Simplify your laptop buying
- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 28, 2006
- Total Downloads: 932,071
- Downloads last week: 4,903
- See full specifications
A newer version of Google SketchUp is available.
(Download doesn't provide access to previous versions of this program.)
- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 262 votes
See all user reviews
CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This sketch-based 3D-modeling program offers a suite of powerful drawing tools that add an intuitiveness many design programs fail to achieve. On first impression, Google SketchUp may look like it sacrificed function for simplicity, but that's not the case. Despite the extremely user-friendly interface, SketchUp offers a suite of powerful 3D-drawing tools that let you experiment and play with new designs.
Using basic shapes in 3D space for your outline, you can then extrude those shapes to make buildings, houses, or really anything. There are actually a number of methods to build models and they're all covered by an excellent tutorial when you get started. You can pick from a number of true-to-life textures to simulate wood, concrete, grass, and several others. When your model is finished, you can save and print it, or you can even see it on a real map in Google Earth. We really like how easy it is to create models using this program and recommend it to anyone from the hobbiest, for experimentation and fun, to the professional, who can use this app for preliminary concepts for larger projects.
Publisher's description
From Google :Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. You can place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you.
Google SketchUp is free for personal use. No registration is required.
For more information, watch a CNET video tour.
More popular 3D Modeling Software downloads
- 9,421 downloads 1. DAZ Studio
- 7,421 downloads 2. AutoCAD
- 5,564 downloads 3. Google SketchUp
- 2,535 downloads 4. Sweet Home 3D
- 1,520 downloads 5. FaceGen Modeller
- See all 3D Modeling Software downloads
User reviews of Google SketchUp 6.0.176
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 262 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
-
Showing 5 of 79 user reviewsSee all 79 user reviews
This software version | All versions -
30 out of 32 people found this review helpful
Version: Google SketchUp 6.0.176
"Best personal 3D tool out there!"
Pros: First, it's free. It won't cost you a penny. Second, it's EXTREMELY easy to use, and it's feature-packed. There are great tutorials to get you started, but you probably won't even need those. Lots of pre-loaded textures to choose from. Very intuitive. Allows you to put your model in Google Earth!
Cons: Nothing, except that it seemed that when bringing in terrain from Google Earth to build your model on, some bugs surfaced.
-
28 out of 47 people found this review helpful
Version: Google SketchUp 6.0.176
Pros: A lot of fun, show all your friends your house, thats cool. Good fun, really good fun
Cons: No use for serious CADer's
-
19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Version: Google SketchUp 6.0.176
Pros: Everything about this program. I've used AutoCad for the past ten years (no expert tho) but this program is way more fun. That's what I'll use it for, instead of games, it'll be SketchUp for me
-
6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Google SketchUp 6.0.176
"for beginners and professionals."
Pros: first, there is a tutorial (i can't spell it)
It shows you how to use it.
The buttons are easy to understand.
It's all in 3D mode
It has texture filling to make it look like a real model
And it's got a britening tool (i can't spell it either)
Cons: It's relatively slow and takes quite a bit of space.
-
2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Google SketchUp 6.0.176
"awesome, easy and fast. must get it!"
Pros: I like how it can change 2d drawings in to 3d models really fast. It's totally cool.
- See all 79 user reviews Write review
Submit your review
Previous Versions:
