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The folks at Google have just released a cool new demo video showing some of it's features in SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is a 3D modeling program used by architects, interior designers, civil engineers, landscape artists, filmmakers, game developers, and many other related professions. SketchUp also allows the placement of models in Google Earth, and Google's 3D Warehouse lets SketchUp users search for, download and add free 3D models. Check out this video showing some of the features of SketchUp Pro.
GeniusDV has a great 2 Day Google SketchUp training class at our Orlando facility, or onsite options are also available. Check out our SketchUp class schedule and give us a call today to reserve your seat!
GeniusDV has a great 2 Day Google SketchUp training class at our Orlando facility, or onsite options are also available. Check out our SketchUp class schedule and give us a call today to reserve your seat!
The new version of Apple's Mac OSX is full of exciting new features, including robust new layers of security. Unfortunately, the new features break many of the applications that we teach here at GeniusDV. As of today, avoid updating to OSX Lion if you rely on any of these software packages:
- Adobe's CS3, CS4, and CS5 applications are mostly compatible with Lion, and Adobe promises to fix the remaining bugs with an update soon. After Effects seems to be fine, although third-party plugins may break. Photoshop's bugs are minor, and mainly involve automation and droplets. CS2 and earlier versions will not run at all, ever on Lion.
- Avid Media Composer, Symphony, and ProTools are not compatible with Lion at this time.
- The Boris FX plugins for Final Cut Studio and Avid are not compatible with Lion, and will block Apple Motion from launching.
- Google SketchUp will run on Lion, but it exhibits several known bugs. The bugs appear mainly to be minor annoyances, but a few may freeze SketchUp.
- Autodesk's AutoCAD is not compatible with Lion at this time.
- Microsoft Office 2008 and 2010 exhibit several known bugs, many of them serious, when running on Lion at this time.
For these "serious" software packages, we recommend waiting for the manufacturer's go-ahead before upgrading your machine. For more esoteric (and less business-critical) apps, you might find RoaringApps' compatibility matrix helpful.
If you work with multiple user accounts on your editing system, what happens if you forget the password for one of the users?
This becomes a problem is that particular user has left critical files on the desktop.
Even an administrator will not be able to access the other user's desktop.
Fortunately, you can activate the 'super user' or 'root' account.
You'll then be able to retrieve data from that particular user's desktop.
Continue reading Configuring Root User Account in Mac OS X.
SketchUp is great program for design and if you have a Mac, you can now have a film studio too - using Sketchers studio.
Continue reading SketchUp + Mac + Sketchers Studio = Film Studio.
Continue reading SketchUp 8 new feature - Add Location.
