Google SketchUp Workshop Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating

Discover the secrets of the Google SketchUp with the 16 real-world professional-level projects including parks, structures, concept art, and illustration. Google SketchUp Workshop includes all the wide variety of projects that SketchUp can be used for-architectural visualization, landscape design, video game and film conception, and more. SketchUp masters in every field will get you up to speed in this agile and intuitive software and then show you the real uses with through projects in architecture, engineering, and design.
* Packed with 16 real-world Google SketchUp projects from working professionals that traverse the entire spectrum of what SketchUp can accomplish
* Covers both the free and Professional versions of the Google SketchUp program - it is not bound to any version
* Teaches 2D illustration and pre-visualization through to the fully rendered 3D Model - from start to finish

How to deal with a complex 3D model; When you get stuck in SketchUp; Tips; Advanced uses; Projects; Appendix : Dynamic Componants; Creating Virtuals Models; Using the componants in an Architecture Competition; Regenerating an Urban Park; Designing a Town Square; Creating Technical Documents; Building in 4 dimensions!; Designing a Process Plant; Designing furnitures; Theater Set Design; Communicating with a Virtual House; Architectural Computer Graphics; Modeling a Complex Architectural Structure; Creating Book Illustrations; Conceptual Art Techniques; SketchUp for Geoscientists; Visualizing Historical Landscapes

Laurent Brixius