The program won a Community Choice Award at its first tradeshow in 2000. It also has user friendly buttons to make it easier to use.”
SketchUp debuted in August 2000 as a general-purpose 3D content creation tool, and was envisioned as a software program “that would allow design professionals to draw the way they want by emulating the feel and freedom of working with pen and paper in a simple and elegant interface, that would be fun to use and easy to learn, and that would be used by designers to play with their designs in a way that is not possible with traditional design software. SketchUp was developed by startup company Software of Boulder, Colorado, co-founded in 1999 by Brad Schell and Joe Esch.
