The book I read to research this post was Sam’s Teach Yourself Google Sketch Up 8 In 10 Minutes by Steven Holzner which is a very good book which I bought from kindle. This book is part of a series where the books are fairly short and you can read each chapter in around 10 minutes hence the name. Sketch Up 8 comes in 2 versions a free version which is ideal for most jobs and is the version this book is about and a paid version which is $495 at least it was when this book was published and that is a proper high end 3 Modelling software that will do a lot of things like read AutoCAD files. Files that are used by Sketch Up usually use the skp filename extension. It is a while ago this book was published so it might be a bit tricky finding either version of Sketch Up. Google as far as I know haven’t released any more updated versions. The free version does have a lot of 3d modelling tools and a while back I did see a software video tutorial on sale on Amazon. This program is quite and especially if you have experience of other drawing packages is quite intuitive and easy to use. I think the free version especially is a bit of a bargain. I am quite a big fan of this series of books as they don’t just stick to mainstream subjects like facebook and twitter. This book is on quite an unusual subject matter. I think more publishers should take a chance and commision computing books on unusual subjects. When you think of if someone writes a book about facebook they are competing with literally hundred’s of other titles about the same subject.
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