Building product manufacturers are doing designers a huge favor! Watch as Mike teaches you how to create and interact with Dynamic Components of Whirlpool brand appliances. Learn how to take advantage of these versatile new components on the Google 3D Warehouse - if more companies create these great resources you may never have to draw your products from scratch again!

Use the Move Tool to arrange furniture in a room, including moving and rotating objects to align them to the walls.

One of the most important things you can do when it comes to working with CAD files within SketchUp is learn to model walls accurately and efficiently. There are a number of different ways to accomplish this, but we think Mike's come up with one of the best methods out there: Learn to use the Rectangle Tool, Move Tool and the Push Pull Tool to get a set of Exterior Walls modeled ASAP.

So yeah, that Google Earth plugin ois pretty sweet. But the black and white satellite imagery that you end up with is so 1950. This episode is a continuation of the IES Series (Episodes #51 & #52) in which Mike goes off on one of his tangents to show a new trick for getting the color version of satellite photography from Google Earth into SketchUp. If anyone from the DHS asks how you figured out how to do this - it wasn't from us...

Alex brings Brad from Antics Technologies into the studio to discuss how Antics 3D animation software can interface with SketchUp to bring your models to life.  If you know us, you know that we love case studies, and this episode is no different.  Production Designer Dave Blass narrates how SketchUp and Antics have transformed his profession and, more specifically, how it saved his life while he was designing the set for Bravo's "Shear Genius".

Diving into the granite bedrock below Part 1's model, Mike animates the fracture events that make geothermal energy extraction possible.  He visualizes spreadsheet data as a series of 3D point clouds representing the chronological development of these micro-fissures.  To do this, Mike uses a Ruby script from the Ruby Library Depot and a little bit more voodoo magic.Learn to import and visualize spreadsheet data in SketchUp.

Mike taps Sketchup to answer Google.org's call for animated models of the drilling and harvesting of geothermal energy.  Starting with just the geographic coordinates and .pdf files of the drilling rig, he outlines their transformation into a 3D model uploaded to Google Earth.  To be fair, he also used some voodoo.

Check out the first of two episodes covering the use of Photo Match to match the perspective of an image to an existing model.