SketchUp Pro 2017 Chinese Edition with Step-by-Step Installation Guide – Supports 32-bit and 64-bit Systems

SketchUp Pro 2017, also known as SketchMaster 2017 in Chinese, is the latest graphic design software released by Google in 2017. It features a fast learning curve, simple operation, and a comprehensive set of tools. This software is designed to streamline the design process, allowing designers to fully express their ideas while enabling real-time communication with clients.

With SketchUp Pro 2017, designers can create concepts directly on their computers, making it ideal for 3D architectural design. The new version introduces a next-generation rendering pipeline that significantly improves rendering quality and performance. It supports high-resolution modeling and high DPI displays, such as Apple’s Retina screens, allowing for more precise and smooth capture and inference on these high-definition displays.

Additional enhancements include improved transparency display, customizable axis and inference colors, and a new plane-locking feature that locks references perpendicular to a surface—simply hover your mouse over a surface to start drawing. Note that this version is compatible only with 64-bit operating systems and requires only cracking and installation, without any localization needed.

Installation Guide

1. Extract the installation package and run SketchUpPro-zh-CN-x64-17.0.18899__AI_S_SC_0_AI_S_S_SC_1_.exe to begin installing SketchUp Pro 2017. The software will automatically detect the required components; click “Install”.
2. When prompted during installation, you can skip browsing and click “Next”.
3. Select the installation path; the default is C:Program FilesSketchUpSketchUp 2017. To change it, click “Change”. Then click “Next” to continue.
4. The installation will proceed and may take some time. After completion, move on to the next step.

Tutorial

1. After installation, open the “Replace Files” folder in the installation package and copy the patch files to the installation directory (default: C:Program FilesSketchUpSketchUp 2017).
2. Overwrite the original files to complete the SketchUp Pro 2017 installation.

New Features

1. Next-Generation Graphics Pipeline: Major enhancements to the rendering engine unify rendering across SketchUp, my.SketchUp, SketchUp Mobile Viewer, LayOut, and 3D Warehouse, enabling new visual effects and improved performance.
2. High DPI Modeling: Full support for high DPI displays like Apple’s Retina improves the accuracy and smoothness of capture and inference operations.
3. Transparency Improvements: Enhanced transparent display offers better quality and frame rates, improved rendering of overlapping transparent surfaces, and adjustable opacity in X-ray mode.
4. Custom Axis and Inference Colors: Users can customize axis colors and parallel/tangent inference colors via System Settings > Accessibility, enhancing visual clarity and accessibility. LayOut respects these settings as well.
5. Drawing Tool Enhancements: Improved heuristic drawing helps create graphics quickly and accurately.
6. Plane Locking for Rectangles: Rectangle tools now support plane locking with arrow keys, similar to Circle and Polygon tools, allowing drawing of off-axis rectangles.
7. Offset 2.0: The offset tool has been rewritten to prevent overlaps and self-intersections, producing cleaner, more precise results. LayOut’s offset tool shares these improvements.
8. Perpetual Face Inference: Added a reference lock perpendicular to surfaces, allowing easier plane-aligned drawing by simply hovering over a surface.
9. Component Origin Reference: Components now display an origin inference (small crosshair), making it easier to locate and capture the component’s origin point.
10. Group to Component Conversion: When converting groups to components, you can now specify properties such as name, description, classification, bonding plane, and pivot location, simplifying organization.
11. Content Organization: The new version clarifies file paths for materials, styles, component libraries, and templates in System Settings > File, easing content management and backup.
12. Trimble Connect Updates: Integration now supports detailed task creation and assignment, displays updated references, and allows alignment edits to synchronize across connected projects.
13. LayOut Tables: Introduces spreadsheet-like tables with features such as text editing, styling, cell merging, and clipboard saving for easy reuse.
14. CSV and XLSX Import: Import spreadsheet files into LayOut with dynamic linking; changes in source files update LayOut tables, useful for reports and data integration.
15. Associative Dimensions & Labels: Dimensions and labels now update automatically when the SketchUp model changes, using Persistent IDs technology.
16. Flexible Dimensions: Dimensions can be dragged to new positions without losing association with their geometry.
17. LayOut Offset Tool: Provides offset functionality similar to SketchUp, avoiding intersecting lines.
18. LayOut Warnings: Alerts notify of issues like cropped text boxes or unrendered models; these can be disabled until ready.
19. Next-Gen DWG/DXF Export:
    • Exports multi-page LayOut files into a single DWG with separate tabs.
    • Preserves LayOut entities (dimensions, tables, labels, etc.) as native DWG entities.
    • Improves handling of model and paper space with automatic scaling.
    • Offers options for layer-based coloring or special “Index 7” color for visibility.
    • Includes selection modifiers to prevent accidental movement during selection.
20. Extension Manager: Easily enable, disable, or uninstall SketchUp extensions. Access digital signatures for quality assurance.
21. Persistent IDs: Unique identifiers for edges, faces, groups, and components improve recognition and handling across SketchUp and connected apps.
22. Chromium Web Dialogs: Built-in cross-platform web browser simplifies extension development.
23. LayOut C API Updates: Expanded support for angle dimensions, tables, arcs, and clip masks enhances developer capabilities.
24. Action Manager: New notification system for extensions enables auto-dismissing pop-ups and user prompts.
25. Ruby 2.2 Upgrade: The Ruby API has been upgraded from 2.0 to 2.2 for improved scripting functionality.

Software Features

1. Unique, streamlined interface allows rapid mastery by designers.
2. Versatile applications across architecture, urban planning, landscaping, interior, and industrial design.
3. Convenient push-pull tool enables easy creation of 3D geometry from 2D shapes without complex steps.
4. Quickly generate sections anywhere to analyze building interiors; export 2D sections to AutoCAD.
5. Seamless import/export of DWG, DXF, JPG, 3DS files; integrates with AutoCAD, Revit, 3DSMAX, PIRANESI, and more.
6. Extensive component library includes doors, windows, columns, furniture, and materials.
7. Effortless creation of presentation videos to fully convey design ideas.
8. Multiple display modes: draft, line draft, perspective, rendering, and others.
9. Accurate shadow and sunlight positioning for real-time analysis based on location and time.
10. Simple annotation of spatial dimensions and text labels, which always face the designer.

Usage Tips

1. Double-click a single face to select both the face and its bounding edges.
2. Double-click a face on an object to select the entire object’s faces and edges.
3. Use the input box at the bottom right to enter eye height when using roaming or camera commands.
4. Enter a number followed by “deg” (e.g., 60deg) during dynamic zoom to adjust the camera angle.
5. Enter a number followed by “mm” (e.g., 35mm) during dynamic zoom to adjust focal length.
6. Use “Along the Axis Mirror Mode” from the right-click menu to create groups or components.
7. Select an object, use the scale tool, choose the scaling direction, and enter -1 to mirror the object.
8. Use push-pull once; double-click next time to repeat the previous push-pull distance.
9. Hold Ctrl while selecting to add to the selection; Shift to add or subtract; Ctrl + Shift to subtract.
10. Shift + middle mouse button enables panning.
11. Hold Shift to maintain direction lock (parallel, polar axis, etc.) when drawing.
12. Holding Ctrl, Shift, or both while selecting changes the selection set.
13. Single-click selects a line or face; double-click selects connected geometry; triple-click selects the entire body.
14. Hold Ctrl and use move/copy commands to duplicate selected objects.
15. When exporting, select options to include edges and faces for better output.
16. Hold Shift while zooming to switch to a wide-angle lens view.
17. Double-click a new surface to repeat the last stretch size.
18. Right-click a face to align view or axis to that face.
19. In Settings > Rendering > Edge Lines, enable “Use Axis Colors” to check for model face issues.
20. Hold Ctrl while moving objects to move and copy simultaneously.
21. For multiple copies, drag copied objects out, then enter the number followed by “x” (e.g., 5x) to replicate.
22. Hold Shift while deleting to hide edge lines.
23. Drag selection box from right to left to select all intersecting objects.
24. Hold Shift and enter new values between two points in the measurement tool to scale the entire model.
25. Close unnecessary layers to improve performance with large files.
26. Replace furniture with 2D components during layout refinement to boost speed.
27. Disable shadow display to enhance performance.
28. Turn off material effects display to speed up calculations.
29. Hold Shift in the measurement tool, point at a distance, then enter a new length to scale objects proportionally.
30. Use array by copying once, then entering the number of copies with “x” in the info bar (e.g., 5x).

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