Required WebGL compliant browsers include: My.SketchUp only works with an active web connection (the faster the better). “That means the software works well enough for you to use, but we’re still creating functionality and fine-tuning existing features.” Browsers It Works With “my.SketchUp is being developed and beta tested,” writes the company. The SketchUp folks at Trimble say on their website that my.SketchUp is not for commercial use. Take a look at the image above that’s what it looks like in Safari. My.SketchUp is the new home of a cloud app version of SketchUp that you run through your modern web browser. Clicking on a tool will bring up sub-tool options (or related tools primarily), while the right-sided tools will bring up larger palettes.

Tools are split between left and right sides of the main work area.

(see image 01 below)Ġ1 – The UI for my.SketchUp is different and reflects modern web app principles. And yes, while those using the mobile iOS app likely got notice of that update, the SketchUp in the Cloud app has been a little harder to learn about. Between June and early October, the web-based version has been available as an “invite-only” beta. They also introduced version 3 of SketchUp Mobile at that same time.

The SketchUp folks quietly took the wraps off my.Sketchup-SketchUp in the Cloud-back at 3D Basecamp 2016, their annual user event, according to a blog post. And it’s not always easy to find news on Trimble’s press release page either. Trimble and the folks at SketchUp have been pretty darn quiet about this release.

If you didn’t know either, you are hardly alone. Senior associate editor, Pete Evans, AIA, first became aware of this and brought it to my attention. You might not have known that the folks at Trimble’s SketchUp division have put SketchUp on the web, released (earlier this month) as an open beta for their new SketchUp in the Cloud version named, my.sketchup.

Sketchup for the web