Creating web-ready images with SketchUp Pro and LayOut

Link via The Official Google SketchUp Blog

As you probably know, working with LayOut (included with SketchUp Pro) is an excellent way to prepare printed documents and screen presentations with 3D models. What you might not know, is that it’s also a great way to prepare images of SketchUp models for publishing on the web.

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7 awesome things you can do with SketchUp

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Sketchup is a free 3D modelling tool developed based on the philosophy that by giving people a small set of powerful, intuitive tools, you can lower the barrier of entry to 3D modelling, so that almost anyone can make quality 3D models with just a couple of sessions of practice.

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Google Model Your Town Competition

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Use Google SketchUp in combination with Google Earth to model your town and win $10,000!

Google SketchUp 7 is free.

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

Google SketchUp Pro 7 is free for instructors.

Google SketchUp Pro 7 Lab licenses are available at […]

Design It: Shelter Competition Winners

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Over the course of the summer, Design It: Shelter Competition received submissions from people in 68 countries for a total of nearly 600 entries that met competition requirements. On the occasion of the Guggenheim Museum’s 50th Anniversary, we are pleased to announce the two winning entries: David Mares’s CBS – Cork Block […]

SketchUp 7.1 is here

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Fall is just around the corner here in Boulder, and with it comes our next release of Google SketchUp (cue the bugling elk). The team’s been working long hours through the summer on projects large and small. I’m proud to announce that Google SketchUp 7.1 is available today for […]

Google Earth Lands On The Moon

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I can’t count how many times I’ve been been through the Apollo 11 mission—in movies, books, documentaries and elsewhere—but I still found the Google Earth reenactment, with its Sketchup-modeled spacecraft and informative voiceover, completely engaging.

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

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How to add models to Google Earth with Google SketchUp

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This video describes step-by-step how to use photographs, Google Earth, Google SketchUp and the 3D Warehouse to create and upload a model for consideration in the Google Earth 3D Building layer. If you are interested in placing models in the official 3D Building Layer of Google Earth, this video show you exactly […]

EnergyPlus simulations with the free OpenStudio plugin for Google SketchUp

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OpenStudio is a free plugin for the Google SketchUp 3D drawing program. The plugin makes it easy to create and edit the building geometry in your EnergyPlus input files. The plugin also allows you to launch EnergyPlus simulations and view the results without leaving SketchUp.

Link via earth2tech.com

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Design It: Shelter Competition sponsored by the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp

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On the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for locations around the world […]

Model Your Home, Plan Improvements in 3D with Google Sketchup

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My wife and I just moved to an apartment with a great backyard, but neither of us think spatially. Using Google Sketchup, it’s been easier than I’d imagined to plan our Ultimate Patio 4000.

If you’ve got a similar kind of project that you want to mess with in three dimensions […]