I was reading Google’s Sketchup Blog recently and came across some interesting news. Google is planning on having a 2010 3d Basecamp.
3D Basecamp 2008 was integral in my training on Google Sketchup. I taught myself the program completely from playing around and watching Youtube videos. Recorded videos from 3D Basecamp 2008 allowed me to see someone using the program live and demonstrated skills and techniques not readily available. Whenever I teach a Sketchup class I tell all my students to immediately go to the 3d Basecamp website and watch the videos. There are over ten and they are all over an hour. The benefit I say is that it will answer plenty of questions you have and bring up things you didn’t even think of.
Sketchup has so many shortcuts and multiple ways to accomplish one task. 3d Basecamp helped streamline my process. This first Basecamp was aimed at more of the beginning side. 3d Basecamp 2010 is aimed more at the Sketchup Power users. There is an application for attending! I actually had to send the registration team an example of something that I modeled.
Sketchup Blog describes “This time, we’d like to welcome SketchUp experts – ninjas, gurus, fanatics, la crème de la crème – to join us. We want to see what will happen when everyone in attendance is a SketchUp master.” They are hoping for an “unconference” in which there is tons of user participation and discussion.
I applied. After closely reading the guidelines of the application I failed. I was supposed to send a link to an Image’s direct URL. I sent them to one image on my Flickr page. Oh well. The conference is in Boulder, CO. I live in Washington, DC. Also it is the first 3 days of September. I am getting married August 21st. A lot of variables that don’t add up.
Either way I am sure Google will be recording these sessions for future use and learning goodness. I hope to see some really great tricks that I can incorporate into my workflow. For those that are interested in the 2008 library of knowledge go here.
Google Sketchup is a big portion of my life. I use it every day at work and has gotten me to the position I am in. I am certainly an advocate of the program and I hope that more people open their eyes to how powerful it is.
If you are up for the challenge and want to go to the conference, applications start here
