google sketchup

[mikbhoy]

http://www.techspot.com/downloads/25...-sketchup.html

Publisher's Description

SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.
Features:

- Click on a shape and simply push or pull it to create your desired 3D geometry.
- Experiment with color and texture directly on your model.
- Real-time shadow casting lets you see exactly where the sun - falls as you model.
- Interactive Sections.
- "Sketchy Rendering".
- Dimension & Annotation.

Requirements:

· Microsoft Windows® 2000, XP Home or Professional Editions
· 600 MHz Pentium® III processor
· 128 MB RAM
· 80 MB of available hard-disk space
· Video card that is 100% OpenGL compliant
· Windows compatible pointing device
· Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
· Windows® Media Player or QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorial.

[Garner]

Some other tools i posted a while ago, along with google sketchup =]

http://www.fragmasters.co.uk/forum/f...g-tools-34637/

[mikbhoy]

oops

[Agro]

I used sketch up to design my new kitchen. Pretty powerful and a lot easier get started than most CAD applications I've used. Sadly though the documentation sucks and it's about as intuative to use as the LHC.

[Garner]

Haha

Yeah, i used it briefly when i eas messing about with it, i built a blueprint of a house which i could then turn into a 3D design. Pretty clever, but really is for design stage rather than full on modeling ect. 3Dstudio max or Blender are better alternatives, with 3DSM being the expensive one, and Blender being free.