Trimble Participates in First-Ever White House Maker Faire

Trimble is proud to be a participant in the first-ever White House Maker Faire, held today to showcase the Maker Movement — tinkerers, inventors, and entrepreneurs who promote entrepreneurship and innovation — and the tools and technologies they rely on to do so. Through SketchUp, the "3D for everyone" design tool used by 30 million designers, builders and makers of things every year, Trimble has become closely involved with the Maker Movement.

"It is an honor to participate in this White House event," said Steven W. Berglund, president and CEO of Trimble. "Today we saw innovators of all ages using tools like SketchUp to help shape the future. There has been a lot of talk lately about how the Maker Movement will transform and revitalize American manufacturing. Today's event demonstrated that the possibilities are endless."

Maker Faire, organized by Maker Media, is a gathering of curious and innovative people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. It's a venue for makers to show examples of their work and interact with others about it. There are now more than one hundred Maker Faires a year around the world. The White House Maker Faire is the latest installment.

Among the wide range of SketchUp projects showcased this year is the "WikiHouse," an open source housing design system developed in SketchUp and fabricated directly with robotic machine tools. WikiHouse was implemented through a unique collaboration between U.K. design firm 00 ("Zero-zero"), ShopBot Tools, Vectric CAM software and the SketchUp team. Trimble has exhibited several WikiHouse prototypes, at events including Maker Faires in New York and the Bay Area, as well as at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

While SketchUp was originally designed to meet the needs of architects and building construction professionals, it rapidly became the design tool of choice tool for inventors across a wide range of industries. In the spirit of open collaboration that defines the Maker Movement, Trimble continues to offer SketchUp Make for free to makers around the world.

"On the SketchUp team, we think of ourselves as 'meta-makers,'" said John Bacus, director of product management for SketchUp. "In other words, we make the tools that help makers do their work more efficiently."

Since 2006, SketchUp Make has been used to design everything from 3D printable parts to the 3D printers on which those parts are made. Robots, DIY satellites, jetpacks, hovercraft and home brewing machines have been designed in SketchUp Make, as well as countless greenhouses, sheds and woodworking shops.

Additionally, Trimble's 3D Warehouse is available at no cost to makers as a place to share their work and collaborate with others. Today, there are more than 2.5 million models shared there. "Browsing the pages of 3D Warehouse is like walking through a museum of invention, all freely shared and available for reuse and improvement by others," said Bacus.

Today, at the first-ever White House Maker Faire, Trimble has committed to expanding its free software services to makers by adding cloud based software and 3D printing tools.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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SketchUp Components 3D Warehouse - Bookshelf with sketchup

Download a wide array of bookshelf 3d models at free of cost. The users can apply these low polygon bookshelf models for interior 3d visualization & rendering of living room. All these 3d models are created with sketchup. The users can download these free 3d boocase models in .obj and .skp format.

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www.sketchup4architect.com

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Improve your sketchup skills through some online sketchup trainings 2014

Enhance your sketchup skills by learning sketchup through a collection of easy-to-follow online video tutorials which focus on various tips on sketchup tools, various intermediate and advance modeling practices. By undergoing these tutorials the sketchup users will be able to draw and communicate in 3D efficiently as well as make stunning achitectural, civil, mechanical, and video game design.

Free online sketchup tutorials for beginners

Get trained with sketchup through some free online tutorial series. These tutorials are useful for beginners as well as advanced users. Learn everything about sketchup. The tutorials will focus on the 3D modeling and design industry. One can also get support for acquiring any jobs and clients with his sketchup skills.

The tutorial will be based on various projects. One can get familiar with all the tools and features by making a shed.

How to apply offset tool in sketchup

TeachMeToday presents an instructional tutorial on sketchup. By viewing this tutorial, one can learn the various applications of offset tool in sketchup.

Apply sketchup to make realistic bowl/utensils

Learn how to apply sketchup for producing realistic type of bowl. The kerkythea rendering plugin is used to give a realistic look to the bowl. Other tools like subdivide and smooth plugin are used to create the model of the bowl.

Sketchup Trainings 2014

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How can you make yours fountain from CAD to Sketchup

1. import your design from cad to sketchup.

2. draw circle diameter equal to diameter fountain then delete half of fountain & use make face plugin.

3. after using make face plugin , rotate the shape to angel = 90.

3. using follow me tool.

3. using follow me tool.

4. using materials.

5. follow the same steps with water shape.

6. make the fountain & water shape group.

7. merge the fountain & water shape together.

8. make the fountain base and put your materials.

9. merge the base & the fountain.

Final

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Creating a Screw with Sketchup

How many times you have wondered how to make the thread of a screw with SketchUp, or not? Here is the answer!

First you draw a circle. We click on the instrument "Circle" in the toolbar and then on the point of origin of the axes and widen our circle by following one, red or green, with the cursor, so that the vertices of the segments that make up the match with aces.

Created the circle, from this, we have to create a spiral. The steps to follow are the same that you can find in the post "HOW TO CREATE A SPRING WITH SKETCHUP", would not explain them again.

Now we have a cylinder created by the initial circle and a spiral of the same diameter with the plugin "Weld" we welded into a single segment.

It 'important to create a group of one of the two models, in this case, my group is the spiral. This is to avoid that the two models, when superimposed, is intersichino between them. Then we position the spiral over the cylinder so that the segments coincide perfectly with each other.

We click on the instrument "Move" and then on the group spiral with the "CTRL" key to create a copy, spostiamola down along the blue axis until it reaches the center of the original one (see image below).

Now we can explode groups of spirals so as to intersect the segments with those of the cylinder.

We click on the spiral just created to highlight it , then the instrument "Scale" and finally, with the CTRL key pressed on the handle of the solid angle at the center, ...

... Pull outwards and ...

The screw ... is ready.

Under another example of a solid made with the same method created simply by moving the internal spiral downwards.

Or this' other using the plugin "Joint Push-Pull".

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sketchup-ur-space.com

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Shaping a shelby with Sketchup

At the bottom of some steps of the modeling of the body of a Shelby, as usual, I start with a picture Blueprint and then continue to the eye.

For the reconstruction of the dashboard, I was inspired by a photo found in the network.

Some views of the finished model.

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www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Modeling a pool in SketchUp

In this tutorial I will show how to model a simple swimming pool in SketchUp and Indigo, with nice caustics at the bottom of the pool. This is what we will be making:

Model the pool ground and walls

Create a quad like so:

Create a rectangle in the middle of the quad:

Using the Push/Pull tool, push the middle down to create the pool recess:

Create the water volume

Create a cuboidal volume for the pool water. It needs to be somewhat larger than the pool recess along all axes.

Create the water material

Create a new SketchUp material called 'water' or similar.

Set the opacity to something around 50% to make sure the water material is transparent.

Apply the material to all faces of the water volume.

Move the water volume into place

Move the water volume into place with the move tool. The sides of the water volume should extend past the pool recess like so:

Finishing the water material

We need to set a couple of settings in the water material - some absorption to give the water a blue/green tint, and some displacement, to create the water ripples.

Open the SkIndigo material editor, and make sure the 'water' material is selected.

Change the material type to 'specular':

Change the Absorption type to 'none'.

Click the dotted button to the right of 'Absorption'.

Set the RGB absorption to R: 0.2, G: 0.12, B: 0.1:

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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