Chapter 13

Other Ways to Share Your Work

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Exporting images from SketchUp for Web

check Printing in SketchUp for Web

check Making animations

check Exporting CAD files

check Uploading a model to the 3D Warehouse

You live at a time in history when it is often necessary to inscribe an image of your design onto dried and bleached chips from a dead tree (a.k.a. paper) and then also send that same design, in the form of ones and zeros, thousands of miles to a series of data centers, where it’s available in its entirety to anyone with an Internet connection.

As we mention in Chapter 12, LayOut in SketchUp Pro is the best way to turn your 3D models into compelling images and documents. If you don’t have SketchUp Pro — or if you compose images using other software — there are other great ways to share what you’ve created. In this chapter, we start by explaining the process for exporting images and PDF pages from SketchUp for Web.

The second part of this chapter is for everybody. We go over the basics ...

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