5067 comments
2220 subscribers
4798 on Twitter
Subscribe! Feed reader E-mail

Learning how to model with Google Sketchup

imageWe’d like to learn more about 3D modeling, so W- checked out Beginning Google SketchUp for 3D Printing (Sandeep Singh, Apress.

Here’s the model I made following the first tutorial in the book and 2.8 hours of learning with W-. It’s fun!

Google SketchUp has a Ruby interface. I wonder if I can use that to visualize my data…

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/22646

One Response to “Learning how to model with Google Sketchup”

  1. Hi, that was pretty good!!
    Google has just announced that the Google Model Your Town Competition is now opening. Maybe it is kind of inspiration for you to learn Google SketchUp, check out the video van the winner of last year.
    http://www.3ders.org/articles/20111111-join-2012-google-model-your-town-competition-to-win-for-your-town.html

    Success!

Comment, share a thought, ask a question...

Please comment as you, not your organization.





 

On This Day...

  • 2010: Experimenting with mornings — Here’s my approximate sleep data for the past week, tracked with the free “Sleep on It” app I installed [...]
  • 2009: Book: Leading Out Loud — Leading Out Loud: Inspiring Change Through Authentic CommunicationsTerry Pearce, 2003 Excellent advice on being authentic. Good point starting p133 about [...]
  • 2006: Quiet days — It turns out that the suite meeting isn’t tonight. Maybe Thursday. The place is so quiet. Perhaps I’m learning to need [...]
  • 2006: It’s not just me — My sister once told my boyfriend that if he ever needed to find out how to love me, he could just [...]
  • 2005: A day among friends — Yesterday was a day spent among close friends. Not that I knew them particularly well, but the ease at which they [...]
  • 2004: New pictures up! — 2004.11.16 – 2004.11.14 – 2004.11.08 – 2004.11.03 – 2004.11.02 – 2004.10.30 – 2004.10.24 – 2004.10.23 Emacs makes all things hackable. I [...]
  • 2004: emacs-wiki snippet for getting a list of images from a dired buffer — (defun sacha/emacs-wiki-marked-images-as-kill () "Return a list of images ready to be inserted into a wiki page." (interactive) [...]
  • 2004: OpenACS — Work with programmers around the world on OpenACS projects. OpenACS is an open source databased-backed website development tool kit. Projects [...]
  • 2004: Celsus Kintanar: 3rd place, development challenge, TopCoder — Congratulations to Celsus Kintanar for winning 3rd place and USD 2500 in the Component Development part of the TopCoder challenge. (Heh, don’t [...]
  • 2004: Patrica Chanco Evangelista’s followup to the Faye story — The%20J%20Spot:%20CRAZED%2019%20November%202004%20(from%20Philstar.com) Now *that* is a beautifully written piece. I admire Patricia for her humble apologies and for courageously living through the situation [...]
  • 2004: Whoops, am a little clueless about scholarship programs — I missed the deadline for the Fulbright, and have probably missed many of the deadlines for the other scholarships too. Must [...]
  • 2003: Jerome wants to help out with CS161! — He’s a natural filkster. Way creative. Looking forward to all sorts of cool things! =D “…and man [pages] shall live forevermore…”
  • 2003: Recompiling my kernel — <whistles happily>
  • 2003: CS21B: Inheritance — Gave a quiz on UML class diagrams. Most people got it, although there is a little bit of confusion regarding navigability [...]
  • 2003: planner.el whoops — Referred to old way of favoring future dates. Silly me. Forgot I renamed that. Tsk tsk tsk.
  • 2003: Eclipse UML — Eclipse represents interfaces with the «interface» stereotype. Realization is shown with a dashed line ending in a hollow arrow, kinda like inheritance. Eclipse [...]