There are plenty of helpful hints and guides throughout too helping you get to grips with 'snapping' when you draw rectangles, circles and other shapes. There's a refreshing lack of technical jargon in SketchUp and unfamiliar terms to beginners such as the 'Extrude' tool have been renamed to the more obvious 'Push/Pull' for example. Refreshingly free of technical jargon Advertisement (function() ) The latest version has been integrated with Google Maps too so that geo-tagging your creations is easier than ever.
SketchUp bucks the trend of expensive 3D modeling software such as 3DSMax and Cinema4D and presents a free, easy to use alternative with which you can even post your creations onto Google Earth for the world to see.
