April 28, 2006 on 10:34 am | In Making | 1 Comment

As I’d hoped, Google have made SketchUp free for personal use.

If you are in any way interested in 3d modelling, do try it out – it is a fantastic program for 3d modelling. It doesn’t have the power of something like Max or Maya but it is very fast and interactive and easy to use. If you have to make anything you can easily build a 3d model of it first to help plan it. I have used it for doing some pretty complicated modelling work when Bobble was on her interior design course, and have also used it for fun modelling of silly ipod things (will try to dig out the picture later).

Currently only the windows version is available for download but I know from experience that there is a Mac version, hopefully that will be available soon!