“Through our other projects like The FIRST LEGO League and The CREST Awards, we know just how capable and talented Irish students are.
“We are thrilled to be working together with Google on this project,” said Bernard Kirk, director of the Galway Education Centre. A number of schools have already signed up for a licence for the software. Students and teachers can also share their projects, resources and images with others online.Īs part of the new agreement, the Galway Education Centre will distribute the programme for free to all interested schools across the country. It can be used to design objects ranging from kitchen utensils to buildings. They can import drawings, photos, aerial images and other data and can then use the application’s tools to create 3D models. The application lets students create 3D models from scratch or by using existing data. You can also apply for free one year educational licenses for the Pro version.The Galway Education Centre has signed a contract with Google to distribute 3D modelling application Google Sketchup Pro for free to all interested Irish primary and secondary schools. The free trial includes the Pro version of the software, but reverts back to the free Make version at the end of the 30 day trial period. To access the software, you download the free trial and select the “SketchUp Make” version. SketchUp is desktop software, available as a free download for educational use.
To help you with these steps, iMaterialise have produced a really useful article for 3D Printing with SketchUp. It may also be worth considering using SketchUp alongside Meshmixer for preparing the 3D model files. However once students are familiar with the process for checking and preparing the file they should be able to do this independently. One drawback of SketchUp is that it is not straightforward to produce a 3D printable model file from a design as it is a surface modeller. We recommend SketchUp for students in upper KS2 and upwards although younger students will need support in checking and preparing their models for 3D printing. Shapes can be moved and grouped to build up the 3D drawing. Models are created by drawing 2D shapes on one of the 3D planes then pushing and pulling the shapes into 3 dimensional forms. SketchUp is a powerful 3D CAD program that is simpler for students to learn than many other Professional CAD software.
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