Modeling for Google Earth is now easier
December 4th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Now that you’ve downloaded Google SketchUp 7, you may be overwhelmed by all of the new features it has to offer. Let’s focus on the new photo matching tools and discover how modeling for Google Earth just got a lot easier.Let’s say we just “matched” a …
November 25th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
The new SketchUp 7 Ruby API brings significant improvements to performance, stability, and functionality. Some enhancements include faster script performance, improved web dialogs, and there are several new methods that allow your scripts to detect you…
November 24th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As a designer, you use drawings to communicate much more than just the appearance of spaces or objects. Great drawings “set the tone”; they provide a window into the actual experience of your ideas. Drawings also help communicate the state of your desi…
November 21st, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
One of the fun things about the 3D Warehouse is that we get to see how “globally dispersed” 3D modelers are. There are models from Brazil, China, Russia – just to name a few. Often, these models are described in the languages of the people who posted…
November 20th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
As you may have noticed from our long list of new features in 7, SketchUp Pro is now more powerful than ever. We’re trying to make it super easy to upgrade from previous versions of SketchUp Pro to the latest one. If you have an active license for Sket…
November 20th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
To help celebrate the launch of SketchUp 7, the 3D Warehouse team got together and decided to give the SketchUp product team (and the worldwide modeling community) a little gift; we made some changes so the 3D Warehouse works better with SketchUp – a…
November 18th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
If you’ve never designed in 3D before, you probably assume that 3D objects “just know” what they are – and how they should behave – automatically. Like a staircase that knows to add steps when you make it higher. Or a tree that grows branches as it…
Sometimes you need more than a model
November 18th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
LayOut 2 is:1) included with SketchUp Pro 72) out of Beta3) available today!What’s LayOut? Well, it’s like this…Say you’ve got kids (like I do) and they’ve snookered you into working on a design for the new playground at their elementary school. “No …
Drum roll please: Introducing SketchUp 7
November 17th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Two years in the making and the result of many, many people’s hard work, Google SketchUp 7 has arrived. You are cordially invited to visit our website to download a copy for yourself. We can’t wait to see what you think.First things first: We made a vi…
When in Rome…Teach!
November 14th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
This week, we introduced the new Ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth, a groundbreaking collection of 6,700 3D buildings modeled as leading scholars determined they stood in the year 320 A.D.While we hope that teachers are already pretty excited to in…
November 14th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Well, not us, but our friends at IES are! We wanted to let you know because they are offering Google SketchUp Pro customers a discount on their new Architectural Suite and Architectural Suite Plus software. Here’s the deal: If you go to the Greenbuild …
November 13th, 2008 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp TeamSketchUp 7 contains several improvements to the Ruby API. Here’s a quick tour of the best changes.Improve your script’s performance!Ability to perform faster inside start_operation transactions.go_faster = truemod…
November 13th, 2008 | by Scott Lininger | published in Google SketchUp, Uncategorized
Posted by Scott Lininger, SketchUp TeamSketchUp 7 contains several improvements to the Ruby API. Here’s a quick tour of the best changes.Improve your script’s performance!Ability to perform faster inside start_operation transactions.go_faster = truemod…
November 12th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Were you someone who struggled to stay awake in ancient history class? If so, perhaps this was due to those uninspiring “artist renditions” in your textbook. Reading countless pages that described how a monument, building or city may have appeared can…
Browse the 3D Warehouse in Google Earth
November 11th, 2008 | by SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Did you know you can browse 3D Warehouse models in Google Earth? Clicking this 3D Warehouse Community network link launches Google Earth and shows icons wherever geo-located models have been placed in the 3D Warehouse.When you’re higher up, you’ll see…