Monday, April 30, 2018

How to convert 2D floor plans to 3D with Dibac 2015 for sketchup

In this sketchup video tutorial, you will get demonstration of Dibac 2015 for sketchup. It is a very useful plugin for sketchup that can be used for generating perfect architectural drawing.

This plugin is specifically designed for architects and other 3d modeling professionals who prefer to draw architectural plans with various 2D tools and convert them to 3D automatically. With this plugin, it is possible to create the drawing of a house in just 5 minutes.


This sketchup plugin is compatible with SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016.
By using it, the architects can draw walls, doors, windows, wardrobes and stairs and produce them dynamically.
This 2015 version allows you to include any component, carpentry and joinery from your library or even from the 3d warehouse.
In order to download a trial version or purchase the plugin, visit https://www.dibac.com
Go through the following video tutorial for online demonstration.

How to convert 2D floor plans to 3D with Dibac 2015 for sketchup

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Friday, April 27, 2018

Eneroth Relative Camera – The newest plugin in extension warehouse

A new plugin known as Eneroth Relative Camera is added to the extension warehouse. This plugin is developed by the renowned plugin developer Eneroth3.

The plugin is compatible with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017 and SketchUp 2018.

The plugin is suitable for different industries like Architecture, Construction, Education, Engineering, Film & Stage, Gaming, Heavy Civil, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Woodworking etc.

The plugin is used to remember the position of the camera with regard to a group or component and recall it subsequently relating to a group or component.

It can be applied to arrange various corresponding views associated with different buildings, floors, apartments or cars. Just ensure they contain corresponding axes placement.

The plugin is also applied to shift the camera in conjunction with an object to maintain the view of it when it has been shifted to the model. Initially, remember the camera, then shift the object and then recall the camera.

If it is required to shift different views, e.g. scenes, one will be able to copy the object rather than moving it, and then remember the views, one at a time, with regard to the old object and then recall it relative the new object.

Activate the plugin from Context Menu > Eneroth Relative Camera.

Go through the following sketchup video tutorial to learn how does it function.

Eneroth Relative Camera – The newest plugin in extension warehouse

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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

How to perform version control in sketchup with trimble connect

This exclusive sketchup video is the part of sketchup skill builder series. In this sketchup video tutorial, you will learn how to perform version control in sketchup with the help of Trimble Connect.

Version control means how you track diverse versions of your files as they develop.

Trimble Connect offers a new way for designers, builders, owners and operators to collaborate, share, view project information as well as control the latest project documents, photos, drawings and 3D models via the cloud over the design, build and operate stages of a project.

To learn the entire process, go through the following video tutorial.

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Monday, April 23, 2018

Shaderlight 2018 Rendering Plugin is available for sketchup 2018

Shaderlight Limited launched new Shaderlight 2018, the powerful rendering plugin for SketchUp 2018.

Shaderlight refers to an interactive rendering plugin for SketchUp with flock of features like user-friendliness, real-world materials and exact lighting results as well as cloud-rendering for animation work that can then be observed through the Shaderlight Cloud Viewer.

There is a 14-day trial of Shaderlight Pro, with all features validated. After that trial period, it defaults to regular Shaderlight but is still operational. Pro features comprise of SketchUp Scene animations, Replace Me Rendering, Replace Me Creation, and various lighting features along with support for IES profiles to allow realistic renders of manufacturers lights.

The pro version also comprises of custom backgrounds and physical sky. Most significantly, images produced with the free version only render to 640×480 resolution, whereas the pro version supports considerable resolution limits.

New Features in 2018:

Besides, supporting the latest version of SketchUp, it is possible to render soft shadows with IES light profiles. Shaderlight 2018 supports a new translucent material that can be applied for rendering large bodies of water or thick, solid glass objects.

Availability and Cost: Shaderlight 2018 in the pro version will cost 299.USD. Upgrades can be done for older versions. It is accessible for both macOS and Windows operating systems. There are also networking licensing options, educational and timed access options.

Link for download www.artvps.com

Shaderlight 2018 Rendering Plugin is available for sketchup 2018

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Friday, April 20, 2018

Taper Maker Plugin for 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 has lots of plugins which are used to build complex structures with the help of standard SketchUp toolset. Plugins save time and delivers some awesome work that can’t be functioned easily without them. This time we are going to discuss about another plugin named The Taper Maker.

The Taper Maker Plugin for SketchUp has developed by Terry R. and it is suitable for SketchUp 2015 and SketchUp 2016 version; it is a very useful plugin for Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture and Woodworking Industry. Drawing a taper or tapered extrusion using Taper Maker first of all a path for the taper has to make to follow by using any SketchUp line drawing tool.

There are three steps to work with Taper Maker:

1. Select the path: At first a connected path has to be selected.
2. Describe the taper: The data is needed to enter for describing the taper = the cross-section shape, the dimensions at the start and end of the taper and where the path lies in connection to the taper.
3. Verifying the orientation: Users have to show whether or not the sample “from” and “to” tapered cross sections are drawn at the right ends of the path.


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

Taper Maker Plugin for SketchUp

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CompoScene – The newest sketchup extension is just launched

Rafael Rivera has developed CompoScene, the newest sketchup extension that supports SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018. It can only function in windows platform.

The extension will be very effective for different industries like Architecture, Education, Film & Stage, Gaming, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Woodworking etc.

The extension can be used for generating and exporting sketchup scenes containing rendering channels and composing them in photoshop or other painting apps.

CompoScene has the ability to develop rendering channels for you to build upon and produce your individual art style.

One can access the extension from the extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

Go through the following video to have live demo of the extension.

CompoScene – The newest sketchup extension is just launched

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Eneroth Tool Memory – The newest sketchup plugin

Eneroth Tool Memory is just introduced in extension warehouse. It supports SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018 as well as Mac OS X and Windows platform.

The plugin can be applied to cycle recently utilized tools in sketchup to accelerate and simplify the modeling process.

The plugin is specifically designed for experienced professionals who prefer to make the best use of their work as well as most ideal for the tools which are utilized too little to get a shortcut for, but very frequent as soon as they are used.

It should be noted that the tool stack only will include actual tools. Other commands, e.g. Save or Zoom Extents, will not be remembered.

This sketchup extension can be downloaded from extension warehouse. extensions.sketchup.com

Go through the following video tutorial for online demonstration.

Eneroth Tool Memory – The newest sketchup plugin


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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Wire Bending & Routing Tool – The newest sketchup extension

Wire Bending & Routing Tool is the latest sketchup plugin that is compatible with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

The plugin is developed to serve different industries like Architecture, Construction, Education, Engineering, Heavy Civil, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Urban Planning, Woodworking etc.


This plugin is used to draw wire with bending on corners and illustrate perfect length of it.
How does the plugin work ?
1. Choose lines in the model where it is required to route and draw wire
If lines remain in group - explode or edit that group.
2. Operate extension from menu - Extensions -> Wire Bending and Routing Tool
3. Fix parameters: units, wire diameter, bending radius, wire roundness parameter, bending roundness parameter
4. Press OK button
5. If you prefer, copy overall length from the report produced
The plugin is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com
Wire Bending & Routing Tool – The newest sketchup extension


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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Carpentry for women in Hammerstone

Carpentry is a profession of men- this old thinking has broken by Maria, a successful lady woodworker and the founder of the school, Hammerstone: Carpentry for Women.

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.

Women are also working similar as men do in many fields which become a subject to be proven again and again for the sake of our society’s narrow mentality. Here is a formally trained women carpenter, Maria Klemperer Johnson who has taken over carpentry instead of her academic degrees and this article is dedicated for her, her passion, works and many unknown facts that are still hidden.

About Maria and her school of carpentry

Maria Klemperer Johnson is not a regular carpenter, but she is formally trained in computer science but had left her successful academic career to become successful in trades. But when she felt that there is the need of women in carpentry or woodworking, she established her own school the Hammerstone School of Carpentry for women which are basically her family business and now she is the owner and head teacher and leading carpenter on the School’s construction projects. She is fond of constructing buildings, particularly natural building ad timber framing is visible in her every work and classes. She is a supporter of high performance construction using natural materials and besides a creative woodworker; she is also an experienced SketchUp modeler and instructor.

Maria’s inspiration to start the school

From her childhood, Maria has enjoyed everything related to the building and got interested in it as both her father and grandfather were hobbyist woodworkers. They made many interesting projects and Maria helped them for completing the works, and following this passion she took woodshop classes in middle school. But soon she realized that it is not only her part of interest it has become her part of personality and decided fast to take up this field as her career path. She had studied Computer Science in college where she learned virtual creation that helped her to improve her passion for building and in Geology; she became to know the usage of both body and mind in an outdoor setting doing field work. But soon she lost all her interests in these two paths and chose the construction industry where she became a creative person, physical outdoors and working with wood. Though entering in this field was not easy for her as construction field is mainly recommended as a male field and she was dominated by them but she found the way to set up herself as a successful contractor. When this field also started to irritate her much she lost all her interest and started her school, Hammerstone: Carpentry for Women; an effort to introduce more women with construction and woodworking.

Role of SketchUp in her life

Maria is an expert SketchUp user and uses SketchUp for designing her projects, in her words she was introduced to SketchUp while building Timber frames and there she found that working with SketchUp is perfect for modeling timber structures. She also uses some more dynamic scenes of SketchUp for solving the challenges of growing frames and thinking through orders of operations of assembly.

Goal of Hammerstone

Hammerstone is the one school where females are carpenters and in America where fewer women chose carpentry as a career there Hammerstone has made its place so strong and all is for Maria. Hammerstone has the goal to create more gender equality in the trades and to empower more women to handle more construction projects in their career, this will open their minds and the minds of other people that carpentry or construction is not only for men, women can also handle this tough things easily.

About the students of Hammerstone and their expectations

The students of the school come from a wide range of life stages and some of them have a thought to build their own tiny houses or some are changing their traditional paths and starts to find something new that will give them more independence while moving to a new life. But some are very tough who faced difficulties in their life or drive motorcycles or some are senior citizens great grandmothers who just want to experience something new. The common thing among them is that they all are eager to learn their hunger to do something new and the power of breaking stereotypes that bound them in one line and they all become the students of Hammerstone.M

Philosophy between introducing carpentry to students

It is right that learning in age of adulthood is difficult than learning at the beginning stage as adults have a tendency to do everything perfect in a single try. They don’t want to fail and learn instead they want everything instant and not to spend much time over any particular thing. So Maria tells her students to work on SketchUp as SketchUp is all about practice and practice makes a person better.

Maria enjoys herself being a carpenter that has taught her the methods of fixing mistakes in life, inventing new ways to fix different mistakes which may in the life or in construction.


Carpentry for women in Hammerstone

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Saturday, April 7, 2018

About SketchUpdate Blog

SketchUp team has brought a new blog SketchUpdate to give the users some new experiences in getting the updates, navigating three blogs as a help in modeling etc.

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.

SketchUp users always work with updated version which helps them to get new features and designs every time to make their models better than before; but they are not aware about the new updates as there was no such a way before to know it. But then SketchUp creators and updaters created a blog to keep them updated which is called the SktchUpdate Blog in the new domain blog.sketchup.com. The Blogger platform was one of the SketchUp designer’s few left things from SketchUp’s time at Google and after the creation of Blog; it has done some great works like releases, Basecamps, tutorials, lip-hair contests and many more. SketchUpdate blog will also introduce the users with some newest stories from the archive and people also can see new articles regarding tips, stories and images. Here is a quick overview of the blog that will help users to know more about this new one and may get familiar with its working method:

  • At first, the users can see a new added navigation bar that is highlighting the new blog family and they can navigate between three blogs like- SketchUpdate, Developer and 3D Warehouse. Later the team will expand their blog more to grow the experience of the users and to focus on each known categories.
  • In the post there can be seen a new graphic layout that will increase the reading experience and the content will adopt the qualities of SketchUp.com that will make the text easier to read, navigate the articles easily and help to get the wonderful images.
  • The best thing of the new feature is that now the readers don’t need to scroll down the pages to read them instead of they can migrate the blog to SketchUp.com where the developers has added all the needed features to enjoy the blogs.
  • SketchUpdate readers like most the post where the tips and tricks to use SketchUp is given to help them in managing SketchUp and its various tools. But it sometimes become hard to find the posts in the SketchUpdate blog, so the developers have created a new series called Skill builders that is located on the home page with own category tag. Besides that, they also started animating some short Skill Builder videos which are short and focused on lessons to make the users better modeler in a little time.
At last, it can be said that, the SketchUpdate team is happy to help the users and continuously updating the blog to give more updated news and features. In future they are going to bring mobile sensibility so that the users can get the blog in any device and continue their work. The team is eager to know the suggestions of the users.


Methods of adding Extensions to SketchUp

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

Methods of adding Extensions to SketchUp

SketchUp and Extension Warehouse both is making the work of drawing and 3D modeling easier with some added tools for the architects, interior designers, engineers etc.

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.

Adding Extensions to SketchUp

From the above discussion it is clear that there is a good bonding between the Extension warehouse and Sketchup; so users can add an extension on their local copy of SketchUp by just only clicking on the Install button on the extension details page and the rest of work will done after that.
There are a few cautions that help to install this Extension Warehouse like:

  • Users have to entry the Extension Warehouse only from SketchUp and if it is accessed form a web browser then a Download button will be seen instead of Installation Button and users then need to install the downloaded .rbz file through SketchUp Preferences.
  • The good news is that this SketchUp is absolutely free so users can easily download and use them. In addition of that, developers can have the option of selling extensions for a one-time-free or can get a subscription. A trial extension is generally free to use for a limited time and sometime an extension can be purchased that need to buy from the developer’s website and install the extension manually.

Installing Extensions manually in SketchUp Preferences

While downloading an extension from the Extension Warehouse through a web browser or from a developer’s website it will come as an .rbz file that can be installed manually. Here are the steps to follow before installing:

  • At first go to SketchUp and select the Extension Manager Option form Window menu, after clicking on it the Extension Manager window appears.
  • Now click on the Install Extension button.
  • The Open Dialog box will appear where users can find the .rbz file, just save it to the computer, select the file and click OK in Microsoft Windows or Open in Mac OS X.
  • SketchUp will warn the users about installing only extensions from trusted sources just click OK option for further procedure and the extension will be installed.

Purchasing Extensions in the 3D Warehouse

Anyone can purchase an extension through signing in to the Extension Warehouse or through any browser or SketchUp; but it is essential to sign in to the Extension Warehouse through SketchUp before installing a trial version or buying an extension. Here are some needed steps that need to follow before a purchase:

  1. Go to the extension detail page and click the Purchase button.
  2. In the prompted option, users have to enter their billing and payment information, billing information will verify the credit card, the receipt is emailed to the email address that user uses to sign in to Extension Warehouse.
The following steps is needed to install a trial or purchased extension:

  1. Go to the SketchUp and select the Extension Warehouse from Windows and sign in to the Extension Warehouse.
  2. Now search for the extension that is needed or go to the extensions details page and click Install Trial option.
  3. Then go to the user menu and select the My Extensions option.
  4. The My Extension tab will open scroll down to the trial extension or the purchased extension to install and click on either the Install Trial or Install link. Click yes to install.

Finding an extension after installation

After installing an extension will appear on an Extension menu, select it from the menu to start using it.


Methods of adding Extensions to SketchUp

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Monday, April 2, 2018

Some information about SketchUp’s new updates

Trimble has already released the newest version of SketchUp Make and SketchUp Pro 2018 with some updates to give a free access to 3D modeling for everyone.

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.

Trimble has recently updated SketchUp with some new features which are also very easy for the beginners as Trimble has focused this time on some important workflows in this new version. Users can easily feel many big improvements to mange section planes, extorting model data into collected reports for takeoffs and making even better drawings from the SketchUp models. Besides that, Trimble has brought their new web modeler out of beta and introduced SketchUp Free for everyone.

updates about SketchUp Pro and SketchUp Free

SketchUp Free is fast, stable and capable; Trimble has taken the motto to give access of free 3D modeling in the world for everyone and SketchUp Free is made to be used by lots of people everywhere. This new technology composes the middle of SketchUp into a web browser and is behind SketchUp for Schools which is one of the most famous apps in G Suite for Education; that’s why the new web applications can divide the DNA of the desktop modeler to provide better performance and stability of SketchUp for everyone and everywhere. In today’s 3D world of design, most of the designers and architects are familiar in using SketchUp’s desktop softwares such as SketchUp Pro or SketchUp Make; as a help they had also released a support update for SketchUp make which may be the last update for Trimble’s free desktop version.

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. On the other side SketchUp Pro has developed to measure more ideas, make nice drawings and better buildings so that users can become more expert in their 3D designs to deliver some better things to the world.


Some information about SketchUp’s new updates
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