Last night was 'Tech Night' at the Niagara Street Public School. I ran a workshop on 3D design tools. Everything I showed the kids was based on tools that they could use at home for free. Here are some of what the students came up with:
The three tools we looked at were:
- Floorplanner.com This is an entirely web based tool. Just visit the site and set up an account for free. Floorplanner is very easy to use. You draw a plan in 2D and then view it in 3D. This tool is good for simple layouts but not so great if you want to make more elaborate models with roofs etc.
- Sketchup is a free tool from Google. You need to download and install it. Make sure you get the free version and not the 30 trial for the 'Pro' version. This is a powerful, full featured 3D modeling program. It takes a bit of effort to learn - check out YouTube for tutorial videos.
- Google Earth is a great program on it's own. It's free, but you do need to download and install it. It works great with Sketchup. If you have both on your system, you can export your models and look at them in context.
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