October 5th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistRemember a few weeks ago, when I wrote about our office’s demoralizing last-place finish in the Boulder kickball league? It led me to wonder if there might be a connection between working on computers all day a…
October 3rd, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI received a great question about working with colored edges the other day. Most people don’t even know it’s possible to assign different colors to edges in a SketchUp model; I’ll admit that I didn’t until more…
September 27th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Craig D’Andrea, SketchUp Quality Assurance TesterI was hanging out on the SketchUcation Community Forums when I came across a post from a SketchUp user named Andrija Posarić from Zagreb, Croatia. He used it on a pretty amazing project, so I …
September 25th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI was fiddling around with a SketchUp model the other day, and the need arose to give it a graphic frame. I wanted to be able to apply a colored border, a logo, a title and some instructions that would be visib…
September 20th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Cronin, Account Manager, SketchUpGreen is a popular color these days, and for good reason: Designers, builders and homeowners around the world are working to create and maintain sustainable buildings. One area of the U.S. where green de…
September 19th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Bryce Stout, Product ManagerThe third maintenance release of SketchUp 6 and SketchUp Pro 6 (including LayOut) is now here. We’ve been working long and hard to fix bugs and improve general stability. For SketchUp Pro users, we’ve also made ma…
September 18th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted By Pam Saenger, Associate Product Marketing Manager, Google AppsWhen chatting with Aidan recently, I mentioned that I thought that a lot of SketchUp users, particularly those who use SketchUp professionally, could benefit from Google Apps. He su…
September 13th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, Education GoddessAs the new school year begins, we of the SketchUp for Education department are busy as bees answering questions and fulfilling SketchUp licensing needs for the educational community. Here are some handy tips…
September 10th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Dizon, Account Manager, SketchUpA few months ago while I was in San Diego for the ESRI International User Conference, I had the chance to sit down and talk with some very passionate GIS folks from the Laboratory for Geographic Informat…
August 27th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIf you’re an ArchiCAD 11 user, you can stop feeling envious of your SketchUp friends’ ability to work with Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse. The folks at Graphisoft (makers of ArchiCAD) just announced somethin…
August 24th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIf you’re the sort of person who likes to receive informative, timely and occasionally amusing correspondence in your email inbox, you’re in luck. You can now subscribe to no fewer than two such newsletters: th…
August 21st, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Chris Dizon, SketchUp Account ManagerIn last September’s SketchUpdate, we mentioned a very cool (though PC-only) product called the Hypercosm Teleporter. Basically, it allows you to securely embed a SketchUp model into a web page and navigate…
August 17th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIt is with deep regret that I inform you of the results of our office’s final kickball game on Monday evening. After seven nail-biting innings, and with the score tied at three apiece in double overtime, the ot…
August 13th, 2007 | by The SketchUp Team | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistSome of you might know about LayOut, the all-new 2D presentation tool that we developed to accompany SketchUp. It’s included with SketchUp Pro 6; if you don’t already have it, you can download a free trial of P…
August 9th, 2007 | by Aidan Chopra | published in Google SketchUp
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistHas SketchUp ever crashed on you? Is the sky blue?The good news is that SketchUp has an Auto-save feature that automatically saves your model every five minutes by default. The bad news is that most people don’…