Import Your SketchUp® Drawings into VectorWorks with the free SketchUp plug-in for VectorWorks
Try out your ideas in SketchUp® and transfer them to VectorWorks for a complete design-to-construction solution with the new SketchUp plug-in for VectorWorks.
Reuse, Don’t Re-create
With this plug-in, you can reuse preliminary conceptual models or designs you created using SketchUp. Less time duplicating your drawings means more time practicing your craft and perfecting other phases in your project’s life cycle. And you can continue with more complex aspects of your design process, moving data further down the design path without having to retrace any steps.
Turn Sketches into Intelligent Data
The SketchUp plug-in for VectorWorks allows you to transfer your simple SketchUp models into the VectorWorks intelligent building object environment.
Linking intelligent building data to your initial SketchUp drawing allows you to:
- Eliminate unnecessary design time
- Generate preliminary cost estimates and bills of material at the conceptual stage
- Replace SketchUp components with VectorWorks intelligent architectural objects, such as doors, windows, and floors
All this and more means you can cut down on a project’s design time, pleasing your clients, and paving the way for more business.
Here’s How it Works
The plug-in automatically translates SketchUp model geometry and components into VectorWorks floor, walls, roofs faces, and symbols. You can choose to map SketchUp model geometry in three ways: by material, by layer, or by geometry.
Layer and materials mapping options allow you to control which objects in a SketchUp model are converted into floors, walls, and roofs, based on their layer organization or the material assignment. The geometry options automatically map horizontal surfaces as floors, vertical surfaces as walls, and oblique surfaces as roof faces.
SketchUp components come in as VectorWorks symbols and can be easily replaced with VectorWorks intelligent building objects
VectorWorks Users—plug-in to SketchUp Today
Macintosh® and Windows® plug-ins are free to all version 12 users of VectorWorks Architect, VectorWorks Landmark, VectorWorks Spotlight, and VectorWorks Designer.
How To Import Sketchup Files (PDF file)
Download SketchUp Plug-in for Mac (2.7 MB)
Download SketchUp Plug-in for Win (2.4 MB)