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| Velux products available online as 3-D models Velux America has made a wide range of its skylights and roof windows available online as 3-D models drawn in Google SketchUp. The models are available to architects, builders, remodelers, designers and other trade audiences, as well as to consumers building or remodeling homes, through the Google 3D Warehouse. Google SketchUp makes it easy to find and import 3-D models from the 3D Warehouse into a SketchUp model, and Velux has now made it easy for people designing in 3-D to import high quality models of many Velux products into their 3-D designs. Joe Patrick, senior product manager with Velux, says that the company partnered with Blue Marble Project, a Hawthorne, California-based company which creates SketchUp models, to put its products into the proper format and make them available on the Web. "Now users can simply choose and paste skylights or roof windows into their conceptual design documents that will later go into architectural drawings, house plans or blueprints. They can also access all the necessary information to specify the products with a few clicks of the mouse." Google SketchUp is powerful, yet easy-to-learn and use, software developed to provide quick and easy 3-D for conceptual stages of design. The Google 3D Warehouse is a repository of 3-D objects that expedites the design process. This year Velux will introduce its solar water heating system to the US market and 3-D models of Velux solar collectors will also be available in Google SketchUp at 3D Warehouse. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Construction News :: home page |