In this video, we check out the changes that have been made to the SketchUp 3D Warehouse to make it easier to find and download free 3D models!
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A little over a week ago, a blog post came out on SketchUp’s website about some changes they’d made to search within the 3D warehouse, so I thought I’d make a video checking out some of the changes.
I’ll link to the post in the notes below.
https://blog.sketchup.com/article/fresh-look-3d-warehouse-search
Historically, finding what you want in the Warehouse has been a bit challenging with the built-in tools, so I was very excited to give this a try.
Exploring the SketchUp 3D warehouse search changes
To start, you can access it by going to file, 3D warehouse, get models.
When you first open it up, it looks very similar to the way it looked before – you get a kind of landing page with all of the highlighted models.
However, where the changes really start to shop up is when you do a search for an object. For example, let’s do a search for some trees to add to our model. As you can see, this pulls up a list of about 20,000 options.
There’s still a drop down box on the right where you can sort by relevance, popularity, date added, etc. Most likely you’ll find yourself using the popularity sort most often.
In addition, the tab for collections is still there, so you can search for collections of models as well as individual models.
The big change came off to the side on the left. They’ve gotten rid of advanced search, which was fairly difficult to use, and replaced it with this more intuitive sidebar system.
You can now add keywords to your searches, allowing you to modify your search results fairly easily.
In addition, they’ve added two sliders off to the side to allow you to search for models of a certain complexity level. This can be especially useful when looking for lightweight entourage or landscaping models.
There’s now an option for you to be able to specifically search manufacturer models – models created specifically by manufacturers of casework, equipment, and more. This can be good, especially when looking for specific product models that you know will be to the correct scale.
You can narrow your search to dynamic components, which are components with special attributes that you can edit. This can be useful for looking for things like windows that you can adjust without having to re-model them.
You can also look for geolocated models, or models that have a location associated with them.
You can also search for the actual title of a model, or by author name. This is probably the item I’ll find most useful, as often I have an idea of a model creator that creates good models, but previously it was fairly difficult to find those models by author.
Finally, you can also look for models by date of modification.
There are a couple tips I’d like to highlight for the 3D warehouse as well, though they’re not new features. The first is collections. As you continue doing work in SketchUp, you’ll find that you keep coming back to certain collections over and over. For example, I consistently keep coming back and using the 2D and 3D plants from SketchUp itself. What you can do is add a model or a collection to your own collection to find it easily. In this case, what I’d do is find the collection that I want and click “Add to collection.” You can then add it to a collection you’ve created. Your collections can be found by visiting “My Collections” under your account name. You can also like a collection and it will show up in your liked collections list.
The second thing I wanted to highlight is the ability to download materials into your models. You can download the materials out of any model simply by clicking on the word “materials.” This will pull up a list of materials that you can download without downloading the model itself.
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