SketchUp Pro plugin for parametric, non-destructive profiles and assemblies, with smart-path selection and hole editing, sold as a one-time license.
Profile Builder models parametric profiles and assemblies inside SketchUp Pro, with smart-path selection and hole creation/editing tools for non-destructive changes. It's a plugin, not a standalone app, so it only runs on top of an existing SketchUp Pro license.
The Pro license is a one-time $119 payment per seat, with a 75% student/educator discount and a 30-day trial. Note that the catalogue slug points to Profile Builder 3, while MindSight Studios currently sells and documents only Profile Builder 4. It suits a SketchUp user in architecture or interior design who repeatedly models moldings, frames, or profile-based assemblies, less someone needing a BIM-specific feature set, which the current product page doesn't explicitly claim.
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A $119 one-time license for a tool that speeds up repetitive profile and molding modeling is a reasonable one-off cost, though the gain depends entirely on how often the user models that kind of geometry.
The 30-day trial lets a SketchUp user test the parametric profile tools directly, but getting a useful first result still assumes existing comfort with SketchUp modeling.
It delivers parametric, non-destructive profile and assembly modeling with smart-path and hole tools as advertised, without needing a separate plugin for that task.
It covers parametric profiles and assemblies well within SketchUp, but the current product page states no explicit BIM-specific feature set, so its ceiling for BIM workflows specifically is unclear.
As a plugin tied to SketchUp Pro with a perpetual license, geometry stays in the host SketchUp file, but nothing in the collected sources describes an export path for the parametric profile data itself if the plugin is dropped.
