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Are you looking for a SketchUp viewer? In that case, XUVER has the solution. With our unique viewer, you can view all your SketchUp files with unprecedented ease: this viewer works completely from your own browser and there is no need for any heavy downloads! Within moments you can view and share your designs with anyone from anywhere in the world.

Find the right SketchUp. Learn about our 3D modeling software pricing, and pick the plan that fits your needs. However, because SketchUp for Web runs in a browser, some things about SketchUp for Web work differently from the desktop version. Creating and Editing Models in SketchUp for Web introduces the features and points you to helpful articles in the SketchUp area of the Help Center.

Why choose this interactive online SketchUp viewer?

SketchUp is a much-used 3D designing program, and rightfully so. However, this program, as well as other professional sketching programs, is used by professionals that are trained to use it. In case you want to share your architectural designs to third parties, especially when travelling and visiting is restricted.

For a start, all other involved parties need to own SketchUp too, or they have to come into your office to view the sketch. At XUVER we wanted to make things easier for not only the designer but for your clients too. Most importantly cutting out this traveling time and making sure your designs are easily accessible in real-time that allows you to communicate more effectively.

Advantages of the SketchUp viewer

With this communication tool, all these struggles are long gone. XUVER runs in your browser, which means that it becomes much easier to view your sketches. Sharing your XUVER project online is just as easy: simply send the browser link to your clients. After clicking the link, they will appear alongside you with their very own avatar (a 3D figure).

Our 3D model is fully interactive, too. This means that everyone invited can walk through the model with their own personal avatar all in real-time. The avatar adds space and dimension into the interactive design, so it does not get closer to a property viewing in real life! This user-friendly viewer is specifically designed for everyone to use, no special training is required. Anyone is able to navigate the avatar through the design using the arrow keys on their computer, tablet or mobile phone. This almost game-like experience feels natural for everyone involved.

The SketchUp viewer that saves you time (and money)

With this online SketchUp viewer, which can also be used as a Revit and ARCHICAD viewer, XUVER delivered a product that is the result of years of ambition. This viewer offers a solution for a very broad group of users. From SketchUp architects to a broad variety of other 3D designers that use this popular sketching program: XUVER can be used in many different professions.

Live editing your designs in the SketchUp viewer

Discuss the model with your client through the built-in voice module which enables communication as if you are side by side. Another great feature is the possibility to point out details with the laser pointer. You can also choose to remove (and re-add) layers in the model and point out objects that need some extra attention.

And besides that there is the possibility to live edit your designs. Would your client like to see how the shadowing looks at different times of the day? Or perhaps they are not sure about the stone type of the outer walls of their future home. All of this (and more) is edited inside XUVER by toggling the many sliders. No need to upload a new model or learn parameters anymore! Anyone can alter their design easily and showing clients different options. The result is that you will get to a finalized design quicker and easier.

Easy conversion with the SketchUp converter

Converting your SketchUp model to view and share online is also user-friendly and only takes a few minutes. Conversion is done with unprecedented ease inside the SketchUp software with the XUVER extension (this can be downloaded straight from the SketchUp extension warehouse). Convert all your Sketchup files to be able to communicate your 3d designs easier and much better.

Simply take your converted SKP files – which are now .xr files – upload them into the XUVER online platform to view and share them online. This whole process only takes a few minutes and saves you and your clients hours visiting or making expensive and time-consuming renders only to find out you need to re-edit your designs.

Want to know more about the SketchUp viewer?

Has this article grasped your attention? If so, you can always reach out to us. Our team will be delighted to give you a personal demonstration of this viewer and would like to get in touch. So feel free to contact us!

When mapping photos onto flat faces, you can choose the easy way or the hard way. Unfortunately, the hard way is the method you end up using the vast majority of the time. Importing images by using the File menu lets you take any image and map it to any flat face in your model.

Before you follow these steps, make sure you have at least one face in your model; you map your texture to a face.

2Select the image file you want to use as a texture.

You can use JPEGs, TIFFs, and PNGs as textures in SketchUp; all these are common image file formats.

3Select the Use as Texture option.

Image textures in SketchUp are made up of tiles. To make a large area of texture, such as a brick wall, SketchUp uses a bunch of tiles right next to each other. In the case of a brick wall, it may look like there are thousands of bricks, but it’s really just the same tile of about 50 bricks repeated over and over again.

Because SketchUp treats imported image textures just like any other texture, what you’re really doing when you click to locate the upper-right corner of your image is this: You’re telling SketchUp how big to make the tile for your new photo texture. Don’t worry too much about getting it right the first time, though — you can always tweak things later.

4Click the Open button.

The Open dialog box closes, and Paint Bucket becomes your active tool, with the cursor loaded with the image you chose to import.

5Click once in the lower-left corner of the face you want to paint.

Your click tells SketchUp where to position the lower-left corner of the image you’re using as a texture. You can click anywhere on the face you’re trying to paint, but I recommend the lower-left corner — it keeps things simple.

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6Click somewhere else on the face you’re painting.

Because SketchUp treats imported image textures just like any other texture, what you’re really doing when you click to locate the upper-right corner of your image is this: You’re telling SketchUp how big to make the tile for your new photo texture. Don’t worry too much about getting it right the first time, though — you can always tweak things later.

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Unless the proportions of your image perfectly match the face onto which it was mapped, you should see your image repeating. Don’t worry — that’s normal. SketchUp automatically tiles your image to fill the whole face. You can scale, rotate, skew, or even stretch your texture to make it look however you want.