Lee Anderson, the original author of UpFront, is an old “Friend of SketchUp” who used to come to 3D Basecamp back in the day. He is an associate professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota now, still working on cutting-edge computational design projects. UpFront was my introduction to CAD as a student at Cooper Union. In fact, I learned it before I learned Autocad.
In many ways, UpFront was ahead of its time. There were other 3D modeling applications available at the time (Virtus Walkthrough was another I remember using from that time), but UpFront had them all beat for doing architectural design.
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