Enables Environmental Performance Analysis directly from SketchUp
This toolbar sits within the Google SketchUp™ application and gives direct access to all of IES' tools: VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits VE-Gaia and the full VE-Pro suite.
It allows empowering energy, carbon, daylight and solar analysis, and much more to be undertaken at the touch of a few buttons, right from the earliest stages of the design process, where the maximal difference to sustainable design can be achieved.
It is compatible with both the Free and Pro versions of SketchUp. The IES Toolbar allows SketchUp users to assign important sustainable design information like location, building and room type, construction types and HVAC systems to their SketchUp model and then import it directly into their chosen IES analysis tool, without having to re-build any geometry.
It also enhances the workflow for many Revit users who choose to undertake initial concept designs via Google SketchUp - they can now progress their design, as informed by IES performance analysis, seamlessly from one application to another.
"With SketchUp, we dreamed of a simple tool that would give people the ability to think fast and iterate often on complex building design problems. With this release, IES is plugging a set of energy analysis tools into SketchUp at just the right level of complexity— enabling designers to think not just about how a building might look, but also how it will perform in a sustainable world" John Bacus, Google SketchUp
