

Our pick for that new format is COLLADA, a 3D model exchange format that is open, extensible and public. Your models should be yours to do with as you see fit.

Things that we could never have imagined! We decided that Google SketchUp users should be able to export their models into some easy-to-read and fundamentally hackable file format to make this easier. As it turned out, folks wanted to use Google SketchUp models in all kinds of crazy ways. We originally assumed that our free Google SketchUp users would never really need to export models into other tools. Along with all those great modeling tools. This means all of our presentation, analysis and documentation tools along with an industrial strength set of file translators to get models in and out of the myriad of tools in a professional's workflow. In addition to that, Google SketchUp Pro offers a collection of special tools to help Pros go about the daily business of design, visualization and client communication. If you've got a 3D problem to solve, we want you to use Google SketchUp to solve it. It contains every single modeling tool that we've ever developed without any restrictions on file size, rendering quality or performance. Google SketchUp was intended to be a tool that anyone in the world could learn to use. We originally designed the Free and Pro versions of Google SketchUp for pretty different groups of people. But we're also doing a little housecleaning. We've been working hard on our next release of Google SketchUp since late last year, and have cooked up a bunch of new stuff that I know you're going to like. – Google’s announcement of Sketchup 8.I don't often talk about new things we're building before we nudge them gently out the door, but this time I thought I'd provide some info to everyone. – Sketchup release and maintenance notes Google’s announcement of Sketchup 7. – Infotech Spotlight, report on the acquisition of software.

– Wikipedia Sketchup – 3/14/06 Official Google Blog announcing acquisition of software. – 2006 announcement of Google’s acquisition of software and Sketchup. The Pro version includes the “Solid Tools”. Released September 1st, 2010, it includes many refinements and some new features. Sketchup 8 is the most current version of Sketchup.
