Free Star Trek 3D Warehouse models for SketchUp

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View and download free Star Trek 3D Warehouse models for SketchUp.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 is available at a student discount price of $49.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 is free for instructors.

Free Green Building Google SketchUp Plugin

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IES has recently launched a plug-in to Google SketchUp. This Toolbar sits within the SketchUp application and gives direct access to all of IES’s tools: VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits and the full Virtual Environment. The plug-in is compatible with both the Free and Pro versions of Google SketchUp. The IES […]

MacWorld UK reviews Google SketchUp Pro 7

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Google’s 3D sketching software SketchUp offers a great way to lay out an initial design for a 3D scene or artwork. Illustrators and digital artists can use the free version for occasional work, then take their sketches into Photoshop and Illustrator to create artwork. Animators and 3D artists – and illustrators […]

Google’s whack at 3D begins to stand out

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“3D for Everyone” is the strapline used by Google to promote the latest version of its ubiquitous software SketchUp 7. This is a fairly accurate slogan, as most architects around the world have at least heard about, or tried SketchUp since Google took ownership, and provided a free version for […]

SketchUp Plugins: The Phlatprinter CNC Foam Cutter

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The Phlatprinter is a home-built CNC cutter designed and built by Mark and Trish Carew. It is designed to cut flat media (think foam) to be folded into 3d models. Foam radio-controlled airplanes are just one example from the gallery, but I imagine it could be very useful in Architecture as […]

Tales from Topographic Oceans

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Eric Schmidt says he has achieved his ambition of climbing Mount Everest, if only from the comfort of his own office using the 3D capabilities of Google Earth.

From today, Google’s chief executive can also plumb the deepest oceans after he announced the launch of “Ocean in Google Earth” at the […]

SketchUp: Why Kids With Autism Love It

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Science is rich with happy flukes. Remember the story of penicillin? Alexander Fleming discovered the bacteria-destroying mold by accident when he left a culture dish uncovered in his lab in 1928. Eight decades later, here’s another one: a Googlesoftware program called SketchUp, which was intended largely for architects and design professionals, […]

PC Pro: Product Reviews: Google SketchUp 7

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SketchUp 7 adds another major strength to its building block approach to 3D modelling with new support for dynamic components. Now, users of the Pro version of SketchUp can add easy customisability and interactive intelligence to the components that they’ve created. It’s a pity that users of the free SketchUp cannot […]

Google Talks to Architosh About SketchUp Pro 7

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Architosh talks to John Bacus, Google’s SketchUp Product Manager, about the all new SketchUp 7 and SketchUp Pro 7 and Layout 2. Key points in the discussion include the new Dynamic Components technology and how to learn about it, discussion about OpenGL and multi-processing and multi-threading, and the value in understanding causality […]