Google SketchUp Cookbook: Practical Recipes and Essential Techniques

As the first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes beyond the basics to explore the complex features and tools that design professionals use. You'll get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with detailed color graphics to guide your way, and discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task. Google SketchUp Cookbook will help you:

• Use SketchUp more efficiently by taking advantage of components and groups
• Learn new techniques for using Follow Me, Intersect, and constraints
• Go beyond simple textures with tools such as texture positioning and Photo Match
• Create animations and walkthroughs, and explore design scenarios by using layers and scenes
• Learn how to use styles to customize your presentations
• Combine SketchUp with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth

Google SketchUp Cookbook is ideal for architects, engineers, interior designers, product designers, woodworkers, and other professionals and hobbyists who want to work more efficiently and achieve true mastery of this amazing tool.

For intermediate and advanced users of Google Sketch'p, this Cookbook provides step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with discussions that explain additional ways to complete a task.

Bonnie Roskes has been writing SketchUp books since 2002, and has a loyal customer base who love her books. She frequently hears that her books are more clear and easy to understand than any other software book out there. She also has a great relationship with the SketchUp folks, who have been very supportive of her work. Bonnie has a degree in Structural Engineering and several years of experience in bridge design, so she approaches design from a practical standpoint, not a theoretical one.