SketchUcation Community Forums regular Alex Schreyer has just released his brand new book on “Architectural Design with SketchUp - The one-stop guide to SketchUp for architects, designers, builders and other construction professionals”.
"While it is easy to pick up the basic techniques of SketchUp, going beyond these essentials requires in-depth, step-by-step instruction and practice. Architectural Design with SketchUp provides the knowledge needed to move past the basics and take full advantage of SketchUp as a powerful 3D modeling tool.
After a chapter-long SketchUp refresher, this user-friendly handbook covers component-based modeling for assembly, scheduling, collaborative design, and modeling with a BIM approach. It demonstrates the use of plugins for 3D modeling, fabrication, data integration, and analysis (energy efficiency, etc.), as well as rendering in SketchUp, enhancing with Photoshop, and combining with hand-drawn content. It also offers easy tutorials for creating complex geometry using Ruby coding." says the Book Companion Pages.
You can have a look at some sample pages - and of course purchase the book both in paper back and Kindle versions - on Amazon.