Google Earth has new free tool - Sketchup

[warrior1]

http://sketchup.google.com/

I've been playing around with this and watching the video's and man is this fun.

Very user friendly.

SketchUp is a simple but powerful tool for quickly and easily creating, viewing and modifying your 3D ideas.

Click on a shape and push or pull it to create your desired 3D geometry.
Experiment with color and texture directly on your model.
Real-time shadow casting lets you see exactly where the sun falls as you model.
Select from thousands of pre-drawn components to save time drawing.

[petronius]

1. Very fun! It takes a bit of practice, but it looks like you

can produce pretty much anything you want, even with the free version...

[warrior1]

2. Does take a bit of practice

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. I love it.. But, I also paid $500 for it before Google bought it..

Well, my boss paid for it..