ModelMetricks Basics Series
Book 1: Home, Sweet Home

Making Easy Houses in Google SketchUp

In no time at all, this book will show you how to model a bunch of different houses,  complete with windows, chimneys, and roofs. In the last chapter, you'll get to paint your house using cool colors and textures. No experience necessary!

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Windows Version: 118 pages
Mac Version: 126 pages

ModelMetricks Basics Series
Book2: Strange Buildings

Buildings Nobody Would Ever Really Build, Modeled in Google SketchUp

This book will show you how to make a colorful factory, a house with curvy parts, and a tall tower with different types of multi-colored, see-through windows and skylights. Fun to make, and you'll learn a lot about SketchUp's modeling tools in the process!

Book 1 should be read before this book.

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Windows Version: 106 pages
Mac Version: 106 pages

ModelMetricks Basics Series
Book 3: Kids as Architects

Buildings Kids Wish Would Really Be Built, Modeled in Google SketchUp

This book will show you how to make a house shaped like a rainbow, a round tower with spiral steps, a set of matching buildings shaped like stars, and even a building shaped like a hand. If kids could design entire cities, the buildings might look like these!

Books 1 and 2 should be read before this book.

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Windows Version: 112 pages
Mac Version: 112 pages

ModelMetricks Basics Series
Book 4: Go to Your Room!

Making a Comfy Bedroom, Complete with Furniture, in Google Sketchup

This book will show you how to make a bedroom with walls and windows, that contains a dresser, bookcase, clock, loft bed, and computer. You'll learn how (and why) to use two of SketchUp's most important tools: groups and components. Plus you'll get an introduction to Google's 3D Warehouse.

Books 1, 2, and 3 should be read before this book.

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Windows Version: 150 pages
Mac Version: 152 pages

ModelMetricks Basics Series
Four Book Set

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This set includes the following four books in the Basics Series:

Book 1: Home, Sweet Home

Book 2: Strange Buildings

Book 3: Kids as Architects

Book 4: Go to Your Room!

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series
Book 1: Write Now!

Using Google SketchUp to Write All Sorts of Things

This book will show you how to use the 3D Text tool. You'll make flat letters, 3D letters, words with stripes, colorful wall signs, engravings, even letters along round objects. After reading this book, you'll be able to write anything anywhere in Google SketchUp, using any colors and styles you like!

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Windows Version: 146 pages
Mac Version: 146 pages

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series
Book 2: Painting with Pictures

Using Digital Pictures to Paint Flat Things in Google SketchUp

In this book, you will build a simple room, and use digital pictures to paint the walls, rugs, posters, even a trash can. You'll learn how to position pictures to fit your objects, and how to change objects to fit your pictures.   You'll also see how to use a picture to make a 2D component that acts like it's 3D! All the pictures you'll need can be downloaded from the f1forkids website, plus you'll also get instructions on how to find your own pictures.

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Windows Version: 170 pages
Mac Version: 168 pages

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series
Book 3: Puzzles

Amaze and Amuse Your Friends with Puzzles Created in Google SketchUp

In this book, you will make puzzles that you can give your friends to solve. There are shape puzzles, picture puzzles with different types of pieces, word puzzles where your friends can unscramble a message, and even a spinning message puzzle. You can make your puzzles easy to solve, or you can drive your friends crazy with tough ones!

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Windows Version: 142 pages
Mac Version: 146 pages

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series
Book 4: Where in the World?

This book will show you how to place your models all over the world, in Google Earth.

Scheduled for release in September, 2008!

ModelMetricks Intermediate Series
Three Book Set

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This set includes the following three books in the Intermediate Series:

Book 1: Write Now!

Book 2: Painting with Pictures

Book 3: Puzzles

ModelMetricks Advanced Series
Book 1: Using Pictures in 3D

Painting 3D Models with 2D Digital Pictures, in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll learn how to use a single, flat digital picture to paint a 3D model. You'll learn how to position a picture to fit a model, and how to build a model to fit a picture. You'll also learn how to use SketchUp's awesome Photo Match tool.  Plus you'll get to use pictures with transparent backgrounds! All the pictures you'll need can be downloaded from the f1forkids website.

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Windows Version: 148 pages
Mac Version: 152 pages

ModelMetricks Advanced Series
Book 2: Art Gallery

Making Paintings and Sculptures in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll use digital pictures to make several paintings, each with its own fancy frame. You'll also make some elaborate and colorful bowls that will sit on display stands. To house all these objects, you'll build an art gallery with a complicated-looking (but easy to make) window and roof. SketchUp's very fun Follow Me tool is the star of this book.

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Windows Version: 148 pages
Mac Version: 152 pages

ModelMetricks Advanced Series
Book 3: Crazy Shapes

Making Intricate-Looking Models out of Simple Objects, in Google SketchUp

In this book, the main focus is combining components with the Follow Me and Intersect with Model tools. You'll make stacking rings, a striped bowl, patterns on boxes, patterns on spheres, and interlocking building blocks. Once you can make these models, you'll be able to model just about anything that has repeating objects!

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Windows Version: 130 pages
Mac Version: 132 pages

ModelMetricks Advanced Series
Book 4: Optical Illusions

Trick Your Eyes and Play with Color in Google SketchUp

In this book, you'll make a whole bunch of optical illusions. (Maybe you've seen some of these before on paper, but they look so much cooler on your screen.) You'll make straight lines that look curvy, colors that seem to change, and models that look like they're moving. Caution: this book might make you dizzy!

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Windows Version: 166 pages
Mac Version: 176 pages