Two Million SketchUp Model Milestone

Earlier this morning, I added the SketchUp models
of projects in the February issue of
Popular Woodworking Magazine to our 3d
Warehouse collection. We do this every issue, and no other woodworking magazine
makes their projects available (for free) in this format. After I added Michael
Fortune’s three legged table (the cover project), and two other models I realized
that the collection was close to containing two hundred models. It seemed like a good
idea to hit a nice round number by the end of the year, so I searched through my hard
drive and found three additional models; two bookcases I designed and Frank
Klausz’s Toolbox from the August
2006 issue.

If you visit the collection, the easy way to find the newest additions is to click
on “sort by date”. The really easy way is to subscribe to the collection, if you do
you’ll be notified when models are added. You can download any of the models for viewing
on you own computer, and if you want to start with a magazine project and modify the
design to suit yourself, you’re most of the way there. If you don’t have SketchUp installed
on your machine, I encourage you to give it a try. If you want to learn how to use
SketchUp, we have videos and
a digital
book in our store to get you going. One other option for sorting the collection
is “by popularity” to see which models have been viewed and downloaded the most. And
here’s where we’ve hit another milestone. Thanks to our readers, and being mentioned
on the Official Google SketchUp blog not once,
but twice,
our collection has been viewed more times than we ever imagined. The top six models
have been viewed more three hundred thousand times each for a combined total of more
than two million views. And all of that for free.