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30 out of 32 people found this review helpful
5 stars
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.
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28 out of 47 people found this review helpful
4 stars
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
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Google SketchUp 4.0
Pros: I was really impressed with how easy this program is to use. CAD and other 3D programs are notoriously difficult to jump into, but SketchUp let's you start up right away. The drag and drop components (including the bonus packs) made it very easy to quickly put together a drawing.
Cons: This is a minor nit, but I'd like to see a better set of icons for the tools.
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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
5 stars
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
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
4 stars
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.
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