Sketch-Cuisine for creating design sketches of kitchen, bathroom & closets

The renowned sketchup tutor and extension developer Mario C has developed Sketch-Cuisine, the newest sketchup extension to create kitchen, bathrooms and closets instantly.

The extension is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

With this extension, the users get the ability to make a quick start on all kitchen, bathroom and closet project. Prior to generate the shop drawings, this extension will help the users to start all the projects with perfect design sketches.

The cabinets are easily customizable with the native tools of SketchUp.

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse sketchucation.com

For online demonstration, go through the following video tutorial.

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"Breaking SketchUp model into Parts for 3D Printing"

SketchUp specialists Aidan Chopra has discussed a process which is simple enough for users who want to break their SketchUp models into parts for 3D printing.

While doing 3D printing in SktechUp, users need to run into the need to spilt the model into parts. There are though some ideas are big to fit into the 3D printer’s build volume but other ideas want to be 3D printed in a rainbow of colored plastic or sometimes needs to be split to make it easy to print.

Almost everything can designed in 3D with SketchUp and who have splattered in 3D drawing or are interested to learn the basics of design, SketchUp for Dummies has made it faster and easier to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool that bring life into the design ideas. Users can get guidance here from creating a basic 3D model to showcase their work through 3D print or animation, literally everything in SketchUp that can help in anywhere like from redesigning the house to mocking up the future great invention. More than that, SketchUp’s vast usability has gotten very wide success as a tool that even non-designers can also make basic drawings; there are also many expert tips from former SketchUp product director Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls that help to draw and access SketchUp.

Aidan has described a process which will help users to cut the SketchUp model in the right time and right way.

Place to cut the SketchUp model:

while subdividing a SketchUp model into printable parts, always users need to find the right place to start and to think what to do with the seams. Like if users want to go to sand, paint and finish the model then can do it and cut at any place but sanding and finishing is a huge work to do while it will become much easier if anyone make cuts and seams look like they are international parts of model. Another good place to hide a cut is at a change in elevation, curvature or color; if users place a seam where the surface of a part is interrupted already, it will not be noticeable enough.

It is a good idea to pick something around us that is made of plastic and find the seams where the parts can combine together, and if that type of seam can be imitated people will notice and accept it faster. It will be seen as a realistic one and people will think that the 3D printed part came from a factory. If the constructions are large, then the only option may be to establish a grid and cut into build-volume-size blocks.

Process to cut the SketchUp model:

• elect the group and make a new group around it where the original one will become a subgroup.
• Then work inside the new group, create geometry in the shape of the cut.
• After that, make new geometry into its own group.
• Select Cutter Object> choose Edit> Intersect Faces with Context.
• Inside each group, use Explode to stick the intersection lines, cutting object and base object.
• Move back out to the master group and make copies.
• In each copy, open the group for editing and erase unnecessary parts.
• Run CleanUp3 on the new parts and use Solid Inspector2 to check accidental holes.
• Place the parts back together as lines should be

Source: wwww.dummies.com

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"Turning 2D Typography or a Survey to 3D Terrain in SketchUp"

SketchUp professionals have found many ways to make the work of SketchUp users easy and faster, turning a 2D topography into 3D terrain has become easier with some simple steps.

Creating a SketchUp Topography or topographic map can be a huge painful work, but here we are going to discuss the process of creating topography in SketchUp through some simple steps.

• At first users need to import Google map into the project but before that the terrain must be toggled on.
• Then users have to create a grouped rectangle that covers the total site, next they can copy this rectangle up as per required increment or can copy all the rectangles and lastly group them together.
• Next users need to move their rectangles off to the side or can hide them so that the imported Google earth terrain can be seen. Then unlock and explode the imported terrain.
• After that, the grouped rectangles need to move over the terrain again or can unhide it.
• Users have to press Ctrl+A to select all, R-click on one of the groups; then they have to scroll down to Intersect Faces and Select with Selection.
• Hide or delete the slicing planes and the topographic map will be created.

From a survey to 3D people are facing a little difficulty while transforming a 2D topography into a 3D terrain in SketchUp, this article is just going to focus on the problem and describing few steps to clear this matter.

Importing the Image:

• File > Import is the first step is to import the image that Users want to convert from a 2D survey to 3D terrain or topography. The following steps are: 1) select “import” from the file tab from the lower right dropdown menu and then select “supported image type”. 2) Image should be in a graphic scale so can it can be scald in SketchUp properly, at last select the right image and click “import”.
• Next the image should be placed and roughly scaled to the correct size, for accurate scale select the tape measure tool and click from one end of the graphic scale to the other.
• Next a message will appear on the screen asking if users want to resize the model with a pop-up named “ yes” it must be clicked before begin modeling of anything.
• After that, users can change the view from perspective by navigating to “camera” and selecting “parallel projection”. Then select the follow path- camera > standard view > top which will give a top view to trace easily.

Tracing Topography:

• The first step starts with Tracing the perimeter property line and then tracing the topographic contour lines within the boundary with the help of Line tool.
• Next delete faces using following path: click on “select” > “all with same material” and hit delete.

Converting Survey to 3D model:

press ‘ctrl’, click and drag mouse to select the property boundary lines, now click on “edit” and click make group option. Now move the 2D contour lines by selecting one and pressing the “up arrow” and type the needed height. Next highlight all the lines and deselect the property line from the following path: draw > sandbox > and select from contours. Now draw some additional contour lines beyond the property line replicating other contours, next select each line and change the height to correspond with the decreasing increments of the original contour lines and follow the steps again.

Source: 

www.designerhacks.com/

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DinaBox (1.9.8.7.9) for SketchUp is available in extension warehouse

DinaBox is a useful extension for sketchup that contains a wide array of furniture libraries for sketcup.

This sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

Dinabox is a complete platform that simplifies the process for developing production-related interior designs inside the Trimble SketchUp platform.

There is an online library having various dynamic components, as well as different finishes and ready-made frontal models.

By applying DinaBox cloud server connectivity, your creations can be saved online, facilitating all the registered users to get access to your license, from anyplace in the globe. It offers the automatically configured standards for architects, shopkeepers, designers and partner designers!

Besides, one can get it’s own galleries of colors and textures as well as perform various tasks like adding styles modulated, customizing front models and more etc.

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse sketchucation.com

To get online demonstration of the plugin, go through the following video tutorial.

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"It is easier to discover New Favorite models in SketchUp"

Google SketchUp team has been improving their tools and models continuously, at first they have released the new updated SketchUp Pro 2019 and then they released new 3D Warehouse.

The whole SketchUp team has been discussing to bring SketchUp lovers the newest development in the life of their products; they proudly announced a brand new way to purchase all the SketchUp products which is the SketchUp Subscription. They have offered the best value so that users and SketchUp lovers can easily choose the perfect combination of SketchUp for every project, workflow or creative concept.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

But there are millions of models and 17 languages in the 3D warehouse of SketchUp Pro 2019 tht makes it difficult to find the right one that can be used on the tools. SketchUp users have been facing this difficulty from a very long time so the SketchUp team has done something to fix this problem as they don’t want that their customers may miss their perfect model and they want to help in discovering som hidden gems in SketchUp 3D Warehouse. SketchUp team proudly announced the release of Categories on 3D Warehouse; these categories will help the users to easily search and browse in the world’s largest 3D model library. Here are the most improved features and the categories discussed that will help to figure the things out:

• Better browsing: The new updated 3D Warehouse has come with better browsing experience to do the heavy lifting through the following steps- 1. At first users need to start with an “empty search”, 2. Then they have to select a Category, 3. There, they can watch the search results update and 4. Can get inspired.
• Refining the search: The quality of search based as per the text of the author that uses to describe their model and if description doesn’t match with model the Selecting a Category will help to filter out the models that aren’t relate to the description.
• Sorting by Subcategory: There will be millions of categories from which users can get their own models but if they want any specific one the Subcategory option will help to select the exact model.
• Filtering by real-world products: Users can now search their needed buyable 3D models from the Manufacturer Model filter option where they can easily find and buy models.
• Categorizing the models: Categorization option in SketchUp 3D Warehouse has just begun which can be made better with the help of users like users can themselves categorize models as their own need. Actually categories make it easier to find right great content on 3D Warehouse, even there is no title or description or it can be in different language

Source: www.blog.sketchup.com

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Demo of fracture plugin for sketchup

Fracture for SketchUp facilitates the users to break any solids into several pieces and produce further collection of fractured solids.

This sketchup plugin is developed by renowned plugin developer TIG.

It is also known as a sketchup entity fragmentation plugin that supports custom fragmentation levels (up to level 10) and size ratios and demonstrates the blast effect. The plugin is very useful for physics simulations.

The plugin also provides good result while painting a scene. It is also very effective for shattering objects. But there is a limitation that the object should be a solid group.

In the plugin, there are various options like iterations, size, X variance, Y variance, Z variance, jitter and form. The form section is sub-categorized as stacked, exploded and scaled.

Click on the following link to download the plugin sketchucation.com

To get online demonstration of the plugin, go through the following video tutorial.



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"New features about SketchUp Pro 2019"

The whole team of SketchUp Headquarters has proudly announced the newest SketchUp subscription of SketchUp Pro 2019 where users can get all the favorite products to work.

According to the developers, SketchUp Free is the simplest, consistent 3D modeling till date that will help the user to access, learn and share the models with others easily. It has been more than a year at SKetchUp Headquarters with huge amounts of coffee consumed and after a long wait, SketchUp HQ finally released SketchUp Pro’s new version SketchUp Pro 2019.

The whole SketchUp team has been discussing to bring SketchUp lovers the newest development in the life of their products; they proudly announced a brand new way to purchase all the SketchUp products which is the SketchUp Subscription. They have offered the best value so that users and SketchUp lovers can easily choose the perfect combination of SketchUp for every project, workflow or creative concept.

This is a real opportunity to challenge the team itself to earn users’ business every single day by continuously improving the tools which are needed and loved whole year. The new ways to buy SketchUp is on their website; still the team has been working to bring subscriptions for years as according them it is the best way to deliver more value to the users in a single package. Their shift in new business will make it easier for new users to buy SketchUp and for current users; even more SketchUp products can be easily available. Besides that, this shift in business will help to keep them accountable to run business by releasing new features as often as possible; this is a challenge for them which they have taken proudly and moved process from an annual update cycle to a continuous cycle.

The new version has become faster and more powerful than ever before with bug fixes, system improvements and some wonderful new features. Here are a few of the highlighted features:

SketchUp Pro 2019 for Desktop: Just need to Sign in and modeling will be started; everything in SketchUp-iverse is now combined together with one single account to make modeling, viewing, account management and many more. In SketchUp Pro & LayOut 2019, Layers now come with dashed lines which can allow simplifying drawings with effective drawing communications. While the Tape Measure tool can help to see measurement info in the modeling.

LayOut: It will help the users to know which files are ready to open; in both SketchUp and LayOut there are many improvements t the .dwg import and export feature. There is also the ability to import and export with materials for better BIM interoperability and workflows. An “ Export for SketchUp” feature between SketchUp and LayOut feature .dwg exporter will send all LayOut entitles along with any SketchUp viewport data to the model space.

Trimble Connect: It will welcome users to a new world of efficient workflows and cloud collaboration; their 3D modeling sharing and document management tool is fully focused on projects related to building design and construction.

SketchUp for Web: The team has added a ‘live preview’ for image exports; after signing in to SketchUp for Web when users open a model and go to File>Export>PNG, it will recompose model as taking a snapshot at the desired image ratio.

SketchUp Viewer for AR/VR: SketchUp Viewer is now also available on more VR headsets than earlier, just need to access to every single one with a SketchUp Pro subscription. Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality, VIVE and Hololens are all running SketchUp Viewer.

SketchUp Campus: SketchUp’s official learning hub is known as SketchUp Campus where SketchUp-built courses all created by their in-house team that make SketchUp convenient abd simple in 104 languages.

3D Warehouse: The 3D Warehouse has millions of models and 17 languages from where it is difficult to find the right thing on time so new version has come with categories which boasts better browsing, search refinement, subcategories and filtering by real products etc. that helps fast searching in less time.

Sefaira: Those who are working in a firm that has a focus on performance-based design, SketchUp’s Safaira is like a subscription through SketchUp Radio.

Source: www.blog.sketchup.com

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www.sketchup4architect.com

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"Trimble Visiting Professionals Program"

Trimble’s Visiting Professionals Program held every single year; this program shows the way of changing the sectors through the software and other industries.

Trimble Inc. is a Sunnyvale, California based developer of GNSS or Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, laser rangefinders, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), inertial navigation systems and software processing tools. This company was established in November 1978 by Charles Trimble and his two other partners from Hewlett Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California.

The company’s procurements include Pocket Mobile AB, @Road, Cenega Solutions Inc. Datacom Software Research, Spectra Precision Group, Tripod Data Systems, Advanced Public Safety Inc., ALK Technologies, Apache Technologies, Acutest Engineering Solutions Ltd, Applanix, Géo-3D, INPHO, Gatewing, Gehru Technologies, Meridian Systems, NTech Industries, Pacific Crest, Quantm, Accubid Systems, SketchUp, QuichpPen International, SECO Mfg. Co., Inc., Visual Statement, Stabiplan, XYZ Solutions, Inc., Tekla, ThingMagic, Spime Inc., Punch Telematix NV, TMW Sysytems and TopoSys Gmbh.

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp is owned by Trimble Inc., a mapping, surveying and navigation company. It is mainly a 3D modeling computer program that is used for a broad range of drawing applications used by architects, interior designer, landscape architects, civil and mechanical engineers, film and video game designers also. It SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth. As SketchUp users are most of architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers etc.

who works hard to give a nice shape to our physical world, they need great tools to do the work. SketchUp is in mission to bring their best to produce some great tools for drawing as drawing is the key thing of the SketchUp users. They draw to search ideas, to identify the things and to show other people their work that they do with love and love to build; SketchUp understands it truly and trying to improve their software day by day. SketchUp is a worth useful software for its ease of use, it can be downloaded or installed o computer and right after that user can work on it. Though SketchUp can easily handle but still there are some sides where people will find some difficulties and lots of solve also are there like YouTube tutorials upon SketchUp or visiting SketchUp website or search Google etc. But people will get confused to have lots of information from different places upon one thing so there should a proper place or website where all the answers can be found.

Trimble’s Visiting Professionals Program or VPP fetches design and construction industry leaders together who are suing SketchUp and other Trimble solutions in the university classrooms to learn and discover the impact of technology on their craft, the way the solutions allow them to work faster, smarter and with fewer boundaries. With every single visit, industry experts discuss with students through workshops, lectures, tech demos and live training; they also share their experience, skillsets and understandings to inspire the future generation of design and engineering professionals.

Both the students and faculty mostly found the speeches and tutorials on technology in landscape architecture fully informative and critically important. Not only designers and construction professionals, there are huge people from various professions like from architects to Hollywood set designers, historians to engineers come from a variety of industries bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon. The VPP offers them an inner view about current trends which are affecting trades and allow students to survey the skill sets that employers are looking for.

In the last year, VPP professionals visited a huge range of universities, presenting a wide range of departments like Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Construction Management, Industrial Design, Building Science and Stage/Set design. Students were shown some continuous work of trends like VR and laser scanning are changing the way of visualizing, also how software like SketchUp and Tekla are changing the building environment.

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Step by step guidelines for modeling club chair in sketchup

This exclusive sketchup video tutorial will present the detail guideline for performing club chair modeling in sketchup.

For modeling purpose, different types of sketchup plugins like Jhs Powerbar, Vertex Tools, Joint Push Pull and Subd are utilized.

Given below, the details about these sketchup plugins :-

Jhs Powerbar — It allows the users to produce an array along a path. A series of components can be provided instantly in a predefined arrangement.

Click on the following link to download the plugin sketchucation.com/pluginstore

Vertex Tools — It is a robust vertex editor for sketchup to take the lead over each vertex. Soft selections are suitable for organic modelling and the manipulator gizmo allows keeping control while modeling.

Click on the following link to download the plugin (evilsoftwareempire.com/vertex-tools)

Joint Push Pull — A script devoted to Face extrusion, with wide array of Tools. The users will be able to push pull numerous and curved surfaces inside SketchUp. Besides, a tool like Vector Push Pull facilitates the users to extrude the footprint of a curved surface into a flat shape.

Click on the following link to download the plugin extensions.sketchup.com

SubD — SUbD refers to a parametric subdivision extension for SketchUp that is best suited for quad-based workflows. Apply free tools like QuadFace Tools to generate meshes with quad-topology and subdivide and crease with SUbD.

Click on the following link to download the plugin. extensions.sketchup.com

Watch the following video tutorial to learn the process for chair modeling.

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LUMINGS (1.2.182c) for Sketchup

Lumings belong to a video projection design tool that facilitates video mapping study. Besides, it can be used for the design and 3D modeling application in Sketchup. Lumings is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

It’s main objective is to simulate in the most naturalistic for the technical rendering side of video mapping.

Lumings expansively incorporates the technical characteristics of all prevailing professional projectors. Lumings obtains, verifies and measure the required data to properly for any set of projectors with the following information:

1. The illuminance
2. Positioning
3. Pixel size
4. Energy consumption
5. The impact of shadows
6. Pixel distortion
7. Heat release ...
8. ... and other features.

With Lumings, it is possible to design complete scenography with correct and models and information before entering the site.

The users can avail a subscription-free version of Lumings. It disallows “manipulation” of the project, revision of the layout of the projectors, but provides the same visualization possibilities as the complete plug-in.

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

A free version for academic entities is also accessible on request.

To get more details, send mail to contact@lumings.io



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Vertex Tools (1.3.2) for sketchup

Vertex Tools (1.3.2) is another useful sketchup extension developed by Thomas Thomassen. It is well suited with SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

It is a strong vertex editor for sketchup that can take the lead over every vertex. Soft selections are inevitable for organic modeling and the manipulator gizmo facilitates you to keep control at the time of modeling.

A 30 days trial version is available for vertex tools (registration required). Once the trial period is completed, a license should be brought to continue to use it.

SketchUcation Premium Subscribers will obtain 20% discount if they purchase via SketchUcation Store.

Menus & Toolbars:

Tools » Vertex Tools
Context Menu » Vertex Tools
Toolbars » Vertex Tools

Requirements:

SketchUp 6* or newer
Windows XP or newer (Internet Explorer 7 or newer)
OSX 10.4 or newer. (Intel or PPC)

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

Watch online demonstration of this sketchup extension.



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"Making a Candle Holder with Patterned Panel and Bending Extension in SketchUp”

Alex Schreyer is a SketchUp specialist who has focused his works on wood working and some bending objects; he created a beautiful Candle Holder to decorate home.

Decorating home is one of the most important and beautiful work as home represents our class, passion of beauty and creates a good impression on others. But decorating home in a right way is a difficult thing as a proper planning is needed to make a home beautiful; people love designed or patterned things to decorate their house. Alex Schreyer has made a beautiful candle holder by using SketchUp; the making is described here.

Alex Schreyer is Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Building and Construction Technology Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. He has been teaching courses in Building Information Modeling and Computer-Aided Design, Building materials and construction methods, wood properties as well as a culmination graduate structural design class in the M.Arch. architecture program. He mainly focuses on the behavior of wood-based structural systems with a particular interest in innovative connection systems for wooden structures. Basically he is expert in the subjects like Teaching and Curriculum Department; AEC/CAD and BIM Modeling and Architectural Visualization; Computational Digital Design; Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing; Digital and Web-Based Tools in Architecture; Construction and Planning; Building Materials and Construction Methods; North American and European Structural Design Standards and Building Practices; Design of Wood Structures; Wood-Concrete Composite Structural Systems; Connections in Heavy-Timber Structural Systems; Optimization Approaches in Design; Web Development and Social-Media Outreach; Software-and Script-Development; Graphic Design.

He is also the author of “Architectural Design with SketchUp” which provides a beginner-to-intermediate-level summary of many techniques to know more about the work with the popular 3D modeling application Trimble SketchUp. He is also the co-author on the extensively-used reference and textbook “Fundamentals of Residential Construction”, which provides a total knowledge of the materials and method used in single and multi-family residential construction.

Alex uses the Patterned panel exercise to make the basic geometry but it can be replaced the curved wave pattern with another beautiful pattern or can have the cutout pattern generated on colors in an image to create a logo or landscape etc. He wanted to make a candle holder in a wonderful shape which needed to have a curved surface which has two approaches: 1) need to make a curved surface and placed the geometry onto it by adding and subtracting it; 2) creating the panels flat and then curving them. To create the first surface Alex created the entire panel at first and bended it with Thomthom’s TrueBend extension; besides it there are other extensions to do this task are Chris Fullmer’s CLF Shape Bender, Flowify or the bending tool in the FredoScale toolset.

As this pattern consisted of repeating panels, it was very easy to break it up into quarters and just need to combine those; after extruding the pattern the TrueBend tool is used to enter the exact angle. Then he copied and mirrored the panel a few times and combines the whole thing on a flat base. Here each panel was a solid and combined them using SketchUp’s Solid Tools that made a 3D-printable solid model.

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www.sketchupfordesign.com/



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"Review of British Institute of Interior Design Accreditation”

The BIID CPD has approved two courses of SketchUp Hub for the interior designers which can be applied by the SketchUp Hub users.

About SketchUp Hub: Anita Brown has established the SktchUp Hub 3D Visualization and here are a range of courses for helping Interior Designers and students, creating exact floor plans and elevations with a professional touch for the extreme benefit of their business or studies. The SketchUp Hub’s total vision is to authorize Interior Designers especially women providing right technical abilities for making exact drawings and creative illusions at professional standards. Besides that, SketchUp Hub creates an available, engaged and fully supported learning environment for presenting the development of STEM related skills to a female driven industry.

In the month of January this year, the Sketchup Hub had announced their first ever 5 Day Challenge where they had challenged designers and SketchUp users to create an awesome kitchen design with the help of Free SketchUp download. The event was a big successful one and many people showed their wonderful skills where the best got the winner prize and made a place for his/her design. After that the SketchUp Hub has focused on designing the Interior sides of houses with elevations, these elevations are actually some kind of visual tools that allow Interior Designers to transfer perfectly their vision for a space, specifically they can work on the design of a wall and other items within nearly view.

Confirmation on any project by highly observed and respected institution is important for any kind of business especially one which is still trying to set up itself as an important one. That’s why the SketchUp hub is very happy, thrilled and a little bit emotional also very proud to announce that they have been given CPD accreditation by the British Institute of Interior Design for two online SketchUp courses of the SketchUp Hub. The team is very proud of this important that they are announcing the news in a magnitude way, here is a little review of this announcement.

About British Institute of Interior Design:

The British Institute of Interior Design or BIID is the superior professional organization for interior designers in the United Kingdom. Their growing national and international membership represents both the commercial and residential sectors, like from heritage to cutting edge; besides that, there are requirements which assess training, experience and professionalism. This requirement needs the members to continue their professional development throughout their career to ensure their continued expertise in design process, practice and regulatory matters. The BIID is the only professional organization for interior designers which has been given the prestigious and rare accolade of Institute status by the Minister of State.

Mission of the British Institute of Interior Design:

The BIID is committed to encourage and support creativity and ability in the field of interior design through assisting best practice, practical professional support, development opportunities and education. The reason of choosing SketchUp Hub as a platform is that the SketchUp Hub places much significance on standards and professionalism when it comes to the making of plans and drawings using CAD software like SketchUp which can perfectly fit into the overall of the British Institute of Interior Design and the SketchUp Hub is much honored to have given CPD approval.

About CPD:

CPD is the abbreviation of the institute named Continuing Professional Development and it ensures that professionals should maintain and update their skills and knowledge after qualification. British Institute of Interior Design members must engage and record 20 hours of CPD activities annually to continue their membership. According to a member of the BIID, a status to CPD is a help as a form of ensure that BIID members are keeping up to date with the latest developments is a continuously changing industry. This industry gives an opportunity to update personal and professional skills and also a platform to engage with experts in the industry and a forum for the exchange ideas and best practice.

There are two different forms of CPD activities:

1. Structured and
2. Unstructured; and all BIID members engage at least 10 hours Structured CPD activity and the SketchUp Hub is proudly announced that their CPD activities for BIID are mentioned as for their online nature and clear learning objectives. The BIID Knowledge Hub is an online platform that is hosting a wide range of educational content, including the SketchUp Hub’s CPD courses.

Source
www.sketchuphub.com/british-institute-of-interior-design



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"Review of Eneroth Tool Memory”

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp is mainly a3D modeling computer program that is used for a broad range of drawing applications used by architects, interior designer, landscape architects, civil and mechanical engineers, film and video game designers also. SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth. As SketchUp users are most of architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers etc. who works hard to give a nice shape to our physical world, they need great tools to do the work. SketchUp is in mission to bring their best to produce some great tools for drawing as drawing is the key thing of the SketchUp users. They draw to search ideas, to identify the things and to show other people their work that they do with love and love to build; SketchUp understands it truly and trying to improve their software day by day.

About Extension Warehouse:

It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

Eneroth Tool Memory:

It is like a Cycle that like used tools with a new twist. Cycles open windows with the keys Alt+Tab in windows, this plugin can be used to cycle recently in SketchUp. Eneroth Tool Memory plugin can speed up highly and simplifies the modeling process; this plugin is primarily aimed at skilled professional users who look for ways to improve their work. Moreover that, this plugin is as most useful for tools that users use too little to have a shortcut for but vey regular after using them.

Setup of Eneroth Tool Memory:

After installing the plugin, it will ask for some manual setup to work which cannot be done in automated way but can be done in just few minutes:

• Users at first need to open the Shortcut settings from the follow path: Window> Preferences> Shortcuts.
• Then users have to organize a shortcut which is Ctlr+Spacebar and follow the path: Extensions> Eneroth Tool Memory> Cycle Tools. Users can also choose a modifier key other than Ctrl in Windows or Command in Mac, then the following path will be: Extensions> Eneroth Tool Memory> Set Modifier Key and select that key.
• Besides the above two options, users can also set up a concur shortcut including Shift; just as Ctrl+Shift+Space, Extensions> Eneroth Tool Memory> Cycle Tools Backwards.

Exclude tools: The version 1.1.0 of Eneroth Tool Memory is the stratpoint of every user that can specify tools to exclude and it can be useful when users don’t want the tool stack to get filled with the tools which already have shortcuts. So they need to create a text file in the plugin’s directory, and then have to write the tool names which must be similar in the tool stack and separated by line breaks.

Users should keep in mind that Certain tools are not added to the tool stack; like the Texture Positioning Tool must be started from the context menu of a face. This tool can be activated without a reference to a face but it wouldn’t be useful and it will not act as a tool. While Camera tools such as Orbit and Zoom Window are not added by default as they can be added optionally though there will be risk in the stack.

It is a wonderful tool for developers as it can create and activate new tool objects than re-using existing objects. Tools whose constructors need parameters will not be reminded by this plugin as these tools are actually designed to be initialized in a certain way. So users make sure that the class of their tools can be supported by Eneroth Tool Memory and initialized without arguments.

Source

www.extensions.sketchup.com

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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SENTIO VR: Sketchup to Virtual Reality (VR) walkthroughs

SENTIO VR: Sketchup to Virtual Reality (VR) walkthroughs is the newest sketchup extension and its purpose is to provide your sketchup models in Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR.

It is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

With some simple clicks of the mouse, it is possible to make 360 tours or 3D walkthroughs and involve your clients within your designs. No coding or installations are necessary. SENTIO VR streamlines the method to upload your 3D content, make walkthroughs and provide in VR devices like Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR.

It contains the following exclusive features :-

• Directly upload your Sketchup models to your account through plugin
• Quickly observe your 3D models in Virtual Reality: Oculus GO & Samsung Gear VR
• Control and present your content from any remote location, anytime with the help of your unique access code

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

Go through the following video for online demonstration.

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Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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"Custom Toolbar Button Images in LayOut”

SketchUp users can get a nice new button icon in the toolbar and can add a Custom toolbar button images in LayOut which is though an easy thing but need extra care to do it.

Matt Donley: Matt Donley has been working with SketchUp since 2007; at first he started working as a carpenter and started using SketchUp to model things around his house. After that he started to model his customer’s homes for helping them to visualize their construction projects. He also wrote the “SketchUp to LayOut” book as a help for other construction professionals as a learn how to make construction documents using SketchUp and LayOut. He shares his SketchUp knowledge online with SketchUp users where he teaches how to create tutorials and videos for helping people to learn how to work with 3D model online.

In this article Matt has described about a new idea where he will show how to create own custom buttons for any LayOut command as well as the way of creating a custom button image for users to use the super-secret-hidden-built-in button image editor. Matt always has thought that the default toolbar in LayOut should include a button to insert a SketchUp model into LayOut file; though it is a common thing to do but it is a little weird to have to go to File > Insert every time. Though, this option is a Windows-only option as it has a huge range of toolbar.

How to add Custom LayOut Commands:

• It is a simple way to add new buttons to any LayOut toolbars and here are the steps to do:
• At first users have to do Right-click in the toolbar area and then select the Customize option.
• Next they need to select the Command tab in the Customize window.
• Then users can find the commands that they want to add to their toolbar and then drag it directly into the toolbar.

As all the commands don’t have icon images related to them, so there will appear an ugly text button for these commands.

Using the LayOut Button Image Editor:

It is not known o all that, when users have the customize window active, all of the toolbar buttons become editable; then users can drag them to various positions and can pull them out of the toolbar to remove them. Users can also click right button on them to get a context-menu; this context-menu will give the users some magical capability to change the look of button. Though the image can be downloaded from a pop-up appears in below the page; here are the ways to add an image to the button:

In the Image Editor, users can use the drawing tools to create their own icon or can import an icon that they have created in an external image editor. To import, click on File menu and go to Open option. If users don’t want to go through the image editor window they can have the image copied on the clipboard and can select Paste Button Image directly from the button context menu.

Source
www.mastersketchup.com/custom-layout-button



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Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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"Drawing Basics and Concepts of SketchUp”

SketchUp users always find some easy ways to work in 3D modeling and drawing in SketchUp is the most important thing that needs to be done through some easy concepts.

Drawing a model in 3D platform is bit different from drawing an image in 2D; in SketchUp users have to draw on 3D platform with tools but this 3D drawing is not familiar to everyone so here is a little introduction about all the drawing basics and concepts.

This article is a kind of description where people can learn about a few ways to create edges and faces which are basic things of any SketchUp model.

Table of Contents:

• Drawing a line: The Line tool is used to draw edges from the structural foundation of all models. At first the Line tool is selected and then the cursor changes into Pencil; next the click on an area to draw a line. Then the cursor is clicked to set the line’s end point which can be also the starting point of another line. Now Esc key is pressed after finished drawing lines and after setting the end point, users should press Ctrl + Z (Microsoft Windows) or Command + Z (macOS) to undo the line. If anyone wants to make the line a precise length he/she needs to type a value and press Enter (Microsoft Windows) or Return (macOS); this process can be repeated until drawing a next line.
• Creating a face: When several lines are joined into a shape it will form a face which may be plain but very important one; every face is the other half of the duo which enables SketchUp model ever made to exist. Shape tools like Rectangle, Circle and Polygon create faces.
• Dividing faces: When a line or a curve is drawn on an existing face, the face become split. It is an important thing as after splitting a face, users can use the Push/Pull tool to push o pull one part of the face while the other part stays put.
• Opening 3D shapes by removing edges and faces: Users can erase an edge or face to make an opening in a shape. To see how erasing an edge effects the model, users need to select the Eraser tool at first in the toolbar or need to press the E key. Clicking an edge erases it and any face that touched the edger; but context-clicking a face and choosing Erase will delete only the face.
• Healing deleted faces: If a face is deleted accidentally there are two ways to bring it back: 1) if any other changes isn’t made by user and wants to keep the previous one, he needs to select Edit > Undo from the menu bar or press the keyboard shortcut for Undo. 2) Users can redraw the line that caused the faces to hide and SketchUp will re-create the faces.
• Finding and locking an inference: SketchUp has an inference engine to help in working with 3D space and this engine will help to find geometric relationship between lines.
• Inference types: SketchUp has several types of inferences like point, linear and shape; SketchUp often mixes them together to form a complex inference. Components and dynamic components have their own inference types.
• Locking inferences with a keyboard: It will help to draw along the direction according to the user and it can maintain one drawing direction while users reference geometry from another part of the model.
• Ensuring edges are aligned to axes: It is helpful to change the cursor to the axes colors or if it is need to check the alignment of existing geometry, the edges will be changed to the axes colors.

Source
www.help.sketchup.com/en/sketchup



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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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