{"id":12639,"date":"2006-04-28T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/google-sketchup\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T20:53:00","slug":"google-sketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/google-sketchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sketchup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Google SketchUp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/google.gif\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/04\/great-day-for-3d.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Google Blog<\/i> reports<\/a> that Google has released <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google SketchUp<\/a>, a free version of SketchUp 3D modeling software.  I downloaded it and tried it, and I must say that it&rsquo;s very intuitive, much moreso than Pro\/E, the software that I use at work.  Of course, I&rsquo;m comparing apples to oranges, as Pro\/E caters to a entirely different professional community, but I was still impressed.  Download it and try it out!<\/p>\n<p>One of the neat things about this offering is that you can insert your creations right into <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\" target=\"_blank\">Google Earth<\/a>.  Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/3dwarehouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google 3D Warehouse<\/a> is &ldquo;an online location where you can find and share 3D models,&rdquo; and some of the models there are pretty damn cool.  If you want to export your creations into more conventional CAD formats like DXF etc., you&rsquo;ll unfortunately need to upgrade to SketchUp Pro, though&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/google\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">google<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/software\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">software<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/design\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/free\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">free<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/maps\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114617763322650762?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Blog reports that Google has released Google SketchUp, a free version of SketchUp 3D modeling software. I downloaded it and tried it, and I must say that it&rsquo;s very intuitive, much moreso than Pro\/E, the software that I use at work. Of course, I&rsquo;m comparing apples to oranges, as Pro\/E caters to a entirely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/28\/google-sketchup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Sketchup&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}