SketchUp 2026.2 is out now! :rocket: [SU26-Launch-26.2-Hero-AnalysisDaylight] We’re excited to announce that SketchUp 2026.2 is now available! Download the update now , or, if you already have SketchUp open, simply go to Help > Check for Update. In this release we have some exciting new features …

I just read the release notes and I’m psyched to check it out~ There were 4 different items where I said “I was right about to complain about that!”.

[image] Does it mean what I think it means??? Absolute accuracy of the Color By Axis style - If that’s the case, that’s a super significant improvement. It should make the news! I can’t check it myself until the IT team at my company install it…

In add location on the previous release there was an, maybe experimental, menu to select map datums, map kinds, like UTM32 euref89, in order to set proper location. That menu is now gone. It seems the experimenting is to have a model origo that can be geolocalized. But its now restricted to latitud…

The issue was with the new graphics engine. How it decided whether an edge was on axis was different to the way the classic graphics engine did things. Roughly speaking, the classic approach was perhaps 40 times more accurate. So, now the new graphics engine will be more correct in showing lines as…

Oh, I had no idea the accuracy was better in the classic graphics engine. Does it means that they have now roughly the same accuracy? The classic graphics engine wasn’t absolutely accurately rendering Axis By Color either so I won’t switch back to it anyway, but it’s nice to know the gap is gettin…

“Face shadows may render incorrectly in models that contain section planes” “Face shadows may display artifacts in certain models” This is really really bad! What is the ETA on a solution to not being able to turn off ‘fast shadows’ on the Mac? Is there a place I can download the most recent 202…

[image] jellway: Is there a place I can download the most recent 2026.1 release still? https://web.archive.org/web/20260312045640/https://help.sketchup.com/en/downloading-sketchup , from which you can extract the direct links to the files: https://download.sketchup.com/SketchUp-2026-1-253-80.d…

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daniel_pidcock May 25, 2026, 5:54am 25

@Odd_Haakon_Byberg is this the kind of thing you’re looking for? New in SketchUp Labs: CRS-based Geolocation in Add Location

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