Recently, our friends (and official Partners) at Igloo Studios released their Product Connect plugin for SketchUp. The plugin is designed to help you get more out of product models stored in the 3D Warehouse.3D models which are “Product Connect-enabl…
Recently, the gang at SketchUp received a very interesting phone call from a gentleman named Christian Sarkar. He had initiated a challenge to see if someone could design a radically affordable $300 house for the poorest of the poor. At first, we were …
[Cross-posted from the Google Lat Long Blog]The BolderBOULDER is one of the United States’ biggest 10K road races. Last year, more than 54,000 people participated, including several members of the SketchUp team and plenty of other Googlers from the B…
[Cross-posted from the Latlong Blog]We’re two days away from one of my favorite events of the year, the Super Bowl (and I’m sure I’m not alone!). I’m one of those fans who starts watching football during pre-season and can have entire weekends …
[Cross-posted from the SketchUp Blog]Today is the 125th anniversary of Groundhog Day – a tradition in the US and Canada when a weather-predicting woodchuck named Punxsutawney Phil tells us how long winter will last. Every year on February 2, a group …
Two weeks ago, we issued a free maintenance release that eliminated the much-loathed Shadow Bug (among other things) — and the SketchUp community went bananas with paroxysms of delight. We felt like Oprah on one of her “Favorite Things” episodes. More…
The Google Earth and Maps Imagery team has just released another aerial and satellite imagery update!January is the month of resolutions and NASA has one of the biggest: to take us into the next age of space flight. Below is a high-resolution aerial im…
Nearly five years ago, Google embarked on an ambitious project to work with everyday users like you to create a 3D model of every building in the world for Google Earth. We’ve made strides toward our goal adding millions of buildings to the 3D layer …
The city of L’Aquila, Italy was turned to rubble by a powerful earthquake in April of 2009. As is the case with many natural disasters, public attention has steadily declined since the earthquake. A year and a half later, little progress has been ma…
On April 6, 2009, a powerful earthquake struck l’Aquila, Italy. Three hundred and eight people died, and most of the buildings in the city center and surrounding areas were damaged or destroyed. About six months ago, we received an email from a Briti…
The winner of the Google SketchUp + Ponoko Challenge is in. Congratulations to Ed Lewis, aka Fungus Amungus, who created a wonderful instructable about using SketchUp with Ponoko 3D printing!In his instructable, Ed walks through 7 easy steps to go from…
To foreigners, Paris is the “city of love.” To Parisians, it’s the “city of lights” (La Ville-Lumière). Today, Paris is the “city in 3D.”Sunrise in ParisOften considered one of the top destinations for world travelers, Paris is known for…
If you’ve ever stopped by the SketchUp forums to ask a question, chances are you got an answer from one of the “SketchUp Sages”. Today, we are kicking off a blog post series profiling these SketchUp ninjas. In this inaugural installment, we’re …
Today, we’re happy to announce that three more Japanese cities are viewable in 3D in Google Earth: Yokohama, Sendai and Saitama.Sun rising over Yokohama.You can now tour photo-realistic, 3D buildings in these cities without leaving your house—or cl…