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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
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3.9 out of 5 stars (27 customer reviews)
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent read for advanced and experienced users, Mar 31 2011
By Crispee - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating (Paperback)
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This is not an intro to Sketchup, and doesn't really cover the actual program in depth so if you are a beginner or even novice user -- this probably is not the best book to get. But if you are already familiar with the application then this workshop in a book can be an invaluable resource as a "behind-the-scenes" look at how real professionals actually use the program, why they chose it, and how they integrate it into real-world projects.I can't remember another book of this type that reveals so many pro tips and tricks as this book (especially those that involve things other than SketchUp.) The worldwide professional interviewed reveal their workflow, their favorite programs to use in their work, how they use them, plugins, and more. You can tell that this is not just a Google book or "missing manual" type of publication -- this is a different animal.
The actual book itself is beautiful with full color throughout, nice heavy paper and quality printing. Tons of diagrams, screenshots and in-progress project designs really let you see how things were done (even if there is not a true step-by-step handholding.)
The topics and industries covered are quite varied, and this may be a downside for some who would get the book -- if 80% of the industries are not something you work in, you may feel some of it is a waste. However, I think getting perspectives from things like architects, engineers, urban developers, graphic designers and even theatre set designers is fascinating in how many ways this program can be used. I think everyone will take something away from each part of this book.
So, all in all - highly recommended as long as SketchUp is something you work in and are very comfortable already. A rare book that doesn't talk down to experienced users and waste time with basics for those who don't need it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Not For Novices-Great Intermediated & Advanced Techniques, May 28 2011
By Dave Millman "davemill" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating (Paperback)
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Google Sketchup is one of those amazing products that, although free, goes very deep and wide. And like any CAD package, there's a lot to learn. This book will not teach you the basics, and may even intimidate the SketchUp beginner. But if you already have a few projects under your belt, there is no better book to take you to the next level.Other reviewers have described the contents. Let me describe how to use them:
IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED 1-2 SKETCHUP PROJECTS:
Flip through the book, pick a technique that would enhance one of your existing projects. Read the chapter, and apply that technique to your own work to learn how a professional would implement the drawings you did. This step alone will advance your skills a lot in one day.
IF YOU HAVE COMPLETED 3-5 SKETCHUP PROJECTS:
The people who wrote these chapters each have different skill sets, and each do things a bit differently. Pick one or two of the projects in this book that do something very differently from the way you do it, and redo one of your own projects using their methods. By using their techniques, you'll learn different ways of getting first class results. I know that it is hard to force yourself to do something differently from a method you know works, but you don't get the opportunity to learn from this many different skilled users very often. This is the nature of a "Workshop"-to learn new ways of doing things.
Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Surprisingly approachable and educational, April 2 2011
By Tyler Forge "realist" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating (Paperback)
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Executive Summary: Have a project in mind, do the online SketchUp tutorials, then read thisbook's "Overview" section and whatever other sections catch your eye.
First off, this book isn't an introduction to SketchUp. The online SketchUp tutorials handle that job. Instead, this book is more like a series of conference papers. Very well done conference papers though.
The "Overview" section is suprisingly long at over 70 pages. Those pages, however, are rather good. SketchUp has a lot of oddities. Some oddities are just because SketchUp has its own approach to some things. Other oddities are just sort of odd. The overview provides pointers on making some things easier to deal with and to make projects flow more easily. It also provides a few hints as to why, when SketchUp isn't doing what you expect, and how to get back to predictability. Eventually these things make sense.
The rest of the book is a series of overviews of various people's work, work flows and design techniques. I was immediately drawn to the woodworking project overview because that's pretty much what my initial SketchUp efforts are all about. There are lots of other projects though and they are truly shocking in their complexity and breadth.
A reader can easily read only the overview and maybe a project section or two. That's surely the fastest way to process what you need and then get to your own project. The reality is that you get drawn back in the text. There's that cool longship in the concept art section, the virtual house design, the .... so much neat stuff!
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