4月27日，据路透社报道，天宝导航(Trimble Navigation)宣布收购谷歌的SketchUp 3D模型平台，但协议的金额并未披露。
天宝导航是生产测量测绘、制图和船用导航设备的企业。
作为SketchUp平台的一部分，Trimble将与谷歌合作开发SketchUp的3D Warehouse--一个用户可寻找、共享、存储3D模型并进行协作的在线资料库。
SketchUp是一个免费的3D模型平台，帮助用户使用谷歌地球设计3D模型。
使用该平台，用户能制作并收集包括3D建筑物在内的模型，并与世界各地的其他模式制作者分享。SketchUp开始是一家很小的新创公司，但在2006年被谷歌收购后迅速发展壮大，目前拥有数以百万计活跃用户。
官方原文：
In its time at Google, SketchUp has become one of the most popular 3D modeling tools in the world. With over 30 million SketchUp activations in just the last year, we’re awfully proud of our accomplishments. But there’s still so much we want to do, and we think we’ve found a way forward that will benefit everyone—our product, our team and especially our millions of users.
That’s why I’m sharing today that the SketchUp team and technology will be leaving Google to join Trimble. We’ll be better able to focus on our core communities: modelers who have been with us from the beginning, as well as future SketchUppers who have yet to discover our products. Designers, builders and makers of things have always been the heart and soul of SketchUp. With Trimble’s commitment to invest in our growth, we’ll be able to innovate and develop new features better than ever before.
For those of you in the architecture, engineering and construction industries, the knowledge and experience Trimble will add to the SketchUp effort are obvious. Together with our new colleagues at Trimble, we plan to continue making our tools for the building professions as innovative, intuitive and (dare I say) fun to use as we always have.
If you’re one of the many, many people who use SketchUp for something else—from education to woodworking, geo-modeling to movie-making—rest assured that there will be a SketchUp for you, too. Our mission has always been to make 3D modeling tools that anyone can use. The free version of SketchUp is an important part of our world as well, and that isn’t changing in the least.
Thanks to Google, more people than we ever imagined possible have been introduced to SketchUp. Thanks to Trimble, we’ll be able to continue to make SketchUp into the tool that we—and you—have always hoped it would become. With a strong wind at our backs and plenty of sunshine ahead, this voyage just keeps getting more exciting.
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