Filed Under (Stark Raving Mad, Trivial) by Nathanael on April-27-2006

Actually, you can only barely call it CAD, but Google (the do-no-evil empire) has a new free 3D drawing program. Check out SketchUp. I think Google is playing a really long con loss-leader marketing game with us. They’re going to make us all so addicted to their little internet-changing products that we won’t even remember the world without them, and then, WHAM!!!, pay up, user scum. Mark my words.


sarah on April 27th, 2006 at 11:11 am

so, you think - better not to use/ get addicted at all? :-)

Nathanael on April 27th, 2006 at 1:38 pm

N,
I haven’t checked it out yet… but remember the old adage… “If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is!”

I will visit the site, because I love to sketch, I’ll replt on my findings. (If I’m not too caught-up in it!)

With Love,

Dad J

Nathanael on April 27th, 2006 at 3:07 pm

I think use it as much as you possibly can now, so that Google will have lots of ad revenue and not want to charge us for their products.

TulipGirl on April 27th, 2006 at 8:27 pm

I’ve adored google since I first heard about it (on a missionary resource e-mail list–go figure.) But lately. . . I dunno. . . It’s not just the China thing that is feel more and more Big Brotherish.

Archer on April 27th, 2006 at 9:42 pm

Google loves commies, and that’s not cool!

Archer

Josh on April 30th, 2006 at 8:33 pm

I’ll stick with becoming familiar with 3DS Max.

Jeff on May 2nd, 2006 at 10:28 am

You can get very recent TurboCAD Professional versions on ebay for less than $100-$150. And TurboCAD has its own loyal, and very helpful following.

Jeff on May 9th, 2006 at 2:57 pm

I have been playing with Sketchup since my last comment and have to say it is the easiest 3D-ish program I have used.

Nathanael on May 9th, 2006 at 7:14 pm

Jeff, I have no CAD experience, but with Sketchup I was able to create a rough model of our house within a couple of hours.

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