Last week, one of the organizers of Next Stop Design wrote to tell us about their website. In their own words, Next Stop Design is “an experiment in ‘crowdsourcing’ the best ideas and designs to build a better bus stop”. The website lets anyone submit …
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistHaving challenged readers of this blog to contribute versions of Santa’s sleigh to this collection in the 3D Warehouse, I have to admit that I wasn’t sure what we’d get.About forty-five creative souls ponied up…
Posted by Tom Stamm, 3D Warehouse TeamIf you’re looking for an easy way to check out the latest models in 3D Warehouse, iGoogle gadgets lets you add 3D Warehouse content to your personalized iGoogle homepage. We’ve created three gadgets you can add:Goo…
Posted by Sang Ahn, SketchUp Software EngineerI’m happy to announce that SketchUp finally has its own little corner on Google Code. Do you fancy yourself an enlightened Rubyist? Do you love SketchUp, but wish it could do even more? With the SketchUp Ru…
Posted by Mark Limber, Product ManagerThe 3D Warehouse team is excited to announce that we’ve revamped our user interface. What’s new? It’s all about networking: We now show you other models you might like, based on the model you’re viewing. This makes…
Posted by Bryce Stout, Product ManagerEver wanted to create your own sketchy-edge Style that you can use to make your SketchUp models look hand-drawn? Now you can! It’s my pleasure to announce Style Builder (Beta) for SketchUp Pro 6. With this version,…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistMany moons ago, while working as an in-house graphic designer for a mining company in Vancouver, I was paid to make exploratory drilling results look compelling to investors. Not an easy task, to be sure. The d…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistLast week, I spent the better part of three days obsessing about modeling curvy, lumpy things in SketchUp. Given the time of year, I started with Saint Nick himself. That model was successful, so I worked on so…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistAs more and more of what folks do on the computer involves interacting with a 3D environment, I predict we’ll see a whole pile of new input devices coming onto the market. Mice were invented for a 2D digital ex…
Posted by Brad Askins, Quality Assurance EngineerApple released a new version of its operating system a couple of weeks ago, and it seems as though lots of SketchUp and Mac users are upgrading. We’ve received a few questions from folks wondering about …
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistBack before we had a blog, we’d include Tips & Tricks in the SketchUpdate e-newsletter we sent (and still send) around every so often. Recently, it occurred to me that some folks might find it useful to hav…
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistIt looks like the folks over at Cadalog have released a new version of Podium, their photo-realistic rendering plugin for SketchUp. Here’s some of what’s new in Podium 1.5:It’s faster – Most users can expect a …
Posted by Aidan Chopra, Product EvangelistI received an interesting question from a gentleman in Greece the other day; he was trying to use SketchUp’s nifty photo-matching feature to build a model based on this rendered image of a building. Needless to…
Posted by Tom Wyman, Market Development ManagerWhen we set out to create SketchUp, we had a pretty good idea of who would use it. Architects, basically. For conceptual design. And we were right — partly. As it turns out, there were a few uses that cau…
Posted by Chris Cronin, Account Manager, SketchUpRecently, a number of us were introduced to a team based in Scotland who are working on a great SketchUp integration called Demeter. It’s a building energy analysis plugin for SketchUp created by Greensp…