How to use Enscape 3D to create real time visualization in sketchup

This sketchup video provides brief demonstration on Enscape 3D, a powerful rendering plug in for sketchup that can make your visualization process smarter. This plugin is still in beta testing phase.

The users don?t require any additional plugin for their project. Just install the Enscape plugin and walk through your projects with simple mouse click.

In conjunction with the Oculus Rift, it is possible to virtually walk trough your project in Enscape. Experience your work as it was developed previously.



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The Engineering ToolBox – 1.0.4 for sketchup

The Engineering ToolBox is the newest sketchup plugin available in extension warehouse. It is compatible with SketchUp 6, SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

The plugin is used to include standard and adjustable parametric components like flange beams, lumbers, piping and more to your Trimble SketchUp model.

The plugin is used to include standard and adjustable parametric components like flange beams, lumbers, piping and more to your Trimble SketchUp model.

How the Engineering ToolBox Extension will be added to your SketchUp.

Open your Sketchup installation

From the Sketchup menu – choose Window > Extension Warehouse - and look for "Engineering ToolBox" - and install!

The extension can be activated/deactivated from the Sketchup menu Window > Extension Manager

Restarting is necessary to activate the extension. Remember that this may vary in older Sketchup versions.

The plugin is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com.

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



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SimLab IGES importer for Sketchup (9.0.0)

SimLab IGES importer for Sketchup is another useful sketchup plugin that can be used to import .igs, .iges files into SketchUp, with the purpose of editing them easily.

The plugin is compatible with SketchUp 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and SketchUp 8, on Windows and Mac OS.

To utilize this plugin, just request for a trial license. With trial license the user can utilize the plugin for 30 times (trial license automatically gets expired after one month).

With the professional license the user will be able to set up the plugin on two different machines.

The plugin is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com.



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"Modeling a bag of chips: Native Commands vs. Extensions ”

Designing a simple pack of chips might sound easier using extensions but it can be also done by using Native Commands; here Aaron used both processes to know the easier one.

Aaron Dietzen this time comes with his new useful creation of importing and exporting via SketchUp Shop which is the newest thing for SketchUp users. This article will describe the whole process according to Aaron and his video tutorial where he used two different processes to design a simple pack of chips and there are also tutorial links given below.

About Aaron Dietzen:

Aaron Dietzen is mainly seen in various SketchUp Live or any of the Skill Builder videos or been on the SketchUp forum, that means Aaron is fond of SketchUp and serving as a SketchUp employee for two years with more than ten years in the software. He is more than just a simple Trimble employee; he is a true SketchUp fan. He spends his free time in designing things in SketchUp and loves adventurous works.

This time Aaron has decided to model something which is a little off the beaten path like a bag of chips using two kinds of tool; native and extensions.

Modeling a Bag of Chips using Native SketchUp commands:

The Sand box toolset is a great set of tools helping in modeling things like sandboxes, landscapes etc. and this time this toolset is used to draw a simple bag of chips. So in the beginning of the model, Aaron opened the SketchUp pro window and at the left side there is the Sandbox toolset; he took the Grade command to draw rectangles representing a bag of chips; next he took the Smooth Tool and as a circle worked on it. Using the Smooth Tool can help to lift the ground base either up or down; he just lifts up the middle portion to give it a loaded packet; next he worked on the edges, actually he at first made the half of the bag and next made exactly other half. These halves are lined perfectly aligned with each other and shaped well; he just copied the half used the move tool and using group tool he flipped the other one. The two halves connected properly without leaving any space between them; it should be keep in mind that a bag of chips is not truly rectangular shape so using sandbox toolset anyone can easily lift or align any corner or line or center to any direction perfectly. To give the sides the exact shape of the chips bag; he used select tool, move them towards center and used smoothing line, clicked triple to make it a whole group. Then he used the paint bucket tool, used Import tool and imports an image of formerly created chips bag and placed it.

Modeling a Bag of Chips using bunch of extensions:

This time Aaron has modeled the similar packet of chips but used some extensions also like: Soap Buble and Skin from Josef L, Vertex Tools from Thomthom and Fredo Tools from Fredo6. At first he started to draw a regular rectangle shape using normal Rectangle tool; next he selected the geometry and Click on the Generate Skin Button from the Soap Skin option; it actually create a new geometry upon the existing one on which he worked on. Then he selected Grade and clicked the Buble button he entered pressure towards enter that pushed the center of the object, the n he made the exact copy of this half and moved it aside. Next he flipped the other one and placed it upon the previous one; here the edges are aligned perfectly as the Soap Skin option does it already. Now he used Vertex tools to make the crumbles on the sides, smoothened the thing and can paint the whole model using many existed extensions an even can give a name also.

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"Transforming Houses: Ori and the Shape-Shifting Future of Dwelling ”

SketchUp user and Architectural Visualist, Alejandro Soriano has been working with SketchUp from a long time and has discussed about his works and interest in a current interview.

This article is dedicated on Alejandro Soriano and his awesome creations, here are some details about the creator and his creations. It is a description of the interview between Alejandro Soriano and Charlotte Shepard.

In every city, where the areas are typically metropolitan based people face problems during the living and have to adjust, so Ori, Inc. is working on giving a new form of living in comfort.

Aristodimos Komnions is a well known SketchUp user; before joining SketchUp he worked as an Architect-Engineer and Urban Designer for more than ten years. He likes to find new ways of working in every field and is fascinating to imagine the future in a brand new way. So he has taken an interview of the CEO of Ori, Inc; it is a startup dedicated on smart furniture that increases the use of small flats and restricted spaces through shape-shifting practically. Hasier Larrea is the engineer, mastermind and present CEO of Ori who has shared his thoughts with Aris about working with SketchUp on the projects.

This article is the brief description of the conversation between them; Hasier has discussed and shared a lot about his works.

A little about Ori, Inc.:

“Ori” the word derives its name from the word “Origami”, is a Japanese art of folding paper for creating beautiful and extraordinary things; Ori is a prefix for something magical to come; this company is fully informed about lack of interior space, especially in high-density metropolitan innovation places around the world. Places have become too expensive to be stagnant and unresponsive. Ori is inventing something incredible through the help of technology and design that will create lively environments that act and feel as they are virtually bigger.

Something about Haiser and their work:

Hasier Larrea, present CEO of Ori is also a mechanical engineer, designer and an eager SketchUp user who has a different thought about managing the living space in the urban area. In his words, urban space has become too valuable to be motionless and unresponsive so it is the right time to authorize people to live large in a small footprint by carrying the robotics world into architecture. Their first launching product is just one little example of a world where furniture will have different roles; in 2017, they had used beta pilots in ten cities across North America and now they are going to deliver commercial systems starting at Boston, New York and DC.

Experience using SketchUp:

Hasier has learned SketchUp while he was doing his internship in a small design firm in China that developed and fabricated new store ideas for European companies in Shanghai. His first SketchUp model was the store of a German Kitchenware Company and after that he just fell in love with SketchUp, with its smooth process, its tools, easy to handle things everything.

While designing he focuses on speed of repetitions and for him it is a main metric in prototyping phases; one can learn more in 5 minutes with a prototype than in 5 weeks of discussions and brain will help to produce much more quickly. SketchUp has helped him in two ways: he can now quickly sketch important concepts of new Ori systems and import models of their existing detailed Ori systems and show them in the context of architectural plans. They mostly use SketchUp for the earliest concept designs in the context of 3D apartments and use those models for internal discussions around whether the concept is right or not.

Haiser is a big fan of “Pencil Sketch with Darker Traced Lines” to make some quick models; they also used AutoCAD for furniture manufacturing, SolidWorks or Onshape for mechanical engineering. His favorite tools for quickly prototyping of a new concept are Arduino for electronics, Processing for software development and SketchUp for 3D design.

The future thoughts:

In Ori, everyone is desire to help people seeing them space in a different way and prove that more square footage doesn’t need more functionality and they have created a lot of space in the world that can solve the housing challenge.

Source blog.sketchup.com

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Demonstration of extrusion tools sketchup plugin

This is another useful sketchup video tutorial presented by the renowned sketchup trainer Justin Geis. In this video tutorial, he shows how to apply TIG’s extrusion tools to generate faces from edges by extruding them along an arc. The plugin comprises of a set of useful tools.

These tools can be used for extruding on the basis of the edges, rails, and more. The plugin makes the process simple to extrude edges into meshes.

The purpose of this exclusive sketchup extension is to produce faces and objects in sketchup with extrusions.

One can download the plugin by clicking on the following link. sketchucation.com

To get more clear ideas, go through the following video tutorial.

Video Source TheSketchUpEssentials

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"Quantities and Cost estimates with Quantifier Pro in SketchUp"

SketchUp’s Quantifier Pro is a brand new extension and amazing extension that is used to quantify and help to apply pricing to things within the SketchUp model.

Quantifier Pro: SketchUp 2016 or the newer version is suitable for Quantifier Pro and it is also compatible with both Mac and PC. This is the ultimate tool to get instant quantity and cost information from the SketchUp model. It has various features like:

• Selecting the objects in the model will instantly show the total length, area, volume, weight and cost
• After using the model all the reports are model-driven and automatically update while the model will change.
• Fully Customizable Component Reports are found there which will show length, width, height, projected area, surface area, volume, weight, cost and many more things.
• There are also detailed cost reports.
• Instant Material Report will show the surface area of all materials in the model
• Assign re-usable cost rules are shown by layer, material, object or to the whole model
• Cost Inspector tool will show total cost calculation for the selected object to verify accuracy
• In Windows, Microsoft Excel is used to share unified cost data across many SketchUp models
• This extension also supports many languages and international currency
• There are full control of units and accuracy shown in reports
• If Profile Builder 3 is added with this extension, then it will be even more colorful.

This Plugin cost $79 alone and if it is bundled with Profile Builder 3 then it will cost 25% off of each extension

Functions of Quantifier Pro: This particular extension is designed to help in quantifying and price in different things within the SketchUp models; at first the users have to select different objects within the model and then apply cost data to them within quantifier. Within quantifier, users can select different objects and can be viewed within the quantifier dialog. It should be kept in mind that while using quantifier, users have to put the objects on the same material on their own layers; as an example if one is going to quantify a block wall then he/she will try to put all the block wall objects on a block wall layer. After this, this extension will allow the users to apply various cost properties to the objects on the layer. Moreover that, this extension can be used to apply costs to objects by other units within the model like length; and it also works with profiles that have not been created with Profile Builder or by the users themselves.

Users can also apply costs based on SketchUp materials also and this will calculate the cost based on materials that have been applied to front side faces only to avoid double counting back side materials. It is also possible to directly overrule the cost added with an object using the object opinion and while modeling an object that are punching a bunch of holes it; then it is better to model that as standard geometry rather than a profile builder assembly as they actually calculates using the bounds of an object. Finally besides all of these one can create reports within quantifier that can either viewed within SketchUp or can be exported to Excel, theoretically one an import cost data from an Excel spreadsheet also.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

Source: www.thesketchupessentials.com

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EYECAD VR – The real-time rendering engine for Sketchup & Revit users

eyecad VR is the new real-time rendering engine that is compatible with an extensive range of software suite like Revit, ARCHICAD, Rhino, Cinema 4D, ALLPLAN, SketchUp Pro, Maya, Max, Blender, Mudbox, ACCA Edificius, and 3CAD Evolution.

It facilitates AEC professionals like architects to delve into and examine their designs with some exclusive features like dynamic environments, interactive lights, moving objects, the importing of HDRI images of the real world from project sites, and the inspection of materials and library objects. As soon as an environment is set, one click renders up to 4k resolution are created with a single mouse click and interactive exploration of the environment occurs with output to different VR options.

Eyecad VR Start

The basic version is known as Start and it has the capability to import your model, apply VR interactions, and function with objects and materials and the material editor itself. It is also possible to distribute your work with your clients to mobile and desktop.

Eyecad VR Advanced

The Advanced version includes lighting sources, the environment editor, photo-realistic rendering, and ultra quality options. There are more than 400 PBR (physically based render) materials accessible in eyecad VR. eyecad VR Pro

The Pro version comprises of the Landscape toolset that can be used to produce amazing landscapes. Besides, there are Videomaker and Worldmap features. By applying the robust terrain editor, make realistic natural environments along with water like as in rivers, ponds, lakes as well as with animated vegetation, hills and mountains and more.

The DEM (Digital Elevation Map) support in Pro facilitates the user to arrange their project in the real world. The WorldMap function sets in actual map-based context data and the height of all buildings can be easily decided. This tool is based on GIS technology. With the real world visible the user can then arrange their building into this environment. The Pro version offers some ground-breaking technology to create stunning video animations and several water simulations for renders.

Virtual Reality Apps for Mobile

There are also both Apple iOS and Google Android mobile apps called eyecad VR. These free apps can be utilized for viewing projects in virtual reality and in Cardboard.

To download the software, click on the following link www.eyecadvr.com

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Top 10 House Modeling Extensions for SketchUp

About SketchUp’s Extension Warehouse: The SketchUp Extension Warehouse is an online resource full of plug-ins and developed especially for SketchUp and these extensions allow users to add special tools and features to SketchUp. Users can find different extensions for a particular application like drawing or 3D printing and industry-definite tools like extensions for architecture, interior design, construction and many more.
Here are some top 10 House Building Extensions for SketchUp which will help users to build models easily:

• Medeek Foundation: Medeek Foundation is an elaborated foundation building extension that gives permission to the users to build perfect concrete foundations for every building and this extension can also create everything like from anchor bolts to rebar for users’ foundations.
• Housebuilder: Housebuilder basically an older extension containing a set of tools which are designed to help users in modeling house framing and it has everything like from framed flooring to wall framing. Here users can go back to their previous work and can add and move around created doors and windows to walls as well as also can create roof framing. But this older extension might lead people with some problems while getting it installed in their computers.
• Profile builder: Profile Builder is actually a smart profile building extension that set up wall bodies instead of creating wall framing within profile builder that includes different things like framing, sheathing, drywall and insulating batt. After creating these assemblies within Profile Builder, users can also arrange a program of materials which allows evaluating the things within the model; users can also create things like stair rails and other objects with repeating pieces with the help of this extension.
• 1001 Bit Tools: This is a set of tools which is designed to make architectural modeling easier than before and this extension has every kind of building tools like from wall building tools, tools to add openings to those tools, stair creation tools, door and window frame tools, roof framing tools etc. So basically it is a huge toolset that has many useful tools also for every user.
• Tig Roof: This extension is designed to help users in creating different types of complex roofs easily and it works on simple rectangular roofs with complex shapes that give a lot of flexibility while working with various shaped buildings.
• Medeek Wall: This is the newest extension from Nathaniel Medeek that helps users in creating detailed wall assemblies within SketchUp and helps users in creating similar framed walls within SketchUp models with a focus modeling walls. The openings may be moved and adjusted in real time as it is still under testing process.
• Plusspec: This is not a normal house modeling extension rather it is designed to bring true BIM to SketchUp as it has a large case suite of a building creation tools and also some tools to make mechanical and electrical in the drawings, for designing the communication of notes, costs and more.
• Medeek Truss: This is from the same house of other Medeek extensions and is designed to create accurate trusses in the model; it can also create and show real trusses, though there is a lot of different truss option. Users not only can add different types of roof trusses but floor trusses also
• Gkware Cabinet Maker:This extension helps users to create quickly accurate cabinets within their SketchUp models and helps to edit every single part of the cabinets. This extension models the cabinets that will give a look of originally built and allows great accuracy in the model.
• Floor Generator:This helps to create difficult flooring within the models and helps to create shapes like brick, tile, sliding and many more within the model. Users can create flooring with real depth and can apply textures to the materials.

Source: www.thesketchupessentials.com
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Top 10 features of the Push/Pull Tool in SketchUp

SketchUp’s Push Pull tool is used in the models having flat faces for doing multiple changes or adding geometry or removing geometry etc. it has lots of functions.
About Push/Pull tool: The Push/Pull tool is a simple thing used for emit flat faces into 3D shapes and it worked with simple click. This tool can move the selected objects, vertices, edges or faces closer together by Pushing or further apart by pulling; here specifically each and every element is moved towards or away from the center by the same distance. This specific distance is navigated by the movement of mouse either in up or down position, numeric input or through slider control.
Methods to use Push/Pull tool: Here are some quick steps that will help to learn how this push/pull tool works-

• At first the Push/Pull has to select form the toolbar and this tool looks like a little box with a red arrow coming out of the top.
• Net it is time to show it through the work, if anyone clicks the ‘’floor face” then it would be expelled but if anyone chooses wrong face mistakenly, then just click Esc button from the keyboard to cancel the action and can try again.
• Users can add precision in the next step by moving the cursor to pull up the wall which needs to prevent from extruding.
• Typing 8’and pressing Enter key, the push/pull distance will be edited to be exactly 8 feet which is the height of the ceilings in a house.
• Orbit helps to view what is done in the work around the model.
• While using Push/pull tool for matching the height of the interior walls one need to edit the group at first, then right-click on the exterior wall face and choosing Edit Group from the context menu will help the users to go inside the model.

Functions of Push/Pull tool:

1. Push Pull large, continuous faces: The push/pull tool can connects faces and it is one of the greatest functions and this particular thing makes it so far great for projecting floor plans. But this tool can be used only on the flat surface to project any object in the same surface.
2. Push pull with inferencing: It is another great function where when the push/pull tool becomes active, it inference to any other in the model and allows the users to easily push pull things to align with any other thing in the model.
3. For cutting a hole in a thing: This tool allows creating holes within objects and it can remove faces when it reaches the back side of an object that is equal to the original face.
4. Push pull precisely: This tool can also help to type a value to set the length of the extrusion which is needed to be created.
5. To hid geometry: Besides adding geometry in any model, this tool can also removes geometry. It can be used in creating things like roofs and other tapered shapes fast and easily just need to break a face up and use this tool to push that geometry away.
6. In creating new face mode: Push pull can create new faces which is an unknown function for people, basically this tool allows people to create new geometry within the model which is very useful while creating objects that need to modify with the scale tool.
7. Double click to repeat: Similar as other tools, this tool also allows repeating the last function by double clicking.
8. Intersect with face via a curved object: It cannot curve surfaces but coupling with another tool in SketchUp to cut holes in curved surfaces.
9. Multiple profiles at once: Push pull tool can’t multiple objects at once but it can remove a shape from another to create profiles as 3D shapes.
10. Push pull with hidden geometry: This tool can curve or smoothed faces.

Source: www.thesketchupessentials.com



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"SketchUp’s Advanced Camera Tools”

SketchUp’s Advanced Camera Tools is an amazing extension that is used from loose storyboarding to advanced shot analysis in the planning time of any film, video or photography.

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.

In this article we are going to discuss about Advanced Camera Tools in SketchUp through Geis’s tutorials and here are some information about this tools.

The Advanced Camera Tools: The Advanced Camera Tools or Act are mainly designed for those people who work in the film and television industry and use SketchUp Pro to build up some storyboards, design sets, visualize scenes and plan locations. They use Advanced Camera Tools for placing real-world cameras in their SketchUp models and preview the real camera shots but this extension needs an active SketchUp Pro license. The Advanced Camera Tools plugin is now used for Google SketchUp Pro 8 where users can create optically and physically modeled professional cameras that can be designed and manipulated similarly as used in the real world. Cameras created by the users with the Advances Camera Tools will provide precise controls for properties such as, Focal Length, Aspect Ratio and Image Width while allows them to accurately model and preview real camera shots inside any model they are working with.

There is a clearly complete help file which is linked within the SketchUp extension warehouse page for the Advanced Camera Tools and this extension was created to provide a tool for visualizing various shots in Video and TV work, but besides that it can also be used to make much more accurate cameras and cameras with pitch and roll. People who want to mimic an original physical camera can access the various kinds by back to back tools, advanced camera tools and choosing an actual camera type which will give them access to many different camera types. But if it is not a worry to work with an actual physical camera type, one can add a camera by simple clicking on the first button on the advanced camera tools toolbar. This helps the person to set their view into view editing mode, for more hidden information one can find them in the lower left hand on his/her screen. While clicking and dragging the mouse button, information about the particular view like the height and angle will be recorded in the information in the lower left corner. More than that, users can also adjusts the pan, angle, height and many other things about the camera view with some instructions at the bottom of the screen.

After having a real camera view set as per needs one can right click on it to active the “Lock Camera” option, it will instantly lock the camera view to prevent the accidental changes and it will create an original physical camera reference point in the 3D space. Users are able to turn on the camera frustum lines and volumes to view a physical indicator of the view of the camera, when users want to unlock the feature they need to simply click on the button for “Look through a camera created by create camera”, then right click and select “unlock camera”. While the “edit camera” option helps to edit aspects of the camera by right clicking on it.

Features of the Advanced Camera Tools: So basically this tool can do things like

• Adding any number of physical cameras to the users’ model.
• One can uses this tool to choose from dozens of pre-formed camera types or can create own.
• Advanced Camera tools are placed and aimed using some known moves like Pan, Angle, and Dolly etc.
• Focal length of any camera is set to simulate a large number of physical lenses.
• Advanced Camera tools frustums are toggled on and off to see easily everything.
• Properties of the Advanced Camera tools’ camera can be edited in the model any time.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

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How to produce glass in sketchup models with lattice maker

In this exclusive sketchup tutorial, presented by the renowed sketchup tutor, Justin Geis, you will learn how to generate glass in your sketchup model instantly with the use of an exclusive sketchup plugin lattice maker that is developed by TIG.

The plugin allows you to simply set offsets, glass thickness, window thickness & materials to smoothly generate windows in sketchup models.

This sketchup pluign can be applied to form lattice style arrays and frames. The plugin is suitable for generating skylights, sculptures, mosaic glass tiles, greenhouses and much more. This plugin provides huge benefits to the architects and contractors to simplify their works.

With this plugin, it is possible to produce the frames and inset panes for any surface. It has the ability to create just about any shape according to your choice. Before applying the plugin, it is required to choose the faces and then go to the plugin menu and click the “Lattice Maker” plugin.

A dialogue will be shown with options for the width and depth of the frame, the pane inset dimension, the lattice or frame material and the pane material.

The plugin contains the following drawbacks :-

A limited amount of colors can be selected from for the lattice and same with the pane. The thickness of the glass can’t be specified.

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

For live demonstration of the plugin, go through the following video tutorial.

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3D Text Editor – The newest sketchup extension

SketchUp does not contain a command for editing of subsisting 3-D text smoothly.

Thomas Thomassen has developed 3D Text Editor, an exclusive sketchup plugin that can be used to generate and alter 3D text geometry.

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

This extension facilitates editing of text that’s generated earlier, apart from providing the ability to live-preview various changes to your text.

The plugin can perform well in windows platform but some problems may arise in Mac OSX platform.

1. Menus & Toolbars
2. Draw » Editable 3d Text
3. Context Menu » Edit Text

1. Requirements
2. TT_Lib² — 2.11.0
3. Internet Explorer 9 or newer (Windows)

The plugin is available in sketchup extension warehouse (extensions.sketchup.com)

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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

This newest sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse (extensions.sketchup.com).

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

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Some unknown facts about follow me tool

In this exclusive sketchup video tutorial, Justin Geis, the renowned sketchup trainer, briefly explains some useful features and functions as well as applications of sketchup follow me tool.

The SketchUp Follow Me tool is the base of 3D geometry: Follow Me directs a face along a path to generate a 3D shape. However, it comprises of a bunch of applications and facilitates to draw complicated 3D models with some simple mouse clicks.

Follow Me is very effective for modeling finishing details that pursue a perimeter or edge, like crown molding or gutters. It also simplifies the task for modeling lathed objects, like a spindle, and curved vessels, like a bowl or a vase.

One can find the follow me tool in sketchup as follow :-

Tools menu
Edit toolbar
Large Tool Set toolbar
Tool palette (macOS)

The follow me tool can be applied to extrude something like a pipe along the path. Just choose a path and apply the follow me tool to extrude something to the length of that path.

The follow me tool can be very effective when the paths contain numerous various lines on it.

The best way to utilize the follow me tool is to choose your path, then activate the tool and click on your object. It also functions along paths which go in a complete circle.

To learn more functionalities of follow me tool, go through the following video tutorial.

Video Source TheSketchUpEssentials

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Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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How to generate a sketchup model from different CAD drawings

In this sketchup video tutorial, you will be familiar with the method that is required to develop a model out of different CAD drawings.

To simplify the modeling process, the following free sketchup extensions are applied :-

Tools on surface (Fredo6) – With this sketchup extension, it is possible to draw on any type of surface, either it is flat or curved.

To download this extension, click on the following link sketchucation.com

To download the extension, click on the following link asav.xyz/2v6sL3K

JointPushPull (Fredo6): This sketchup extension is also developed by Fredo6. It can be used to extrude different faces simultaneously.

To download this extension, click on the following link sketchucation.com

Solid Inspector v2 (thomthom) – This sketchup extension can be applied to examine why a specific group or component is not a solid.

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

CleanUp v3 (thomthom): This sketchup plugin facilitates the users to configure parameters to purify the sketchup drawing.

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

To learn the complete method, go through the following video tutorial.

Video Source Alejandro Soriano Visualization

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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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