What's New in Profile Builder 4 - Plugin For SketchUp

Profile Builder is one of the popular extensions created for the SketchUp software. Profile Builder has been used by landscape architects, builders, architects, urban planners, and interior designers, who use this SketchUp extension for making smarter and faster designs along with flexibility. This SketchUp extension also enables the designers to adapt design changes more easily. The Profile Builder extension is compatible with different SketchUp versions including SketchUp 2021, SketchUp 2022, SketchUp 2023, SketchUp 2024, and SketchUp 2025. The supported languages for the SketchUp 2021 Profile Builder plugin are Spanish, English, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Chinese. The Profile Builder extension is supported by Windows and Mac.

Profile Builder plugin allows the users to create parametric designs along with custom design components. By using this SketchUp plugin, users can make custom profiles, save those custom profiles for future design projects, and even also can generate complex assemblies. The intuitive interface of the Profile Builder for SketchUp allows the designers for easy navigation which makes it accessible for both beginners and experienced designers.

Profiles and Assemblies are the foundations of the Profile Builder extension. Profiles of the Profile Builder extension can be flat shape or polyline, which involves representing the multitude of building materials. These building materials include wall, moulding, railing, piping, shelving, cabinets, framing and roof details. Users can create Profiles from edges or faces in their SketchUp models as well as save those profiles in their local library. In addition, users can also save additional attributes along with Profiles including rotation, placement point, width, offset, materials, height, tag and others. These additional attributes can applied automatically to all extrusions that have been created from the profiles.

Assemblies allow the users to combine with unlimited profiles and design components which helps to create smart path-based objects including cavity walls, railings, stairs, fences, roads, kitchen cabinets, and others. The assemblies in the profile builder plugin are customizable as well as re-usable. The assemblies can be built along any type of path such as sloped, curved or draped on terrain. Users can save assemblies in their local library for further use in future design projects. Users can also have a collection of several pre-made assemblies in the 3D warehouse which can be downloaded by the users for free as well as customizable. These types of pre-made assemblies can also be loaded into the profile builder plugin.

Key features of the Profile Builder for SketchUp software

This SketchUp plugin comes with several design features which help to streamline the entire design process in the SketchUp software.

➢ The Profile Builder extension has the ability to create smart extrusions with the help of parametric profiles.
➢ Users can save profiles to their local library complete with custom names, dimensions, orientations, tags, junction styles and extrusion modes. In addition, users can create new profiles with the help of the profile builder extension by drawing a polyline or face in their SketchUp models.
➢ Users can also create and save fully customizable parametric smart assemblies.
➢ By using a suite of hole editing tools of the profile builder extensions, users can cut through nested groups and components.
➢ Through the profile builder plugin, users can also revolve a profile to create a parametric 3D revolved Profile Member.
➢ The Smart-Path Select tool of this SketchUp extension is useful for selecting a specific path of edges between complex geometry.

Download Profile Builder for SketchUp software

Download Profile Builder for SketchUp software For downloading the Profile Builder extension for SketchUp software, users can visit the official website or any other trusted repositories which offer free download options. In this conext, users have to make sure that they choose a version which is compatible with their SketchUp version. Though the free versions of the Profile Builder plugin have some limitations, this SketchUp extension still allows the users to explore the basic design functionalities of this extension.

Download free profiles and assemblies for SketchUp Software

The profiles and assemblies can be downloaded by the users for free. The profile builder plugin offers hundreds of profiles which can be downloaded for free. In this context, users can order their free Profile library. After that, users can download the library ZIP file and extract the library to the location of the user’s choice. To use their new profiles, users can open the profile dialog and load that new profile.

Users can also host free assemblies as a collection in the 3D warehouse and this can be done by following several steps. In this regard, users have to click on the button below to the 3D warehouse collection of the assemblies. After this, users have to click on the specific assemblies that they want.

To learn more, watch the following video tutorial.

Video Source: TheSketchUpEssentials

Download Profile Builder

After choosing the assemblies, users have to click on the download button and choose ‘SketchUp File’ for the file type. After that, users have to copy the downloaded Assembly SKP file to the folder.