Preorder Book on Amazon.com

Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating, the book I co-authored, is now available for preordering on Amazon.com. Check it out.  

"Creating with SketchUp" Book - Publish Date Set for Nov. 6

A book I worked on is getting published on November 6th! The book is "Creating with SketchUp - 16 projects, from architecture to theater." It will be available from Pearson, a publisher in the education industry. Big thanks go out to the coordinator and author of the book, Laurent Brixius, and the co-director and translator, Jean-Philippe Moreux! As well as to my co-author, James Steacy! They helped make it all possible.

It brings together 16 case studies from a variety of people on their different uses of Google SketchUp. James and I co-authored one of these case studies (he acted as the expert in SketchUp, and I acted as the expert in content development and as lead writer). It's a piece that goes in-depth into the story of crafting a technical step-by-step document for construction trades who need to install a window. Follow the links below to learn more about it!

Pearson is releasing the book in French first (as "Creer avec SketchUp - 16 projets, de l'architecture au theatre"). The book might come out in English down the road, probably depending on the success of the French version. Most of the co-authors are English-speakers, so a version in English isn't much of a stretch.

• To read about the book on the publisher's website (in French): http://www.pearson.fr/livre/?GCOI=27440100233890.
• To read about the book on the main author's website (in French): http://www.arch-image.com/wordpress/.
• To read a translation of the post from the main author's website (in English): http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/sketchup/11619-cool-book-about-sketchup-soon.html#post157358.

Title: Creer avec SketchUp
Subtitle: 16 projets, de l'architecture au theatre
Author: Laurent Brixius
Co-authors: Frédéric Blanc, Matt Chambers, Tim Danaher, David Harned, Takeshi Hashimoto, Alex Jenyon, Timothy S. Killen, John Lang, Lauren A. May, Koenraad Nys, Robert Playford, Nicolas Rateau, Patrick J. Reynolds, Mitchel Stangl, James Steacy, Jean Thiriet, Kim A. Tolman
Collection: Studio Graphique
Language: Francais
Publication date: Novembre 2009
# of pages: 320
Price: 32,00 €

Getting Published!

Looking forward to the release of a new book—Creer avec SketchUp (To Create with SketchUp)—in November 2009. We're in the final stages of getting it wrapped up before going to print. The book brings together 16 case studies from a variety of people on different uses of Google SketchUp. I co-authored Projet 5: Creer une Documentation with James Steacy. It's a piece that goes in-depth into the story of crafting a technical step-by-step document for construction trades who need to install a window. It's been several months of off-and-on work. A description is on the publisher's website at http://www.pearson.fr/livre/?GCOI=27440100233890.