"Whether you want to design a dream home, the world's tallest building or just a new backyard deck, SketchUp makes visualizing and communicating your design ideas easy. SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.
SketchUp Features:
- Click on a shape and simply push or pull it to create your desired 3D geometry.
- Experiment with color and texture directly on your model.
- Real-time shadow casting lets you see exactly where the sun falls as you model.
- Interactive Sections.
- "Sketchy Rendering".
- Dimension & Annotation.
Google SketchUp (free) includes tools for drawing and modifying geometry, moving around your model (orbiting, zooming, panning), as well as adding textures like brick, wood, shingles and glass. It also provides dimension and text tools that enable you to communicate accurate lengths and widths, as well as printing capability so you can work directly from your plans. SketchUp (free) includes support via our Help Center.
SketchUp (free ) includes these tools:
- Drawing and modifying geometry: Polygon, FollowMe, Offset, and
- Construction: Dimension, Tape Measure, Protractor, Section Slice, Layers, Area & Length Calculation
- Draw, modify, measure, rotate, and scale geometry.
- Place section slices to view and work on model interiors.
- Add pre-made textures to your models, or create new ones.
- Add pre-made components like trees, cars, doors and windows, and people to your models, or create new components.
- Soften and smooth faces.
- Cast real-time shadows for any location on earth.
- Simulate movie camera placements.
- Perform walk-throughs.
- Create presentation tours.
- Import 2D images (.jpg, .png, .tif, .tga, .bmp) and 3D models (.3ds, .dem, .ddf, .dwg, .dxf, .skp).
- Export your models to Google Earth.
- Export 2D images of your models (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .tif).
- Print your models.
- Create add-on programs using the Ruby programming language.
Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP Home-Pro, Vista | Mac OS X® 10.4.1 or higher.
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