Automatic Sketchup book can now be freely downloaded
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Got my printed version today. Thanks, looking good.
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An update about 5 years later...
At the link above, to Matt's original announcement of the PDF, is the link to a Google Docs page:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1JtraED8shnNGZkNzM4ZmQtMTVmNS00Zjc4LWI2NjMtYzliZGVjYzQyNTU5/view?ddrp=1%26amp;hl=en#As of today, that works for me.
I also found the PDF at http://www.crai.archi.fr/rld/pdf/Automatic_SketchUp.pdf
Those help with the fact that http://www.automaticsketchup.com and http://www.autosketuchup.com appear to be redirects to a page with only a link to a legal disclaimer. That's too bad.
As for paper vs PDF, I have the paper book open for reading and I'm using the PDF to be able to do text searches. I can copy the code out of the PDF to past it into the Ruby console. And just like with music, buying the book supports the author where freebies, bootleg or not, do not.
Unfortunately in this case, the book is out of print. You can get a used one for $250.00 on Amazon or a new one for $570.00 to $800.00. Yeah. More for this book than for SU Pro. And I bet not a dime of that gets to the author.
Seems like it's time for an update to the newer versions of SU. The book was published in 2010 for SU 7.1.
Does anyone know how to get hold of Matt Scarpino? I bet this group could do a crowd-sourced update of it pretty quickly.
Just ideas,
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