Top 5 NEW Features in SketchUp 2024

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2024 offers a new layer of realism and innovative visual styles directly within the SketchUp interface, along with updates that amplify productivity.

Aaron takes you through his five favorite new features in SketchUp 2024.

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0:00 New in 2024
0:35 Ambient Occlusion
2:37 Trimble Connect & link sharing
5:05 Add Location
8:03 Faster LayOut
11:30 New graphics engine

[devenshah]

Hats off to the entire SketchUp team for ambient goes where diffusion cannot. And, a big thank you to you, Aaron....for always enlightening us with what's new and much more.

[MrMartinhedin]

Ambient Occlusion, I have been waiting 10 years for this...

[marakony]

this new version of SketchUp is the best update ever

[beckerth]

0:00 April 2024, New Desktop Version
0:45 Point 1 New Styles (with better shadows)
2:41 Point 2 Integration from Trimble Connect
3:42 in cloud-share link for view
5:00 Teddy 🙂
5:24 Point 3 Add location
8:04 Point 4 Layout Vector - Raster
(Drafmode)
13:00
very big performance speed now

[RobSHoglund]

Disappointed two years in a row. Performance improvements are great, but bug fixes and feature additions are what excites me. I can’t believe I still need to move tool palettes between monitors every time I start. And how frustrating that after all this time I still need to reinstall all my extensions.

[alexspendlove]

SketchUp is probably gonna get better and better every year.

[NehemiasVargasOrellana]

There is an interesting tool that I have seen in other software and I wish Sketchup had it, this is the cropping box, which allows you to cut out a 3D piece of the building without having to make 4 or 6 sections with the sketchup tool, which is in high demand for make isometric cuts, I would appreciate if you would take my comment into account

[brendanariki]

Great update guys. Look forward to getting into it.

[chrisc]

So glad to see the updates to improve the efficiency of using Layout!! Would have saved me weeks of time if we'd had this a few years ago but better later than never! Thanks SketchUp Team.

[keggyification]

Loving 2024, great new features and performance improvements

[nickmerchant]

You do a really great job presenting the information. Kudos for being natural, believable and non-repetitive!👍

[noblearchitecture]

Got to hand it to them, the Devs nailed it with this one.

[ajrourke]

Amazing update. The ability to auto render terrain heights and snap multiple locations together helps me a ton for my project im working on. Ambient occlusion looks great as well.

[ashelyanderson]

Thanks for walking us through. I am always frustrated Mac and Microsoft don't have the same display format. I had to find ambient inclusion.

[larryzent]

Great job Aaron, really good explaining 2024 so far. Have a great day.

[lakehouse]

The nicest thing so far is simply the program Launching well! Was so clunky would start, crash, restart, crash and after 3 to 5 times would finally stick. The second best thing is not wasting half a day trying to get my 3D Connexion mouse to working again after the upgrade! Just install the latest Mac driver and Wow, everything's working?! No Way, impossible! (I can't imagine how anyone can work without this device) So kudos there!

[neekubee]

just purchased the product! excited to work with the software!!!

[ilianaciara]

hello Aaron! many thanx for your tips throughout the years! I would like your opinion about a value for money laptop! is there any machine you strongly recommend? I usually use sketchup with enscape and v-ray for rendering. Thanx again!

[larrylockett]

Is ambient occlusion going to make its way to the iPad version and/or the paid web version?

[xrotaryguy]

Lots of cool architectural features. Looks like Sketchup is no longer competing in the maker space since complex milled and printed shapes are still a problem.