SketchUp Video Resources – Watch and Learn
If you’re up for some light reading, you can always read the guide cover to cover-it’s only 390 pages long. Take a glance at the SketchUp User Guide and browse through the basics. While familiarizing yourself with the program is good for getting started, it’s not going to help you much if you don’t know how everything really works. It’s a good idea to just test out each icon just to see what they can do. You’re not going to get good at SketchUp unless you start pushing buttons and drawing stuff. Practice with SketchUp Makes Perfect Build your own Miami Vice McMansion – courtesy of For the rest of us who want free stuff and a really cool program for all of your building projects, you can download the free SketchUp right here. If, however, you’re a professional architect, designer or engineer, or you’re just rich enough to drop $500 on a 3D CAD program, then you’ll want to download SketchUp Pro. The best part about this software is that it’s free.
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But learning the ins and outs of the project can be tough on your own.
I don’t know what Google’s problem was with it, but it’s still a great free CAD tool that can be adapted for homes, furniture and even chicken coop design. Affectionately known on the interwebs as “Google” SketchUp, it remains one of the few companies Google has ever sold after it bought them up. Whether you’ve taken a look at it or not, it was designed using free 3D CAD software. You may or may not have read my article on building a chicken coop here on Home Fixated.