Over the past two decades, SketchUp has grown to an industry giant, and even bled into the mainstream as tinkerers, inventors, and even the average Joe have joined the movement to simply have some fun. It turns out, this was the exact product designers were craving to help streamline their process and quickly translate ideas into three dimensional representations. It’s the little modeling program that could, overcoming a deck stacked against it and a band of rabid purists who found the software to be too simplistic, too easy, and.

There’s no denying SketchUp’s impact on the world of architecture, design, and yes, even visualization.