video has saved me loads of time trying to understand all these extensions that exist and what they can do. I have started learnign your free on line course from scratch again as my current models are such a mess in the default tray haha. it soon all goes upside down. with the correct grouping and components etc and knowing all the shortcuts i am getting much quicker and better at drawing up a timber framed structure. i know these things can be built super quickly watching you do your videos and made to look real which clients will love, (let alone drawing out what they want on skype in fron t of them live so we can adjust it all and not need to wait for an architect to take weeks to reply and do it all). when i make some money starting my business i will buy your course online nad get the full know how of it all. the wood ive got covered 100, i can make alot of things in terms of timber frames and accurately, so this combo will be so fun. god bless the time we live in with so many tools (power tools) and stuff like sketchup, depsite the crazy cost of everything haha hopefully i ll be free soon. thanks mate! and i just thought would it be possible to scan a clients garden / house area with a drone or something and get the base map on which the building will sit. they would love that

[larryzent]

Great description of these extensions Justin! I use a most of these, Vali Architecture's has always been helpful to me. Have a great day!

[GhostLyricist]

Instant Architecture is a game changer for Sketchup. I hope it continues support for years to come.

[aicx]

This is cool Justin. Thanks for sharing.

[MrClickfun]

great video; this is the best tutorials for sketchup

[Benoir]

Maybe Curic have a large set of tools that are suitable for Architecture 3D modeling and 2D drawings with Layout.
But maybe this Curic suite is too deep to include in this high quality selection of yours.
SketchUpEssentials best channel ever ;)

[avicohenk]

Sublime.
You reminded me of a few old ones I should reinstall like 1001 and a few new ones I'm going to check out ✔️
Next time add relative pricing like $$$ for flextools or $ for fredo6 to give a rough estimate to how expensive something is..

[johnjlopez]

I've used nearly every plugin in this list and most are indeed recommends. Medeek has been maybe my biggest game changer and the one I would recommend more than all others if doing architecture --- and I don't even really use if for the framing, construction or internal aspects. I only use it for rendering completed structures. It's especially useful in that it makes it easy to modify after the fact without redoing all the geometry manually. It's something like revit for SKP.

[FabioCandido]

I still use massively 1001bit Tools since years

[pilotry]

Hey Justin, been watching your channel for a while and love all the info you send out.
One thing I can’t seem to figure out and I must be missing something obvious, is there a way to display the grayscale texture of a material on a surface when making viewpoints in layout? Like I send me elevations to layout but it seems I have to choose between a completely blank style without materials or fully colored style. Are there any extensions that make all materials grayscale and maybe lighten the material details. For example, I want to show the exterior walls have cladding, but don’t want to show the color. Is my only option to actually draw the cladding or stone

[gurkankaraali]

Brother, you are giving very useful information. But please change the way you talk in the beginning.

[mcdonalds_wifi]

is there any extension to draw walls and openings similar or close to BIM softwares

[Stormsearcher]

Some of the extensions you've mentioned (lattice maker, TIG tools, Joint push pull, toposhaper, clothworks) do not show up on the skp warehouse. Any thoughts as to why? Or am i doing something wrong?