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Google SketchUp 8 For Dummies, 9780470916827 (0470916826), For Dummies, 2010

A few years ago, I was teaching a workshop on advanced SketchUp techniques to a group of extremely bright middle and high school (or so I thought) students in Hot Springs, Arkansas. As subject matter went, I wasn’t pulling any punches — we were breezing through material I wouldn’t think of introducing to most groups of adults. At one point, a boy raised his hand to ask a question, and I noticed he looked younger than most of the others. Squinting, I read a logo on his T-shirt that told me he was in elementary school. “You’re in sixth grade?” I asked, a little stunned. These kids were motoring, after all. The boy didn’t even look up. He shook his head, doubleclicked something, and mumbled, “Third.” He was 8 years old.

SketchUp was invented in 1999 by a couple 3D industry veterans (or refugees, depending on your perspective) to make it easier for people to see their ideas in three dimensions. That was it, really — they just wanted to make a piece of software that anyone could use to build 3D models. What I saw in Arkansas makes me think they were successful.

Before SketchUp was acquired in 2006 by Google, it cost $495 a copy, and it was already a mainstay of architects’ and other designers’ software toolkits. No other 3D modeler was as easy to understand as SketchUp, meaning that even senior folks (many of whom thought their CD/DVD trays were cup holders) started picking it up. These days, SketchUp is being used at home, in school, and at work by anyone with a need to represent 3D information the way it’s meant to be represented: in 3D. Google SketchUp (as it’s now called) is available in at least 15 languages and is just as popular internationally as it is in North America.

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