I reckon 30 minutes of tutorials and you will be ready to have a crack at modelling your first project.Įase of use must have been one of the key reasons why Google purchased the company and with GoogleÝs methodology of giving away applications, SketchUp followed suit. If you want to get an idea across, quickly, it can be done in SketchUp. ItÝs flexible enough to rough out most designs and it goes so far that you could make your model in-context with satellite data bitmaps, sun shadows and topology.
SketchUp is neat, cool and multiplatform, I can happily run it on my Mac or PC and it feels like the same application.įundamentally, SketchUp is about making shapes and extruding them, or punching holes in them and adding groups of geometry together to make faceted models.
However, the downside is that you still need to own and know how to drive the big expensive CAD seat. SketchUp is found everywhere from small one man bands to large global practices and it has inspired even some of the main CAD vendors to try and copy the feature set.
SketchUpÝs success was mainly due to low cost, ease of use and a pent up need for such tools.
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