Where do I download V2 Plus? You must use V2 Plus if you have SketchUp 2014 or SketchUp 2015
Go to the Free Trial page and download the free evaluation version of V2 Plus and activate the trial version with your license code. Alternatively, click on this link to go to the Version 2 Plus web page and download from here.
Free Trial version users - You will not receive a license code. Instead, ignore the License Manager dialog box that comes up, requesting you to enter a license.
SU Podium V2 Plus install files are not Extension Warehouse .rbz files
The SU Podium V2 Plus install files for Windows and Mac will launch standard installation programs. They are not Extension Warehouse .rbz files. Please do not try to install SU Podium V2 Plus using the SketchUp Preference Extension menu.
What's the difference between V2Plus and V2?
Please read here for a feature-by-feature comparison chart. If you are using SketchUp 2015 or 2014, you must use V2 Plus.
SU Podium V2 Plus SketchUp and Operating System Requirements
Windows. SU Podium V2Plus requires SketchUp 8 , 2014 or SketchUp 2015 for Windows. It does not support SketchUp 2013. Supported Windows versions are Windows 7 and Windows 8. If you have SketchUp 8 , 2014 or 2015, please us SU Podium V2 Plus.
Mac. SU Podium V2 Plus for the Mac requires SketchUp 8, 2013, 2014 or 2015. It will require OS-X 10.7.x or above although for SketchUp 2015, you must have Mt. Lion, Maverick or Yosemite.
Hardware specifications
The SU Podium V2 Plus rendering engine is multi-threaded, meaning it will take advantage of all your CPU core's. The more cores you have the better. You also need a reasonable amount of RAM to hold 3d scene data. The more RAM you have, the more complex models you can render. We highly recommend 64 bit Windows operating system. SketchUp 2015 also supports 64 bit operating systems now.
How can you tell what SU Podium version I am using?
Once SU Podium V2 Plus is installed, you can tell if you are using V2 Plus by looking at the SketchUp Plugins menu. Podium is now named SU Podium V2 Plus.
You can also tell what version you are running by going to the Plugins pull down menu in SketchUp. Then go to SU Podium V2 and select About. Version 2 Plus has a version number that is 2.18.xx or greater.
The install process is straightforward and in most cases will require no input from the user. You must match the correct SU Podium V2 Plus install program with the correct SketchUp version. For example, if you are installing for SketchUp 2015, make sure you download and install SU Podium V2 Plus for SketchUp 2015.
When you purchase SU Podium V2 Plus, you will receive a web page link that has the SU Podium versions to download. You will also receive a 16 character alpha-numeric license code. If you need to reinstall SU Podium V2 Plus for some reason, go to the Free Trial page, download the free evaluation version of V2 Plus and activate the trial version with your license code. Alternatively, click on this link to go to the Version 2 Plus web page and download from there.
Note: Free Trial version users. You will not receive a license code. Instead, close the License Manager dialog box that comes up, requesting you to enter a license. In the License Manager dialog, you should see the amount of time left in your evaluation period.
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Trouble Shoot Mac install In some cases, the Mac package installer, forces you to select Install for Me. This can create problems described below. Use the Install for All User of this computer option. You may have click Go Back but eventually the Install for All User will become available.
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Trouble Shoot Mac install In some cases, the Mac package installer, forces you to select Install for Me. This can create problems described below. Use the Install for all user of this computer option. You may have click Go Back but eventually the Install for all user will become available.
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If you are upgrading: The location where SketchUp plug-ins get installed for SketchUp 2014 is a very different from previous versions or SketchUp. So if you are an existing SU Podium customer, make sure you download SU Podium V2 Plus for SketchUp 2014 and install in the default destination folder.
Please do not try to install a previous SU Podium V2 for SketchUp 2014. It must be SU Podium V2 Plus for SketchUp 2014.
If you did mistakenly install a previous version of SU Podium V2 and not V2 Plus for SketchUp 2014, please read here.
You must have a Windows Administrator User Account to install SU Podium V2 Plus. You can run the program without being an administrator but to install it you must be have administrative privileges. Close SketchUp before starting the install. Double click on the install file you have downloaded. An installation program will start. The default install location for SU Podium V2 Plus for Windows SketchUp 2014 is in this location:
C:\Users\YourComputerName\AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\Plugins\
The installation will create a sub-folder in the AppData\Roaming\SketchUp\SketchUp 2014\SketchUp\plugins\ folder called SU_Podium_V2. There will also be a ruby load file in the plugins folder called SU_Podium_V2.rbs.
If you need to uninstall SU Podium V2 Plus, use the Uninstall option from the All Programs ---->SU Podium V2 location or read the Windows uninstall section.
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If you are upgrading: The location where SketchUp plug-ins get installed for SketchUp 2015 is a very different from previous versions or SketchUp. So if you are an existing SU Podium customer, make sure you download SU Podium V2 Plus for SketchUp 2015 and install in the default destination folder.
Please do not try to install a previous SU Podium V2 for SketchUp 2015. It must be SU Podium V2 Plus for SketchUp 2015.
If you did mistakenly install a previous version of SU Podium V2 and not V2 Plus for SketchUp 2015, please read here.
You must have a Windows Administrator User Account to install SU Podium V2 Plus. You can run the program without being an administrator but to install it you must be have administrative privileges. Close SketchUp before starting the install. Double click on the install file you have downloaded. An installation program will start. The default install location for SU Podium V2 Plus for Windows SketchUp 2014 is in this location:
C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins
The installation will create a sub-folder in the C:\ProgramData\SketchUp\SketchUp 2015\SketchUp\Plugins folder called SU_Podium_V2. There will also be a ruby load file in the plugins folder called SU_Podium_V2.rbs.
If you need to uninstall SU Podium V2 Plus, use the Uninstall option from the All Programs ---->SU Podium V2 location or read the Windows uninstall section.
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Windows V2Plus install trouble shoot
Mac V2 Plus install trouble shoot
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(If you are using the evaluation version, ignore this dialog box and wait for the process scene to finish to continue to evaluate.)
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V2 Plus menu
After installing SU Podium V2 for SketchUp, you can access SU Podium V2 from the SketchUp plug-ins pull down menu or from the SU Podium V2 tool bar.
Before you render your first SketchUp model, get familiar with the Options dialog box and the various settings that are controlled there. We also recommend that you render a sample model from the SU Podium V2 models pageas a way to test Podium.
To introduce yourself to V2's rendering process, do a quick render of your model. First click on the Options menu from the pull down or the tool bar. In the preset pull down list, pick Default.pps. This preset is not the best but is the easiest to start with. In the Output tab, under Dimensions, pick a Fixed size or the default Viewport size for the rendered image size. Click the OK button. Then pick the Render menu from the pull-down or tool bar. A series of sequences will happen after clicking on the Render icon or menu. If this is your first render, you will be prompted to Activate your license.
If OOPR is not getting launched, please read here about possible problems.
Once Raytracing starts you can click on the Show button in the Podium Render Manager (OORP) to view the render progress dynamically. The preview image displayed by the Podium Render Manager will be smaller than the final rendered image. The final rendered image will be saved to the folder containing your SketchUp model unless you manually choose an alternate save location. Please read about this in the Options section.
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Click on this link to go to the SU Podium V2 models page. You can do download several render-ready SketchUp models to test results.
The following Help pages will guide you through Installation and using and applying SU Podium. Please take a moment and read through the Installation chapter if you are having difficulty with the install. If you are having trouble finding your serial number, please take a look at the FAQ section of this web site. There is a detailed description of how to find your serial number. In addition, you can get support from the following areas:
After uploading, please send an e-mail separately to Cadalog, Inc. to let us know you have uploaded an .skp file and why. Please do not upload anything but .skp files. If we do not receive an email about your uploaded model, the file will be deleted due to security precautions. Anything other than .skp will also be deleted. |
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Click on the About menu item in the SU Podium V2 pull down menu. This will link to a web page which will display the version number.
Another option is to use the Information Bar that gets attached to a rendered image. You will need to turn on the information bar and render something to see the version number you are running.
Please look at this check list of items that will help in supporting your SU Podium installation.