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What actually costs you time in SketchUp, and what to do about it.
Start here · 12 min read
Twenty SketchUp tools sorted by the job you are sick of doing — walls, openings, floors, stairs, facades, roads, take-offs. Real numbers, and a plain word on what is still unfinished.
Read →Stairs, facades, floors, take-offs - the deep end of a single task.
8 September 2026 · 8 min read
You do not need forty of them. But it helps to know what a .rbz really is, whether it is safe, what it costs you at startup, and the two jobs SketchUp will never do on its own.
Read →Why Use Plugins in SketchUp at All?1 September 2026 · 8 min read
A wall moves 40 cm at six in the evening. What that costs is the real measure of a workflow. Here is where the minutes go, job by job, and which bottleneck to fix first.
Read →How SketchUp Plugins Actually Make You Faster18 August 2026 · 6 min read
Hand-laying tiles in SketchUp is the most expensive habit in interior modelling. Here's how patterns, grout and clipping really work — and how to get a cut list out of it.
Read →SketchUp Flooring: Patterns, Grout and a Real Cut List4 August 2026 · 7 min read
Openings are where SketchUp models fall apart: single-face cuts, deleted voids, frames stretched by scale. How to cut a wall properly and still get a schedule out.
Read →Windows and Doors: Where SketchUp Models Go Wrong21 July 2026 · 7 min read
How to build convincing surrounding blocks, terrain-following roads and planting around your project — and how to choose a level of detail that saves a day instead of eating one.
Read →Context Buildings in SketchUp: A Site Model in an Hour7 July 2026 · 7 min read
A stair is quick to draw and expensive to redraw. Here are the numbers a reviewer actually checks, and how to model stairs and ramps so a floor height change costs one edit.
Read →Stairs and Ramps in SketchUp That Pass Review23 June 2026 · 7 min read
A model can render beautifully and still be impossible to price. Here is what must be true before a SketchUp take-off can be trusted — and how cut lists reach the workshop.
Read →SketchUp Quantity Take-Off: From Model to Cut List9 June 2026 · 7 min read
A stretched image is not a cladding system. How to set out ACM panels and a ventilated rainscreen in SketchUp — and leave with a panel schedule, not a pretty box.
Read →Facade Cladding in SketchUp: ACM Panels and Rainscreens26 May 2026 · 7 min read
A plugin that runs fine on SketchUp 2025 can be invisible on 2022. Here is what actually changes between versions — Ruby, the API, the dialog browser — and what to check first.
Read →Why a Plugin Works in SketchUp 2025 but Not 2022