Powerful engine combined with the simplicity of SketchUp. Biased, Unbiased and Interactive Render modes with the joy of rendering inside SketchUp view. Enrich your models with highly detailed content, with no limitations.

Back Face Material Support

Different materials can be applied to the front and back face of a surface allowing the creation of unique effects like fabric, leaves and more.

Interactive Render Overlay

Thea for SketchUp allows you to run interactive rendering either inside Thea window or directly inside the SketchUp view, a feature that we call interactive render overlay. Additionally, with the use of interactive region rendering, you can select and render a region of the SketchUp view, providing ultra-fast feedback for complex scenery. It is a valuable tool in the workflow as it gives you an immediate visualization of modifications to the geometry, environment, depth of field, reflections, light distribution, material properties and external Thea models.

Advanced Material Editor

The advanced Thea material editor has been fully integrated in SketchUp, bringing all the advanced and unique features of Thea materials. The user interface has been redesigned from scratch following SketchUp’s simplicity and ease of use.

Adjust Exposure

The Adjust Exposure button takes away the manual process of finding the correct exposure of the rendered image with one click. On top of that, three new exposure presets have been added for different scene types (interior, interior with sunlight, exterior).

Proxy Creation from FBX

In Thea for SketchUp it is possible to import FBX, OBJ, DAE and 3DS files and convert them to Proxy Models. While importing a file the user is able to adjust the proxy materials.

Online Repository

The Online Repository [link] can now be accessed directly from the Thea content browser. To download an online material, double-click the thumbnail. After the download is complete, the material can be applied with the Bucket tool. Since downloaded materials are saved locally, there is no need to re-download them.

Stereoscopic Rendering

Stereoscopic image output exports two 360-degree images for both eyes, letting you see the model in 3D using simple red-cyan glasses or VR headset.

Fog & Cloud Presets

With Thea for SketchUp you can adjust the Global Medium of your scene, via the settings at the Environment tab. The Fog preset allows you to control the fog density, the bottom and top positions, and create unique photorealistic renderings.

Additionally, there is also a Cloud material preset for adding volumetric effects on defined solid groups or components.

Unique features…

  • Custom Scene Update

    The Custom Scene Update buttons allow the user to control the update of materials, geometry, lights, and proxies every time the scene starts rendering. This makes it possible to turn off geometry updates when you only want to edit materials or lighting.

  • Section Cuts

    Section cuts are now supported in SketchUp 2014 (and newer versions). Section cuts allow you to cut through buildings and rooms maintaining the same interior lighting as if the external walls were still in place.

  • Light Editing Tool

    Thea for SketchUp has its own point lights. The Light editing tool not only allows precise light positioning, but it can also give live feedback while rendering interactively in the main window.

  • Advanced Shadow Catcher

    Integrate your models into a scene with a background image, introducing realistic shadows produced by IBL, Sun and Thea Point Lights. It can also produce real reflections on the ground-plane.

  • Photoshop PSB/PSD output

    Thea for SketchUp supports Photoshop PSB/PSD files (8, 16 and 32bit). This makes it possible to save multi-layer images in large formats.

  • Resume Rendering

    Any rendered image can be saved as an .img.thea file. This file can be reloaded inside Thea Rendering Window at any time allowing the user to resume a rendering.

More Features

— Spectral Renderer
— Batch Render Tool
— Point Lights (Omni, Spot, IES)
— Access many ready-to-use high quality materials. FEATURES LIST...

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User Showcase

Have a look at what our users are creating with Thea for SketchUp.

  • Oriental house on the plains

    by David Hennessy

  • Cathedral View

    by David Hennessy

  • Tiny Reception

    by Juan Carlos Uribe

  • Sunlit Loft Space

    by Jakob Winter

  • Lad musician Nagoya

    by Massimo Siracusa

  • Flower Bed

    by David Hier

System Requirements

MacOSX

MacOSX 10.10 or above, Intel SSE3 CPU (or compatible),

for Presto GPU *
Nvidia CUDA Graphics Card (Compute Capability 2.x / 3.x / 5.x / 6.x / 7.0) with latest CUDA and web graphics driver,

SketchUp 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Make or Pro)

* Note that support for OSX 10.14 (Mojave) is currently pending due to driver incompatibility.

Windows

Windows 7/8/10 64-bit, Intel SSE3 CPU (or compatible),

for Presto GPU
Nvidia CUDA Graphics Card (Compute Capability 2.x / 3.x / 5.x / 6.x / 7.0 / 7.2 / 7.5 ) with latest graphics driver
or
AMD Graphics Card (Hawaii, Tahiti, Pitcairn, Capeverde, Bonaire) with latest OpenCL and graphics drivers,

SketchUp 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 (Make or Pro)