Google SketchUp 7 Hands-On: Basic and Advanced Exercises
This two-book set will take you from start to finish with SketchUp 7. Detailed, step-by-step exercises will guide you every step of the way, from creating a simple house to understanding groups and components, modeling with digital photos, placing models in Google Earth, searching and uploading to Google's 3D Warehouse, and much more!

• 2 Ring Binder Format
• 708 Pages
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

Google SketchUp 7 Hands-On: Basic Exercises
Whether you're a new user or a SketchUp veteran, this book will help you design and model like a pro. Detailed, step-by-step exercises will guide you every step of the way, from the basic drawing and editing tools to groups and components, constraints and inferences, painting with colors and textures, working with Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse, and more.

• 2 Ring Binder Format (Lies Flat When Open)
• 384 Pages
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

Google SketchUp 7 Hands-On: Advanced Exercises
If you know the basics of SketchUp, this book will show you tools and techniques used by the best designers. Detailed, step-by-step exercises will guide you every step of the way, from working with digital images, advanced component creation, sectioning, styles, sketchy edges, presentation, animation, sandbox, and more.

• 2 Ring Binder Format
• 324 Pages
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

Google SketchUp 7 Hands-On: Layout
For Google SketchUp Pro users: your comprehensive guide to LayOut! This book will take you from start to finish with LayOut 2.1. Detailed, step-by-step exercises will guide you every step of the way, from exporting your model into a presentation, to working with scenes, layers and styles, creating templates, clipping objects, drawing shapes, creating text and labels, working with scrapbooks, and applying hatches and fills.

• 2 Ring Binder Format
• 137 Pages
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 1: Home, Sweet Home

Making Easy Houses in Google SketchUp

In no time at all, this book will show you how to model a bunch of different houses, complete with windows, chimneys, and roofs. In the last chapter, you'll get to paint your house using cool colors and textures. No experience necessary!


ModelMetricks Basics Series Book2: Strange Buildings

Buildings Nobody Would Ever Really Build, Modeled in Google SketchUp

This book will show you how to make a colorful factory, a house with curvy parts, and a tall tower with different types of multi-colored, see-through windows and skylights. Fun to make, and you'll learn a lot about SketchUp's modeling tools in the process!


ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 3: Kids as Architects

Buildings Kids Wish Would Really Be Built, Modeled in Google SketchUp

This book will show you how to make a house shaped like a rainbow, a round tower with spiral steps, a set of matching buildings shaped like stars, and even a building shaped like a hand. If kids could design entire cities, the buildings might look like these!


ModelMetricks Basics Series Book 4: Go to Your Room!

Making a Comfy Bedroom, Complete with Furniture, in Google Sketchup

This book will show you how to make a bedroom with walls and windows, that contains a dresser, bookcase, clock, loft bed, and computer. You'll learn how (and why) to use two of SketchUp's most important tools: groups and components. Plus you'll get an introduction to Google's 3D Warehouse.


ModelMetricks Basics Series: Specifications
• Book 1: Home Sweet Home 118 pages
• Book 2: Strange Buildings 106 pages
• Book 3: Kids as Architects 112 pages
• Book 4: Go to Your Room! 150 pages
• 2 Ring Binder Format
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 1: Write Now!

Using Google SketchUp to Write All Sorts of Things

This book will show you how to use the 3D Text tool. You'll make flat letters, 3D letters, words with stripes, colorful wall signs, engravings, even letters along round objects. After reading this book, you'll be able to write anything anywhere in Google SketchUp, using any colors and styles you like!


ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 2: Painting with Pictures

Using Digital Pictures to Paint Flat Things in Google SketchUp

In this book, you will build a simple room, and use digital pictures to paint the walls, rugs, posters, even a trash can. You'll learn how to position pictures to fit your objects, and how to change objects to fit your pictures. You'll also see how to use a picture to make a 2D component that acts like it's 3D! All the pictures you'll need can be downloaded from the f1forkids website, plus you'll also get instructions on how to find your own pictures.


ModelMetricks Intermediate Series Book 3: Puzzles

Amaze and Amuse Your Friends with Puzzles Created in Google SketchUp

In this book, you will make puzzles that you can give your friends to solve. There are shape puzzles, picture puzzles with different types of pieces, word puzzles where your friends can unscramble a message, and even a spinning message puzzle. You can make your puzzles easy to solve, or you can drive your friends crazy with tough ones!


ModelMetricks Intermediate Series: Specifications
• Book 1: Write Now! 146 pages
• Book 2: Painting with Pictures 170 pages
• Book 3: Puzzles 142 pages
• 2 Ring Binder Format
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm

ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 1: Using Pictures in 3D

Painting 3D Models with 2D Digital Pictures, in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll learn how to use a single, flat digital picture to paint a 3D model. You'll learn how to position a picture to fit a model, and how to build a model to fit a picture. You'll also learn how to use SketchUp's awesome Photo Match tool. Plus you'll get to use pictures with transparent backgrounds! All the pictures you'll need can be downloaded from the f1forkids website.


ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 2: Art Gallery

Making Paintings and Sculptures in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll use digital pictures to make several paintings, each with its own fancy frame. You'll also make some elaborate and colorful bowls that will sit on display stands. To house all these objects, you'll build an art gallery with a complicated-looking (but easy to make) window and roof. SketchUp's very fun Follow Me tool is the star of this book.


ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 3: Crazy Shapes

Making Intricate-Looking Models out of Simple Objects, in Google SketchUp

In this book, the main focus is combining components with the Follow Me and Intersect with Model tools. You'll make stacking rings, a striped bowl, patterns on boxes, patterns on spheres, and interlocking building blocks. Once you can make these models, you'll be able to model just about anything that has repeating objects!


ModelMetricks Advanced Series Book 4: Optical Illusions

Trick Your Eyes and Play with Color in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll make a whole bunch of optical illusions. (Maybe you've seen some of these before on paper, but they look so much cooler on your screen.) You'll make straight lines that look curvy, colors that seem to change, and models that look like they're moving. Caution: this book might make you dizzy!


ModelMetricks Advanced Series: Specifications
• Book 1: Using Pictures in 3D 148 pages
• Book 2: Art Gallery 148 pages
• Book 3: Crazy Shapes 130 pages
• Book 4: Optical Illusions 166 pages
• 2 Ring Binder Format
• Full Colour
• Size 210mm x 148.5mm