Posted by Mike Lucey
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011

Learn how to model a car with Elisei Jurubita’s easy to follow ‘step by step’ Mini Publication tutorials. Each of the Three Part Tutorials includes the SketchUp car model in progress for reference and comparison.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Books, Google SketchUp
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Alvis (Alvydas) has added a further Mini Publication tutorial to his impressive list. This one is the ‘French Birdie Chair’ based on the Louis XVI Style Vintage Birdie Chair. Its complex model to build but Alvis brings the learner through the process ‘step by step in an easy to follow fashion. The French Birdie Chair [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Architecture Art, Art, Books, Education, Google SketchUp, Google SketchUp Training, Image Manipulation, Modeling, Presentation, Render, Textures/Materials, Training
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
![Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image] Broadley's by John Higgins [Stacked Books Image]](http://news.sketchucation.com/files/2011/11/Broadleys-by-John-Higgins-Stacked-Books-Image-90x65.jpg)
John Higgins, one our our regulars here on SFC has produced his first Mini Publication, Modeling Country British Home with Google SketchUp and Photoshop. The book is a ‘step by step’ on how he produces his wonderful models of existing commercial and domestic buildings around the UK. This Mini Publication at $4.95 also includes the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Monday, November 21st, 2011

A new Mini Publication, Sofa & Cushions by Alvis has just been launched on the Book Site. Its a great step by step tutorial for anyone that would like to learn the tricks of the trade when it comes to learning how to model a sofa and cushions. Its aimed at intermediate level SketchUp Users [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Books, Design, Drafting, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Plug-ins, Project Management
Thursday, November 17th, 2011

While reading a particular topic in SCF I learned about Northern Lights Timber Framing and their very informative site which is a must for any designer involved in timber frame construction. There are lots of demo videos and even some Rubies available for download. Clark Bremer of Northern Lights has made great use of Google [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

A few weeks ago SketchUcation launched its new books site. Our first publication was “Let’s SketchUp’ by Tom Fenn. This is a 44 page book aimed at absolute Google SketchUp beginners and kids. We have now added two additional ‘Step by Step’ tutorial books by Alvydas. These books are in the area of furniture design. [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Catchup Web Mag
Friday, October 28th, 2011

Catchup 5 is out with a packed full 60 pages! Check out the details here.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Books, CAD Training, Google SketchUp, Google SketchUp Training, Modeling, Training, Tutorials
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

This week fellow director, Tavi (TBD), and I got off our backsides and got SketchUcation into publishing. This would not have been possible without our first published author, Tom Fenn, a respected SketchUcation member and Product Designer that goes by ‘tfdesign’ on the forums. Tom has produced ‘Let’s SketchUp’, a book that is aimed at [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Dennis Fukai of InSiteBuilder’s has updated the Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling. Dennis tells us, ‘We just finished an update to our classic book, 3D Construction Modeling. The new book was written for project managers who want to learn first hand how to build their own piece based construction models. A construction model [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
An excellent eBook review article by Alex Schreyer, one of our frequent members and staunch supporter of SUC: http://www.alexschreyer.net/cad/new-sketchup-e-books-visualization-woodworking-and-programming/