Google Sketchup

[Plotloss]

I appreciate that I am probably somewhat late to the party on this one.

But does anyone else use this?

I only discovered it last night but I'm utterly hooked, the libs available for it are mindblowing.

Yet another astonishing bit of software from Google, how do they do it?

[jeremyc]

Plotloss said:

Yet another astonishing bit of software from Google, how do they do it?

They don't.

Sketchup website said:

Founded in 1999 and based in Boulder, Colorado, @Last Software the maker of SketchUp was created by a small group of AEC software industry veterans. This group envisioned developing 3D design software that would make design exploration accessible to everyone.

In March of 2006 @Last Software was acquired by Google, and shortly there after released a free version of SketchUp allowing everyone to create models in 3D.

However, Google are very good at buying neat technology companies ....

[Plotloss]

jeremyc said:

However, Google are very good at buying neat technology companies ....

Thats kind of what I was getting at.

Anything that fits in with their global collaboration ideals is bought pretty much before anyone else hears of it.

This Sketchup though, its epic, the results you can get from fiddling are astonishing. The barrier to entry for AutoCAD is just too high, this however, straight in, bosch, bosch, visualisation.

[league67]

Used it for a while now. Its amazing integration with google earth is what I find amazing. Very impressive.

[spitfire-ian]

I think it's excellent