Google Sketchup 8 is the most powerful
version of Sketchup we've ever built for
this release we decided to focus on
three main areas building models that
know where they belong
powerful new tools for additive and
subtractive modeling and turning your 3d
models into compelling 2d documents and
using them throughout your Sketchup pro
workflow let's start from the beginning
whether you're making buildings for
Google Earth or gathering context
information for a site model you need to
be able to tell Sketchup where your
model is we replace the old get current
View button with add location clicking
it opens a Google Maps window where you
can choose an area to bring into
Sketchup the 3d terrain you get is more
detailed and accurate than ever and for
the first time the aerial imagery is in
color this makes everything from photo
texturing your roof to studying shadows
easier and more compelling
if you need to model an existing
building there's nothing faster than
Google Building Maker Building Maker is
a free online tool that you can use to
model existing buildings based on aerial
imagery that we provide for Sketchup 8
we built a direct pipe between the
applications so you can start a model
and Building Maker transfer it into
Sketchup and continue to work on it
there
in fact now you can open any Building
Maker model in Sketchup even ones made
by other people
you can add detail improve the photo
textures or even ignore the imagery and
assemble a massing model to provide
context for your own design combined
with features we introduced in the last
version of Sketchup
you can now bring in a color 3d terrain
snapshot import any nearby pre modeled
buildings use Sketchup and Building
Maker to model any other structures you
need get photo textures from Street View
and preview your work in 3d in Google
Earth Sketchup 8 brings the world into
your modeling window also new for
Sketchup 8 are solids a solid is a group
or component whose geometry is
completely watertight no gaps holes or
extra edges allowed if a group or
component is solid Sketchup will
calculate its volume just look in the
entity info dialog box to see it if you
see a volume you've got a solid the main
reason for introducing solids in
Sketchup 8 has to do with a powerful new
set of modeling operations we call the
solid tools available only in Sketchup
pro the solid tools let you combine
multiple shapes to create new ones Union
adds together two or more solids
intersect leaves you with the parts of
multiple solids that overlap subtract
uses one solid to cut a chunk out of
another trim is a little bit like a
subtract it's perfect for modeling
close-fitting parts and joinery split
turns to solids into three part 1 part 2
and the part they had in common solid
modeling and SketchUp Pro is guaranteed
to save you time and effort
and that's exactly what new tools are
supposed to do
SketchUp Pro 8 comes with layout 3 a
completely unique companion app for
turning your 3d models into multi-page
design Docs and presentations we added
dimensioning in Sketchup 7.1 and people
suddenly started using layout to make
Doc's that look a lot like construction
drawings scaled orthographic views
dimensions annotations title blocks the
whole enchilada along with hundreds of
bug fixes and other improvements layout
3 adds four major new features precise
move lets you designate any part of an
object as a reference point making it
easier to you guessed it move things
precisely now it's easier than ever to
put things exactly where you want them
to be different tasks call for different
line styles we've added a couple of
settings to layout 3s shape style dialog
box that you can use to tweak your lines
to your heart's content being able to
dimension angles is a critical part of
putting together a set of dimension
drawings that's why the new angular
dimension tool is so important combined
with our innovative label tool and the
linear dimension tool we added last year
there's nothing you can't annotate with
layout 3 as more and more people have
decided to produce detailed drawing sets
with layout they sometimes need to share
their files with other CAD systems with
layout 3 you can export your drawings
directly to DXF or DWG 2010 format
real world models that know where they
are
solid modeling operations drafting and
workflow enhancements in layout and
plenty more visit sketchup google comm
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