“The new, automated, 3D pipeline will allow us to review and publish your models faster, and with far greater predictability. Specifically, the new system will enable us publish data on a *weekly* basis and, in the near future, even faster. So, with the exception of the one week per month where we need to conduct maintenance, we plan to publish models each and every week going forward.” says
As was announced in the (cuurrently) latest SketchUpdate entry, on the occasion of the exhibitions Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward and Learning By Doing, the Guggenheim Museum and Google SketchUp invite amateur and professional designers from around the world to enter Design It: Shelter Competition. From now until August 23, you can submit a 3-D shelter for locations around the world using Google SketchUp and Google Earth.
Read more on the Competition page.
The folks over at the Google SketchUp offices in Boulder Colorado are of course aware of the millions of downloads their 3D application receives every year. There is however also the Pro version of the software, with the added benefits of exporters and the great Google LayOut 2 application.
Google is now taking off 100 US Dollars from the sales price. European and UK customers in turn receive a 20% saving, which comes down to almost the same deal. Read all the details here.
According to the official Google SketchUp blog SketchUpdate, Google SketchUp is now available in a Traditional Chinese version.
This brings the amount of foreign language versions of Google SketchUp to 9 (10 if Simplified Chinese is counted).
This is great news for our eastern community friends and should bring a lot of convenience.
