20 Essential SketchUp Plugins for Efficient Modeling for Free Download

1.Joint Push/Pull

This is a plugin that provides various options for extrusion of surfaces, one of which is extruding multiple surfaces in parallel. You can check out the user manual provided by the developer for more details.
You may need to download the Free Library extension by the same developer before that.

2.Multiple Offsets

Are you familiar with AutoCAD’s offset? That does the same job but in 3D. The extension offers the offset methods. You can select one or more surfaces you would like to offset and then choose one of the three options.

3.CLF Shape Bender

This plugin lets you bend a group or a component to match the path of a curve or even a free-hand line. It gives you a wireframe preview of the product before execution.

4.RandomPushPull

You can play with this plugin to create various forms or playful wall cladding. It randomly extrudes all the selected surfaces within the range you enter. You just need to insert a minimum and a maximum value, then you will get a set of extruded surfaces with depths ranging between these two values.

5.FredoScale

This plugin provides a variety of scale transformation options to your model. These options include stretching, tapering, and twisting among others.

6.Soap Skin & Bubble

This plugin lets you apply a skin over the space between specified edges, and play with it to create a complicated yet smooth surface. However, this plugin is only free until April 2018.

7.Curviloft

This is another interesting plugin be Fredo6 that gives a parametric edge to the simple modeling software. It produces 9 different modeling options which can be created from a set of selected curved lines.

8.Selection Toys

This plugin gives you a variety of selection options, similar to QSelect or Filter in AutoCAD. That way you can avoid changing or deleting the wrong entity.

9.Weld

Like the Weld option in 3Ds Max, this plugin makes it possible to turn a set of connected lines and arcs into a single polyline.

10.Fredo6: Bezier Spline

This extension gives you a wider variety of line drawing options which include Polylines, Bezier and Spline curves. These baselines can be useful to create unique forms.

11.Mirror

Like the Mirror Command in AutoCAD, this one is really efficient for symmetric models and parts.

12.LSS Matrix

This plugin performs the job of the Array command in AutoCAD. It creates 3D rectilinear or radial patterns from selected components. It can be used for example, to model spiral stairs. All you need to do is the model the first two steps.

13.QuadFace Tools

This plugin facilitates dealing with non-planar surfaces. It can be handy with form-based conceptual models, topographies, or furniture design.

14.Sketchy FFD

This plugin surrounds your model with a box of control points which let you modify and manipulate the mesh which is composing the model.

15.Components onto Faces

This plugin enables you to a copy a single component onto multiple selected and ungrouped faces.

16.SectionCutFace

You know how to use the Section Plane option in the Tools drop-down menu in SketchUp? This plugin will complement this useful tool by giving a finishing face to hollow cut surfaces. This way you can present your 3D or even 2D sections without further editing.

17.Angular Dimension

This extension simply shows you the angles between surfaces. All you need to do is select the vertex and two points.

18.CleanUp³

This extension literally cleans up your model, like for example it removes the hidden and duplicated lines, delete lonely edges, and merge surfaces on the same plane.

19.Purge All

This plugin, also, rids your model of all the unused components, layers, and materials or whatever you choose it to remove. It, also, shows an optional report, listing the removed items.

20.Fredo Tools

This extension by Fredo6 gives a variety of handy options of no specific category. It groups a set of standalone plugins.