Google's new gadget - Google SketchUp

[Thrilla]

http://sketchup.google.com/
Simple yet powerful 3D Modeling software by Google.

Here's a screen of what it can do :P

[nn_step]

I'll stick with AutoCad

[Thrilla]

AutoCAD cost a lot of money, SketchUp doesn't

[OmegaMerc]

Its not made by google, google bought them off around a month ago.

[Xassius]

AutoCad's much more powerful. Sketchup is just basically a sketchup, not really for CAD work

Nice Prog though.

[OmegaMerc]

Sketchup is very nice, just to mess around and what not, im not a pro or anything of the likes.

[iddqd]

Sketchup is very nice, just to mess around and what not, im not a pro or anything of the likes.

The main idea with sketchup is that people can use it to make a low poly 3D model of their/ their neighbours's home for google. Losing money on giving away a couple thousand SketchUp copies for free should more than make up for having a lot of content in Google Earth. In several years, that information will be worth a lot more than SketchUp Pro copies Google gave away.