In 2006, shortly after I started working as the public geek at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, Google released a free version of its 3D drawing program, SketchUp. SketchUp was originally designed ...

If your business involves rendering 3D drawings or sketches of objects such as buildings or floor plans, you might know about Google SketchUp. SketchUp allows you to model 3D objects or import models ...

In addition to working with 3D models, Google SketchUp supports regular 2D photos in the JPEG, PNG, PSD, BMP and TIF image formats. It provides two ways for using photos in your projects, including ...

John Hanke and Brad Schell from Google were on hand to show us new versions of Google Earth and Google SketchUp. The new Google Earth launched yesterday with PC and Unix builds as well as a universal ...

While walking around the booths at the AIA 2009 Convention, I stopped by Google, who are not only presenting Sketchup 7 but also showing architects how to market their firms using AdWords and YouTube.

Over the years, we’ve talked quite a lot about SketchUp, Google’s amazing 3D modeling tool. We’ve shown you tools to make your models look more realistic, how to animate them and much more. Ultimately ...

[Karl] wrote in to tell us about a software package called EagleUp that will import your Eagle CAD PCB designs into Google SketchUp. It bridges the gap between the two using the open source image ...