Featured Modeler: John from Dursley, England
July 1st, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
John is a retired British architect whose passion for photography and knowledge of his town’s architectural history helped shape his beautiful 3D models of Dursley, Gloucestershire in England.”The alignment of the buildings on Castle Street is a bit on…
June 29th, 2009 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Last week, one of the organizers of Next Stop Design wrote to tell us about their website. In their own words, Next Stop Design is “an experiment in ‘crowdsourcing’ the best ideas and designs to build a better bus stop”. The website lets anyone submit …
June 26th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Warsaw, Prague and Oslo have joined the growing list of phototextured cities in the 3D Buildings layer of Google Earth. Like other major cities these 3D models are predominantly autogenerated, yet they also contain a number of Google SketchUp models ge…
Summer Road Trip!
June 24th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Are you planning a U.S. National Park tour this summer or a road trip with family and friends? If so, you might find yourself stopping by the new Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, which serves the area from the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to …
See the steps to model for Google Earth
June 17th, 2009 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
If you’ve wondered what the process really looks like for getting a 3D model into Google Earth, you should check out this new video (also included below). You’ll see a building created from scratch in SketchUp, pushed up for review, and placed in Googl…
June 16th, 2009 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
We’ve released a new feature in the Google 3D Warehouse that enables anyone to embed an interactive view of any 3D Warehouse model on a webpage or blog. Here’s an example of how it looks on our blog:Here’s how it works:You’ve probably seen these two bu…
June 12th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
A few weeks ago, one of our developers posted about using clip masks to crop photos and models in LayOut. In this post, I’m going to take this one step further and show you how you can use clip masks with Google SketchUp models to create cutaway views …
Land of the Rising Sun in 3D
June 10th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Earlier this week we released tens of thousands of new 3D buildings in Japan. Major Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto have joined the growing list of cities and towns prominently displayed in Google Earth’s 3D buildings layer.The hi…
We’ve retooled the 3D Building Pipeline
June 9th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
This is a long post, so grab your favorite beverage and settle in.Over the last 6 months we’ve been hard at work “retooling” the 3D building pipeline. We use the phrase “3D pipeline” to describe the process a model goes through when it’s been published…
Announcing the Design It Shelter Competition
June 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
We teamed up with the folks at the Guggenheim Museum to create a design competition that’s open to people everywhere. Design It: Shelter Competition challenges participants to create a simple shelter for a specific geographic location anywhere in the w…
The SketchUp team goes to Google I/O
June 8th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Last week was Google’s annual developer conference: Google I/O. This year was my first year attending and, I have to say, it was a fantastic conference. There were lots of inspiring sessions and presentations on Google’s numerous APIs. On the 1st day …
June 4th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Newfangled is a 3D Building pioneer. From the earliest days of modeling with SketchUp for Google Earth, Christian (aka “Newfangled”) started creating the buildings in his home town of Edmonton, Alberta in the Great North of Canada. In fact, part of h…
Just how popular is it?
June 4th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Since last year, the Google 3D Warehouse has shown the number of recent 7-day views and downloads for every 3D model. Today (tweeted), we expanded this feature to show graphs of views and downloads over time. To see this, go to any 3D model details pag…
May 28th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
If you’re a 3D enthusiast, then you’ll probably enjoy the latest addition to the Google Earth Gallery: 3D Buildings. This new category provides a number of self-running tours on various themes. The tours showcase some fascinating 3D buildings (along wi…
May 28th, 2009 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Instead of producing a late-night infomercial for SketchUp Pro (Buy two copies, get a free pocket protector), we decided to go a simpler route: Helen put together a promo code that knocks $100 US off the price of a new single-user Pro license (it’s no…