Which SketchUp versions does it run on, and do I need anything else installed?

SketchUp 2021 through 2026, and nothing else. It is pure Ruby with no external gems, no separate converter and no dependency on another extension: install the RBZ from Extension Manager and its own four-icon toolbar appears. Outside that range a version guard shows a clear warning instead of registering menus, so it never half-loads. The 2021-2026 matrix is covered by 10 automated tests and 407 assertions; the real-application smoke pass was recorded on 2023.1.315 (Ruby 2.7.7) and 2026.1.189 (Ruby 3.2.2), with 2024 and 2025 verified statically.

How is it licensed, and what does the beta price mean?

One licence per person, used on your own workstations. You download the RBZ and install it yourself; the current build has no online activation step. The suggested price is 30 USD, kept deliberately low for a 1.5.0 beta whose engine is finished - 13 development phases, 8 released packages from 1.0.0 to 1.5.0 - while the panel interface is still being finished. Updates within the 1.x line are included. You are buying the version described on this page, not a promise about the next one.

Where does it stop - what should I not expect from 1.5.0?

Three honest limits. First, the dialog is Turkish: the TR/EN tabs exist but the translation dictionary behind them does not yet, so today only the estimate report and its CSV carry full English labels. Second, it draws walls, it does not engineer them - no retaining-wall statics, no soil pressure, no reinforcement schedule; the rules it enforces are craft rules (stones per m2, bond stones, joint widths, minimum stone depth). Third, it is bounded on purpose: MAX_STATIONS 20,000 and MAX_DECORATIVE_PARTS 100,000, gate widths capped per preset, and terrain following needs a visible top surface to shoot rays at - with no surface it falls back to the line's own Z.

Garden Wall StudioNo Wrestling With Steps on a Slope: Build the Garden Wall, Gate Included, in Minutes

Even on a sloping plot, your project shows a boundary that sits true to the ground. Select the parcel edges, pick one of 13 wall characters, and get a stepped, terrain-following wall with gates and a quantity report in one group.

13 wall characters
6 gate presets
Quantity report + CSV

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SketchUp 2021 · SketchUp 2022 · SketchUp 2023 · SketchUp 2024 · SketchUp 2025 · SketchUp 2026 · v1.5.0

Left: the job by hand. Right: the same job with the plugin.

Garden Wall Studio

Every feature, at a glance

What the plugin does for you, drawn rather than listed.

Draw the boundary, get the wall

Select the parcel edges or click the corners; posts, panels, footings and gates arrive as one group and one undo step.

13 wall characters in one list

Concrete, block, natural stone, rubble, brick, mesh fence, timber, metal picket, gabion or glass: pick the one that suits your boundary.

The ground does the step maths

The wall reads the terrain; every bay steps to its own level, panels stay level, the footing follows the grade and posts reach the next level.

A gate in two clicks

Two clicks on a finished wall remove the panel between them, keep both end posts and fit one of six gate presets to the ground level.

Stone walls built by craft rules

No more than 15 stones and at least 2 bond stones per m², stone depth never under 16 cm and true joints, built into the geometry itself.

The cost comes with the model

Length, panel area, post and stone counts, footing concrete and waste, priced with your own unit rates, out as a CSV or a PDF.

Workload test

99% less work with Garden Wall Studio

By handModelling the wall post by post, then counting it by hand

3 h

With Garden Wall StudioSelect the edges, pick a character, read the report

2 min

99%

less time on this job

120×

faster

The time the same job takes by hand and with the plugin; the share and the speed-up are worked out from those two times.

Will it work for me?

The SketchUp versions this plugin runs on:

✓ SketchUp 2021
✓ SketchUp 2022
✓ SketchUp 2023
✓ SketchUp 2024
✓ SketchUp 2025
✓ SketchUp 2026

Your version is under Help › About in SketchUp. Not sure? Just ask.

What happens after you buy?

1Payment. You pay by card on Gumroad’s secure checkout.
2The file arrives at once. Gumroad shows the download straight away and emails it to you.
3Install. In SketchUp: Extensions › Extension Manager › Install Extension, then pick the .rbz file. Stuck? Message us and we’ll set it up together.

Who made it?

Ufuk Şen

3D visualisation specialist, instructor and plugin developer, Ankara

SketchUp instructor of 18 years · 34 courses on Udemy · 7,269 students · 899 reviews

Udemy profile →About me →

Got a question?

Ask before you buy; the person who made the plugin answers.

Message on WhatsApp →or email: ufuksn79@gmail.com

The same job: your hours, or the plugin’s seconds?

Drag me

With the plugin

2 min

Select the edges, pick a character, read the report

By hand

3 h…

Modelling the wall post by post, then counting it by hand

Drag me

01
Draw the Boundary Once, the Wall Is Done
Select the parcel edges, or click the corners yourself. Posts, panels, stepped footings and gates arrive as one group, one undo. No modelling post by post.
02
The Ground Does the Step Maths
Rays read the terrain, every bay steps to its own level, panels stay square and true, and the footing follows the grade underneath. You never work out the levels.
03
The Cost Comes With the Model
You walk into the quote prepared: length, panel area, post and stone counts, footing concrete, waste and your unit prices give a costed report and a CSV, not a tally sheet.

How many evenings could this give you back?

boundary wall and take-off per project

Projects per month4Hours on this task, per project3hours

Estimate based on a typical workflow. Your mileage will vary - usually upward.

Saved every month

0,0hours

Saved every year

0 hours

0 work days

You just found 122 hours of your life.

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The technical bit

For the people who read the manual first.

Works with: SketchUp 2021 · SketchUp 2022 · SketchUp 2023 · SketchUp 2024 · SketchUp 2025 · SketchUp 2026
Version: v1.5.0
Interface languages: tr · en

Wall chains come from what you already drew: selected edges, polylines and arcs, several disconnected chains at once, all checked for forks and gaps before a single face is created. No boundary in the model? The free-hand tool takes corner clicks - double-click, Enter or right-click to finish, click the first point to close, Backspace to undo a point, Esc to cancel - and leaves no temporary edges behind.
13 wall characters in one list: plain concrete, concrete block, natural stone, dry rubble, mortared rubble, veneer stone, brick, mesh panel fence, vertical timber, horizontal timber, metal picket, gabion and glass.
Terrain following is a vertical raycast onto the visible top surface, or the line's own Z if you prefer. On an update the existing wall is excluded from the rays, so re-running the same wall never makes it climb.
Every panel carries a step reference - high end, mid or low end - with a solid closed step foundation underneath, and posts extend themselves to the neighbouring panel or gate level. Defaults: 3.5 m bay spacing, 1.2 m panel height, 0.18 m panel thickness, 0.32 m posts, 0.45 x 0.50 m footing, 5% waste.
Gates go in with two clicks on a finished wall: the clicks snap to the nearest chain, the panel between them is removed, both end posts stay, and the gate is fitted to terrain level. Six presets with their own width limits - classic single leaf, wrought-iron double, natural timber double, modern sliding, mesh service gate, timber pedestrian gate.
Masonry rules live in the geometry, not in a note: max 15 stones per m2, at least 2 bond or anchor stones per m2, stone depth never below 16 cm, joints of 1.8 cm dry rubble / 2.8 cm mortared rubble / 3.5 cm veneer stone, 16 cm veneer facing - each value also written into the component definition as metadata.
Closed parcels get automatic inside/outside detection; open chains take a left/right hint from you. Add a setback offset, and define pedestrian or parking openings by chain number, distance from the chain start and width.
The wall stays parametric: settings and source chains are stored in the UfukTools_GardenWallStudio attribute dictionary in raw model units, so an existing wall group can be re-parameterised or its chain direction reversed from the panel, the Extensions submenu or the right-click menu.
The estimate window totals boundary length, net panel run, panel area, post/panel/gate counts, footing concrete, stone/brick/block counts, wire, timber area, metal length, mortar volume and waste percentage, applies your unit prices, and exports CSV (semicolon separated, UTF-8 with BOM) or prints and saves as PDF.
Pure Ruby, no external gems. Identical posts, panels and gates share ComponentDefinitions, each run is one group and one undo step, and MAX_STATIONS 20,000 / MAX_DECORATIVE_PARTS 100,000 stop a runaway boundary from freezing the model. Outside SketchUp 2021-2026 a version guard shows a clear warning instead of registering menus. 42 test methods across 8 files, roughly 36,259 assertions, plus real-app smoke passes on 2023.1.315 (Ruby 2.7.7) and 2026.1.189 (Ruby 3.2.2).

Still being built

Shipped, and what is next.

Shipped

v1.5.0: all 13 development phases shipped - chain builder, 13 wall characters, stepped foundations, terrain following, gates and the estimate report
Free-hand wall tool: corner clicks, close on the first point, Backspace to undo a point, Esc to cancel, and no temporary edges left in the model
Two-click gate placement on a finished wall, with 6 presets and per-preset width limits, keeping both end posts
Estimate report with your own unit prices and waste percentage, CSV export (semicolon, UTF-8 with BOM) and print or save as PDF
SketchUp 2021-2026 compatibility matrix (10 tests / 407 assertions), real-app smoke passes on 2023 and 2026, and 8 released RBZ packages from 1.0.0 to 1.5.0

Full English panel: wiring the existing TR/EN tabs to a real translation dictionary so the whole dialog switches language, not just the report
Real-application smoke tests on SketchUp 2024 and 2025, matching what is already recorded on 2023 and 2026
Saved unit-price sets, so a quote does not have to be typed again for every project

Before you ask

SketchUp 2021 through 2026, and nothing else. It is pure Ruby with no external gems, no separate converter and no dependency on another extension: install the RBZ from Extension Manager and its own four-icon toolbar appears. Outside that range a version guard shows a clear warning instead of registering menus, so it never half-loads. The 2021-2026 matrix is covered by 10 automated tests and 407 assertions; the real-application smoke pass was recorded on 2023.1.315 (Ruby 2.7.7) and 2026.1.189 (Ruby 3.2.2), with 2024 and 2025 verified statically.
One licence per person, used on your own workstations. You download the RBZ and install it yourself; the current build has no online activation step. The suggested price is 30 USD, kept deliberately low for a 1.5.0 beta whose engine is finished - 13 development phases, 8 released packages from 1.0.0 to 1.5.0 - while the panel interface is still being finished. Updates within the 1.x line are included. You are buying the version described on this page, not a promise about the next one.
Three honest limits. First, the dialog is Turkish: the TR/EN tabs exist but the translation dictionary behind them does not yet, so today only the estimate report and its CSV carry full English labels. Second, it draws walls, it does not engineer them - no retaining-wall statics, no soil pressure, no reinforcement schedule; the rules it enforces are craft rules (stones per m2, bond stones, joint widths, minimum stone depth). Third, it is bounded on purpose: MAX_STATIONS 20,000 and MAX_DECORATIVE_PARTS 100,000, gate widths capped per preset, and terrain following needs a visible top surface to shoot rays at - with no surface it falls back to the line's own Z.

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