All products need to (generally speaking) have an engineering file that needs to be CAD so no you cant make that file in SketchUp. However you can design it in SketchUp no problem and make the surfaces elsewhere later.
Generally designers don’t worry about these things we leave it to the surface modellers and engineers. Industrial designers are generally proficient in both areas, so it depends on what you want to do. I have never worked with NURBS.