The submission period for the Design It Shelter Competition is over; now it’s time to exercise your right to an anonymous online opinion by voting for your favorite shelter. Ah, sweet democracy…Check out the People’s Prize page on the Guggenheim comp…
Today, we added Dublin, Ireland and Cardiff, Wales to our collection of photo-textured 3D cities in Google Earth. With the ’3D Buildings’ layer in Google Earth turned on, you can now fly to these cities and explore everything from famous landmarks lik…
Do you ever need a piece of furniture or some cabinets for an interior model? If you want to include a real-world product in your Google SketchUp model, it’s nice to be able to find it in the Google 3D Warehouse. Why spend time creating it from scratch…
This morning, we received an email from a geo-modeler named Zexland from Belgrade, Serbia. This Industrial Design student was very proud to share that his 3D buildings in Google Earth made front page news in the local Serbian newspapers.The newspaper a…
Nearly two weeks have passed since we held our first Super Modeler Conference in Boulder, Colorado, but we’re still talking about it as if it happened yesterday.I’ll admit that we were initially a bit apprehensive about the idea. The thought of bri…
Since we retooled the building pipeline, the majority of 3D models intended for submission to Google Earth have gotten feedback from us; either when the model goes live in one of our weekly releases, or when feedback for model improvement gets sent to …
Nomer Adona is the 1st place winner of the Podium 4th image contest which ended earlier this summer (view all entries here.)Nomer is an international teacher in Vietnam teaching Design and Visual Arts in Ho Chi Minh City. He is also a freelance archite…
Starting tomorrow, August 6th, twenty Google Earth 3D modelers will join us in Boulder, Colorado for a two-day conference. These super modelers are flying in from locations around the world; including, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, …
Antwerp is the historic heart of Flanders in Northern Belgium and famous as the birthplace of two Old Masters, Rubens and Van Dyck. Today, two young masters are dedicating themselves to what they consider a “new form of art” – capturing the beauty of t…
I was visiting the SketchUp Community Forums the other day and noticed a few tips pertaining to dimensions. They were shared by bert and thomthom (a couple of the resident SketchUp gurus). I thought these nuggets of information were great, so I created…
The Design It: Shelter Competition launched about six weeks ago, and the response so far has been phenomenal. You owe it to yourself to visit the Guggenheim website to check out the projects that have been submitted so far – almost 100 and counting.B…
The folks at Go-2-School just launched a new way to get trained on SketchUp – an online service called Pro Accounts. A Pro Account gives members online access to Go-2-School’s entire video library, which includes their DVDs and webinars, as well as acc…
Our friends over at Architect Mason Kirby Inc have just announced a SketchUp design contest for kids! Since we know how much kids love SketchUp, we’ll be anxious to see what they create. The theme is “under/over/within” and features an intertidal …
Alright folks – I need your help. I’m traveling to Tokyo next week to give a speech for 1000 Japanese primary and secondary school teachers. I want to show them some examples of interesting things people are doing with SketchUp in K-12 education. I k…
Tim Killen of Killen•WOOD has found that SketchUp and LayOut are effective tools to help woodworkers become more efficient and better builders. After retiring in 2005 from the Bechtel Corporation where he served for 36 years in the management of engi…