in central Arkansas and have found sketchup to be a great program for presentations as well as conceptual ideas. I mainly use sketchup for residential, commercial and office building designs. Occasionally I will step out of the box and do something different like modeling a airplane or boat. done while using sketchup. I also use a program called Kerkythea to do the renderings.  **This is an image of a house I model in Sketchup and rendered in Kerkythea |