Basic Placify Concepts

Placify gives you greater control over components' non-geometry properties than what just native Sketchup does.

Control Component Instances

Placify supercharges Sketchup's component instance transformations — like position, scale, rotation, but also properties like shell material.

Control Component Definitions

Placify also offer control over key properties of component definitions. This includes setting the position and orientation of component axes in batch. For example, you can select a hundred different components, filter for unique definitions, then, at the same time, set their axes to e.g. bottom center.

Playful Tools

Placify also aims to be playful. Tools like Spawn Brush, Tint Brush, and Size are designed to be expressive and fun to use.

Most Everything in Batch

Most Placify commands allow you to edit selections in batch, where it makes sense.

Note that while bulk editing is a powerful concept, not all Placify commands are batch-ready.

Embrace Cross-Extension Niftiness

Placify is also host to various other nifty commands and tools. These may not be directly related to component control, but can be useful for other purposes.

As an example, take a tool like Face Brush. The Placify Face Brush lets you paint a freeform-rim face on the first hit elevation. You can expressivly paint a blob.

The Face Brush automatically groups the produced face. This face can be useful as a control group for other Placify commands, such as Spawn.

Or, you can use the face group to control terrain areas in Placify's sibling extension Holygon Landshape. You can use the face group to paint terrain zones, smoothen the terrain, or use it as a mask.