FaceDirector – The newest sketchup extension in extension warehouse

FaceDirector is the newest sketchup extension that is compatible with sketchup 2016. This sketchup extension is developed by the renowned plugin developer Rafael Rivera.

It is used to resolve face orientation issue with a single mouse click.

FaceDirector is very effective when the sketchup models contain numerous reverse faces and the default reverse tool is not functioning.

With face director, it is possible to retain all your sketchup models clean by reversing back faces as per the view of camera.

The plugin can also save your huge time as you don’t have to perform time consuming work of right clicking every face manually to reverse it.

Download the plugin, from extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Best way to clean 3D printer

There are so many attractive technique to advance the performance, as well as strength and sturdiness, of a 3D printer. This is an up-and-coming industry, thus modernization, discoveries and improvements in the way things are done are continually being discovered. It’s oftentimes the small developments, and ideas, which make the major divergence.

This is certainly the case with a little machine called the Universal Filament Filter, created by a company based in Sweden called Creative Tools. The main part is so small that it can be 3D printed within an hour. What it does, is help to clean and oil filament use in an FFF/FDM 3D printer.

Once the main part is printed, a minute piece of foam, or a sponge, should be cut to dimensions just about the size of the 3D printed part. This piece can then be pushed into the hole within the filter. Once this is done, you are ready to feed the end of a reel of filament in through the hole, making sure it goes directly through the sponge situated inside, and out the other end. It may make it trouble-free to cut off a little piece of filament on an angle, so that the end of the spool is sharp and can more easily pass though the sponge.

Now, just add a little bit of mineral oil, which can be found at almost any convenience store, to the sponge, and you are ready to go.

The filament filter should be placed somewhere in the area between the reel and the extruder, so that the filament which is fed into the extruder first passes through the filter.

What the filter does is oil the filament, while also cleaning any dust or other particles from it. In doing so, you will reduce the strain on the extruder’s motor, making it last longer and perform better. In addition, the filter will prevent clogging of the extruder caused by dirty or dusty filament, an all too common problem users run into with desktop 3D printers.

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www.sketchup-ur-space.com
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Computer Aided Design (CAD) programme for the 3D Printing

The computer aided designs (CAD) software program enables a designer to shape their models. One of the best among is TinkerCAD. This is probably most easy and powerful program. The essence of TinkerCAD is using basic shapes as building blocks to piece together and form designs with. TinkerCAD is compatible with all 3D printers that use the standard STL file format, and it also lets you easily export the files you’ve created to an external program or device if you’d like to work on it further and produce something a bit more complex. Best of all, it’s completely free.

Another useful program is AutoDesk123D. It is a family of apps that let you to make CAD’s in different categories and in various different ways. It works in different ways. 123D Catch is an amazing program that generate 3D model from photo. But if you want to design animals and strange creatures for animation, then the use of 123D creature is must. For designing electronic circuits CAD, 123D Circut is important. 123D Design is for basic design creation and 123D Make create unique 3D models from 2D slice.

In this respect, we need to discuss what SketchUp is. Invented in year 2000, the beginner-friendly Computer Assisted Design (CAD) software was operated independently, later was owned by Google (2006-2012) and currently is in the possession of Trimble Navigation -- a mapping, surveying, and navigation equipment company. The company provides a freeware version, called SketchUp Make. It also has a paid version with additional functionality, SketchUp Pro, which is available. The free version is easily downloadable from internet. So, the designer can use it freely and easily.

In this respect, FreeCAD needs to be discussed. If the designer have had a bit of experience with CAD then FreeCAD could be good for them. If not, you may find it a bit complicated. The site claims no previous CAD experience is necessary but compared to TinkerCAD, AutoDesk 123D and SketchUp it is fairly more complex.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-spaces.com

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How Desktop 3D Printers are 100% Useful to Our Daily Lives

Lets face it – desktop 3D printers are far from meeting the standards of the average consumer. They are too complex for most non-technologically-minded people, and worst of all, they can only print small, hard objects from limited types of plastic. What on earth can be so useful about printing small, hard objects?

As it turns out, quite a lot.

Just 2% of the cost

An office supplies company in Townsville, Australia called Delta Office Solutions recently experienced firsthand just how handy it can be to own a 3D printer. The company’s office dishwasher broke, due to a small part that snapped and caused the loading tray to detach from its wheels. Office managers at the company looked into ordering new parts and found that it would cost $45 and take four days. Instead of waiting, they decided on a more efficient solution that would dually save money.

Two of the company’s employees Brian Worley and Adrian Smith took on the challenge of using the office’s desktop 3D printer to make the dishwasher piece themselves. They used Google’s free Sketchup design app to make 3D model files of the part, and they put their printer to the test. Within three hours, the pair had a brand new, 3D printed exact replica of the piece in their hands.

Worley said it cost them just $1.60 for the cost of materials – about two percent of the retail price. “It can take up to four days to get missing parts and other stuff from Sydney but now people can make things on their own,” said Worley.

Saving money while making a little extra on the side, too

This team of Australians is far from being the first to take advantage of the handy convenience of a desktop 3D printer. In May, we spoke to an entrepreneur by the name of Christopher Sweeney who used his MakerBot desktop printer to solve “at home fix-its” in his Hawaii home and had even turned his endeavors into a company, selling bespoke objects to people around the US.

“The options for what I can make are limitless. I can make anything as simple as an office desk accessory such as a pen or card holder, to something as complex as a custom art piece,” said Chris. “It has also been convenient to solve ‘at home fix-it’s’. If something breaks, instead of having to go to the hardware store hoping they have the part I need in specific dimensions, I can create the broken piece in a matter of hours.”

So if you have ever found yourself rushing to Home Depot to overpay for a specific part, tool or gadget, or if you have ever had to wait more than a few hours for the arrival of a part that is absolutely pivotal to the functionality of your showerhead, dishwasher or TV stand, then perhaps it is about time you looked into investing in a desktop 3D printer.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Ron Paulk's Super Mobile Woodshop is Complete, and He's Posted the Sketchup Plans for Free Download

When last we looked in on Washington-based builder Ron Paulk, he was on the verge of completing his kick-ass Mobile Woodshop. Contained inside a 1,000-cubic-foot box truck, Paulk's comprehensive design ingeniously incorporates every major power tool a contractor would need, features copious parts-and-materials storage, and is loaded up with a plethora of clever design solutions.

Since our initial coverage, Paulk's uploaded a video tour of the completed project:

Even better, Paulk has uploaded his complete Google Sketchup plans free of charge. We admire both Paulk's design ingenuity—as one example you can see in the video tour above, he wisely eschewed expensive drawer slides and found simple dados in plywood to be a superior solution—and his generosity in sharing the final design, which is the result of not only the several months he put into drawing up and constructing the project, but of his decades of experience in building things. The plans are available here, and our thanks go out to Paulk.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Flowing surfaces without plugins!

If you want to make a curved surface in SketchUp, in can be a difficult process to get it just the way that you want it. You can draw it manually line by line, by this is very time consuming and it is very hard to make it look good and smooth. There are plugins that make this much easier, but I’ve discovered a way of getting smooth rounded shapes just using basic SketchUp.

There is a method that I call “Pull and Scale” that is an easy way to make almost anything that you can think of. Here are some examples of models that I’ve made using this method.

For this tutorial, I will show making the front part of this space shuttle:

The easiest way to start is with images or line drawings of the front, side and top. These are easy to find online for almost anything you want to make.

Of course, reference drawings aren’t necessary for this procedure, but I like having them to make sure that the model I draw is in scale. I typically trace over the drawing to get the overall shapes that I want to work with. Also, since the shuttle is symmetrical left and right, I make trace half shapes. This way you can mirror it over in the end and your model stay perfectly symmetrical.

So choose the starting method that you like best. For this tutorial I setup the images as follows, and trace over them. Notice the only one of the shapes is filled in. This is the face that we’ll be working with. The face of the others has been deleted so it’s just linework. This makes it easier to see what you are doing. Make the line work groups, so you don’t accidentally change the shape of it while modeling. If also helps to lock the object so you can’t move it at all.

Using the Pull tool, pull the face out a bit. The smaller you pull it, the smoother the final shape will be. For a more complicated shape, or for parts that are much more curved, use a very small pull distance. For this relatively simple shape, I can use a larger distance.

Select the new face on the end and using the Scale tool to change its shape. Be sure to not scale the shape using the grips in on the left side of the shape. This will make an uneven surface to mirror the shape in the end. This is where the reference line drawing come in handy. You can snap to them to make sure that you are getting the correct shape.

Continue this procedure for the entire shape. Notice that for the front tip of the shuttle, I used a smaller pull distance because I wanted a smoother nose.

Highlight the entire model and go to Window -> Soften Edges, and set the slider to around 45 degrees. This will makes the shape look much smoother.

When the shape is complete, delete in inner and back faces and lines, so you are left with the shell only.

Now using the move tool select the model and press Ctrl to make a copy. Place the copy next to the original shape.

Right click on the new shape and choose “Flip Along… -> Component’s Red” (or Green depending on how your model is oriented)

When you move the shapes together, the edges to fit perfectly.

If you see any of the following on your model, it means that at some point in the process you either scaled incorrectly, or you accidentally changes one half and not the other.

Once done correctly, you should see this:

Select the whole model again, and open up the Soften Edges dialog again, and smooth the new edge. For this, make sure the “Soften coplanar” option is selected

The basic shape is done!

Now you can further add things like windows, by tracing the line drawings, extruding and moving the shapes so they intersect the shuttle at the correct places. Like this:

Right click on the hull and choose “Intersect face… -> With model”. Now when you delete the shapes you just created, you will be left with the shapes “stamped” onto the curved hull.

From here you can use the paint bucket to colour the windows separately from the rest of the cockpit. Using this method, you can complete the rest of the cockpit. I’ve developed this one a bit further:

Now that you know this method, the only limit is your imagination!

Raylectron Textures Exporter...

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Rajib Dey

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Free download SketchUp Components 3D Warehouse - Hotel

Get unlimited sketchup 3d models of hotels formed with sketchup. All the models contain quality texture. There are diversified images of models to choose from an extensive model directory. All the sketchup 3d models are available in .skp format and free to download.

Click on the hotel images below to download individual SketchUp models.

One can apply these digital 3d hotel models for visualization, films, television, games etc.

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Arka Roy

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Mini film made ​​on Google Sketchup and a 3D printer

The small world of animation seen 3D printing with kindness. Gradually emerging projects and the web will quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the possibilities offered by these new tools of choice are 3D printers.

Amateurs and professionals of animation will be able to express themselves without having to deploy large financial resources .

Disney and Google with the animated film Blank Vynilmation Love Story, the musical clip Cut / Copy or last month, hypnotic work of this bear on stairs : Bears on Stairs are all feats that give 3D printing , its pedigree in the world of Stop Motion ( motion animation ).

Today is " Paradise Found " created by Jon Patrick Barry and Jenny Chen is honored. All the accessories and the puppet present on the screen were modeled with Google Sketchup and are straight out of a 3D printer.

If you want to try 3D modeling and subsequently the animation , you can download Google Sketchup.

  

  

The Video Link is http://www.sketchup-ur-space.com/2014/april/mini-film-made-on-google-sketchup-and-a-3D-printer.html

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Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Portola High School in California Takes to Kickstarter to Fund a 3D Printer

3D printing in schools has only recently become a reality. While there are many schools around the world that have already had the opportunity to bring 3D printers into their classrooms, the majority of schools are not quite there yet. The reasons are quite simple. There are a lack of funds, a lack of knowledge, and in most cases, not enough motivation from students, teachers and faculty.

However, this isn’t entirely the case for one school, located in the mountains of Northern California. Portola High, a small school with 17 teachers and 237 students, has more than enough motivation, but is lacking the required funds.

Fortunately for Portola High, they have one teacher, Bran Freschi that is bent and determined to find a way to get a 3D printer for his school. Freschi, who was hired last year as a Learning Specialist, to work with students with learning disabilities, came up with the idea to pursue 3D printing at his school this past fall.

After attending a STEM conference in Sacramento in the Fall of 2013, myself and a few teachers got to see and touch a real 3D printer,” Freschi told 3DPrint.com. “I instantly fell in love with it.”

That 3D printer was a MakerBot Replicator, and the MakerBot saleman at the conference gave Freschi a 3D printed nut and bolt that had been printed right in front of him. According to Freschi, that’s what sealed the deal.

“Since that day, I have showed that little toy to hundreds of people, and their reaction is always the same: Their face gets scrunched up and they say ‘Wait…what?’,” explained Freschi. “Then I get to explain to them how a 3D printer works; like a big hot glue gun with a weed eater line in the back of it, materializing objects in all three dimensions”

We asked Mr. Freschi, how this 3D printer would get used in his school, and he was more than prepared to answer. We could tell that he has huge plans on integrating the MakerBot Replicator into his classes, as well as the classes of other teachers. He informed us that he has one ‘career tech’ teacher and one math teacher on board. The career tech teacher would offer a 3D printing and Sketchup class, while the math teacher plans to create some mathematical lessons around the printer.

Freschi plans to utilize the 3D printer in his classes by designing and printing items that can be sold, in order to give his students life skills centered on work ethic, communication, and financial topics. He also sees uses for the printer in other areas of the school, including art, science, and technology. He hopes that art students can print out art work, as well as useful tools.

“I have a grand plan of implementing a recycling program at our school that would utilize a grinder and an extruder to make our own ‘recycled’ 3D printer filament,” Freschi told us.

Finding funding for the printer has been the largest hurdle. Freschi has approached the school board indirectly, about getting funding, but was unfortunately shot down. However, one of the school’s administrators really believed in the idea, and encouraged Freschi to continue to look for funding sources. Finding funding through the PTA or Boosters was not an option in Freschi’s mind, as he didn’t feel that they had money to spend on a device that none of them probably understood. So, he came up with the idea of funding the printer via Kickstarter.

“I thought of Kickstarter pretty early on, and lots of kids showed interest in the process,” explained Freschi. “I started building the campaign way back in October. After the campaign was finished, literally ten minutes before we hit the launch button, the district office put the brakes on it, telling me that they needed to be the recipients of the funds, and not me personally. Long story short, I eventually got around this district policy by soliciting the assistance of the Booster Club. They agreed to take the money from the Kickstarter campaign, buy the printer and then donate it to the school.”

The Kickstarter campaign launched just a little over 2 days ago, and it has already raised over $1,000. Freschi informed us that it has been received very well by the entire community, and all of the schools in the district are “buzzing about it”.

Backers of the campaign will be awarded with one of several items, including decals, t-shirts, customized 3D printed phone cases, other 3D printed items and more.

Help Mr. Freschi, and his school raise funds for this project by donating as little as $1 to the cause, via their Kickstarter campaign page, or by sharing this story. Discuss this project, and let us know if you have donated to the cause in the ‘Portola High Kickstarter Campaign’ thread on 3DPB.com.

  

 

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www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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