Noticed this on SketchUpDate:
Welcome Google Apps Users -
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome-google-apps-users.html

Basic summary - If you have a GoogleApps account ($50/year), you now get SketchUp (and of course 3D Warehouse) thrown in.

Sounds kind of interesting. It's a good pricing deal for just SketchUp Pro. But Pro isn't specified.

GoogleApps is all about "Cloud Computing." So how will this work? Is SketchUp going to the cloud? Or is your license being tracked by your Google Apps account? Or is it just that the 3D Warehouse exists in the cloud?

I've got gmail but not Business version of GoogleApps. Anybody out there using Google Apps? How is it working out for you? Can you tell us, what's the real news here? Or is there any?

The notes are mostly well done; several people put a lot of time into them. Thanks to all you Googlers who posted them for the rest of us.

Some are excellent, going into great depth, others not so much. It would be nice to have some of the holes filled in.

In this world of online collaboration, wouldn't it make sense to have the notes in a wiki format? That way anybody who attended could add their recollections of what occurred, and hopefully we'd get the most complete summary.

You are all too kind!

I first ran SketchUp (was it v3 or v4) on my old college computer, a pentium III mx, if I recall correctly. It's specs (speed, memory, and storage) were just about on par with the iPhone's. So I'm sure it isn't a hardware limitation, especially if some of the extras are stripped out (If you're in the field, do you really need sketchy edges, or shadows?)

Of course it wouldn't be simple, you'd have to toss the 3button mouse interface (which is perhaps one of the best SketchUp innovations IMHO), and come up with a multi-touch solution to deal with 3D. Also, measurement entry would be very important, but done without a keyboard. That's gotta be hard - I haven't seen it done very well anywhere, yet.

I'd settle for a model markup tool (taking xrok1's suggestion a bit further) - no actual edits, but a simple interface to add notes for later editing.

Actually, I'll settle for whatever the Google Guys come up with. Unless I become a programmer, I'll take what I can get;)

Have you taken a look at the new Product Ideas http://productideas.appspot.com/#25/e=2191e&o=20&v=26 site that Google SketchUp is running? It's like American Idol for SketchUp ideas. If you like that sort of thing you should check it out.

I did and one of my suggestions, iSketchUp, is currently the William Hung of the list. I'm not hoping stack the votes. I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm actually kind of proud of coming up with the WORST idea. There are only two spots that anybody remembers at the end of the day, and I'm happily in one of them.

The funny thing is I didn't do it on purpose. I would like to know why it is such a bad idea. Why is it a worse idea than a poorly proof read rant about the current state of the software? I thik iSketchUp could be a useful tool (or at least a toy). I mean, you can't take your laptop everywhere. Think about doodling in 3d on a smart phone! And what about site visits? Would you prefer lugging your laptop all around your buildings?

Perhaps its the requested platform. Would you rather see an Android implementation?

Anyway, I'd like to know your thoughts.

Currently, it just starts when you start SketchUp (if it is in your plugin path). I haven't put together an interface; I'm waiting for C.Fullmer's next tutorial before tackling that

Create a rectangle or draw a line, and watch the VCB. It should snap to whole numbers (unless you are zoomed in really close).

The script will give strange results if your units are set to anything but inches

Mitcorb,
That's a real classic. I remember dreaming about those specs when it first came out.

Sketchbook is still awesome! Autodesk hasn't ruined it yet.

@ mitcorb,
You are welcome to add to it and improve it.

@ Chris, just scratching the surface. Even with the tiny bit I've learned it is quite empowering.

@ solarepiphany,
HP TouchSmart tx2
AMD Turion X2 Dual Core 2.1 GHz
4 GB RAM
64-bit

Check out the reviews. It is a bit heavy for a tablet (4lb). It runs a bit hot. The battery life could be much better. It could be a bit sturdier. It also came with a ton of bloatware.

But I like it a lot. So far, it does what I want it to do.

Thanks, Jim. I made the changes and reposted it. Dynamic Grid would have been a better name.

@ Jackson,
Yeah, I like the model too, but it isn't mine. I wanted something that was good and synthy, so I borrowed somebody else's.

I had some ideas for approaching this too, but they started to sound outlandish: If you could get the original photo-aligned and pick out which points came from that particular photo, you could then project a surface from the camera to the points. Do that with all the cameras, intersect and clean up the meshes, and just a bit of hand waving, and you're there. Unfortunately, this relies on a bunch of information that I don't know if I can get, and it WAY beyond my understanding of math or programming. I'm sure somebody smarter than me has already gotten closer to a solution than I could. Somebody like

@ Remus,
I'm sure there's something wrong with my data, but when I run this on the model, it will only connect a few of the points. It does pretty well on the terrain, but the backhoe itself is a mess if it connects any points at all. If I pick and choose the points it does a better job, but still not great. Do you have any tricks for selecting the right points? Does re-aligning the axis ever help?

@ Edson,
Looks like an interesting plugin, but I think it requires a mesh to exist. Once I have a mesh, I'll try this out.

Thanks for your suggestions! Keep them coming.