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This week, we introduced the new Ancient Rome 3D layer in Google Earth, a groundbreaking collection of 6,700 3D buildings modeled as leading scholars determined they stood in the year 320 A.D.While we hope that teachers are already pretty excited to in…

Well, not us, but our friends at IES are! We wanted to let you know because they are offering Google SketchUp Pro customers a discount on their new Architectural Suite and Architectural Suite Plus software. Here’s the deal: If you go to the Greenbuild …

Were you someone who struggled to stay awake in ancient history class? If so, perhaps this was due to those uninspiring “artist renditions” in your textbook. Reading countless pages that described how a monument, building or city may have appeared can…

Did you know you can browse 3D Warehouse models in Google Earth? Clicking this 3D Warehouse Community network link launches Google Earth and shows icons wherever geo-located models have been placed in the 3D Warehouse.When you’re higher up, you’ll see…

This is Part One of a four-part series that highlights different uses for the new 3D Warehouse model sharing feature. In this series, we’ll be following our dear friends Jack and Jill.Jack and Jill are collaborating on a 3D model. Jack has a special ta…

Did you know that over 90% of Google search queries are made in just 17 different languages? Not satisfied with that coverage, the Google 3D Warehouse recently expanded availability to twenty-seven languages. Yes, twenty-seven. We welcome our Danish, B…

Synchro is a 4D (3D + scheduling) application that allows you to create and see the construction schedule of your project — all at the same time. They’ve created a plugin for SketchUp and have full support for the SKP file format. The plugin allows yo…

When I first saw the Google Earth Plugin I thought, “That’s cool, we have to showcase that on the 3D Warehouse!” So we changed our 3D Model Map to use it. But, my real goal was to use the plugin to show users their fully navigable geo-models on Earth…

Making 3D models on the computer is great and all, but have you ever wanted a real-life, physical, breaks-if-you-drop-it object to hold in your hands? Of course you have — we’ve all been spoiled by Captain Picard’s replicator. But we might have to wai…

If you’ve never heard of Massive Black, you’re in for a treat. They create concept art for movies, advertising and game studios, and their work is super-inspiring. We found out that they use SketchUp, so we asked if we could create a profile on them fo…

Creating a 3D printing file from a Google SketchUp file has never been easy. Today a new class of 3D printing technology has slashed the time and expense it takes to create a physical model. Our friends at CADspan just released a plugin that allows for…

We’ve been thrilled to see the Google 3D Warehouse community grow and thrive these last two years. However, sometimes we’ve felt that a model in the 3D Warehouse is like an island – isolated and constrained to a single owner. So, in the spirit of commu…

Our friends at DPR Construction are using 3D visualization in Google SketchUp to enhance communication through the many phases of their construction projects. They are able to identify errors and inconsistencies that can derail progress. From presenti…

As promised, here are the runners-up from the Design Your Dwelling Competition, as determined by the judges at SketchUp and Dwell. They’re not presented in any particular order:Matt Hutchins | ModelModern means giving back to the community. In this cas…

A core piece of Google’s efforts to fight global warming is our Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal initiative. We’ve created a series of tools demonstrating a new renewable energy technology called Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS). We’re extremely ex…