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Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture

Google SketchUp for Site Design: A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture

by Daniel Tal (Author)

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    Paperback 2009

    $3.25
Synopsis

Google SketchUp for Site Design illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp: how it works and more importantly, what to do with it. Filled with tutorials from front to back, the book focuses on the start and completion of projects that include rich detail and expression. Each part and chapter of the book builds on the previous chapters and tutorial. You will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings and site elements: from modeling each of these exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model. The book culminates with tutorials demonstrating effective and simple ways to include grades and terrain using the Sandbox tools and how best to integrate the entire approach with AutoCAD and SketchUp. Also included are links to supplemental on-line resources such as YouTube tutorials and free tutorial and example models from 3D Warehouse. The book is useful for all SketchUp proficiency levels including beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 11 Sep 2009
ISBN 10: 047034525X
ISBN 13: 9780470345252

Media Reviews
This book adds valuable information about features not even mentioned in the Missing Manual . This book allows you to create settings for your creations. SketchUp provides a sandbox , an interface with tools that create organic geometry. In other words, you can push and pull terrain around to create hills and valleys. Then using other tools create streets, sidewalks, and planters. Place the buildings you've created on the terrain, and add vegetation around them - suddenly you have a world! This is a solid book, with good start-to-finish instructions in creating 3D objects, whether a bench or a cathedral. ( eJournal of the Tucson Computer Society , December 2009) This book illustrates a holistic approach to SketchUp, how it works and more importantly, what to do with it. ( San Francisco Book Review , November 2009)
Author Bio
Daniel Tal, ASLA, is a practicing landscape architect in Denver, Colorado, and a SketchUp specialist who conducts workshops and seminars on SketchUp for landscape architects and architects. Daniel also consults on SketchUp tools and future SketchUp developments to meet the needs of landscape architects and architects, and helps Beta test SketchUp releases.