SketchUp 2025.0.2 Update: Key Fixes and Improvements

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New bug fixes! SketchUp released version 2025.0.2 for both Windows and Mac users. This update brings several helpful fixes across SketchUp Desktop, LayOut, and the SketchUp API, improving stability, usability, and developer support.

Here’s what you need to know:

Improvements to Core Tools

The Rotate tool now behaves more predictably. When locked to a specific orientation, it correctly references nearby points without switching unexpectedly. Users working in parallel projection mode will also see rectangle edges as they draw, making it easier to visualise shapes before finishing them.

Several issues with the Rotate tool’s protractor matching the wrong orientation have also been resolved. These changes make object manipulation smoother during modelling.

Updates for Developers

SketchUp has fine-tuned its extensibility features. Improvements to the Ruby API now allow better control over PBR (Physically Based Rendering) materials, specifically for normal mapping and ambient occlusion settings.

Developers can now unset the current environment properly with the Ruby API, and the C API sees parallel improvements. Updates to documentation on GitHub and the inclusion of OpenSSL version 3.4.1 bring added clarity and better security.

General Bug Fixes

This release addresses several long-standing issues:

  • Textures on tags now display properly on geometry.
  • Labels in Classic rendering mode no longer disappear.
  • Dimension text no longer shows as black boxes when adding scenes in the classic graphics engine.
  • The ThomThom scale figure description has been properly updated for translations.
  • The “Purge Unused” dialog now respects the user’s choice to hide it across sessions.
  • SketchUp has also strengthened security by updating libTIFF to version 4.7.

Windows users will notice that files with non-English characters in their names now open correctly.
Mac users will see rectangle edges correctly while drawing within existing shapes from a top-down view.

Improvements in LayOut

LayOut also benefits from several stability updates:

  • Crashes related to updating SketchUp models have been fixed.
  • Rotation now consistently snaps to 15-degree increments within the rotate indicator arc.
  • Copied labels no longer shift unexpectedly when entities change.
  • Scaling objects within clipping masks now behaves as intended.
  • Viewport resolution settings now save and load correctly.
  • Exported DWG files open properly on Windows.
  • Mac users can now turn off fills for multiple selected dimensions without issue.

Updates to the SketchUp API

For developers working with materials, the following additions are now available:

  • SUMaterialSetNormalEnabled() and SUMaterialSetAOEnabled() in the C API.
  • Material#normal_enabled= and Material#ao_enabled= in the Ruby API.

These updates give finer control when working with advanced material properties.

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