November 16th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIt looks like the folks over at Cadalog have released a new version of Podium, their photo-realistic rendering plugin for SketchUp. Here’s some of what’s new in Podium 1.5:It’s faster – Most users can expect a …
November 16th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI received an interesting question from a gentleman in Greece the other day; he was trying to use SketchUp’s nifty photo-matching feature to build a model based on this rendered image of a building. Needless to…
November 8th, 2007 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIt’s my pleasure to announce that Google SketchUp 6 is now available for download in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. Both the Free and Pro versions of SketchUp 6 (which in…
November 8th, 2007 | by Tasha Danko | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Meike Schmidt, SketchUp TeamHeute möchte ich euch etwas vorstellen, das gerade ganz neu ist und bestimmt viele von euch interessieren wird: Im September 2007 wurde die erste SketchUp-Anleitung auf Deutsch, veröffentlicht, die in Deutschland…
November 7th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Tom Wyman, Market Development ManagerWhen we set out to create SketchUp, we had a pretty good idea of who would use it. Architects, basically. For conceptual design. And we were right — partly. As it turns out, there were a few uses that cau…
November 6th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Cronin, Account Manager, SketchUpRecently, a number of us were introduced to a team based in Scotland who are working on a great SketchUp integration called Demeter. It’s a building energy analysis plugin for SketchUp created by Greensp…
October 31st, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Lori Meiskey, Software EngineerInterested in checking out 3D models of Sportstadions van over de hele wereld (Sports Venues of the World)? Or maybe you’d like to Vytvořit nebo přidat do 3D sbírky (create or contribute to a collection)?No…
October 30th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Tyson Kartchner, Learning GuruVideo tutorials have been part of the SketchUp experience since… well, for quite a long time. SketchUp has grown a lot since then, and since we try our best to keep up, we’re very happy to announce our latest a…
October 25th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistThere’s a nifty new site on the interweb that I thought SketchUp fans might like to know about. It’s called SceneCaster, and it lets anyone with a Windows computer (a Mac version is due next year) create intera…
October 23rd, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Dizon, Account Manager, SketchUpA few weeks ago, at the ASLA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the SketchUp team learned about a pretty cool piece of software called Land F/X. It’s basically an AutoCAD-compatible (and thus Windows-only) …
October 19th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Adam Hecht, GeomodelerThis weekend, a handful of us from the SketchUp team will be in beautiful Austin, Texas attending Maker Faire. In case you didn’t know, Maker Faire celebrates the “Do-It-Yourselfer” in everyone; it features tools and tri…
October 18th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistWe just received a note from our friend Clark Bremer of Northern Lights Timber Framing. It seems that lots of timber frame builders are using SketchUp to help them figure things out and sell projects to clients…
October 15th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistA couple of weeks ago, we decided to run a friendly competition for today’s Blog Action Day post. We asked readers of the SketchUpdate newsletter to submit examples of sustainable work they’ve done in SketchUp….
October 10th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by James Therrien, Training ManagerA lot of folks have been asking us about training for Google Earth Pro. They want to know how to get the most out of the features like: making custom placemarks using overlays i…
October 10th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistHave you ever wondered how to add your own components to the libraries that appear in SketchUp’s Component browser? I built a model of my sofa a while ago, and I wanted to add it to the Seating library (which I…