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Bonnie blogs at:
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What's Coming in Our February Projects?
February 07 2012
This is a good month if you like cliffhangers - two of the projects are Part 1 (of 2). If you're a subscriber to our Projects of the Month, here's what will arrive in your Inbox on February 15:Piano KeysPart 1 of this project goes out in February, and shows… read moreJanuary 17 2012
All weekend we were hearing about the awful cruise ship disaster off the Italian coast. Which reminded me that a few weeks ago, my friend and PC World blogger Phil Shapiro recently sent me to this YouTube video of a Titanic model in SketchUp:What's amazing is the level of detail:… read moreMath Forum Project: Circle Through 3 Points
January 17 2012
Geometry students learn that you can create a circle that passes through any three points, as long as the points are not colinear (do not lie on the same line). My January project for the Math Forum (it's free!) shows how to do this in SketchUp. It's pretty simple, you… read moreBook Review: Google SketchUp for Game Design
January 17 2012
About a year and a half ago I wrote a review for the book "SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization" by Robin de Jongh. I really enjoyed that one, and learned a lot about rendering, so when I was contacted by Robin's publisher at Packt Publishing to write another review for… read moreWhat's Coming in Our January Projects?
January 09 2012
We have great projects coming out next week, by teacher request. If you're not a subscriber, you can sign up here.Standard ViewsYou know how easy it us to use your middle mouse button to orbit around to any isometric view of a model.Recently I've had several teachers ask how to… read more"No Thanks, Santa" - movie made with SketchUp
December 15 2011
3D modeler Joel Metzger has a website called Treasure Inside, where you can find several very nice movies he's made. He emailed to tell me about his latest one, which features 5 reasons he doesn't need gifts from Santa.No Thanks, Santa! from Joel Metzger on Vimeo.I thought I'd share this… read moreMath Forum Project: Dodecagon from a Circle
December 15 2011
This month's free project on the Math Forum shows how to start with a circle, add some more circles and construction lines . . .. . . and create a dodecagon.Once you have your dodecagon, you'll also see some cool things you can do with it: The Student Version has… read moreWhat's Coming in Our December Projects?
December 06 2011
We have some fun, colorful stuff for our subscribers this month! Going out on December 15 are these projects:Christmas OrnamentWell it's not necessarily an ornament, but that's how it looks to me this time of year. It's actually an interesting geometric exercise which produces something beautiful. The Intersect Faces tool… read moreCreating a Perpendicular Plane
November 17 2011
It's been a few months since I posted on my page on the Math Forum - it was a really busy summer (and September, and October...)I hope to post regularly again, and as a start, I just uploaded the November project: creating a plane perpendicular to a line.It's a pretty… read moreWebcast: Showing Off Your Models: Presentations in Google SketchUp
May 14, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Google SketchUp is a free and powerful 3D modeling application, and it's easy to start right away and quickly create impressive models. But SketchUp has many presentation features that most users don...
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