May 2009
Beginner
602 pages
21h 56m
English
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Acknowledgments
It takes a team to move a Missing Manual from concept to publication, and I want to thank all the pros who helped with Google SketchUp: The Missing Manual. Thanks go out again to my editor Nan Barber for her skillful editing and long hours spent keeping us all on track. Thanks also to Jan Jue for the copyediting and Ron Straus for the index, and to Dawn Frausto for coordinating their work. A special thanks to Lewis Wadsworth for letting us reproduce his spectacular SketchUp models and for the sharp-eyed technical review. His experience as an architect and SketchUp master was much appreciated. My sincere appreciation to Jason Arnold, also a technical reviewer, who brought great enthusiasm to the SketchUp exercises and asked the all the right questions. Thanks to the Go-2-School guys, Mike Tadros and Alex Oliver, for letting us base many of the exercises on their excellent video series (www.go-2-school.com), and to Bryce Stout of Google's SketchUp team for generously contributing his time and assistance. And once again, thanks to Peter Meyers for first signing me up to the Missing Manuals team. Thanks, as always, to my beautiful wife Joyce, and my wonderful daughters Mary and Amy.
— Chris Grover
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