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@Last Software has announced that it has been acquired by Google. The developer of the SketchUp 3D sketching software says that becoming part of the search engine giant won't ruin the product for design professionals, but it does want to introduce the product to a wider audience.
As SketchUp has matured and expanded its feature set, it has also widened its appeal to more general-purpose 3D work, though it’s still best suited to building hard mechanical objects such as buildings and machinery.
An update to SketchUp has been released for Windows and Mac. Build 4.0.170 allows files to be exported to version 3.x and offers several bug fixes.
SketchUp stands out among 3D graphics programs thanks to its innovative and simple ‘push/pull’ approach, which makes it easy to sketch 2D shapes and then quickly manipulate them in three dimensions with the mouse.
SketchUp made quite an impression when it was launched last year, thanks to the impressive ease of use that it brought to 3D. Since then, ...
