Google Goes 3D with SketchUp

Why IE? Well considering 80 percent of the poplulation still uses it, why not launch it there first. It can get out to more people faster to get checked out etc. Well off to the download

Don't really have a need for CAD software but when I read Google was making SketchUp available I thought I'd download it and give it a try. It's easy to use and the tutorials that come with it help you get started drawing with a quickness. The results look pretty professional (speaking as a layman). It's fun to experiment with it and I won't de-installing this software anytime soon.

Huh? IE 6.0? Didn't Google just get through advertising Firefox; the first time anything had ever been advertised in their homepage? How can they now release an IE version first? Granted, I'd have to wait for it anyway, being a mac user, but it hardly seems right to do this to Mozilla fans. The least they could have done was release two versions simultaneously.

I've worked with @Last in a previous role for a GIS company. Their software is truly amazing in the 2.5D / 3D market. I still have a hard time believing that it sold for as little as $500, let alone free. This is a good day for designers :-)

Now google comes with new google sketchup Pro 6. This version has somany good features, which will help for presentation purpose.

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Christ some of you people are retarded. Google bought a company and turned around and gave away their software, it might as well be GNU, you should be applauding them not crying like a bunch of whiney penguin babies. Who's to say that now that they own it they won't port it to other OS's or browers? This is a first release. Pull your heads out of your collective arses. Quit lamenting everytime somebody produces a FREE product that doesn't run on Linux like a child who complains that his PS2 games don't work on an Xbox, and shut the hell up plllleeease. I bet half of you posted your comment from IE6 in the first place. Monkeys.

A version for Apple's Mac OS is "on the cards."??? Should be "in the cards."

So far, so good. Works much better than the "live 1 care" I downloaded from MSFT this week. Yeah, I know there 2 differnt products, but it's still software, it should work as advertised. & MS is already becoming "nagware" I'll wait for version 3 for "live" the thought of version "3 SketchUp" should really frighten Adobe. And for those of you that don't like the price, try buying photoshop on a fixed income! No wonder Microsoft is scared, they have to actually raise their game for the first time in 10 years.

$495 is no price to sneeze at. *achew!*

this might be super s/w for architects and other mechanical people.... The new generation of technology is definatly going to be a boom

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I think this product will be a boon to Architects and Builders

>A version for Apple's Mac OS is on the cards. It seems ironic that such a progressive company as Google would use such antiquated storage solutions.

kinda need to try it before i can say anything about it

Well when the app was bought it was already made to use on IE. It wasn't Google who made it for IE only, its' requirements came as-is.

We're not complaining because we hate Microsoft. It just doesn't make since to advertise one product the first day ("tabbed browsing, safer surfing." -Google) and then port the first version of their newest software on the competitors product the next. It represents a certain level of capriciousness. This won't impress the businessmen who see it. And along the lines of the software being free and we suddenly having no right to complain because of that: remember that Google is making a profit off of this regardless. Services like Gmail and Websearch may be *free, but Google makes a _profit_ from it by placing ads in the interface. No company does anything for free, and I have every right to complain about their service.

If Google's 3D offering is anything like Google Earth for OS X.... I'm not holding my breath.

Good Grief! Google *pays* for something and then *gives* it away for free, then sets up an online warehouse to store, share and search the information, and people are bitching. If Toyota gave away cars for free you guys would complain because you have to buy the gas. Google doesn't *owe* you anything, they're making this available for free. Either use it for free or go *buy* the software from a competitor at your local computer store.

Windows? only, IE6+ only. No Linux. No Firefox. No Mac (yet...) Google has their collective noses so far up Microsoft's ass, it's amazing. If the two companies ever go to war, Google will loose because of their absolute dependance on Microsoft.

Hi Jeffrey,

Your computer seems like it will be nice.

What does the thing look like?

Why do so many people complain about having to use Microsoft based products? If you want to use this 'free' application you'll have to use IE6. Should I complain that I can't use petrol in my diesel car?

God forbid you people include a link to the software.

Dont mean to be rude, but go ahead and download IE6, it doesnt hurt, although I think it should have been available for Firefox as well. I also think Google need to bring these free tools on platforms like Linux also.