InstantWall - SketchUp Extension Review

InstantWall is an extension for the famous 3D computer aided design and modeling software, Trimble SketchUp. Today, we will talk about how InstantWall can help designers and modelers.

InstantWall is basically a wall creation tool for SketchUp. You can create various kinds of walls instantly, for example, site walls, columns, retaining walls, pilasters, curbs, etc.

Site walls, retaining walls, pilasters, curbs, you can build anything with InstaWall. Walls may be vertical, battered, sloped, stepped or rough stone. Many options exist for wall cap and pilaster cap profiles. There are also options for custom user defined wall cap profiles. Interestingly, when you build these, textures (or materials) will automatically align with the wall and wall cap.

But that's not all! Balustrades,railings and fencing may be added on top of walls or between pilasters. Many options for picket and baluster profiles including user defined shapes.

You can also build Colonnades with InstantWall. Several options are given for column types including custom user defined. Needless to mention, you have the option to to follow terrain elevation as well.

Whereas, you have the option to also make arcades. Arcades can be modeled as flat, pointed, segmented, round or elliptical. Optional voussoirs may be raised, flush, or recessed. Just as with walls, textures will automatically align with voussoirs.

The InstantWall plugin for SketchUp works with Metric or Feet / Inches systems, so you can work with it from any localization.

With 153 preset styles organized into libraries, you will never run out of ways to customize your model with InstantWall. Not only those, but you can also create custom styles as well!

The plugin features an interactive menu: you got icons, images, and text for your convenience.

Another salient point for this extension for SketchUp is that with InstantWall, all walls can be modeled as 3d, 2d face me or 2d hidden lines. That flexibility will surely help you achieve a new level of smooth workflow.

The developer of this SketchUp extension, Chuck Vali, keeps it regularly updated. The latest version of InstantWall is 3.2, which was released only last March. Chuck is a licensed architect in Hawaii and California. Most of his work experience is in the hospitality industry, resorts and hotels.



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SketchUp Ruby Code Editor

Hi Folks, today, we will talk about SketchUp Ruby Code Editor. This code editor extension offers a simple to-utilize and outwardly engaging approach to write and adjust Ruby scripts legitimately inside SketchUp. These scripts would then be able to be utilized to make geometry, include usefulness or include information inside the SketchUp 3D modeling condition.

The SketchUp Ruby API gives a broad arrangement of capacities to automatize SketchUp from numerous points of view or make scripted, computational geometry. The developer made this editor for the most part for two reasons: One is that we needed an approach to alter and run SketchUp Ruby code directly within SketchUp's 3D modeling condition. Regularly this is done in an outer editor, yet having an inside editor takes into account utilizing both scripting and modeling simultaneously – relying upon your requirements.

The editor needed to give simple access to the Ruby coding condition and carry on progressively like a genuine code editor. To achieve this, the devs included a touch of jQuery (and jQuery UI) enchantment to make it look great and have some extra visual highlights (for example the tabs and menus).

They likewise included the brilliant CodeMirror punctuation featuring motor. This gives the editor multi-language code featuring, right TAB control, find/supplant, section coordinating, code collapsing, and numerous different highlights. Simply load the plugin and check out it to see with your own eyes that it is so natural to utilize!

The other explanation behind this extension is that when we write code, we always need to look into documentation. To make this simpler, the devs included a lot of reference site pages to a program window. Additionally, a drop down underneath the editor contains some basic code scraps that can be embedded at the current cursor position.

They are likewise trying different things with a code-culmination highlight that you can summon anytime by clicking CTRL-SHIFT. It contains SketchUp's classes and strategies.

Highlights of the Plugin:

• Delightful and clean editor UI with menu-based UI
• Light/dark themed editor
• Permits executing multi-line Ruby code legitimately in SketchUp
• Works with documents of any size
• Quick opening and code featuring of enormous records
• Most as of late utilized record list
• Console alternate way route
• Line numbering in editor
• Indenting/dedenting of code squares
• Coordinating sections, current line featuring
• Fix/retry in editor
• Find/supplant in editor (text or RegEx)

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"Line Rendering with SketchUp and VRay"

Often do we hear this question? How do I do a line showing render? I have been trying out SketchUp for a few months now and people have been doing some renders that have only black lines on white background. Can you guys please help me? Today, we will try to answer this question.

In this article, we will handle how to make a line rendering from SketchUp and Vray.

We've imported a model from the 3D Warehouse to show you what steps you have to take. There are two significant strides to move toward this inquiry. Initially, we're demonstrating what you'll have to do in Sketchup.

Make a Line Rendering with Sketchup

Window > Default Tray > Show Tray.

Open the default tray by exploring to "window" > "default tray" and select "show tray." You likewise need to ensure "styles" are checked.

Alter Style. Go to the "alter" tab of the "styles" dropdown in the default tray. Select the "faces" thumbnail so you can alter the model faces. At that point, under the "style" segment, select "show shaded utilizing all equivalent.

You may see that a portion of the faces seem white and some of them seem dim. This is on the grounds that Sketchup perceives both the front and rear of faces. To get a reliable look, you'll need to ensure all the faces are situated a similar way.

To fix this, double tap into the model and afterward right-click on the mistaken faces. Select "reverse faces." In certain regions, you may need to physically choose each face and reverse them separately.



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Top 8 Rendering plugins and software for sketchup

Sketchup is very useful for 3d modeling but it is evolved significantly in times to become an indispensible software for rending and visualization industry.

Given below, the details of some best rendering software and plugins for sketchup.

1) VRAY: VRAY is an easy to use plugin that supports sketchup. Vray can produce stunning photo-realistic renderings out of SketchUp, VRAY. Inside vray, there is a material editor as well as other useful tools which can be applied to generate pro quality images and animations.

VRAY can operate in SketchUp at free of cost with some powerful options and setting. Vray can transform your 3D visualization process to the next level.

2) JointPushPull: JointPushPull refers to a useful modeling plugin that includes 6 particular tools for transforming your model perfectly digital. The tools range from joint, round, vector, normal, extrude, and follow. If you have apply these tools in a perfect manner, they will reduce your modeling time significantly.

3) CurviLoft: CurviLoft is a useful sketchup plugin can be used for developing curvilinear models. There are 3 tools inside CurviLoft like loft by spline, loft along path, and skinning. In fact, the tool has the similar functionality as the ?follow me? tool instead of a simple extrusion along a path feature. With this features, CurviLoft can associate two diverse shapes along a path. The plugin is best suitable for organic modeling.



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VBR Piping Pro - SketchUp Extension Review

VBO Piping Pro is a module running in Trimble SketchUp. Its content makes pipes from edges in chosen groups and/or components, likewise adding fittings to vertices. VBO Piping Pro is developed by the KCDA group. Some of the other sketchUp plugins offered by the same devs are VBO Dimensions, VBO Toggle Color by Layer, VBO Grids, and VBO LayOut Splitter.

The Latest version of this extension is: v2.1.3, which you can download from the extension warehouse.

Usage of VBR Piping Pro:

Manufacture Pipes Branch: All inside edges of chosen groups/components will be gone to pipe with alternatives (assortment, size, sort of closure fitting and proceed fitting.) This can be chosen in an information box.

Branches modifier: A device helping to alter fitting. The client can turn, physically supplant fittings, include and supplant lessen bramble, redraw branches. Additionally can name and add shading to any branches.

2D/3D: A speedy exchanging of showing the branches in 2D/3D see, base on turn on/off the layers "8_mep_piping2D" and "8_mep_piping3D".

Double snap: Edit Group/Component to a branch will permit clients to alter the source edges and vertices. The branch will be refreshed to it's "settings" when the client completes the Group/Component altering.

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Brighter3D: SketchUp Extension Review

Brighter3D version 3.1.2 is released! It is one of the best progressive rendering extensions for Trimble SketchUp. Let us see today what it has to say for itself in this article.

Brighter3D offers you a clean, user-friendly interface that hides the rendering powerhouse that it is. You get to see a preview of how the model might get rendered in seconds.

Following, the render gets ready in mere minutes. And oh boy, it does look really really real!

Features of Brighter3D:

Super-realistic lighting: The extension can work with normal daylight and also with HDR lighting.

What’s more, it can combine these to make your model look that much more awesome. Realism is the target for the developers and they didn’t hold back, it seems.

Unbiased rendering: The plugin features a Unbiased Progressive Rendering Mode (UPRM) which gives you a preview of the render in seconds and the full picture in minutes. Even in low-end processors, Brighter3D seems to work well. This blazing fast performance is unparalleled.

Noiseless rendering: It gets very irritating when your fresh render has noise or grains, doesn’t it? No fear, Brighter3D takes care of noise with a special algorithm. The renders with this extension come as crisp as a picture from your phone. Better, actually.

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2019 GLASER STX (1.0.10) for Sketchup

2019 GLASER STX is the newest sketchup plugin available in extension warehouse. It is compatible with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

STX (Section Tool eXtended) facilitates the users to simply generate easy sections having individual depth and differentiate among visible, cut and hidden components and demonstrate them in the preview with several colors. Sections are exported as DXF or GLASER -isb cad.

GLASER STX allows the definition of any cut depth, comes up with suitable functions for individual treatment of the section drawings and maximize the export to GLASER isb cad or into the DXF-format. Unnecessary components in the construction drawing, e.g. hidden edges, are filtered.

The same is applicable to 3D-layers for several components, which are also exportable. Consequently, a construction drawing is produced that is properly customizable to your needs. It can be instantly passed to GLASER isb cad or saved in DXF-format.

It is possible to simply identify any section planes with individual cutting depths and transmit them to GLASER isb cad . Along with SketchUp Pro one can implement the world of BIM data (IFC) for further editing.

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SketchUp to KeyShot 7 ? The newest sketchup extension

SketchUp to KeyShot 7 is newest sketchup extension that can be applied to export sketchup files to keyshot 7 and save out as .bip files.

This sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

This extension combines SketchUp 3D modeling software and KeyShot 7 jointly on Windows or Mac OS X, in spite of arranging KeyShot inside the modeling application. This plugin attaches a menu button to your 3D software that transmits 3D data and other model information into KeyShot.

Given below, some useful features of it :-

Features:
? Retain colors and textures
? Supports SketchUp physics animations
? Recognize groups
? Export .bip

Requirements:
? SketchUp 2015 ? 2018
? KeyShot 7
? Windows 7,8,10 64-bit or Mac OS X 10.8 or later

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SimLab Android / iPad exporter for SketchUp

Simlab Soft has developed SimLab Android / iPad exporter for SketchUp. This newest sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

The plugin is available in different languages like English, French, German, Japanese etc.

The plugin is suitable for various industries which range from Architecture, Construction, Education, Engineering, Film & Stage, Gaming, Heavy Civil, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Woodworking.

The plugin allows the users to export SketchUp 3D models, in *.zim file format which can be viewed on iPad/iPhone and Android devises.

With the use of SimLab CAD Viewer for iPad/iPhone/Android, it is possible to read the produced *.zim files.

One can send request for a trial license to utilize this plugin. With the trial license, the user will be able to apply the plugin for 30 times (trial license will be expired automatically after completion of one month).

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SketchUp Extension Review: Eneroth Upright Extruder

Among the most used extensions for Trimble SketchUp, the Eneroth Upright Extruder stands out for its unique features and usability. Today we will talk about how we can use this powerful extension to easily modify and design complex models.

Designed by Eneroth3, the Eneroth Upright Extruder (EUE) is available for SketchUp 2013 and above. Of course, it requires the Pro version of SketchUp to install plugins into this awesome 3D modeling interface.

What is Eneroth Upright Extruder

The EUE is an extension for the SketchUp software which is used for 3D modeling and rendering. With this extension, you can project profiles while maintaining it upright.

In the default SketchUp tools pools, there is a similar tool available called "Follow Me". However, the Follow Me tool keeps the sides of the extrusion straight. This leads to not keeping the extrusion upright. The EUE extension remedies this issue by twisting the sides to make the project the extrusion upwards.

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SketchUp Extension Review : Solid Inspector 2

One of the best things about Trimble SketchUp is that it can extend its abilities by adding plugins or extensions to it. Today, we will talk about Solid Inspector 2, one such extension that helps in preparing your 3D model for 3D printing and other volumetric operations.

What is Solid Inspector 2

Solid Inspector 2 for SketchUp 2014 or later is a plugin or extension that you can use with a registered SketchUp Pro software. It finds and highlights the issues that are preventing your model from being a complete solid.

There are three main kinds of discrepancies that Solid Inspector 2 can detect in a given object: Model not solid, Useless face in model, Inverted face, Hidden lines.

The SI2 will highlight errors in a model and jump from one error to the next, repairing as you go. This gives the extension tremendous usability in confirming and repairing a model's solid shell. For anyone making solid models or 3D printing, this is an indispensable plugin.

Technical Details

The Solid Inspector 2 (SI2) extension can be found in the Extension Warehouse. The plugin is so popular, that chances are you will see it in the very first screen in the featured or most popular sections; if not, here is the link for the plugin page. The extension is also available in the GitHub repository, you can find it here.

Being an open-source development, you can download and use it for free. The RBZ is fairly small and installs fast. You would have to have Trimble SketchUp 2014 or newer in order to use the plugin. If you are using an older version of SketchUp, you can consider downloading the first version of the tool instead.

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SketchUp Extension Review: Artisan

Ease of use, simple interface, and flexibility are the main reasons behind the enormous popularity of Trimble SketchUp. The said flexibility of SketchUp comes from the ability to upgrade, enhance, and change the way its default tools behave by the addition of a myriad of extensions from outside. SketchUp Pro and above enable this feature for the users, who can find these extensions in the SketchUp Extension Warehouse 2.0 or some third-party web sites.

Artisan is one such extension or plugin. This powerful plugin can turn SketchUp from a 3D geometric designer to a 3D organic modeler. In other words, Artisan lets you design your model with such complex geometry that the result looks and feels like a natural object. For example, you can literally draw a lifelike flower using the Artisan extension.

Previously, Artisan was released with the name "Subdivide and Smooth" and it was a hit then already. Developer Del has worked hard for two years over it and the child of this labour is what we see as Artisan - a complex remake and upgrade with a plethora of added features.

The extension exposes itself in the form of a toolbar with large, friendly-looking buttons. Each button represents an important function, and they are arrayed in four basic functional groups. These are Surface Subdivision, Sculpting Tools, Vertex Transformation, Mesh Optimization. Let us delve further into each group below.

1. Subdivision Surfaces

These functions are used for smoothing a given hard geometry by introducing more subdivisions in the object to make it appear more organic and softer. The robust subdivision algorithm works blisteringly fast on any number of selected faces, groups or components. You can also use the Crease tool to create hard edges from edges or vertices. The Knife tool will let you create loops and the Extrude tool will further help you in this by making loops without interior faces. With the latest version of Artisan, you can preview the subdivision content change before committing. The Proxy button presents you with a low-poly mode that updates subsurface geometry in real-time parallel to your editing.

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SketchUp Extension Review: TrueBend

Arguably the most popular 3D modeling and design software on earth, Trimble SketchUp gathers its immense following and customer base due to the user-friendliness and flexibility of the application. The flexibility comes from the enabling of adding external code, called “extensions” or “plugins”, into SketchUp. These extensions enhance the way SketchUp tools behave, add new tools or new content to enrich and ease your usage of the software.

One of the points to remember while intending to use SketchUp extensions is that only the SketchUp Pro version or above allows the users to import extensions within it. The Free, Make or Shop versions do not have this ability.

Most extensions for SketchUp are found in the Extension Warehouse from Trimble, which has released the 2.0 version of it recently with new and improved features. Other third-party web sites also host SketchUp extensions. One of these Extensions is called TrueBend, and it is that of which we will talk about today.

What is TrueBend

TrueBend from Thom Thom is a quite popular Trimble SketchUp extension found in the Extension Warehouse. When integrated with SketchUp, it enables the user to bend a given object for a certain degree. It will retain the original length of the object instance. The plugin uses the bottom front of the bounding box edge, therefore the user needs to line up the instant axis line up with the bend.

How TrueBend Works

The TrueBend plugin helps the user in bending an object within SketchUp for a given radius. It will also help you to bend the instance while maintaining the length of the object. Let us take an example to understand this better. Consider that the user wishes to bow a shape 60 inches long and the curvature of the bend is 180 degrees. To do this, the user needs to select ‘TrueBend’ in the menus or toolbar, and then click and drag the red bar on the SketchUp design screen to bend the object. Alternatively, you can click the red bar and enter the curvature value in degrees in the VCB for a precise manual curving. After finishing the dragging, or hitting enter after giving the value, you will see that the object instance has bowed to form the expected shape yet it still retains the original length.
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Sketchup ur Space Issue 56th Aug'19

ARTICLES

• Review of AutoSmooth Extension in SketchUp
• Review of Drop Vertices Extension in SKetchUp
• Review of SketchFX Ex for SketchUp
• Review of Two inputs for the Move tool

News

• Creating Wall Cost Estimates in SketchUp with Quantifier Pro
• Details of some 3D Warehouse Tools from SketchUp Extension Warehouse
• Methods to model Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes
• Texturing an Arch in SketchUp using ThruPaint
• PlaceMaker – A powerful sketchup extension to make 3D cities into models quickly
• Create Smart Building Automatically with Profile Builder
• Quantifier Pro is a powerful sketchup plugin for cost estimation

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Demonstration of Windows Builder Sketchup Plugin

In this exclusive sketch tutorial, you learn how to utilize Windows Builder sketchup plugin to make different window/door types as components of any shape and arrange them automatically in walls.

This skechup plugin is compatible with sketchup 2016.

With this plugin, the users will be able to generate and arrange various window components in their models. The windows are either rectangular or depends on a selected face of any shape.

Different types of windows are available like fixed, sliding, French and single-double hung. There are different parameters for windows like window length, window height, frame width, frame depth, sash width, sash depth and frame materials.

Options:

1. window type
2. component name
3. materials of all parts
4. glazing (simple, double, triple)
5. muntins (numbers, dimensions)
6. cover profile (side, shape, dimensions)

7. horizontal bar (sill, dimensions)
8. shutter (side, dimensions)
9. screen (side, dimensions, opening %)
10. cuts opening (checkbox)
11. glue to (none, arbitrary, horizontal, vertical, sloped)
12. scaling constraint (none, 1D, 2D, 3D)

This sketchup extension is available in extensions.sketchup.com

Go through the following video tutorial to gather more knowledge.



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Thumb Cinema for sketchup – Newest sketchup extension

Aerilius has developed Thumb Cinema, a useful sketchup plugin that supports sketchup 2019. It allows the users to apply the mouse wheel for scrolling through scenes of the model with the flick of a finger to instantly navigate to a particular scene or view an animation in action with fine-grained control of interim steps among succeeding scenes.

Application:

• The tool can be activated from the toolbar or menu Window → Thumb Cinema
• Scroll up/down over the 3D viewport to toggle scenes forward/backward. As an alternative, press ←/→ on the keyboard.
• Press ⇧ Shift to switch rapidly (9× speed).
• Type a number and press Enter to settle the number of interim steps among two scenes (1 for each scene being only a single step, default is 9).

Requirements:

SketchUp 2019.2 — The mouse wheel is a new feature only accessible since the second SketchUp feature release of 2019. If one possesses a current subscription, just download and install the upgrade.

To download the extension Thumb Cinema, click on the following link extensions.sketchup.com

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Attribute Inspector – The newest sketchup extension in the extension warehouse

Aerilius has developed the exclusive sketchup extension called Attribute Inspector. It belongs to a viewer and editor for entity and model attributes.

Attributes in SketchUp means supplementary pieces of information that is preserved with any entity, like groups, components, scenes.

As for instance one can preserve a part number, unit price, weight or notes with an entity and read or adjust that information later. All attributes are contained in SketchUp's report feature.

The purpose of this inspector is to maintain the user interface nominal and fully organized similar to SketchUp's inspector dialogs, it allows you to choose one or more entities and demonstrates their attributes. By editing the text fields, The changes are instantly reflected to the entities.

Application: (Menu) Window → Attribute Inspector

The dialog presents the attribute dictionaries of the currently selected drawing element. Apply the selection tool of SketchUp to choose another elements.

Press the +, ‒ buttons on the left side for addition or elimination of an attribute dictionary, and press +, ‒ on the right side for addition or elimination an attribute.

To choose other types of entities, select the type from the dropdown and perform:

• drawing elements: With SketchUp's selection tool it is possible to choose one or more drawing elements in the model (edges, faces, groups)
• definitions: With SketchUp's selection tool, it is possible to choose components/groups/images
• materials: By applying the materials browser and it is possible to choose a material. Attribute Editor will demonstrate the current material (could be not functional on OS X due to API bug).

• layers: With the layer manager and verify the radio button of the layer.
• scenes: With the scenes manager, it is possible to double-click the scene (to make it the current scene).

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

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"About Maciej Fijalowski of VR Sketch"

Maciej Fijalkowski is the one member among the founders of the VR Sketch in SketchUp, he and his team is working on developing VR with SketchUp to make it more accessible.

Maciej Fijalkowski is the surfer, programmer and climbing gym designer about the current state of VR industry and the one behind the VR Sketch extension. He is basically from Łódź, Poland but now living at Cape Town Area, South Africa. He went to Warsaw for study; he always wanted to go and study abroad but couldn’t afford so he started to explore more as a traveler. He also worked at the University of Warsaw at the Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling; while working there and being a student he got into Google Summer of Code and became interested in Pypy.

Later his company has introduced a new concept into the Sketch Up word with VR Sketch which enables the creation, manipulation and presentation of models in a fully immersive virtual reality environment.

A little about VR Sketch: It is an extension for SketchUp which gives anyone the ability to create, edit and view their models in Virtual Reality. It also gives designers the ability to communicate space that clearly allows them well informed decisions to make with instant feedback. VR Sketch is a small but a dynamic company which plans to revolutionize the thinking of people about the way of design and faster design. The landscape of hardware abilities will only improve and everyone can see more and more design work done in VR. Sketch will keep iterating quickly to deliver cutting edge solutions for more years.

Inspiration behind VR Sketch: As per his words, during the process of designing and creating a new rock climbing gym, he purchased a VR headset as a help in visualizing projects. Though SktechUp is a very easy to learn but it can be difficult while mapping of 2D screens to 3D space. So they thought to make something which will help to solve this problem and thus they started the company in April 2018. Maciej is now living in Cape Town with his co-founder, Duncan Fraser who is an architect and travels often.

Projects: The team has handled many things together in past but from a long time they only focused on a project called Pypy which is an open source software for a faster way to run Python code. VR Sketch is their first venture into architecture and design which has introduced to the through SketchUp 3D Basecamp with greater diversity in those attending versus the Python conferences. VR Sketch needs less of any skills which a trained architect must have and helps architects to work more easily on the 3D models.

VR Sketch works with all the high-end hardware like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift those with touch controllers and some mixed reality headsets. They have been working on more major headsets which will be function by Oculus Quest. The team has focused on doing things well for the higher-end devices and consider the availability of any design tool to be a main consideration.

Industry trends to follow for future app development: According to them, much of 3D design will move into the VR space and everyone will see huge iterations in hardware design. Headsets will be lighter and more affordable and controllers will be less clumsy. Software side will also be upgraded with major changes; this huge evolution and interconnection between hardware and software in the VR industry will create many more opportunities for them. Now they are working on a cloud-enabled collaboration which help users in working on a model with distant team members simultaneously and keep a full version control.

Dream Project: He is really interested in urban design and with an unlimited budget, he would be involved in developing a “Chartered City” as theorized by Paul Romer, where it is possible to play with new ideas every time.

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GOING FROM SKETCHUP TO UNITY USING PBR MATERIALS

SketchUp users are pro in creating different textures and models using various textures from the Extension Warehouse; similarly they can go from SketchUp to Unity with PBR materials.

This article will clearly describes about PBR materials and the way of going back on the PBR to Unity 5.6 pipeline workflow for SketchUp through some easy steps.

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp 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. 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.

PBR: PBR or Physically Based Rendering is a method of shading and rendering that provides a more perfect representation of how light interacts with the surfaces. PBR is also referred to as Physically Based Shading depending on the aspect of pipeline being discussed; PBR is usually specific to shading concepts and specific to rendering and lighting. Though, both these terms describe the process of representing assets from a physically accurate standpoint.

SketchUV: It is an UV mapping tool which is used to draw spherical, cylindrical, planer, tube, box, quad shapes and can do save, load, export and import. SketchUV is designed to be easier to use and UV mapping in general takes some time to get use to. The features are noted here:

• It can draw planar, cylindrical and spherical UV projections at any orientation
• It can be used in Box mapping
• Tube mapping- it can be a great tool for objects created using follow-me tool
• It can do Quad face mapping
• It can also move, rotate and scale UVs
• It can draw Triangulate geometry and remove distorted textures
• It also save UVs and Load UVs where change materials and maintain UVs
• It can export and import UVs using third party UV mapping software

Steps to go from SketchUp to Unity using PBR material:

• Before beginning the process users need to install SketchUV extension for SketchUp from Extension Warehouse.
• Then took the PBR textures and apply it on the model.
• At last use the Pixplant for seamless texture and render map creation as this is powerful and easy to use.
• For detailed process go towwww.sketchucation.com

Source: wwww.sketchucation.com

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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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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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