Solid Engine

[loubydesigns]

Hi All,

Does anyone have any idea whether SketchUp uses Parasolid or Asis or something else for its solid modelling tools?

Many thanks,

Adam

[ateliernab]

well, someone asked in 2019, and someone from SU answered

Discussion: SketchUp Modeling Kernel

SketchUp’s geometry kernel is unique to SketchUp, as is it’s display pipeline. We decided early on that it was more flexible, efficient and affordable for us to develop these components on our own rather than entering into expensive and restrictive licensing deals for them. Over the years, we have iterated many times on both of these components, leading to improvements in performance and reliability orders of magnitude better than our original code. We’ve been able to closely tune both our geom…