Other sections such as SketchUp add-ons and tutorials on the Panels and VCB will be added soon. Coming in the Fall of 2007 is a Game Development subsite. But also tutorials on the User Interface of SketchUp such as the Tools and Menus as well as a growing number of function-specific tutorial videos or how to model objects. Information on worldwide training locations, Training CDs & DVDs and online training. SketchUcation is a gateway to the SketchUp Community. This gives a place where users can share their work in many fields including Architecture, Construction, Education K-12, Game Development, GIS, Graphic Art, Higher Education, Industrial Design / Furniture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, and Mechanical Design. SketchUp users can share their work for free in the Gallery on the SketchUp official website. There are now not only models for household items and buildings, but sci-fi objects and competitions held by users. The Warehouse is used primarily for cataloging Google Earth models but in recent months, a community of modelers has developed. You can also download models from there to use in projects such as taps and sinks to cars and trains. The 3D Warehouse is a website where modelers can upload their models and have them rated and reviewed. There is a Hello World Tutorial for Google SketchUp about creating dialog boxes. Since its introduction SketchUp users have shown their creativity by creating hundreds of useful tools using SketchUp Ruby. Ruby is a scripting language whose use in SketchUp was first introduced in SketchUp 4. Ruby Application Programming Interface (API) The user's mouse can select and move pieces on the three different axes or on some combination of the three. patent #6,628,279 is a patent for this technology. This, Google claims in the tutorial, is the main idea of Google SketchUp. The push/pull is a tool that grabs a two-dimensional surface and pushes or pulls it into three dimensions. This tool allows the user to create 3D text, with customizable fonts, sizes, and formatting.

This tool is used to make rectangles, by clicking and dragging to adjust the length and width. Polygons are constructed in much the same way as circles they are clicked and dragged. The user can make circles by clicking a point and dragging out the radius. This allows the user to scribble and create a freehand figure. This tool can create an arc from two points and a drag.

This is used to draw a regular straight line. 10 School - SketchUp Educational Community.3 Ruby Application Programming Interface (API).

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