Comments on: Google Offers SketchUp For Free http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/ Fresh Blender News, Every Day Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: indi http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-120268 indi Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-120268 it's cool disign program. it's cool disign program.

]]> By: ziggy the zigster http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-45241 ziggy the zigster Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:37:05 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-45241 why would google buy microsoft? what would they do with microsoft's disturbed, brainwashed, mentally damaged, criminally insane staff? Retrain them, reprogram them? Google would have to pay for their psychiatric care, many would have to be sent back to jail or secure mental health units to protect the public - presumably that's where microsoft recruited them. Then the marketing staff - they'd be a danger to the public too and would have to be giving menial tasks under some kind of supervision. No, for humanitarian reasons these creatures are probably best left where they are! Let's just hope that Google roll out an alternative operating system! Actually, SketchUp reminds me of Form-Z - another modeller with an architectural background - not quite as simple but in many ways similar - making certain tasks just as simple and easy. Also - someone with a Pro version of Sketchup should set up a simple www-based conversion service - for a small fee you could have your models converted from sketchup into dxf obj and other formats! why would google buy microsoft? what would they do with microsoft's disturbed, brainwashed, mentally damaged, criminally insane staff? Retrain them, reprogram them? Google would have to pay for their psychiatric care, many would have to be sent back to jail or secure mental health units to protect the public - presumably that's where microsoft recruited them. Then the marketing staff - they'd be a danger to the public too and would have to be giving menial tasks under some kind of supervision. No, for humanitarian reasons these creatures are probably best left where they are! Let's just hope that Google roll out an alternative operating system!

Actually, SketchUp reminds me of Form-Z - another modeller with an architectural background - not quite as simple but in many ways similar - making certain tasks just as simple and easy.

Also - someone with a Pro version of Sketchup should set up a simple www-based conversion service - for a small fee you could have your models converted from sketchup into dxf obj and other formats!

]]> By: edna http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1667 edna Tue, 02 May 2006 07:54:30 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1667 Blender could learn a great deal from SketchUp when it comes to accessibility. Nothing else comes close (have you tried getting started with Rhino or Maya?). Of course, SketchUp is sacrificing power for ease of use, but by providing a good way of achieving accuracy whilst drawing with excellent import/export capability it has made itself very popular in the engineering field. Having said that SketchUp is sacrificing power, it is worth remembering how difficult it is in Blender to draw a cube, draw a circle on one face, then extrude that circle inwards to create a tube (for example). Worth thinking about, certainly. It isn't all about that "Sketchy" look, Yorik ;-) Blender could learn a great deal from SketchUp when it comes to accessibility. Nothing else comes close (have you tried getting started with Rhino or Maya?). Of course, SketchUp is sacrificing power for ease of use, but by providing a good way of achieving accuracy whilst drawing with excellent import/export capability it has made itself very popular in the engineering field. Having said that SketchUp is sacrificing power, it is worth remembering how difficult it is in Blender to draw a cube, draw a circle on one face, then extrude that circle inwards to create a tube (for example). Worth thinking about, certainly. It isn't all about that "Sketchy" look, Yorik ;-)

]]> By: naught101 http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1633 naught101 Mon, 01 May 2006 01:14:55 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1633 YORIK: Actually, when you know well how to use Blender in editmode, you get almost the same ease and functionality as Sketchup… oh for the push pull function. blender is good, but no where near as easy to use a sketchup. YORIK: Actually, when you know well how to use Blender in editmode, you get almost the same ease and functionality as Sketchup…

oh for the push pull function. blender is good, but no where near as easy to use a sketchup.

]]> By: PrettyMeshedUp http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1610 PrettyMeshedUp Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:52:13 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1610 Nice one Toni, go for it! Nice one Toni, go for it!

]]> By: Chico Ortiz http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1583 Chico Ortiz Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:00:01 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1583 Interesting... did u figureted out how models will be incorporeted to google Earth later on? Individually? Groups? Interesting… did u figureted out how models will be incorporeted to google Earth later on? Individually? Groups?

]]> By: Yorik http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1580 Yorik Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:28:22 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1580 Actually, when you know well how to use Blender in editmode, you get almost the same ease and functionality as Sketchup... The great thing of sketchup is that lovely hand-drawn look... All architects are mad for it... But look: Once there was plain, stupid, bare 3ds Max. Then people began to get mad about using external renderers (what we have now with blender). The next step, external renderers began to make "non-realistic" rendering, and make renderings that look like hand-drawn pictures (brazil or finalrender for example). My guess is that we won't wait long to see that happening with Blender... Actually, when you know well how to use Blender in editmode, you get almost the same ease and functionality as Sketchup… The great thing of sketchup is that lovely hand-drawn look… All architects are mad for it… But look: Once there was plain, stupid, bare 3ds Max. Then people began to get mad about using external renderers (what we have now with blender). The next step, external renderers began to make "non-realistic" rendering, and make renderings that look like hand-drawn pictures (brazil or finalrender for example). My guess is that we won't wait long to see that happening with Blender…

]]> By: LetterRip http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1579 LetterRip Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:12:46 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1579 according to the license agreement - you agree to not use the free version of sketchup 'for commercial work' so using it for anything but non commercial is against the agreement. LetterRip according to the license agreement - you agree to not use the free version of sketchup 'for commercial work' so using it for anything but non commercial is against the agreement.

LetterRip

]]> By: theblenderboy http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1577 theblenderboy Fri, 28 Apr 2006 21:27:45 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1577 very cool. i've been playing around with Google Earth but knew nothing of this. very easy to learn, too. im going to go build my house! -theblenderboy ps - blender is still so much better. im not a traitor! :-) very cool. i've been playing around with Google Earth but knew nothing of this.

very easy to learn, too. im going to go build my house!

-theblenderboy

ps - blender is still so much better. im not a traitor! :-)

]]> By: David REVOY http://www.blendernation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1575 David REVOY Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:32:35 +0000 http://www.BlenderNation.com/2006/04/28/google-offers-sketchup-for-free/#comment-1575 A beautifull tool who can impress a lot at firsty view with the simplicity of using. I made a complete old castle for my first using, very intuitive. But when I try to realise something serious, ( like a mechanism / complex architecture / etc..) it's became hard ... Normal ! I am at the start of using. But I think I will keep blender, even when I "sketch " my 3D shape in front of a client. Anyway : Horrray Google ! A beautifull tool who can impress a lot at firsty view with the simplicity of using. I made a complete old castle for my first using, very intuitive. But when I try to realise something serious, ( like a mechanism / complex architecture / etc..) it's became hard … Normal ! I am at the start of using. But I think I will keep blender, even when I "sketch " my 3D shape in front of a client.
Anyway : Horrray Google !

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