Checking items off of my list to do, I came across the task of starting a new SketchUp file. Once I opened the program I got a pop-up saying there was a new version of SketchUp. I then went to SketchUp's website (http://www.sketchup.com/) and I was very surprised! SketchUp for the past 5 years has been owned by Google. SketchUp was a way for people to model buildings across the world and upload them into Google Earth. That is what I was doing for years. Google sold SketchUp to a company called Trimble and everything changed. Google Earth no longer displays models that people have created, instead models automatically displayed from Google. This was actually quite disappointing. All of the models I worked hard on were no longer in Google Earth. SketchUp has now become a strictly Architectural Program, not something people can do for fun. Of course people can play around with it, but the fun of having your models in Google Earth for everyone to see is gone.
The 3D Warehouse is where everyones models can be uploaded, viewed, and previously reviewed by Google so see if it was worthy of putting in Google Earth. Going to the 3D Warehouse (https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/?redirect=1) I was surprised once again. Everything changed. The format of the website, the way the models are displayed. I thought it would be a good idea to get to know the new website and check up and see if all of my models were still there. Fortunately they were.
After spending hours learning the new 3D Warehouse I then updated my SketchUp. Thankfully nothing in the actual program changed! All of the changes that have occurred since I last used SketchUp are definitely upsetting, but will not affect my project. The only change is now I do not have to model the topography because I will not be viewing it in Google Earth.
These next few days I hope to get the blueprints of the school, and get to modeling!
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