Google Tools
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I may be out of the loop on this, but I just stumbled accross one of Google's tools called Google Sketchup. Appaerntly it's their shot at trying to create a user firendly, streamlined 3D application. Mostly I see this more in compotition woth AutoCAD than Max, Maya and the such but knowing that google is an evergrowing company I could easily think something like this could expand in to our modeling and animation softwares. I thought it was pretty a pretty cool attempt and am wondering how it will do in the future.
At first I thoguht it was a 2D sketching application like Alias sketchbook, although im sure that would be something that google would perhaps create later down the line.
Link: http://sketchup.google.com/
Well, so when I saw this I thought of this place and was wondering what you guys thought or of it's anything worth mentioning at all.
Happy Holidays.
At first I thoguht it was a 2D sketching application like Alias sketchbook, although im sure that would be something that google would perhaps create later down the line.
Link: http://sketchup.google.com/
Well, so when I saw this I thought of this place and was wondering what you guys thought or of it's anything worth mentioning at all.
Happy Holidays.
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And yeah Sketchup is indeed quite popular amongst the architecture crowd - back at school we used it way before it was aquired by Google. I remember a teacher specialized in wooden frame and buildings actually used it alot for his professional works. Nice little program.
8FtSpider: that building is kick ass! Did you turn alot of the model into construction groups?
It took me about one 8 hr day to do that model. Importing the CAD files and setting them up (setting up the elevations around the floor plan) really facilitates quick modeling, and since I drew most of the CAD drawings, I was pretty familiar with the building before I started modeling it.