Books about Sketchups from Amazon.com

Can Google applications really become an alternative to the venerable Microsoft Office suite? Conventional wisdom may say no, but practical wisdom says otherwise Right now, 100,000 small businesses are currently running trials of Google office applications. So are large corporations such as General Electric and Proctor & Gamble. Google Apps Hacks gets you in on the action with several ingenious ways to push Google's web, mobile, and desktop apps to the limit.

The scores of clever hacks and workarounds in this book help you get more than the obvious out of a whole host of Google's web-based applications for word processing, spreadsheets, PowerPoint-style presentations, email, calendar, and more by giving you ways to exploit the suite's unique network functionality. You get plenty of ways to tinker with:

• Google Documents -- Share and edit documents with others in real time, view them on the run with Google Docs mobile service, and use Google Notebook for web research



• Google Spreadsheets -- Add real-time data to spreadsheets, and generate charts and tables you can embed in web pages



• Google Presentations -- View them on a mobile phone and save them as video



• Gmail -- Send email to and from a mobile phone, adjust Gmail's layout with a style sheet, and a lot more



• iGoogle -- Create your own gadgets, program a screenscraper, add Flash games, and more



• Google Calendar -- Add web content events, public calendars, and your Outlook Calendar to this application



• Google Reader, Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google SketchUp: the new 3D modeling software tool



• Picasa, YouTube, and Google Video -- discover new ways to customize and use these media management apps

In addition, Google Apps Hacks outlines ways you can create a simple web site with nothing but Google tools, including Page Creator, Blogger, Google Analytics, and content from other Google apps. This amazing collection just might convince you that Microsoft Office is not the last word in business applications. The price is certainly right.

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Price: $11.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Google SketchUp & SketchUp Pro Bible will target design professionals who are increasingly turning to SketchUp and SketchUp Pro to easily create professional quality designs and design presentations. This book will cover creating 2D and 3D designs, exporting models to Google Earth, and using LayOut to create professional quality design presentations. Offering everything that a professional or hobbyist needs to know, Google SketchUp and SketchUp Pro Bible will include tips and tricks to make using this software easy and efficient..
Price: $26.39 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Considerably easier to use than other 3D software, Google SketchUp has found a niche in architecture, landscape design, real estate development, furniture building, and other design professions This book provides an accessible approach that assumes no previous 3D modeling experience and explains the basic concepts involved in 3D modeling. Wiley Pathways SketchUp shows you how to build a 3D model, print it, share it, export it to another professional design package, export it to Google Earth, and create a 3D animated tour. The book will also help you harness the power of Google SketchUp so you can populate Google Earth with 3D buildings, monuments, and other sculptures..
Price: $44.76 [Notify me when price goes down.]

3D Construction Modeling is a user friendly book that walks you through the construction process for a small house. It is not only practical but the only guide that shows you step-by-step how to build a construction model using SketchUp 4.0. The book and CD-ROM feature a trial version of the modeling software, video tutorials and real-world construction details in ten easy graphic lessons. This unique narrative is designed to introduce novices to key features of construction modeling as well as inform advanced users of the advantages of preconstruction visualization. 3D Construction Modeling uses an innovative, simple comic format to bring busy professionals and students up to speed and enhance productivity in a very short period of time..
Price: $26.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

This book is a survey of small houses from early settler cabins to the tiny house movement of today. The houses include frontier shelters, squatter houses, Cracker houses, farmhouses, bandboxes, shotguns, bungalows, and tiny houses. The book shows how these houses were built and served the special needs of their owner-builders. Each chapter starts by showing the house in the context of its construction, the kind of resources that were available to its owners, and how their construction was shaped by both their purpose and historical situation. Many of the insights of these home-builders can be used in small house construction today. These insights include the use of decks and outdoor spaces, separation of spaces, and simple framing techniques that are visible in the construction models. These models help readers get a feel for what it might be like to live in a small space and ways traditional builders maximized the efficiency and comfort of their homes. The book s CD includes a model of every house in the book as well as contextual plans and elevations, three-dimensional details of the structure, and the layout of each house. Readers can explore the house s construction, deconstruct its pieces, modify the spaces, and adapt them to test their own ideas. All our books are written as graphic narratives in a comic style. Every book mixes layers of visual information with construction models, short video tours, and tutorials on how the models were built and organized..
Price: $29.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The ONLY book on SketchUp with in-depth, easy to follow, hands-on projects! This 2-book set contains full-color, step-by-step exercises that will teach you everything you need to know to become a master modeler in SketchUp. All topics are covered, including components, materials, animation, Google Earth, styles, and much more. Both Mac and Windows are covered; both SketchUp Pro and Free are covered..
Price: $122.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The ModelMetricks books teach kids how to design in 3D using Google SketchUp This 4-book set contains the following ModelMetricks Basics books: "Home, Sweet Home," "Strange Buildings," "Kids as Architects," and "Go to Your Room!" For ages 8 - 15, PRINTED IN COLOR..
Price: $49.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Want to create fun, easy, and colorful 3D objects on your computer? Then you' ll LOVE Google SketchUp! In no time at all, this first book of the ModelMetricks Basics series will show you how to model a bunch of different houses, complete with windows, chimneys, and roofs. In the last chapter, youll get to paint your house using cool colors and textures No experience necessary! For ages 8 - 15.
Price: $14.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The first book for intermediate and advanced users of Google SketchUp, this Cookbook goes well beyond the basics to explore the more complex features and tools that design professionals use. You get numerous step-by-step tutorials for solving common (and not so common) design problems, with discussions that not only explain additional ways to complete a task, but point out more uses for particular tools and techniques. The tutorials also include detailed color graphics to help you through the process.

With Google SketchUp Cookbook, you will:

• Take advantage of components and groups to make your use of SketchUp more efficient
• Use digital graphics tools such as texture positioning and Photo Match to go beyond simple textures
• Create animations and walkthroughs, and explore design scenarios by using layers and scene tools
• Learn the best ways to interface SketchUp with Google Earth
• Use the Styles feature to improve and customize your presentations
• Get complete recipes on many other topics, including ways to work with text, topography, and more

Google SketchUp Cookbook is ideal for architects, engineers, interior designers, building contractors, woodworkers, product designers, landscapers, and other professionals and hobbyists who want to take complete advantage of SketchUp's features. If you want to go further with this application, and work more efficiently, this Cookbook is for you..
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