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SketchUp Make (Free) 2013-12-16

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  1. kram242
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    SketchUp Make

    Hobbyists, kids and backyard spaceship builders all agree that SketchUp Make is the easiest, most fun, entirely free 3D drawing tool in the world. We think you will, too.

    SketchUp, marketed officially as Trimble SketchUp, is a 3D modeling program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design. A freeware version, Sketchup Make, and a paid version with additional functionality, Sketchup Pro, are available.

    The company was owned independently from 2000 to 2006, then by Google, and from 2012 by Trimble Navigation, a mapping, surveying, and navigation equipment company.

    The program claims to be easy to use. There is an online repository of free-of-charge model assemblies (e.g., windows, doors, automobiles, etc.), 3D Warehouse, to which users may contribute models. The program includes drawing layout functionality, allows surface rendering in variable "styles", supports third-party "plug-in" programs hosted on a site called Extension Warehouse to provide other capabilities (e.g., near photo-realistic rendering), and enables placement of its models within Google Earth.

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