# Sketchup Improvements/suggestions

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-improvements-suggestions/58793>\
**Category:** Pro\
**Tags:** dimensiontool\
**Created:** [January 3, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-improvements-suggestions/58793 "2018-01-03T17:15:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![gmwbug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/67e7ee/32.png) [@gmwbug](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/gmwbug)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 6:56am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/sketchup-improvements-suggestions/58793/5 "2018-01-09T06:56:44Z")

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Thanks @sketch3d\_de for referring to my post there and the constructive contributions you made to it. I posted it at the time coming from a professional exposure as architect in Switzerland and Germany where specific dimensioning standards are strictly applied and unfortunately not supported by SketchUp Pro/Layout, and because I think a number of users may face comparable difficulties in various countries and industry areas.

I saw in-between a number of other related posts, this one for example gives also interesting perspectives on the topic’s complexity:

[Gully’s wishlist](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/gullys-wishlist-resurrected/8176) - see esp. 3.e about dimension tolerances…

On the one hand, I think dimensioning deserves the same attention as localization (language, number formats etc.) or import/export formats – no matter how good a software is intrinsically, communication and exchange aspects can make or break its destiny.  
On the other hand: to my knowledge, the only viable CAD tools that solution the kind of problems referenced here are about ten times more expensive than SketchUp Pro.

A more comprehensive support of dimensioning and annotations is not only a challenge in terms of coding, it requires researching across relevant application fields and locale and would inevitably result into a more sophisticated user interface – let’s hope this product positioning dilemma is getting sensibly approached.

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