After the 8 hours is up, it will revert back to the free SketchUp Make.

Just be aware that when you download SketchUp Make, you’ll automatically get an 8 hour SketchUp Pro trial, so you’ll get to check out all the features of SketchUp Pro. SketchUp Make 2014 is a fully functioning FREE 3D modeling program licensed for personal (non-commercial) use. There are two versions of SketchUp available: SketchUp Make, and SketchUp Pro.

Sketchucation Forum Discussion What’s everybody saying about the new version? Find out on the Sketchucation forum.

Although you may think this only applies to SketchUp plugin developers, you will surely benefit from this as new plugins are developed and released on the extension warehouse.

Alexander Schreyer’s review of the new Ruby API Alex, the author of Architectural Design with SketchUp, gives us a glimpse into the power of the new features of the upgraded Rubby API in SketchUp 2014.

The comments at the end of this article are an interesting read.

Ronen Bekerman SketchUp 2014 review A “not-so-impressed” review of the new SketchUp 2014.

Includes details on the new 3D warehouse, classifier tools, Auto-Text tags, Arc tools and more.

Sketchucation’s SketchUp 2014 Review A great review of the new features in SketchUp 2014.

Trimble Press Release An overview of the new release, with emphasis on the new 3D warehouse and the new BIM capabilities.

You’ll just need to do a little navigating in your file system.

Migrating Plugins from a previous version When you upgrade SketchUp, you can keep your existing plugins.

This article details all the specifics on how to upgrade.

Upgrading to SketchUp Pro 2014 If you own a previous version of SketchUp Pro, you probably don’t have to pay full price for 2014.

The Classifier allows you to add metadata to your model components

Information Modeling in SketchUp For those who use BIM in their workflow, this article provides some additional insight into the added Classifier feature in SketchUp.

It’s got some great info regarding the new WebGL interactive 3D warehouse, as well as the new BIM features in SketchUp Pro.

SketchUp 2014 is here This is the official blog post from the SketchUp team announcing SketchUp 2014 with all of its new features.

I’ve also updated the SketchUp to LayOut book for 2014.

Aside from the numerous performance enhancements to SketchUp and Layout, there have been some additional features added to both programs that I’m very excited about.

The next annual release of SketchUp is here.

3d warehouse for sketchup 2014