WallsIfcWall
Live mitred corners, join / extend / trim / stretch, offset, mitre ⇄ butt joints, gable walls pulled up to the roof soffit.
BIM for SketchUp 2024–2026
From SketchUp model to permit-ready drawings.
Model walls, openings, roofs, stairs and services as real BIM elements. Get IFC that survives a viewer, plus plans, sections, schedules and a LayOut file — from the same model.
Launching soon with a free 30-day trial, no card required. Windows and macOS.
IfcStairIfcSlabIfcWindowIFC classIfcWall
Storey3rd floor
Material layers485 mm
Load-bearingYes
IFC4 · verified in independent IFC viewersLayOut exportEN drawing conventionsWindows + macOS
Tour
One house, start to finish, in a minute.
Walls, windows and doors, a slab, a stair and a roof — drawn in SketchUp with Archeform.
The situation
You already model in SketchUp. The paperwork is the problem.
01
You redraw everything in CAD
The model is finished, and then plans and sections get drawn a second time by hand. Every change has to be made twice.
02
Your IFC export is empty
SketchUp exports geometry. Windows and doors nested inside walls don't come out at all, and there are no quantities, property sets or material layers.
03
Or you switch to a full BIM suite
Well over a thousand euros a year and a season of retraining, to produce documentation for a handful of houses.
What comes out
One model. Everything the submission needs.
Archeform keeps the data on the elements, so drawings and schedules are generated — not redrawn.
Step 1
Model
Walls with live mitres, openings, roofs, slabs, stairs, beams, footings, MEP.
Step 2
Data
GlobalId, property sets, quantities and material layers written as you draw.
Step 3
IFC
IFC4 with openings, fills and layer sets a viewer can actually read.
Step 4
Drawings
Plans per storey, named sections, elevations, hatched cuts, 2D symbols.
Step 5
LayOut
A .layout file at a fixed scale, one page per scene, ready to annotate.
Elements
Everything a small practice actually draws.
Not a wall tool with ambitions. Fourteen element types, each with its own dialog, IFC class, quantities and 2D symbol.
Windows & doorsIfcWindow · IfcDoor
Single, double and multi-leaf, fixed, arched, sliding PS/PSK and lift & slide HS portals, four frame types, sidelights and transoms, sills, swing symbols in plan.
RoofsIfcRoof
Flat, shed, gable and hip — hip on any polygon via straight skeleton. Eave cuts, overhangs, merge, trim, extend, penetrations and skylights.
Slabs & stairsIfcSlab · IfcStair
Slabs from rectangle, polygon or walls, with openings. Straight, L, U and spiral stairs, and a one-click opening cut through the slab above.
StructureIfcBeam · IfcColumn · IfcFooting
European steel catalogue — IPE, HEA, HEB, UPE, L, RHS, SHS, CHS — with real mitres on profiles. Column grids, strip and pad footings.
Ramps & railingsIfcRamp · IfcRailing
Ramps to accessibility gradients. Railings free-standing or hosted on a stair, with balusters, glass panels or bars.
ServicesIfcPipeSegment · IfcDuctSegment
Ten systems, real catalogues (HT, KG, Cu, PPR, SPIRO, rectangular duct), segmented bends, tees with saddles, connection ports that snap.
SpacesIfcSpace
Zones numbered by storey, areas and volumes, finishes, and a room schedule you can export per storey as CSV.
Object library
Sanitary ware and furniture with baked 2D symbols, mounting heights and connection ports. System library plus your own shared folder.
The proof
IFC that opens with the data still in it.
Most SketchUp exports are a mesh with a name on it. Archeform writes the entities a checker looks for — and we tested it in the viewers your consultants use.
- Material layer sets. Compositions export as IfcMaterialLayerSet with thickness, category and priority. IFC viewers list them layer by layer.
- Openings and fills. IfcOpeningElement with IfcRelVoidsElement and IfcRelFillsElement — the window is linked to the hole it sits in.
- Quantities and property sets. Qto_*BaseQuantities and Pset_*Common on every element, filled from the geometry, not typed in.
- Spatial structure. Project → site → building → storey, with elements contained where they belong.
- Model check before export. Duplicate GlobalIds and names are found and fixed, so nothing collapses into one object in the viewer.
IFC viewer — Wall_014
Plaster 15Brick 300EPS 160Render 20
PropertyValue
GlobalId2xH9$kQr7E0v1mBpZ
PredefinedTypeSOLIDWALL
LoadBearingTRUE
ThermalTransmittance0.18 W/m²K
NetSideArea18.42 m²
MaterialLayerSet495 mm · 4 layers
New to BIM?
What BIM and IFC are, and where SketchUp fits — in two minutes.
Documentation
Drawings that look drawn, not exported.
This is where the SketchUp ecosystem stops and Archeform keeps going.
Hatched sections38 patterns
Per-material hatching generated at drawing scale, with layer-by-layer fills through compositions. Thin layers fall back to a coarser pattern instead of turning into mud.
Colour by status
New, existing and demolished derived from the IFC Status property — demolition on a yellow ground with ochre lines, as the drawings are actually printed.
2D symbols, not projections
Doors, windows, stairs, ramps, railings and services get proper plan symbols generated from parameters — with the 3D hidden underneath.
Named sections
Click, click, pick the viewing side. You get a scene, a cut plane, filled cuts and section marks with arrows and letters in every plan.
Schedules
Room schedule with selectable columns, and an aggregated pipe and fitting schedule by system and size. International CSV, or one file per storey for LayOut.
Project organiser
Storeys, plans, elevations and sections in one palette. One button regenerates every scene and writes the LayOut file at your chosen scale and sheet size.
Who builds this
“I wrote Archeform because I needed it. Every feature in it exists because a real project needed it first — and it gets used on the next one before it ships.”
Ing. Bc. Aleš Zvěřina · chartered engineer, ČKAIT 0401711 · Archeform s.r.o.
Archeform is not a side project by someone who read about construction. It is written by a practising engineer who signs the documentation it produces, and it is tested on live projects before every release.
Placeholder — fill from beta programme
What practices say.
“Quote from beta tester — what changed in their week, with a number in it.”
Name · practice · city“Quote about the IFC actually being accepted by a consultant or authority.”
Name · practice · city“Quote from someone who evaluated a full BIM suite and stayed in SketchUp.”
Name · practice · cityPricing
One product. One price. No modules.
Everything on this page is in every licence. Updates and support included while your subscription runs.
Solo
€199 / year
≈ 5 000 Kč · 1 user, 2 machines- Every element and every tool
- IFC, drawings, schedules, LayOut
- Commercial use
- Updates and email support
Studio
€699 / year
≈ 17 500 Kč · 5 users- Everything in Solo
- Shared composition and object library
- Priority replies
- One invoice
Education
Free
Students and schools · renewed yearly- Full functionality
- Non-commercial use
- Site licences for faculties
- Teaching materials
Founding 50 The first 50 subscribers keep €129 / year for as long as they stay. 14-day refund, no questions asked. 30-day trial needs no card.
Before you ask
The questions everyone sends.
Which SketchUp versions?
2024, 2025 and 2026, Windows and macOS, SketchUp Pro or Studio. Modelling and drawings are identical on all three — full IFC (names, quantities, material layers) needs 2026, because that's the version SketchUp itself reads the fuller schema on. Details in the docs.
Does it work with SketchUp Go?
No. The web version has no Ruby API, so no extension can run there. Archeform needs the desktop application.
What happens when my subscription ends?
The plugin switches to read-only: your models still open, rebuild and export, you just can't create new elements. Finished work is never locked away.
Do I need to be online?
Only to activate. After that it runs offline for three weeks at a time, so a site visit without signal doesn’t stop you.
Will my IFC open in other BIM software?
It's standard IFC4. We test in independent IFC viewers before every release; anything a viewer can't read is a bug we want to hear about.
What language is it in?
The interface, dialogs and documentation are English. Drawing conventions follow European practice, with Czech regulations built into the defaults.
Draw the model once.
Launching soon — thirty days, every feature, no card. If it doesn’t produce a set you’d submit, you’ve lost an afternoon.