To learn more about Trimble Connect, visit the Trimble Connect home page. Trimble Connect also helps you keep work up to date across our desktop, web, mobile, and XR software. Tip: Signing in also gives you access to Trimble Connect, a service that enables you to collaborate and share and view 3D models. Our outstanding community of passionate experts have answers to your questions. Right now, here are a few key differences between the way SketchUp for Web and the desktop version of SketchUp work. On the SketchUp for Web sidebar, shown in the following figure, you can click an icon on the left to view different panels. You can also find help by opening the Instructor panel. When you select a tool, a brief note about what it does or the options available for that tool appear in the status bar. The callouts in the figure correspond to the numbers in the following list. In the following figure, you see how SketchUp for Web looks when you first open the program in your web browser. SketchUp for Web looks and works a lot like SketchUp, but the web- and desktop-based programs have fairly different interfaces. We recommend using a three-buttonscroll-wheel mouse for easy orbiting, zooming, and precision positioning while modeling. Tip: SketchUp is best-suited for mouse and keyboard interaction.
Need Help Fast?Ready to start creating, editing, and viewing models in SketchUp for Web? This article explains what you need in order to start using SketchUp for Web, including the web-browser and device-support details. Activating tools and commands with keyboard shortcuts Using keyboard shortcuts is one of the best ways to model faster in SketchUp. For the most part, you can customize the keyboard shortcuts how you like, but here are a few guidelines to help you understand what keys are and are not available as shortcuts. An input will appear with the prompt Set shortcut. Then, hover over the search result and click on either the current shortcut key or the empty box that appears when there is no shortcut for a command.
The most important one is activating the Orbit tool by holding down the mouse scroll wheel. There are also mouse shortcuts in SketchUp. If there is no shortcut for a tool you use a lot, you can set one. For each tool or command, Search provides a brief description as well as a reminder about the assigned keyboard shortcut. While you are using SketchUp, you can look up shortcut keys using the Search tool. Here are some default shortcuts you might use frequently. When starting out with shortcuts, we recommend that you start by learning the ones for tools that you use the most. While not every tool has a default shortcut, the shortcuts that are available are displayed with each search result.
If you find yourself using a tool frequently, you can simply look up its shortcut by searching in SketchUp for Web. Using keyboard shortcuts is one of the best ways to model faster in SketchUp.