Communicating Your Designs

After you create a 3D model, you likely need to share your design with others. SketchUp's tools for sharing and communicating how your designs look are as versatile as a Ginsu kitchen knife set.

Just like the Ginsu, SketchUp's section planes enable you to slice your model quickly and easily, so you can share a cross-section of your model.

But wait! There's more!

In SketchUp, you can also

• Simulate walking through a model with the Walk tool.
• Save different views of your model as scenes.
• Animate scenes to create a tour of your model's exterior and interior.
• Cast realistic shadows based on your location and different times of day.
• Add site context to your model to show how it would interact in real world surroundings.
• Watermark your model with an overlay or background image, such as a company logo.

And that's not all you can do!

The ways you can share your designs go beyond SketchUp. In the 3D Warehouse, you can upload your model and share it with the SketchUp Community. If you're a SketchUp Pro user, you have LayOut, which enables you to create 2D drawings and documentation of your model, including plans, sections, elevations, and perspectives.