Image 02 - The Enscape toolbar is shown in SketchUp for Mac with Enscape renderer. Next, move the window to the side of your SketchUp window so you can see both simultaneously. This action launches the separate Enscape rendering viewport window. To launch Enscape, click on the Start Enscape button at the top of the Enscape toolbar. The user experience of Enscape for SketchUp is thus: model like normal in SketchUp. Once installed, you will find an Enscape tools palette and an Enscape menu under the Extensions menu in SketchUp. Installing the Enscape plugin for SketchUp for Mac is quite straightforward. All of these, except SketchUp, are Windows-only versions at the moment. Enscape is always a plugin-not a standalone render app-and currently, there are versions of Enscape for Archicad, Revit, Rhino, SketchUp, and Vectorworks. And we share our experiences learning and getting familiar with the application ourselves as part of our review process.Įnscape for Mac for SketchUp runs as a plugin for Mac SketchUp users. In our typical style, when we write the first review of an application, we make part of the review instructive and introductory. The German software interactive rendering tool has been mentioned and written about many times at Architosh, but this is our first product review. ENSCAPE FOR MAC SKETCHUP IS THE FIRST VERSION of the popular Enscape rendering application that runs natively on Mac computers.