Design Made Easy and Green
October 3, 2008 Design, Environmental, Trends
Anybody that tries to make my life easier deserves a blog post don’t you think? Enter Google’s Sketch-up- app. It is increasingly becoming a tool of choice for architects and designers due to its intuitive features. And, it can be used by people who don’t have a lot of skill in the design area but like to act like he does, like myself. So what is Sketch-up? It is basically a 3-D sketching/modeling/drawing application that lets you design anything from a box to furniture to a house. You can even create your own collections and share them with the world or only with certain people. They offer some great tutorials that are very easy to follow AND intuitive….thank you Google. We even created our own collection in Google’s 3D Warehouse so you can basically dump this right into Sketch-up and play with it.
Well, I was reading in Business Week about $700B bailout (thank you government?) and in between all the doom and gloom was this article about how Sketch-up is helping Design go Green. The article talks about how Sketch-up works with Google Earth and other programs; this can lead to crazy things such as figuring out the optimal spot to put solar panels. That sounds way smarter than guessing.
Oh, the best part about Sketch-up. Its free. Well, the basic version is, but you only drop like $500 for the Pro Version, which allows you to dump you models into Photoshop and other programs.
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