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

Google^® SketchUp^® a 3D modeling application, has caught on like wildfire due to its usability and competitive pricing. It is quickly becoming a tool of choice for architects, engineers, industrial designers, and other design professionals.  Especially popular with landscape architects, landscape designers, contractors, & planners, these professionals need a concrete guide to get them started with SketchUp, as well as to integrate it into their work and use it in their projects, proposals, and designs.  GOOGLE^® SKETCHUP^® FOR SITE DESIGN (John Wiley & Sons; September 2009; $49.95) 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. From modeling exterior environment elements to piecing them together to generate a singular and expressive model, readers will learn how to approach modeling site plans, buildings, and site elements. 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. GOOGLE^® SKETCHUP^® FOR SITE DESIGN offers complete coverage of SketchUp for the landscape architect and related professionals, and shows readers how to:

•  Use the SketchUp Sandbox Tools to design conceptual grading, terrain, and elevation
•  Design and model a variety of custom components including architectural detail, pedestrian lights, benches, and other site elements
•  Integrate AutoCAD and SketchUp to easily create 3D-articulated models

 With helpful tutorials and useful tips for both beginners and advanced SketchUp users, Google SketchUp for Site Design will quickly have readers creating models that are highly detailed and organized, easy to work with, and optimized for computer performance.

 Architects, engineers, designers, students, teachers, professionals, and hobbyists alike will find GOOGLE^® SKETCHUP^® FOR SITE DESIGN essential to unlocking this powerful software tool for creating 3D drawings.

 GOOGLE^® SKETCHUP^® FOR SITE DESIGN

A Guide to Modeling Site Plans, Terrain and Architecture
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Publication date: September 7, 2009

$49.95; Paperback; 368 pages; ISBN: 978-0-470-34525-2

E-Book ISBN: 978-0-470-57543-7