A few weeks have passed since the winners of the 3D Printed Lamp Design Challenge for SketchUp were announced. Our friends over at Materialise have had time to print out the winning designs; we thought you might like to see the amazing results.First Pl…
Beryl Reid has been busy. In August of 2009, Beryl (a.k.a. BerylDrue) traveled to our Boulder, Colorado office to become a Google Certified Teacher. Then in April of this year, she became a Supermodeler. She liked Boulder so much that she even came bac…
We know from examining our charts and graphs that the good people of Brazil are crazy about SketchUp. We can officially add 3D modeling to the long, long list of things for which that country is famous.The first book about Google SketchUp 8 is now avai…
This user story comes from Mark Lessmueller at Daniel Company. It came in via the Tell us your story link on the Sketchup Go Green! site.Daniel Company has switched to Sketchup Pro for the drafting, design, analysis and construction of its air pollutio…
Today’s Google Building Maker imagery update is our last one for 2010 – you can now use our purpose-built geo-modeling tool in any of 109 cities around the world. We’ve just released imagery for:Oklahoma City, OklahomaOslo, NorwayThe Hague, The N…
It’s Monday — time for my weekly reminder about entering the Ponoko 3D Printing Challenge before it’s too late. You have two more weeks to put together an Instructable about using SketchUp and Ponoko together. Fabulous prizes await you if you win. The…
Here’s a testimonial from Zeljko Zdravkovic (a.k.a Zex), who told us about his experience geo-modeling his hometown of Belgrade, Serbia.I started modeling Belgrade because I wanted to create a 3D identity for my city. I first learned that it was poss…
When you’re working with rounded objects whose edges have been smoothed, it’s sometimes hard to make things look good. That’s because curved surfaces don’t automatically produce a profile edge that helps to differentiate them from the background. You c…
We’re one quarter of the way into the Ponoko 3D Printing Challenge; you’ve got three more weeks to enter. The salient points:You produce an instructional media-thing (text, images, video) that teaches folks “How to use Google SketchUp for Ponoko …
Google Demo Slam is a little piece of tech we put together to help people wrap their heads around all the cool/useful stuff that Google offers. It’s the perfect way to wake up after stuffing yourself with Thanksgiving turkey.Here’s a SketchUp Demo Slam…
If you haven’t discovered Ponoko yet, you’re in for a treat. Ponoko is about turning the stuff you dream up into physical objects that you can hold in your hands. Nothing beats seeing your designs come to life.To coincide with the launch of their n…
‘Tis the season… for software competitions! The folks at Reallusion (the talented makers of iClone) have recently launched the Bring Your Architecture to Life SketchUp & iClone Rendering Contest. With a combination of realistic materials, detaile…
This past summer, Supermodeler Arkadiusz Pawlowski (a.k.a. Arek, a.k.a. aroo) decided to hold a SketchUp workshop for students at the Nicolas Copernicus University of Toruń. He partnered with fellow Toruń alumni Radoslaw Golba to teach the course. I …
Today we’re announcing a new approach to bestowing “Super Modeler” status on our geo-modeling rock stars. More on that below—but first a little history.A new form of 3D modeling began when @Last Software, the maker of SketchUp, was acquired by …
The winners of the i.materialise 3D Printed Lamp Design Challenge for SketchUp have been announced, and they’re beautiful. Check ‘em out:First Place:3D Maze by Corre Second Place:Parasite by ParadoxThird Place:HD Studio Lamp by Zach Hines & Oli…