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...