Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Education, Google Earth Training, Google SketchUp Training, Interviews
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This week “The Daily CatchUp” interviewed Paul Lee of Viewsion Google SketchUp Authorised Training Centre. TDC: What made you become interested in SketchUp training? Paul: I learned CAD the hard way (by asking everyone in the drawing office to help me) years ago and later had an opportunity to teach it. CAD courses didn’t at [...]
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Interviews
Thursday, July 16th, 2009

TDC: Please tell us who you are and how you got into the world of 3D Visualization. Susan Moses: My background is in the field of design & architecture…. knowledge gained via academia, but mostly by work experience. I started my path in the world of 3D Viz when an architect suggested I take a [...]
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Interviews
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

TDC: Al, you have been involved in 3D CAD for a long time. How did you get started. Al Hart: Yes Coen. I guess I am one of the “Cad Pioneers” although I am not as famous as Pat Hanratty and the others. We founded Sigma Design in 1978 which wrote ARRIS – the first [...]
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Interviews
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

LEDAS Ltd., a Russian software development company, recently released a new version of Driving Dimensions plugin for Google SketchUp. We asked Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management at LEDAS for an in-depth interview with “The Daily CatchUp” on their latest offering. TDC: There is a new version of Driving Dimensions for SketchUp released last week, [...]
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Books, Education, Interviews
Monday, June 29th, 2009

Barbara and Dennis Fukai are the people “behind” Insitebuilders, a small press specializing in books for the design and construction industry. All of their construction books are written as graphic narratives using a combination of three-dimensional illustrations, interactive 3D construction models, short videos, captioned text, and interactive media. Their goal is to keep their construction [...]
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Interviews
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The Daily CatchUp will soon start its new series featuring “Faces Behind SketchUp” i.e. people working in the Google SketchUp Team. Have you ever wondered who the “humans”; individuals with their personal motivations, careers, educational and family backgrounds and personal interests who work for Google SketchUp are? Stay tuned as we soon start a new [...]
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Interviews, Render
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

This time we place Adam Billyard, developer of LightUp plugin for Google SketchUp, into the spotlight of “The Daily CatchUp”. TDC: There is a new version of LightUp released last week, remind us what LightUp does? Adam: The latest version of LightUp is v1.5b. LightUp is a plugin for Google Sketchup that adds realtime lighting [...]
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Google Earth Training, Google SketchUp Training, Interviews, Training
Saturday, June 20th, 2009

As we mentioned earlier, concept3D will be in Minneapolis next week (June 23-25) offering a range of SketchUp and Google Earth training solutions through 6 different classes. Registration information and details are at their website. On this occasion, “The Daily CatchUp” made a short interview with Training Director Matt Chambers of Concept 3D TDC: What [...]
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Blogs, Interviews
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Alex Oliver from the Google SketchUp and Google Earth training site ‘School’, has recently given some classes at the Where 2.0 event in California. He’s also done an interview with The Sunburned Surveyor from the geospatialnews blog. Check it out here.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Interviews
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Here is an interesting interview with John Bacus from Google Boulder. John is Product Manager of Google SketchUp and is THE man to talk to if you want to know about the next version of Google SketchUp. Not that he’s going to tell, but still… In the interview John speaks of some “new tools”. Check [...]