SketchUp Pro 2013 Now Shipping!

Planning a new release means reinforcing and enhancing what SketchUp is all about: simple, seamless, fun. SketchUp users have a feature wish-list of what they personally feel that would turn SketchUp into the perfect tool. Fulfilling all of those wishes would add layers of CAD-like complexity, making SketchUp completely unrecognizable to a person who just […]

SketchUp: Making our space at Maker Faire Bay Area

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SketchUp Maker Faire checklist:

SketchUp design Engineering toolbox plugin Cutlist plugin Lumber cutlist Miter saw 18-bolt cordless drill Gorilla glue Safety glasses Band-aids

Through our years attending Maker Faire Bay Area we’ve realized this: we generally spend less time talking about SketchUp and more time using it. For us, Maker […]

SU Podium V2 image of the month

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April 2013 image of the month is from award winning Pilacki Design Studio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SU Podium V2 is available at an academic discount price of $90

SketchUp Pro 8 Student 1-year license with SU Podium V2 Rendering Plug-In […]

Viso3D – Now Shipping!

Viso3D $49 Viso3D converts SketchUp models so that they can be viewed and navigated in 3D on an iPad or iPhone/ iTouch using the free Viso3D iOS app. The Viso3D SketchUp exporter plug-in will convert SketchUp geometry, textures and scenes to a .xcs file format. It will also optionally, create a lightmap which will “bake” […]

STL’s for 3D printing: in-and-out of SketchUp in two clicks

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Reading and writing STL files from SketchUp is something that users have been able to do for a while with the help of two separate ruby plugins. But as 3D printing has continued to boom, we’ve been thinking of ways to make this file exchange easier. So we emailed the […]

View SketchUp models and designs on your tablet or phone

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SightSpace® 3D is a powerful tool for viewing models and designs created in SketchUp, the Trimble 3D Warehouse, and Google Earth (all in .KMZ format). Interact with your model in the real world and virtually walk through it by aiming your device with the Augmented Reality* feature. Available on Apple®, Android™ […]

8 Tips for 3D Printing with Sketchup

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Learn how to optimize your SketchUp models for 3D printing including a tip on how to save on costs.

But how does one get started making awesome models for 3D printing? Its one thing to make a model look good on the screen, but quite another to make a model that […]

How to use XfrogPlants in SketchUp

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Use XfrogPlants‘ high quality 3d plants and trees in SketchUp! We have added a new SketchUp section to our Support area, and included a new video tutorial to guide you through importing exporting, getting your plants to display correctly and more!

XfrogPlants and SketchUp Pro are available at an academic discount price […]

Sketchup 8 Hands-On Basic & Advanced Exercises Special

Sketchup 8 Hands-On Basic & Advanced Exercises PDF Download On sale for $49.95! $25 off normal price of $74.95. Offer good through 8/31/2012.

Game Level Design with SketchUp

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The best way to take those first tender steps into level design isn’t through an SDK, though. It’s through one of the most powerful and easy-to-use 3D programs in recent years – Google’s SketchUp.

SketchUp has been used to create everything from models of real-life locales in Google Maps to photo-real […]