October 16th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As some of you’ve seen, we recently launched a Product Ideas series for Google SketchUp and Google SketchUp Pro. If you aren’t familiar with Product Ideas, then you’ll definitely want to check it out. You can post thoughts on how to make SketchUp bette…
October 12th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Scanning the Internet over the weekend, I came across a great LayOut 2.1 blog post by a friend of the SketchUp team, Eric Schimelpfenig. Eric is a kitchen designer and the author of Sketch This!, a blog dedicated to helping design professionals use Goo…
October 12th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Last week, Google released “Place Pages” in Google Maps, which provides maps, reviews, pictures and other information about a place – all in one view. The Place Page shows where the place is located, how to get there, what users have to say about it, a…
October 9th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As you may know, we’ve recently launched the Google SketchUp Help Forum alongside the launch of Google SketchUp 7.1. While our previous Help Group was a great resource for answering your questions – helping you find answers, and sharing your expertise…
October 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
The development of virtual construction models is a great way to communicate more effectively, resolve issues before they happen, and save time, resources, and money on construction projects. Our friends at Mortenson Construction have helped us with t…
October 7th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Time to have your socks blown off. Jacques (a.k.a. Silvershadow) is a SketchUp god who hangs out on the SketchUcation Community Forums, and he’s done it again. I’m completely serious when I say that looking at his work makes me, simultaneously:inspired…
October 7th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Our friend Daniel Tal’s new book about SketchUp is getting terrific reviews, and we couldn’t be prouder of him. Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture is a rollicking thrill ride of 1970′s murder and i…
October 2nd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Many products have an aesthetic value on their own, but only really come to life when you see them placed in context. The folks over at KraftMaid Cabinetry have done an extraordinary job of not only uploading individual cabinets into the Google 3D Ware…
October 1st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Copenhagen, Denmark and Marseille, France have recently been added to the quickly growing list of 3D cities in Google Earth.Now you can go and visit these cities by opening Google Earth and making sure you have the 3D Buildings layer checked on. Make …
September 29th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Hasbro, the makers of the Monopoly game, have officially announced a competition that gives Monopoly-lovers the chance to design a building that will be included in the new interactive game Monopoly City Streets.To enter this competition, you need to d…
September 28th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Can you say Google Триизмерна галерия? With this release we’ve added support for 14 more languages, bringing the total number of 3D Warehouse languages to an astonishing 41! Now you can share your models using 3D Warehouse in Bulgarian…
September 25th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Google Profiles are a safe and easy way to share information about yourself and now you can present that information in the Google 3D Warehouse. How does it work? Well, when you upload a 3D model to the Google 3D Warehouse, it’s now attached to your Go…
September 24th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp 7 (free and Pro) in French, Italian, German and Spanish has arrived. Learn what’s new in version 7!For version 7, we decided to focus on three main areas: making SketchUp easier for new modelers, simplifying the process of model sharing…
September 23rd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Now that SketchUp 7.1 is out the door, I thought it’d be a good idea to tell you a little bit more about its 2D, Pro counterpart: LayOut 2.1 is more powerful than ever. We added features that should let you use SketchUp Pro for an even larger chunk of …
September 22nd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Fall is just around the corner here in Boulder, and with it comes our next release of Google SketchUp (cue the bugling elk). The team’s been working long hours through the summer on projects large and small. I’m proud to announce that Google SketchUp 7…