Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistWhen it comes to rendering their models for presentation, a lot of designers make a beeline for photorealism. That’s all fine and well, but there are definitely times (and clients) which call for decidedly soft…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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’…
Posted by Tyson Kartchner, Learning GuruThe SketchUp 3D Challenge is celebrating its first birthday! We’ve had a lot of fun creating the many dozens of challenges we’ve issued over this past year. It’s pretty amazing what SketchUp users can cre…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Shameless AuthorIf you’ve ever written a book, you know what it feels like to see it sitting on a bookstore shelf for the first time. A few days ago, I got to feel that way, too — I almost started dancing right in the middle of…
Posted by Allyson McDuffie, SketchUp for EducationThe results are in for the winners of the Build Your Campus in 3D Competition. The judges chose 7 teams from among the dozens who submitted more than 4000 buildings from higher education institutions al…
Posted by Tom Wyman, Market Development ManagerThe folks at Cadalog, who make a nifty photorealistic rendering plug-in for SketchUp called SU Podium, are having a contest. Basically, everyone starts with the same 3D model, and the people who make the n…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistEarlier this week, I found myself answering an email question about how to apply an image to a cylinder. After I was done, it occurred to me that there were probably a lot of people who could use the tip.To wra…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistOne of our oldest friends, Bonnie Roskes, has written an excellent tutorial on using images to paint faces in SketchUp. It appears in the Tips and Tricks area of the AECbytes website, which is well worth checki…