4/27/2006
Google releases free version of cool 3D package
Somehow, I managed to miss that Google had purchased SketchUp, a cool, relatively easy to use 3D modeling program that I tried out and enjoyed last year. I was a big fan, but the price and my general lack of talent with all things 3D kept me from becoming a real user.
But now Google has released a personal edition of Sketchup. The best part: It's free.
Yeah, I know Blender 3D is open-source and works wonders, too, but dang if I can figure out how to use it (or any other conventional 3D modeling program, for that matter). Modeling is indeed the Achilles' heel of my computer design skills. Sketchup, on the other hand, is more "sketchy" — it acts like the drawing tools a regular human might use.
Yeah, nerds'll hate it.
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I tried it last night. I don’t know if the “pro” version addresses this, but entering specific units is quirky at best and freaking annoying at worst. All told, however, it’s a pretty dang cool package. I know the previous “demo” version died after 8 hours of activity…so this is definitely an improvement.
I drew a thing with a hole in it, then another thing with a different thing in it. It was awesome.
It sounds awesome. Hmmph.
No, really! It was less pornographic than I made it sound…it was like a gazebo or something…if I’d saved it, I’d show you. But I deleted it…So I can’t.