"damian penney" wrote:

Google bought the folks that write Sketchup, a tool many of us here use
for mocking up our designs and many more would like to if it wasn't so
expensive.
That's me. couldn't justify the cost for my hobby use, and have been
harding my 8 hours of trial time, waiting for the best use of it.

Anyway in Google tradition they are offering a free version
of it, you can download it here
http://sketchup.google.com/download.html

This is great news! No sure what the reduced capabilities are versus
Sketchup pro, but on the surface it looks very useful for me.

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