Google SketchUp® 7 For Dummies®

Acknowledgments

For helping in all the ways that it is possible to help with a book — offering technical advice, lending a critical ear, providing moral support and encouragement — I'd like to thank Sandra Winstead. It's rare to find everything you need in a single person, and I can't imagine having written this book without her.

I'd like to thank Chris Dizon for agreeing to be the Technical Editor for this volume; I can't think of anyone who brings more enthusiasm and curiosity to everything he does. As a dyed-in-the-wool SketchUpper who uses the software even more than I do, I knew he'd do a bang-up job of keeping me honest, and he did.

I thank Kyle Looper, Becky Huehls, John Edwards, and Tonya Cupp, my editors at Wiley, for making what I fully expected to be a painful process not so at all. It was a delight to work with a team of such intelligent, thoughtful, and well-meaning professionals; I only hope I'm half as lucky on the next book I write.

Finally, I need to thank the very long list of individuals who provided critical help. From clearing the way for me to be able to write this book to patiently explaining things more than once, I owe the following people (and almost certainly a few more) a whole lot: Tommy Acierno, Brad Askins, John Bacus, Brian Brewington, Brian Brown, Todd Burch, Chris Campbell, Mark Carvalho, Chris Cronin, Steve Dapkus, Jonathan Dormody, Bil Eberle, Joe Esch, Rich Feit, Jody Gates, Toshen Golias, Scott Green, Barry Janzen, Tyson Kartchner, Chris Keating, ...