Latest book review on - Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating
Google SketchUp Workshop – modeling, visualizing and illustrating is Laurent Brixius’s latest release into the publishing world and is the much anticipated English translation of his first book ‘Créer avec SketchUp – 16 projets, de l’architecture au théâtre’. My French is somewhat limited, and to be honest pretty abysmal (not one of my favorite subjects at school I’m afraid…sorry), so it was with great pleasure that I got the opportunity to read through and examine personally what this latest edition of the English version has to offer.
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The Bottom Line - Making Money With Google SketchUp
The global economic downturn forced Robert Pineo,an Architect from Charlottesville, VA to move out of the office in search for work and there he surprisingly discovered new and alternative ways to sell SketchUp. He talks to Mateo Soletic about Pre-development design and his other experiences: “The lessons I learned opened my eyes to a business opportunity most architects have not tapped: the need to tell a compelling story.“
Google SketchUp and Experimental Architecture
Lewis Wadsworth is a designer and artist located in Boston, Massachusetts. He works principally in the field of architecture. Lewis’s architectural projects have appeared in AIArchitect, journal of the American Institute of Architects, and has been honored by the Boston Society of Architects. Being great fans of his “Experimental Architecture”, his unique presentation style and narrative, we decided to present his three chosen works in their original form. We think that the images and the accompanying text are truly inspirational.
Major SketchUp 8 Update…..
News just in from Google SketchUp blog that SketchUp 8 has had a major update fixing some longs standing bugs that have troubled folks for a while now. Here are a few of those changes:
Fixed shadow bug (One of the biggest annoyances), LAA aware (on 64 bit OS), image export size increased, codecs fixed, Toolbar fix fixed and a few other goodies..so this may certainly persuade some of those who were hesitant to upgrade to actually take the plunge now. Well done guys this is a major fix..
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More Google SketchUp Styles!
We just published another three new Styles for your presentations, take a peek…
Batch of New SketchUp Styles Published
Another collection of six useful fun Styles by Dave Richards in our Styles Section under Prensentations.
New Tutorial - Kerkythea – take a deeper look at materials
In this tutorial Majid goes further into the more advanced techniques in making materials, understanding their settings and then using them as a saved templates which can be edited later to suit your needs.
New Tutorial - Create a tile imprint
The idea behind this tutorial is to help you to achieve a tile imprint design from scratch. Modeled in Google SketchUp, the textures are prepared in Photoshop and Pixplant, and finally rendered in V-Ray for SketchUp. Learn new skills with this nice little tutorial by Nomeradona.
New Tutorial…5D!
Yet another innovative approach to art,design and presentation by Jim Leggitt. Check this new tutorial out on 5Dthink: Merging 2D and 3D Visualization… 
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