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Stay Agile with your design

Design work is unique in that when you start it out, you know almost nothing about what your final deliverable will be. You may think you…

Jun 30, 2022

Fig. 1.7: Rule 30, an elementary 1D cellular automaton, evolving from a single seed

Jun 30, 2022

Which one is easier to use: AutoCAD or SketchUp?

Learning a new design tool (particularly a new piece of software) is hard, time-consuming and therefore pretty risky for anyone who makes…

Jun 30, 2022

Jun 30, 2022

Which one is easier to use: (some popular 3D modeling application) or SketchUp?

Learning a new design tool (particularly a new piece of software) is hard, time-consuming, and therefore pretty risky for anyone who makes…

Feb 8, 2021

Feb 8, 2021

“Digital Sketching” …continued.

I wrote a book, a book about sketching digitally, with computers. It seems to me that writing a book, published by a technical book…

Dec 17, 2020

Cover image, Digital Sketching: Computer-aided Conceptual Design

Dec 17, 2020

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Why is 3D modeling so frustrating?

tl;dr: 3D modeling software is frustrating because it is very unlike any other class of software than most people commonly use. Also, it…

Aug 21, 2016

Aug 21, 2016

John Bacus

John Bacus

I am a professional software product manager, co-designer of SketchUp, one of the most popular computational tools for architectural design in the world today.

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