Sep 10th
2006

SketchUp Home - Google releases free 3d software for Mac and PC

I thought this might be useful for our contractor Eric since he was talking about getting a 3d drafting package of some sort. Hard to beat free to start… :)

3D for EveryoneDeveloped for the conceptual stages of design, SketchUp is powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software. We think of it as the pencil of digital design. This award-winning software combines a simple, yet robust tool-set that streamlines and simplifies 3D design inside your computer. SketchUp is being used by anyone with the desire to…

Go download it now: SketchUp Home

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One Response to “SketchUp Home - Google releases free 3d software for Mac and PC”

  1. jdpf Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 2:48 pm

    Unfortunately, SketchUp is totally proprietary, Closed Source. Why not use Blender? It’s GNU free! http://blender.org/— for CAD/CAM stuff you’ll want to use the CAD scripts for blender. That said, the blenderCAD project has stalled for the moment— and the CAD stuff isn’t quite there, but several people use blender for architectural renderings.

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