Google Sketch Up: 3D modeling tool
Google Sketch Up is a powerful and user-friendly 3D software tool that combines a simple and robust tool with an intelligent drawing system. It enables you to build and modify 3D models from simple to complex and from conceptual to realistic. Using Google Earth, Google Sketch Up helps to place the models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse. It is easy, fast, powerful, flexible and funny to use it. You can design anything from shoebox, houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects to a skyscraper. You can have your models loose/conceptual or tight/accurate. Hence, you can extend your creativity and imagination and bring your dream designs into reality.
This software combines spontaneity of pencil or traditional sketching with the speed and flexibility of digital media. There are number of traditional CAD softwares in the market. Does this software provide something different than other design softwares? Yes. This software provides you 3D for everyone. The traditional softwares are missing of freedom, flexibility and fun. This software is designed for the freedom and fun only. Traditional CAD softwares are designed for developing detailed drawings. They are very complex for conceptual work. We can say that Google Sketch bridges the gap between design and fun.
Customers consider Google Sketch as a tool of communication, problem solving, productivity, creativity, teaching, prototyping, design, sketching, draft preparation, marketing, visualization and consultation tool.
Google sketch Up6 provides you both, free and paid versions. It provides you additional features such as Bonus Packs, Video Tutorials, Examples, User’s Guide (online), Google Sketch Up user’s guide (PDF), quick reference card etc.
Bonus Packs provides a library of components (pre-drawn objects like trees, cars and people) that are useful for creating reusable models to be placed within other models. This helps you to create more advanced Sketch Up models. Your specific needs can be searched in the 3D Warehouse. Component libraries are of architecture, construction, film and stage, landscape architecture, symbols, people and transportation. One can download files up to given size. If one is looking for a specific material, Sketch-Up Bonus-Pack contains some new great-looking materials that one can use for his/her Sketch-Up models.
Examples provide you number of Geo-referenced and non-geo-referenced models (their images, their position on the satellite maps).
Video tutorials help to get started with the Sketch-Up as they introduce many of Sketch-Up‘s unique techniques, tools and procedures.
User’s guides are for your help to get acquainted with the Sketch-Up.
One can enter into Google Sketch-Up's Build Your Campus in 3D Competition (Australia & New Zealand). One simply have to model his/her school's campus buildings in Google Sketch-Up, geo-reference them in Google Earth and submit them through this competition web site to earn lasting online glory.
Google Sketch-Up also provides you the 3D Warehouse which searches, shares and stores 3D models. Anyone can search and download models, but to submit one’s own, one needs to log in using his/her Google Account. The models in the 3D Warehouse include everything for the 3D world i.e. buildings, bridges, sculptures, statues, couches, cars, people and much more.
Hence, now you can extend your creativity and imagination and bring your dream designs into reality.Google, Google Earth, Google Sketch-up, Sketch-up features,
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