I too will sing the praises of Sketchup! This house design I originally modeled in Cadsoft Envisioneer which I use heavily since I usually need to create construction docs besides the model. I changed all the textures to colors before exporting it to Sketchup, did a little vertice cleanup and sketchup and exported it. I will continue to experiment with this model and many more for other clients. This is a fantastic model with in place topography visualization tool. Thanks Google Earth for making this possible!
Ed
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