Skalp for SketchUp 2026 — Moving Forward

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Skalp for SketchUp 2026 — Moving Forward

SketchUp 2026 is here, and we’d like to share a clear update on Skalp for SketchUp 2026.

Skalp is very much alive — and deeply embedded in real architectural practice. Developed by architects, for architects, Skalp continues to be an essential part of our own daily production workflows. It is not a side project we “maintain”; it is a tool we actively depend on.

With the release of SketchUp 2026, Trimble introduced internal changes — most notably in the way Undo interacts with Scenes. These changes affect fundamental mechanisms Skalp relies on and require careful re-engineering to meet our standards of reliability and precision.

Our roadmap

  • A Skalp 2026 compatibility release is planned for January 1st, 2026.

    This release is focused purely on full compatibility with SketchUp 2026, ensuring Skalp continues to work exactly as expected, without functional compromises.

  • In parallel, we are working on a next-generation version of Skalp.

    This complete rewrite will deliver:

    • noticeably higher performance

    • increased stability in large and complex models

    • deeper alignment with modern SketchUp internals

    • and a set of new and improved features designed to further streamline professional workflows

We expect this new version of Skalp to be released in the first half of 2026.

For all users with an active maintenance plan, the new generation of Skalp will be available at no additional cost.

Skalp remains a long-term product, built with the same care and pragmatism we apply to our own architectural work.

More news will follow soon.

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The Skalp Team

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It’s alive!

Great to hear about the new initiative and the upcoming next-generation Skalp.

Thank you Team Skalp!

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Hi Guy, do you have any update to share on when you think Skalp for Sketchup 2026 will be available?

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:100: same here - Skalp is my essential dependancy. SketchUp runs on Skalp in my setup!
@Guy

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I used to love and use Skalp a lot, but have to admit I thought the plugin died years ago! Even your website says “copyright 2014-2017 Skalp” which gives the impression it was long gone.

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I have not heard any updates and they have gone radio silent since they initially responded that they had a Beta version of Skalp 2026. I am in the same boat in that I use Skalp for every project and it is now clearly gone. Does anyone else have an alternate extension that they like? I know Curic has one and Fredo just created one but I can’t get it to show up in Sketchup. Any support would be welcome.

Thanks

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Here is the link to curic section plugin, there’s a free and a paid version, I recommend you to get curic studio that includes curic section and other great plugins.

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Can we get an update on this, please?

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Have you contacted the developers? This isn’t an Skalp forum, skalp is a third party plugin.

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Guy is the developer. He may have updates.

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I sure have, Francis. Many moons have come and gone since.

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What I meant was that Trimble can´t do anything to solve directly digging into the code of a third party plugin, there have been known issues with other plugins but the only thing they can do is tell the developer about it, they probably have done that, who knows, but I don´t think the developers have the obligation to fix any problem, there are developers who even stop giving support for years like 1001bit tools. I recommend you to try Curic section, I own a lot of plugins from him and he is quite active on this forum, so if you have a problem with any of his plugins he will surely check and answer eventually, contrary to what the skalp developers have done to you. Plus Curic section will work for any sketchup version including future releases, Skalp works just for the current version of Sketchup so you´re forced to keep using an old version of skalp or pay to upgrade and be able to use on newer releases, that is probably your problem, I hate when developers do that and I actually use one of those plugins cause there´s no other that can do that that I know, But Skalp has more options.

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I wanted to update the plugin to version 26, since I’m still on version 24. Am I correct in thinking that there isn’t a version newer than 25 yet? Thank you

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Yes. At least according to this page:
download.skalp4sketchup.com/downloads/latest/

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Unfortunately this is true. :frowning:
So stuck on 2025 and Sequoia.

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Skalp for SketchUp — An Update

Back in December, we shared our plans for Skalp for SketchUp 2026. As you have probably noticed, that release never happened, so I owe you an explanation — and an apology for the long silence.

There wasn’t one single reason.

After many years of developing Skalp together, Jeroen moved on to new professional challenges, leaving all Skalp development in my hands. And as many of you know, software development is not my full-time profession. I am first and foremost a practicing architect, using SketchUp and Skalp every day in my own architectural practice.

Combining a very busy architectural practice with doing all of the Skalp development on my own inevitably slowed things down.

The delay even affected our own office. Because we rely heavily on Skalp in our daily work, we couldn’t move to SketchUp 2026 without a compatible Skalp version. So, just like many of our customers, we ended up skipping SketchUp 2026 ourselves.

But during that delay, another question became increasingly important:

What should the next generation of Skalp actually be?

Skalp was created more than 13 years ago because, as architects, we were missing functionality in SketchUp that we needed in our everyday work. But SketchUp continues to evolve, including in areas that have traditionally been important to Skalp.

And that’s a good thing.

For quite some time, however, it left me unsure about the right next step. Did it still make sense to spend my limited development time finishing Skalp 2026, or should I accept that we had missed that release cycle and rethink Skalp more fundamentally?

Over the past months, that answer has become much clearer. Recent developments have finally given me a clear direction for the next generation of Skalp.

So I have made the decision:

There will be no Skalp 2026 release.

Instead, I am putting my development time entirely into the next generation of Skalp.

Skalp is certainly not disappearing. The philosophy remains the same: Skalp shouldn’t replace functionality that belongs natively in SketchUp. It should build on SketchUp and add what architects and other professional users still need on top of it.

Some things will feel familiar. Others are being completely reconsidered. And some of the decisions I’ve made recently will probably make a lot more sense in the not-too-distant future. :wink:

For now, I can’t say much more about that.

What I can say is that development is very much alive, I am already using parts of the new work in my own architectural practice, and I am genuinely excited about where Skalp is heading.

I apologize for the long silence. For much of that time, I simply didn’t have a clear answer myself about what Skalp’s next step should be.

Now I do.

Thank you for your patience and continued support.

Guy
Skalp for SketchUp

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This is good to hear Guy - glad there will be development going forward. Pretty much my entire workflow is built around Skalp. With additional native features being developed for SketchUp that probably overlap with Skalps’ feature set I can see where you may have been conflicted.
Looking forward to the next generation of Skalp. :+1: