Most popular SketchUp plugins – 2010 Update – by [as]

Alex Schreyer has done a very nice job of putting these plugins together. We will be doing a list of some of our favourites, but in the meantime here they are:

Most popular SketchUp plugins – 2010 Update – by [as]

Streetview comes to Ireland!

¡Olé!

Google made our job of modelling Ireland in 3D a whole lot easier! Now if you guys can get hi-res images of the whole country we would love you even more (we love you a lot already)

Logo Competition for Irish Schools

This is a really nice idea. Google is showing an interest in the talents of Irish schoolgoers by sponsoring a competition to design a new version of their logo. 


"The winning student will have their doodle appear on the Google Ireland homepage for 24 hours.   They will also receive a laptop for themselves and one for their teacher, and their school will receive a €10,000 technology grant!"

Last year's winner 

SketchUp Ireland would love to publish work from any entrants (following winner announcement only!)

Why we need to use SketchUp

This cartoon says it all.... Nice work from Alan here..

3D Basecamp 2010 Report

Colorado is like a blurry dream now. What a great time we had, interesting people we met, and what a place. Boulder is a Western town nestled against the foothills of the Rockies.

Basecamp (imho) was an outstanding success. The atmosphere was buzzing from the minute we walked into the Dairy Centre (funny-named theater space) just down the street from the Google Boulder offices. So many SU faithful were gathered in one place in an atmosphere of sharing for three days (and nights)

We introduced a new video from Corb who this was ranting about CAD- "Computeur Aided Dinosaur" as he calls it...asking why are we still using.... Over the top and inconsiderate as always, here it is.... Thanks to Aidan Chopra for playing it! You're a brave man!

SketchUp 8 was announced at Basecamp!- The big features being solids, solid editing features, and more Google Earth Geomodelling enhancements. It looks pretty interesting- New ways of using SketchUp from a building modeller's perspective. Some people aren't happy with the developments but you can't please everyone. The main point is that SketchUp 8 makes SU a considerably more useful tool than previous releases.

Hello and thanks to all the wonderful people we met. Lets hope we did justice to all the people who wanted and deserved to be there but weren't lucky enough.

SketchUp Ireland is Colorado Bound!

We are looking forward so much to Basecamp 2010 that we have adopted Zen deep breathing exercises to calm down. There are so many people we are going to meet over in Boulder that we have only met via telephone, IM and email it's crazy....

Alan and I did meet Aidan Chopra in Dublin in November last year and are very much looking forward to meeting Aidan again. Also really looking forward to meeting fellow Irishman Mike Lucey of SketchUcation and The Daily CatchUp (who only lives two counties away and whom we've never met in person.)

Its going to be "awesome dude" (....as they say in America.... so I believe..) Don't worry, we'll have a report on the proceedings on our return... presuming that we actually manage to catch the plane back from Denver....

Irish Architects' Institute endorses SketchUp Training!

Viewsion are proud to announce that we are now empowered to provide CPD points to RIAI Members and Technicians attending our SketchUp Essentials 1 training sessions. We are running Google SketchUp Essentials 1 in Dublin 28th July, SketchUp AEC Dublin 4th August, Essentials 1 in Cork on 11th August, in Galway on 25th August. Also SketchUp AEC in Cork on 18th August.

We also provide in-house training all around Ireland. We look forward to bringing expert SketchUp training to a venue near you soon...