r/Sketchup

A Sketchup Community

Founded September 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 24

Welcome to SketchUp's home on reddit: a place to discuss Trimble's easy to use 3D modeling program, plugins and best practices.

Members

52,661

53K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

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not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Sep 2 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

What works in r/Sketchup

Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.

FormatShare of postsAvg score
Show & tell32%187
Promo21%90
Question18%4
Lessons / story13%292
How-to13%167
Rant3%187

Based on 38 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.

Median score
87
Top 10% score
355
Text posts
26%
Got no replies
16%
Busiest windows
Mon 16:00 UTC, Mon 04:00 UTC

What a good comment looks like here

  • — Offers specific, actionable advice or alternative solutions.
  • — Shares personal experience and workflow details.
  • — Asks clarifying questions to understand the problem better.
  • — Provides constructive criticism or identifies limitations.
  • — Expresses enthusiasm and offers to test new tools.
  • — Compares the tool/workflow to existing alternatives.

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r/Sketchup — frequently asked

How many members does r/Sketchup have?

r/Sketchup has 52,661 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 24. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Sketchup growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Sketchup yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 2; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/Sketchup?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Sketchup yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/Sketchup created?

r/Sketchup was founded in September 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/Sketchup?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Sketchup yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/Sketchup for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Sketchup into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/Sketchup's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Sketchup's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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