Joining Trimble layout innovation with SketchUp for residential construction: An Interview

 Custom home developer and fashioner, J.B., has been on the front line of innovation all through his whole vocation. From creating SketchUp Extensions to accelerate development work processes to consolidating 3D demonstrating, his customers realize they can believe him with their residential development ventures.

Taking it to the following level, John talks about his most recent bit of innovation and how it encourages him to increment productivity. Here is the summary of the talk we had with him.

Educate us concerning your most recent task and how it's unique in relation to the rest?

The real task is like different undertakings I've done previously, however it's the manner by which I am doing it that is remarkable. For this residential form, I've totally changed my work process to fuse new innovation - Trimble's RPT600 with FieldLink - with SketchUp. The RPT is a Layout Station (a development layout equipment for precisely estimating positions and separations) that permits me to produce my own site models.

Regularly, I would enlist an assessor to come out to a place of work and do a topographic report and stake the house corners. This procedure would require some to and fro more than half a month to finish the entirety of the vital undertakings: gathering focuses, marking the house corners, and sticking the footings. We got truly burnt out on booking half a month out each time we required as-constructed focuses gathered nearby, or layout focuses included the field.

In addition to the fact that it cost a great many dollars and tremendous postponements, yet the "pleasant to-haves, for example, reporting utility lines would cost much more. At the point when we figured it out, it turned out the Rapid Positioning System would pay for itself inside the initial two years. Activities presently go a great deal smoother since we have more information than any time in recent memory, which we can accumulate ourselves and at, whenever we need.

How does this new innovation fit inside your (ordinary) work process?

Our ordinary work process begins with looking into the Surveyor's property corner (or building corner) focuses, at that point gathering an itemized review of the current site condition. The RPT permits us to outline nitty gritty geography and this information is then pulled straightforwardly nto SketchUp as segments.

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www.sketchup4architect.com
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A position is vacant for Illustrator/3D Sculptor in Melbourne

Headstart is one of the biggest toy companies in Australia that sells products under recognized brand names like Marvel™, Disney™, Star Wars™, Marvel™, TMNT™ and their own patented brands.

The company is inviting application for an instigated, smart and experienced Illustrator with a sound knowledge in producing character designs. The Applicant should have good knowledge working with Adobe software. The candidate has to send report to Product Development Manager as well as draw characters and illustration elements that represent the expanding stable of brands of the company.

The candidate should possess the following qualifications, experience and knowledge:

• Sound illustration skills

• ZBrush Skill is essential

• Superior polly sculpting

• Soft and hard surface modelling

• Character rigging in Zbrush

• Earlier working experience with toys or an identical field where generating characters are considered as an advantage

• Excellent knowledge in using Adobe Software (In Design, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat)

• Strong consideration to detail

• Exceptional time management skills

• Capability to perform under stringent deadlines

• More than 5 years of working experience

• Knowledge in using vray, or keyshot will be an added advantage

• Capability to capture a 2D image to a solid 3D model

• Great drawing skills, sound knowledge in anatomy & stylised character design

If you are selected for an interview, you have to present a sample of your portfolio along with your own artwork, hand sketches, illustration, story boards, finished products, etc.

Apply online (www.seek.com.au)

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Sketchup for 2d drafting & 3d printing – An exclusive presentation by Jay Bates

Jay Bates, the renowned woodworker, comes up with another amazing tutorial. In this sketchup tutorial Jay show you through step-by-step methods how to obtain high resolution images for 2d drafting by exporting 2d image in sketchup. There is a built in exporter in sketchup that facilitates to save the existing view of your model in a diverse image formats. But in order to make the process faster, one can use ScreenHunter to generate an image of sketchup model.

To create this tutorial, Jay uses the following shortcuts:

• Ctrl = adds a copy command to the move and rotate commands
• Q = rotate
• R = rectangle
• T = tape measure
• D = dimension (this is a custom keyboard shortcut I set and is not included by default)
• M = move
• Space Bar = selection command
• Triple Click = when triple clicking a piece of model space geometry it selects everything in model space that is connected to that item
• Double Click On Component = enters component edit mode
• G = Turns selected model space geometry into a component
• CUSTOM SHORTCUTS:
• H = Hide
• U = Unhide all
• D = Dimension

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Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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Disney has developed an augmented reality coloring book App to provide a 3d animated view of your drawing through augmented reality technology

Disney has introduced an augmented reality coloring book App that can be used to map color in real-time out of a 2D coloring book onto a animated 3D model. The users can give color to any character in a printed coloring book and review their work via a mobile gadget. The users can view the colored character go around in augment reality 3d space on top of the page.

The sketch is recognized and addressed, and the video stream is augmented through an animated 3-D version of the character that is textured based on the given color. There is a texturing method that uses the captured texture out of a 2-D colored drawing to both the seeable and occluded regions concerning a 3-D character in real time. There exist a deformable surface tracking system intended for colored drawings that applies a new outlier rejection algorithm for real-time tracking and surface deformation restoration. The 2d and 3d content can be generated through a content creation pipeline.

Every single character in the coloring book is generated in 3D modeling software and animated. Afterward, every surface pixel on the model is attributed a equivalent pixel space on the 2D image in the coloring book.

For more information visit, www.disneyresearch.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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