I haven’t used Sketchup in about 4 years. I learned the basics for a personal interior design project and have forgotten most of what I learned. I saw that you can now make floorplans with Polycam and am planning to try that out for a current personal project. Do I need to upgrade to pro in order to add the Polycam extension? I haven’t been able to find an answer to that by googling. Thanks in advance!
Extensions are only able to be used in SketchUp for Desktop, so you would need Pro.
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Thank you so much! I’m not great with technology, so I appreciate you answering kindly.
I thought polycam was a stand alone phone app that scanned and then downloaded as an .obj which could be imported to SketchUp. It’s a separate app from a separate company with no affiliation to SketchUp. That’s what I remember when I used to use it, unless they have developed an extension which I have never heard of. (EDIT: as @KyleB points out below, there is now a direct import extension available, but you still need the app to scan from your phone) Get Polycam on your phone, can’t remember if they still have a free version, scan and email the scan to yourself within Polycam then import to SKUP
If you have an iPad Pro the iPad version of SketchUp includes a room scanner direct to SketchUp that uses the iPad lidar to scan
Polycam is a 3D scanner app, you can download and export the 3D scanned geometry and import from sketchup, I don’t think sketchup has a native obj importer, and the free version is quite limited on that aspect, you’ll probably need a desktop version, install TTlib and quadface tools to have an obj importer or any other importer plugin like universal importer.
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There is a Polycam Extension in the warehouse - this is what I was referring to…
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PolyCam Extension is really great. You can import your scan directly into SketchUp. You receive a textured mesh similar to usdz models.
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