 Great book for a beginner
Google sketchup rocks! This book is probably the best one I've used. I just learned how to use sketchup for urban planning concept display. The book is easy to understand and it provides excellent tutorials, workflow methodologies, and places to download free Ruby scripts to enhance your Google Sketchup. I'm currently using the Pro version (not the free version) and am very pleased that I can design rich 3-D graphics and animations for the public to view.
I highly recommend this book if you are in the site plan, architectural, and planning profession. This book is good for anyone else who wants to learn Google Sketchup!
Tim Hennig
Green Bay, WI
Helpful for Sketchup!
This book certainly provided an excellent approach to both basic and complex Sketchup modeling. While I had used Sketchup before in school, it was on a limited and unorganized basis. For my current work, Google Sketchup for Site Design helped me to understand how to be much more efficient and effective with a greater understanding of Sketchup's tools and organization. Plus, the online downloads that go along with the book tutorials were very helpful for checking my models as I worked through the exercises. No matter your current proficiency with Sketchup, this book will be very helpful and should be included as part of your library.
 Tutorials are worthless
The tutorials are worthless, unless you are already a sketchup expert, in which case you don't need the book! I gave up on the first tutorial after a few steps because I had to look up how to perform most of the actions using the sketchup online documentation. So what's the point of the book? Some nice models? I can get those for free on the web.
 Great reading
This is a great first experience read and work book for landscape architecture students who are willing to explore.
 hard to imagine its free
best free software available on the web ...very good 3d modeler for general use, but mostly specific to the pix on the cover....
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