August 3rd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
I was visiting the SketchUp Community Forums the other day and noticed a few tips pertaining to dimensions. They were shared by bert and thomthom (a couple of the resident SketchUp gurus). I thought these nuggets of information were great, so I created…
July 29th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
The Design It: Shelter Competition launched about six weeks ago, and the response so far has been phenomenal. You owe it to yourself to visit the Guggenheim website to check out the projects that have been submitted so far – almost 100 and counting.B…
July 29th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
The folks at Go-2-School just launched a new way to get trained on SketchUp – an online service called Pro Accounts. A Pro Account gives members online access to Go-2-School’s entire video library, which includes their DVDs and webinars, as well as acc…
July 27th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Our friends over at Architect Mason Kirby Inc have just announced a SketchUp design contest for kids! Since we know how much kids love SketchUp, we’ll be anxious to see what they create. The theme is “under/over/within” and features an intertidal …
Calling all teachers: Help!
July 24th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Alright folks – I need your help. I’m traveling to Tokyo next week to give a speech for 1000 Japanese primary and secondary school teachers. I want to show them some examples of interesting things people are doing with SketchUp in K-12 education. I k…
Dynamic Components that react to scene (aka page) changes
July 23rd, 2009 | by Simone (snicolo) | published in Google SketchUp
Have you ever wanted to have a Dynamic Component that reacts to Scene changes?
Well, this blogpost tells you how to write one (thanks to John Clemens for the idea).
First of all, you need a mechanism to detect a scene change. After som…
Dynamic Components that react to scene (aka page) changes
July 23rd, 2009 | by Simone (snicolo) | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
Have you ever wanted to have a Dynamic Component that reacts to Scene changes?
Well, this blogpost tells you how to write one (thanks to John Clemens for the idea).
First of all, you need a mechanism to detect a scene change. After som…
Killen•WOOD: Increasing woodworking productivity with SketchUp & LayOut
July 23rd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Tim Killen of Killen•WOOD has found that SketchUp and LayOut are effective tools to help woodworkers become more efficient and better builders. After retiring in 2005 from the Bechtel Corporation where he served for 36 years in the management of engi…
July 22nd, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Proud citizens around the world are modeling their cities in 3D. A glance at the Cities in Development collection in the Google 3D Warehouse shows upwards of 500 cities, towns, and locales being modeled. There’s at least one 3D city on every continen…
SketchUp goes to the Moon!
July 20th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
With the launch of Moon in Google Earth today, you can now explore our nearest celestial neighbor from within Google Earth. Beginning in 1959, we began to send probes and landers to the lunar surface, and most of them remain there to this day.Many of t…
Fly yourself to the moon
July 20th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
(Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long blog)On July 20, 1969, two human beings landed on the moon for the first time. Forty years later, that accomplishment still stands as an unmatched moment in the history of human exploration. It was a truly wondrou…
A whole pile of SketchUp 7 books
July 17th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Books about Google SketchUp 7 are popping up everywhere. Without making any recommendations, and in order of publication from most to least recent, here are some of the ones that are available now:Google SketchUp: The Missing Manualby Chris GroverBegin…
He made a music video with SketchUp?
July 15th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
A music video is currently making the rounds of the office. Ooooh and aaaahs and catchy beats resonate from every corner…Dave Righton, the Canadian one-man-band member of Roche Limit, apparently ran short of funds while producing his song “My Friend …
The results are in, and they are beautiful
July 9th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Wow! We received some amazing entries for the Google SketchUp 2009 International Student Bridge Modeling Competition. Higher education students from over 65 countries registered for the competition, 42 collections were created in the Google 3D Warehous…
Keyboard tricks and shortcuts in LayOut
July 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Just like in Google SketchUp, there are keyboard modifiers that let you control how LayOut functions while you are creating your LayOut designs. Below are a few that you may not know about.Copying a selectionSimilar to SketchUp, you can Copy/Move a sel…