Animate your SketchUp model by adding movement to any object.  Keyframe Animation will move objects along a straight line, rotate them about any axis, or even change their size. You can move the camera too. Best of all, the animation you create can be exported to a movie, directly from SketchUp.

Main Features

• Translations:  Interpolate translations between key frame positions.
• Rotations:  Interpolate rotations about any axis, for any angle between 0 and 180 degrees.
• Scaling:  Interpolate changes in the size, for any positive scale factor.   The scaling can be uniform, or there can be different scale factors for each axis.
• Nested Animated Objects:  Any group or component can be animated.  If it is contained inside another group or component, it is translated/rotated relative to its parent. If the parent also moves, the combination of translations/rotations results in more complex types of motion.
• Camera Animation:  The camera can also be animated using the native camera interpolation that is built into SketchUp.
• Transition Time:  You can precisely control the amount of time it takes to transition from one key frame to another.
• Delay Time:  You can pause the animation, for a precise amount of time, after the transition to any key frame is complete.
• Animate Layer Visibility:  You can make objects appear and disappear by putting them on layers and adjusting the layer visibility property for the scenes.
• Reorder Key Frames:  It is easy to change the order of key frames, or put them in reverse order, or any other permutation.  You can also insert or delete key frames anywhere in the sequence.
• Export a Movie:  There is a powerful feature that will generate all the intermediate scenes that are in between the key frames. These tweens, as they are called, can be exported to a movie, directly from SketchUp.

Free Trial

You can activate a 10-day free trial to check out Keyframe Animation.  If you like what you see, you may Purchase a user license via PayPal to permanently activate Keyframe Animation.

Related Links

• User Guide
• Demos, some with models that you can download.
• Video Tutorials