Google Developer Podcast Episode Four: Mark Limber on Google SketchUp

JUN 22, 2007

By Dion Almaer, Google Developer Programs

We have published the fourth episode of the Google Developer Podcast, which features an interview on Google SketchUp and how developers can interact with that world.

Interview with Mark Limber on Google SketchUp

What will you learn from this interview?

Who SketchUp is aimed at, and what it contains
Creative out-of-the-box uses of SketchUp by fellow developers
How to do a Hello World model (your house) and put it on Google Earth
How to find and share your models in the 3D Warehouse
Various ways in which you can use SketchUp if you are a games developer
The various SketchUp APIs and how you can extend SketchUp with Ruby, including fun examples out there (dropping trees, manipulating cameras, animation, and much more)
How to attach and manipulate metadata to the artifacts in SketchUp
How you can use a web dialog within SketchUp
Working with materials and textures within your models
How to use the C++ SDK to use SketchUp from within your own application.

To learn more about SketchUp, visit the forum, and request an SDK.

News

In our news segment we covered:

The Google Gears community response has been great to see. This article discusses several applications and libraries that already work with Gears.

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Blogger in Draft has been released for early adopters. This allows you to play with the upcoming Blogger features before they are announced in full. The first feature is video upload, and more are coming.

Tying into the SketchUp interview we discussed the new ability to use animated models in Google Earth.

You can download the episode directly, or subscribe to the show (click here for iTunes one-click subscribe).