An exclusive sketchup competition on SketchUp Layout 2D Documentation by PlusSpec

PlusSpec is going to organize an exclusive contest on SketchUp Layout 2D Documentation. Sketchup Layout is considered as a robust & professional 2D presentation and documentation tool. The theme of this contest is “How SketchUp Layout is the ideal 2D documentation software for Architects, Designers, Engineers and Builders”.

All the creative people can attend the contest at free of cost.

The time limit for submitting entry : All entries must be submitted prior to Monday 06 April 2015.

Award date: The names of the winners will be declared on: Monday 27 April 2015.

Prizes:

1st Prize: 24 month PlusSpec licence (valued at AUD$1590). The licence information will be delivered through email.

2nd Prize: 12 month PlusSpec licence (valued at AUD$795). The licence information will be delivered through email.

3rd Prize: 6 month PlusSpec licence (valued at AUD$398). The licence information will be delivered through email.

Media coverage:

All of the winners will be acknowledged globally regarding their work, which will be published on some of the recognized websites like plusspec.com, Sketchucation.com, Sketchupartists.org, sketchup-house-plans.com, Google SketchUp Facebook page, Kemp Productions and other leading social media platforms.

Judging criterion:All (or the greater part of the) drawings must be finished with SketchUp Layout. One can also submit their any previous, existing, or experimental work (paid or unpaid).

Design preference: One should prioritize the Residential work. But one can also present the commercial or retail designs.

All the entries will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria:

• Artistic quality of 2D drawings/documentation

• Readability/Interpretability of the 2D drawings/documentation

• Professionalism of the 2D drawing/documentation package (use of proper title blocks, notes, standard symbology and nomenclature)

• Innovative application of SketchUp/Layout/PlusSpec

Entry Submissions:
The participants can send their entries through mail to drew@rubysketch.com, and keep their below 15MB. The participants should use sketchup layout to complete their and place them on a personalized title block and exact paper size, in accordance with their geographic region. The following drawings should be included:

• Cover Page (with entrants contact information: email address, Country, telephone number)

• Presentation renderings/images (Note: Perspective/Renderings are encouraged, but will not significantly impact the judging criteria)

• Floor plans

• Roof plans

• Elevations

• Sections

• Room elevations

• Details

Terms and Conditions:

• All the participants should keep copyright of their work, but allow the sponsor and judges to make use of their drawings on web sites, forums, blogs, and other social media websites for presenting to the community.

• The participants should not deliver or include any work that belongs to other.

• The drawings should not have a genuine property address. If the drawings include a job address, it must be eliminated.

• No marketing or branding will be encouraged other than the participants name/company name and logo which should be appended on the drawing.

• Once the names of the winners will be declared, PlusSpec will get in touch with the prize winners and give them necessary information on how to download PlusSpec, as well as its licence code.

For getting more updates, visit www.plusspec.com/blog or contact: drew@rubysketch.com or E:drew@rubysketch.com

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World Tallest 3D printed building in China

The Chinese construction firm that astonished the world last Gregorian calendar month by making 3D printing ten homes from second-hand concrete in twenty four hours is back with a lot of success – it's shaped the world's tallest 3D-printed building, along side a housing villa, beat solely ten months.

A five-story housing building (the world's tallest 3D-printed building) and a sumptuousness mansion capacity one,100 sq m ar now on show at Suzhou piece of ground in Jiangsu province, all engineered from second-hand concrete and absolutely adorned with internal and external fixtures.

WinSun Decoration style Engineering Co is that the product of Ma Yihe, connected the inventor primarily based in Shanghai whose dream is to make eco-friendly low-priced homes mistreatment recycled construction waste mixed with cement, which not exclusively cut prices might however even be far improved for the atmosphere.

Recycled waste product used:-

At the end, he has exhausted twenty million Yuan ($3.1m, £1.9m) and twelve years to expand 3D printer vi.6 metres tall, ten metres wide and one hundred fifty metres long that option a twignozzle Associate in Nursingd an automatic material feeding system.

WinSun at present holds ninety eight national patents for its 3D printing building technology and construction resources. Last year, Ma used AutoCAD software package to system the structure of the homes, that every livetwo hundred sq. metres, whereas conjointly conniving tracing ways so plumbing, electrical lining, insulation materials and windows might be extra later.

The houses came out thus well that he then made associate in Nursing structure for his company covering a neighborhood of 10,000 sq m, that took simply a month to construct, victimisation Associate in Nursing mechanical system of 4 3D printers.

Eco-Friendly:-

The group press conversation listened by three hundred construction consultants, experts and investment bankers in Jiangsu; the corporate affirmed that the villa was designed for a Taiwanese assets company referred to as Tomson cluster.

The sum of price of printing the villa is over one million Yuan and Tomson cluster has pre-ordered ten of the villas, whereas the Egyptian government has pre-ordered multi story homes supported the first style from last Apr.

Ma will get what he wants. He has formed the WinSun world business enterprise with associate yankee investment firm, with the aim of transferral low cost and economical housing to low and middle class families in twenty countries together with Morocco, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and also the UAE.

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The company has signed contracts with peninsula KDC Corporation to bear its 3D printing construction technology to peninsula, and with the KIP International College, a global organization seeking solutions to world problem for an assets future.

WinSun has in addition signed a variety of partnerships with Chinese firms and analysis establishments, together with China Railway twenty fourth Bureau cluster.

WinSun and China Railway can build 5 factories along in Shanghai's Zhangjiang high-tech Park,within the regions of Hopei and Heilongjiang, in addition as in North American nation and Russia.

Ma additionally declared that he's developing a replacement style of construction material for his 3D printer, mistreatment desert sand, because the material offers environmental protection and nice edges in energy and material savings.

WinSun can work together with Nile Sand Material Technology Co to develop twelve "Dream Factories"within the desert employing a sand 3D printer over subsequent 2 years.

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Reference:- www.ibtimes.co.uk

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Some exclusive collections of 27 useful sketchup video tutorials

Sanjay Gangal, the President of IBSystems, the parent company of AECCafe.com, MCADCafe, EDACafe.Com, GISCafe.Com, and ShareCG.Com, presents a video tutorial that contains a playlist of 27 useful SketchUp video tutorials. All these tutorials highlight the following:-

• Be trained with placing your view at the proper height and position to browse your scene. It also offers an synopsis of the tool and helpful tips.

• With Inference locking one can sketch or move in only one direction and still reference other geometry. It is very useful for transforming your sketchup workflow more improved and quicker. Learn the several application of inference locking that can facilitate the users for drawing and moving objects.

• The eraser can be applied to disguise or make edges smooth. Go through some helpful tricks on how to apply the eraser tool in a superior way.

• Learn how to demonstrate the dimensions as well as how to adjust it efficiently.

• Get familiar with the fundamentals of Arc tool and some functional tricks and tips.

• Section tool and how to fine-tune the section display, implant several sections in groups and components and produce section animations.

• There will be also demonstrations on several tools and how to perfectly use these tools for making drawing or moving objects in SketchUp.

• Walk through SketchUp model by the walk tool. Be trained with the tips to modify your eye height and toggle collision detection on and off.

• Learn the fundamental of rotating objects through and some advanced tricks.

• How to apply the rectangle tool in SketchUp along with some useful tricks for greatest use and exactness.

• Get acquainted with some useful tricks on how to utilize Push/ pull tool in a different way.

• The protractor in SketchUp produces construction lines to streamline the drawing and inferencing. Learn the best possible ways to set the protractor precisely.

• Learn how to apply materials to a sketchup model through paint tool as well as alter materials all at once.

• Learn how to apply scale tool to mirror objects effortlessly.

• Learn how to draw edges in any direction.

• Various application of the freehand tool.

• Learn the basics of follow-me tool for generating details, rails, trim, lathed shapes and several others.

• Be abreast of copying objects in SketchUp and after a single copy, make that an array for many copies.

• Know the primary difference between the circle and polygon tools in SketchUp and some tips for regulating the size and segments.

• Learn how to alter and orient the axes in sketchup. To apply inferencing along various directions, orient the axes in any direction.

• Learn how to apply tape measure tool for producing construction lines which are very handy as reference geometry in SketchUp. Tape-measure tool can also re-size groups or the whole model.

• The scale tool can perform on even surfaces or 3D objects. Besides scaling objects, it is also be utilized as a modeling tool.

• Autofold is constructed into the move tool and facilitates you to maneuver surfaces and form automatic folding edges.

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Handy Potter, gesture-based 3-D modeling software to make 3d shapes with hand motion

Purdue University developed Handy Potter, a hand-free, gesture-based 3-D modeling software, that can produce digital models or 3d shapes as well as express any ideas instantly through natural hand movements devoid of applying a mouse. The 3d design can be printed on a 3d printer. This newest 3d modeling app will be marketed by Zero UI, a Cupertino, California-based company having expertize in 3D modeling technology.

This latest 3d technology can be useful in the field of games, architecture, art and engineering design.

With Handy Potter, one can generate various digital models like drums, tables, lamps and other items on a computer.

This 3d modeling program follows a modeling scheme dubbed intelligent generalized cylinders (IGC) system.

Handy Potter can replace the backdated computer-aided design tools used for making geometric shapes through a depth-sensing camera with sophisticated software algorithms to understand hand motions and gestures.

For more information, visit:-
www.purdue.edu
Contact : Karthik Ramani, 765-494-5725, ramani@purdue.edu

Watch the following live demos:-

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How sketchup & sefaira was utilized to finish a eco-friendly modular home within four months

Stuart Duncan of builddifferent.co.uk, had developed an environment-friendly, volumetric, modular single storied home having four bedroom in just four months. This type of home is called Schoolmasters.

Stuart Duncan applied Sketchup, the popular 3d modeling program, for creating the design of the home through a model based approach. All the plans and construction drawings were generated from inside Sketchup through Google maps geo location. Stuart Duncan again applied Sefaira Architecture, the leading realtime analysis software, to fine-tune the design. Prior to send all the files for digital fabrication, 3D printing technology was utilized to prototype building components.

Stuart and a small team of subcontractors built the 195 sq metre house in a 7,500 sq ft warehouse space, leased from the local council for four months. The modules consist of all plumbing, electrical, mechanical ventilation heat recovery, triple glazed windows, kitchen and bathrooms.

After completion of all the construction processes, the building was shipped on four trucks to 600 miles north to Aberdeen, Scotland.

Watch the following exclusive time-lapse video of total construction project.

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Detail Collection of SketchUp 3D warehouse

If you remember component bonus, you will also remember 2D and 3D tree and how it make and those beautiful woodwork, joints and roof. Now these components, mainly composed by the team sketchup have always been added to 3D warehouse.

In the sketchup 2015, it has been extended; glorified and standard component has been improved. Till now, 2800 individual content have been restored in 3D warehouse the repeated browsing reveals many collections. These theatres light are the best example.

These improved, developed components are genetic in nature. The title of new components is ‘detailed’. If you take the search results, it would show: “HMI Light 4000Watts with Barndoors” with all display simplified and detailed display.

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These components are characteristically ‘geometry heavy’; the user has to consider the use of sketchup model. The simplified components can be considered as proxies and replaced it with detail version.

The way to access of content is: 3D Warehouse Detailed Collections via SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse window (File > 3D Warehouse > Get Models) or via your web browser. These are all filled with information together with IFC attributes and metadata. They will always try exporting to Tekla BIMsight or Trimble Connect – both accept IFC files.

One can browse 3D warehouse for those contents. Special care has been taken to add relevant tags. The collections are electronics, cranes, jibs and cranes.

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Ref: sketchupdate.blogspot.in

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Trimble initiates a free access to Sketchup Pro 2015 for all the K12 schools in Hawaii, USA

Trimble together with Maui Economic Development Board’s Women in Technology (WIT) is providing an exclusive opportunity for all K12 public, private and charter schools in Hawaii states of USA to access the most updated version of sketchup software alias SketchUp Pro software (2015) at free of cost.

The Women in Technology Project is a statewide proposal of the Maui Economic Development Board, partly supported by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Education, and Agriculture to improve the skills of the workforce.

With Sketchup Pro, the students will be able to start from the very beginning to import sketches, CAD plans, photos, aerial imagery and other accessible data into a project. By applying the The Pro’s superior modeling tools of Sketchup Pro, the students can easily generate 3D renderings and export them to other 3d modeling programs afterward.

With the combination of STEMworks™ and software like SketchUp Pro, students get the ability to use the identical industry standard tools recognized now-a-days by the architects, designers, builders and engineers. There will be significant divergence in the workflow of the students as they can apply their vital thinking and project based learning capabilities for the real world solution for 3d modeling communities.

With this alliance of MEDB-Trimble, the students from the eligible local schools can access the more dominant and feature-rich Pro version through a short, online survey form.

All the public, charter, and private educators of Hawaii can go through the following linkwww.surveymonkey.com/s/SketchUpPro2015 to finish the survey. A code will then be sent to set up the software.

For any further queries on the distribution procedures as well as getting more updates about STEMworks™, contact Isla Young at 875-2307 or email isla@medb.org.

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Live and Online Sketchup training

Good opportunities never repeat. Live and online SketchUp training is one of such opportunities that help the budding designers to learn more about SketchUp.

www. sketchuptrainer.com presents classes across the globe. Acclaimed designer Daniel Brown will be in the trainer seat to instruct the artists.

The venues are as follows:

• Boston
• New York City
• Philadelphia
• Washington, DC
• Chicago

The online and monthly training has been commenced already.

Place: New York City
Date: February 4-5

The first day will train you the basics to make a successful modeler. The second day will contained with CAD and Sketchup work flow and the photorealistic rendering happens.Detail

Place: Washington DC
Date: February 18 - 19

This is also short term training. The first day of the training will show the basics and second day will be filled with CAD, sketchup work flow and photorealistic rendering. Detail

Place: Chicago
Date: February 19-20

Within two days, this training will ensure a budding artists that how to become a modeler and extensive knowledge about CAD, sketchup work flow and photorealistic rendering.Detail

Place: Philadelphia
Date: March 4 – 5

This is also a short term learning programme. This is almost same as Washington DC, Chicago or Philadelphia. Detail

Place: New York City
Date: March 25 – 26

This is really luring. This short time training programme will give you lesson, become modeler and knowledge about CAD, workflow and rendering. Detail

Place: Washington, DC
Date: April 8 – 9

The first day will train you the basics to make a successful modeler. The second day will contained with CAD and Sketchup work flow and the photorealistic rendering happens.Detail

Place: Boston
Date: April 15 – 16

Within two days, this training will ensure a budding artists that how to become a modeler and extensive knowledge about CAD, sketchup work flow and photorealistic rendering.Detail

Ref: sketchuptrainer.com

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A position is vacant for draughting technician with sound sketchup knowledge

New Zealand based Silverwater Group, the leading builder, is seeking a capable Draughting Technician on permanent basis. The candidate has to undertake the following duties & responsibilities:

• To improve the company’s kitset instructions.
• Make design for new buildings and for clients.
• Generate cutting lists for production and 3D models of custom designed buildings to make sales & marketing better.

The deserving candidate should have sound knowledge in Trimble Sketchup, the free 3d modeling program as well as use it as the primary program for designing purpose. The added advantages will be given, if any candidates have knowledge with NZ Building Code and building permits.

Drawings and models have to be accomplished to a superior level of presentation & accuracy.

Necessary Skills:

• Diligent, competent and trustworthy.
• Outstanding knowledge with the Sketchup program.
• Need to be a computer savvy.
• Capable of working independently.

Good skills in resolving issues:

• High level of attention to detail.
• Should have exceptional written & oral communication skills.
• Time management skills.

The candidate has to work in tandem with the sales manager and production teams. The location of the job will be in either Timaru or Silverdale office.

Apply Online

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How Sketchup was used for creating the design of a wooden Bicycle

Watch the following exclusive video through which Chris Connor of Connor Wood Bicycles briefly explains how he utilizes sketchup for quickly develops some ideas for outlining the frames of his wooden bicycle. Each piece of the bicycle is separately hand-sculpted.

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10 Ideas for the Ideal 3D Modeling Software

What is the most perfect 3D modeling application especially for 3D printing? Time is one of major aspect here. Normally it takes 2000 hours to get in the CAD/3D modeling. It takes a considerable amount of time – especially for consumers, patron and clients.

This problem has to be solved for the sake of CAD/3D modeling’s long lasting success rate. The business has to be developed here.

It is often seen that there are only one 3D modeler on the whole company and the machine goes unused if the man or woman would busy.

If everybody in the workplace can create simple things then the machine will be in work 24x7. The 3D printing is similar like Gutenberg press, but nobody can read or write.

We require having easy 3D modeling activities preserving millions of people to create new models. This will develop the market significantly.

Good steps have been taken so far over the year. Now the experts can use MineCraft for 3D printing like 3DTin and TinkerCAD.

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Joris Peel writes in www.inside3dp.com that he has trained kids given a link to 3Dtin and 80% of the group would be capable to create a 3D printable model. This would be extremely dissimilar with customary CAD packages.

3D Systems Cubify Invent and Cubify Design are awesome tools. The preponderance energetic party in making simple 3D modeling tools is Autodesk. Their 123D suite contains 10 tools to be able to use to make. My favorite is Meshmixer which is a great push/pull tool for creation.

Below are ten thoughts for the ideal 3D modeling tool that would thrust 3D printing forward:-

• TinkerMixer: TinkerCAD’s building up of blocks and pushing and pulling models to create them more organic.

• SolidDots + smooth surfaces: - SolidDots is an iPhone

• Creepy Facebook App: People can take help from Facebook. Facebook app that inquires people about what design items, shapes, products, brands, and paintings can be possible.

• DarkerDepth: People sometime face problem transferring 2D to 3D. 3D shape is a complex shape to be formed. But it can be drawn. You can use Ipad drawing app wherever needed in darker the color used. This would let a person sketch in 3D.

• Kinect Draw: Xbox Kinect for scanning is necessary.

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• Wii Controller Light Sabre 3D modeling: What if you could wield you’ll Wii controller sort of a lightweight saber and in a funny approach, with the accompanying noises at an object and creates?

• Lego Virtual Designer: Lego set already has tools to allow you to style on-line. What if through associate degree app you'll just about build things out of Lego set bricks then either constructs them in real or 3D print the output.

• Beautiful Modeler: It brings out the virtual clay in the iPAD.

• ClayService: It is a 3D scanning activities by which clay model can be made.

• D Scanner for iPhone:- Many people area unit engaged on this however if a reliable 3D scanner for the iPhone were to emerge that makes good STLs then any quite input or object may well be 3D written. What does one think? What ideas does one have for a perfect 3D modeling app.

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Reference : www.inside3dp.co, influenced by the article of Writer Joris Peels

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Learn how to use sketchup & google earth for conceptual site modeling

Digital Tutors offers a series of useful tutorials for sketchup & 3d modeling professionals to learn how sketchup and google earth can be used for conceptual site modeling to streamline the architectural design process.

These sketchup tutorials will focus on the application of SketchUp Pro and Google Earth for instantly generating a site model for envisaging a conceptual mass inside the framework of its overall site and in the design site.

The course will start with exploring various basic tools to be used in the design process. From there, focus will be given on how to export the preliminary massing concept into Google Earth to uncover a few essential measurements as well as evaluate its impact on the adjoining site.

Afterward, there will be a focus on SketchUp Pro as well as how to apply the Sandbox tools to sculpt and paint the terrain in the site model rapidly. Also learn how to deal with components from your preferred library and in the 3D warehouse to put in scale and a sense of life to any model.

After the design site has been modeled, gain knowledge of generating views, scenes and simple animations useful for communicating your concept.

After completing this SketchUp training course one will be fully aware of making a site model, producing scenes and even walkthroughs. Besides, one will be trained on how to facilitate the communication of your design intent through google earth.

Access the complete video based tutorial

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