Depending on your level of SketchUp obsessiveness, you may or may not have heard about our recent Trimblification. Around the beginning of June, SketchUp officially left Google to become a part of Trimble. All you really need to know is that this is unequivocally a good thing for everybody. SketchUp's future is brighter than it's ever been, amazing new things are on the way, and the team (almost all of which accompanied the product to Trimble) is doing great. Best of all, we're focused in a way we haven't been in years: on our users, on new features, and on helping SketchUp to become everything you -- and we-- have always wanted it to be.

Now back to business as usual...

A couple of months ago, we quietly launched what is perhaps the most important addition to the SketchUp universe since version 8: The all-new SketchUp Showcase is a whizbang online home for SketchUp projects of every stripe. It's a two-billion watt spotlight that we custom-built for showing off our users' work, and folks who've seen it say it's beautiful. I hope you'll agree.

The Beehive Chair  by Graham Roebeck	Zagreb Sky Lounge  by Mateo Soletic	Water Wheel project  by Gary Mastolier
Cirkus Cirkoer  by Joachim Von Rost	Catalyst Playground  by Martin Marren	Robotic Color Sorter  by Nikos Giannakopoulos

Would you like to see your own SketchUp project in the Showcase? Submitting is easy as pie.

Save the date! We’re feverishly planning SketchUp 3D Basecamp 2012 for October 15, 16 and 17 of this year. See you in Boulder!

Happy sketching,
Aidan