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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: November 18, 2008
- Total Downloads: 1,055,079
- Downloads last week: 3,007
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 262 votes
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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 hobbyist, 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.
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Version 7.0.8660 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 262 votes
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Version: Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
Pros: offers an online feature that most other don't
Cons: works like any other Cad very restrictive point ploting wants to continue after plotting. doesn't offer pen flicks or mapping from other devices like moation sensors
Summary: the greatest thing about this cad is it's price and the ecad feature most paid ones seams to miss
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Version: Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
"Time flies with this program! Awesome!!!"
Pros: I like this program in that I am able draw anything I can dream up from home projects to spaceships; and that the drawings can be set to scale.
Cons: I would like to see more toolbar options. For example...making a sphere...or 3D shrubs and trees for landscaping. These options may be there, I just might not have figured out where to find them yet.
Summary: I love this program first and foremost because its free! It is easy to download and more than I ever expected to find in a free product. The program allows me to draw anything I can dream up without having to break out the pencil and paper. With tth... read more >>
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Version: Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
"frustratingly abstract and underpowered"
Pros: its free, pretty unique in its methods, simple and colourful
Cons: dimensioning is a pain
tools are not powerful or varied enough
snaps can be over aggressive to drawing points, but there are no snaps to allow a point at 90 degrees or parallel drawing
while colourful, renders look like they're produced in paintSummary: as a cad user i found google sketchup to be counter intuitive and frustrating, never mind the huge workload it adds if technical drawings are needed, especially in an iterative design process where parts of the drawing are likely to change, its extr... read more >>
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Version: Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
"A very powerful 3D CAD/Designing Program"
Pros: If you want a pro style 3D CAD/ Designing program for free, Google Sketchup is for you.
Cons: No Cons to speek of.
Summary: Google Sketcup is free and requires no registering and no special skills. If you want to go to the next level, Google Sketchup is for you if you can afford $500 bucks for it. If you need more help, go to the Google Sketchup Website or go to You Tube... read more >>
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Version: Google SketchUp 7.0.8660
Pros: It's (not so) easy to use, you can upload your own models to 3DWarehouse, use models in google earth, export image of model, use models of other people(download from 3Dwarehouse), and more and more...
DOWNLOAD and see!Cons: Program have it's own sort of dat. : .skp
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