Sketchup ur Space Issue 56th Aug'19

ARTICLES

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

News

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

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Rajib Dey
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Creating Polygons in SketchUp in 5 seconds

SketchUp is full of various 3D models, tools and extensions which is a little tough to handle for beginners, creating a Polygon in SketchUp with some easy tools is good start for beginners.

Creating different figures in SketchUp is an easy work which can be done with the help of some tools found in this software. In every article we discuss about some complex thing which can’t be done without applying lots of extensions and tools but these are strictly for professionals who have been using SketchUp for over years. Beginners or novice users are not fully aware about all these extensions, that’s why we have come up with a simple item this time which can be useful for them

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. 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.

In this article, we will see the steps of creating a polygon using some simple tools in SketchUp but before that we need to know a little bit about polygon.

The Polygons are mainly two-dimensional closed figure which are made up of some straight lines and here each line segments intersects exactly at the endpoints.

Creating equilateral polygons in SketchUp is just a matter of seconds as it is not necessary to draw each side manually. Here are the steps:

• At first users need to select the Shape tool from the toolbar or can press C for the shortcut.
• At the bottom right corner there is a status bar where they need to specify the number of sides after selecting the shape tool. Here users can type anew number and SketchUp will make a new equilateral shape with that number of sides.
• After specifying the number of sides, SketchUp will ask for the radius of polygon and it will be an inscribed polygon.

Source: wwww.designerhacks.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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"How to handle Extension License Issues"

The SketchUp Extension Warehouse has uncounted kinds of extensions which come with their own licenses and if the license expired then problems occurred while working.

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.

Extensions come with their connected licenses that enable users to use the extension. If an extension has a licensing problem, SketchUp won’t load the extension and an error message will be shown. The status column on this error will help users to diagnose the actual problem.

Here is a list that will help users to outline the types of license errors and the way of resolving them:

Expired Trial:

When an extension trial gets expired, users just need to buy the extension to continue using it. Users can buy the extension from the extension details page or from the My extension page. 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.

• Not Licensed: This message indicates that SketchUp is not able to locate a license for the extension and if users installed the extension from the Extension Warehouse, then uninstall the extension, again restart SketchUp and again re-install the extension in some other way, next need to remove the extension manually and reinstall it form the Extension Warehouse.
• License Limit Exceeded: Users can install a purchased extension on two different computers but it is installed in more than two, then this error will come.

Source: wwww.help.sketchup.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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"It is easier to discover New Favorite models in SketchUp"

Google SketchUp team has been improving their tools and models continuously, at first they have released the new updated SketchUp Pro 2019 and then they released new 3D Warehouse.

The whole SketchUp team has been discussing to bring SketchUp lovers the newest development in the life of their products; they proudly announced a brand new way to purchase all the SketchUp products which is the SketchUp Subscription. They have offered the best value so that users and SketchUp lovers can easily choose the perfect combination of SketchUp for every project, workflow or creative concept.

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.

But there are millions of models and 17 languages in the 3D warehouse of SketchUp Pro 2019 tht makes it difficult to find the right one that can be used on the tools. SketchUp users have been facing this difficulty from a very long time so the SketchUp team has done something to fix this problem as they don’t want that their customers may miss their perfect model and they want to help in discovering som hidden gems in SketchUp 3D Warehouse. SketchUp team proudly announced the release of Categories on 3D Warehouse; these categories will help the users to easily search and browse in the world’s largest 3D model library. Here are the most improved features and the categories discussed that will help to figure the things out:

• Better browsing: The new updated 3D Warehouse has come with better browsing experience to do the heavy lifting through the following steps- 1. At first users need to start with an “empty search”, 2. Then they have to select a Category, 3. There, they can watch the search results update and 4. Can get inspired.
• Refining the search: The quality of search based as per the text of the author that uses to describe their model and if description doesn’t match with model the Selecting a Category will help to filter out the models that aren’t relate to the description.
• Sorting by Subcategory: There will be millions of categories from which users can get their own models but if they want any specific one the Subcategory option will help to select the exact model.
• Filtering by real-world products: Users can now search their needed buyable 3D models from the Manufacturer Model filter option where they can easily find and buy models.
• Categorizing the models: Categorization option in SketchUp 3D Warehouse has just begun which can be made better with the help of users like users can themselves categorize models as their own need. Actually categories make it easier to find right great content on 3D Warehouse, even there is no title or description or it can be in different language

Source: www.blog.sketchup.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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"New features about SketchUp Pro 2019"

The whole team of SketchUp Headquarters has proudly announced the newest SketchUp subscription of SketchUp Pro 2019 where users can get all the favorite products to work.

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. It has been more than a year at SKetchUp Headquarters with huge amounts of coffee consumed and after a long wait, SketchUp HQ finally released SketchUp Pro’s new version SketchUp Pro 2019.

The whole SketchUp team has been discussing to bring SketchUp lovers the newest development in the life of their products; they proudly announced a brand new way to purchase all the SketchUp products which is the SketchUp Subscription. They have offered the best value so that users and SketchUp lovers can easily choose the perfect combination of SketchUp for every project, workflow or creative concept.

This is a real opportunity to challenge the team itself to earn users’ business every single day by continuously improving the tools which are needed and loved whole year. The new ways to buy SketchUp is on their website; still the team has been working to bring subscriptions for years as according them it is the best way to deliver more value to the users in a single package. Their shift in new business will make it easier for new users to buy SketchUp and for current users; even more SketchUp products can be easily available. Besides that, this shift in business will help to keep them accountable to run business by releasing new features as often as possible; this is a challenge for them which they have taken proudly and moved process from an annual update cycle to a continuous cycle.

The new version has become faster and more powerful than ever before with bug fixes, system improvements and some wonderful new features. Here are a few of the highlighted features:

SketchUp Pro 2019 for Desktop: Just need to Sign in and modeling will be started; everything in SketchUp-iverse is now combined together with one single account to make modeling, viewing, account management and many more. In SketchUp Pro & LayOut 2019, Layers now come with dashed lines which can allow simplifying drawings with effective drawing communications. While the Tape Measure tool can help to see measurement info in the modeling.

LayOut: It will help the users to know which files are ready to open; in both SketchUp and LayOut there are many improvements t the .dwg import and export feature. There is also the ability to import and export with materials for better BIM interoperability and workflows. An “ Export for SketchUp” feature between SketchUp and LayOut feature .dwg exporter will send all LayOut entitles along with any SketchUp viewport data to the model space.

Trimble Connect: It will welcome users to a new world of efficient workflows and cloud collaboration; their 3D modeling sharing and document management tool is fully focused on projects related to building design and construction.

SketchUp for Web: The team has added a ‘live preview’ for image exports; after signing in to SketchUp for Web when users open a model and go to File>Export>PNG, it will recompose model as taking a snapshot at the desired image ratio.

SketchUp Viewer for AR/VR: SketchUp Viewer is now also available on more VR headsets than earlier, just need to access to every single one with a SketchUp Pro subscription. Oculus, Windows Mixed Reality, VIVE and Hololens are all running SketchUp Viewer.

SketchUp Campus: SketchUp’s official learning hub is known as SketchUp Campus where SketchUp-built courses all created by their in-house team that make SketchUp convenient abd simple in 104 languages.

3D Warehouse: The 3D Warehouse has millions of models and 17 languages from where it is difficult to find the right thing on time so new version has come with categories which boasts better browsing, search refinement, subcategories and filtering by real products etc. that helps fast searching in less time.

Sefaira: Those who are working in a firm that has a focus on performance-based design, SketchUp’s Safaira is like a subscription through SketchUp Radio.

Source: www.blog.sketchup.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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"Trimble Visiting Professionals Program"

Trimble’s Visiting Professionals Program held every single year; this program shows the way of changing the sectors through the software and other industries.

Trimble Inc. is a Sunnyvale, California based developer of GNSS or Global Navigation Satellite System receivers, laser rangefinders, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), inertial navigation systems and software processing tools. This company was established in November 1978 by Charles Trimble and his two other partners from Hewlett Packard, initially operating from Los Altos, California.

The company’s procurements include Pocket Mobile AB, @Road, Cenega Solutions Inc. Datacom Software Research, Spectra Precision Group, Tripod Data Systems, Advanced Public Safety Inc., ALK Technologies, Apache Technologies, Acutest Engineering Solutions Ltd, Applanix, Géo-3D, INPHO, Gatewing, Gehru Technologies, Meridian Systems, NTech Industries, Pacific Crest, Quantm, Accubid Systems, SketchUp, QuichpPen International, SECO Mfg. Co., Inc., Visual Statement, Stabiplan, XYZ Solutions, Inc., Tekla, ThingMagic, Spime Inc., Punch Telematix NV, TMW Sysytems and TopoSys Gmbh.

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp is owned by Trimble Inc., a mapping, surveying and navigation company. It 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. It 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 is a worth useful software for its ease of use, it can be downloaded or installed o computer and right after that user can work on it. Though SketchUp can easily handle but still there are some sides where people will find some difficulties and lots of solve also are there like YouTube tutorials upon SketchUp or visiting SketchUp website or search Google etc. But people will get confused to have lots of information from different places upon one thing so there should a proper place or website where all the answers can be found.

Trimble’s Visiting Professionals Program or VPP fetches design and construction industry leaders together who are suing SketchUp and other Trimble solutions in the university classrooms to learn and discover the impact of technology on their craft, the way the solutions allow them to work faster, smarter and with fewer boundaries. With every single visit, industry experts discuss with students through workshops, lectures, tech demos and live training; they also share their experience, skillsets and understandings to inspire the future generation of design and engineering professionals.

Both the students and faculty mostly found the speeches and tutorials on technology in landscape architecture fully informative and critically important. Not only designers and construction professionals, there are huge people from various professions like from architects to Hollywood set designers, historians to engineers come from a variety of industries bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon. The VPP offers them an inner view about current trends which are affecting trades and allow students to survey the skill sets that employers are looking for.

In the last year, VPP professionals visited a huge range of universities, presenting a wide range of departments like Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Construction Management, Industrial Design, Building Science and Stage/Set design. Students were shown some continuous work of trends like VR and laser scanning are changing the way of visualizing, also how software like SketchUp and Tekla are changing the building environment.

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"Importing SketchUp Textures & Creating Custom Materials”

SketchUp Texture libarery is full of different textures that need to use in the SketchUp models; but there are some textures not available, users can create their own and make Custom Materials.

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.

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.

Though SketchUp has a quite nice order of materials built into it but it doesn’t have all the materials that people want; this is a description of a tutorial that will help the users to learn more about importing favorite SketchUp textures and turning them into new materials which are used in the models.

Creating Custom Material Libraries in SketchUp is depended on understanding the nature of materials within SketchUp; so the first thing the users need to know is about the original images themselves which may be in the JPEG format or so on are not really SketchUp materials. Originally they are the images that can load in order for creating these materials; the original material file is a file that can be created within SketchUp that specifies about the material. For creating this material file, users need to start off by making a custom material that can be downloaded from many places like SketchUp Texture Club, CG Textures, and Textures.com etc. The process will be started form clicking the plus button which is in the upper right hand corner that will create a new material, if anyone wants to base it on a repeating texture image then users can click on go down option and check the box for “use texture image,”; next users have to find the related image to create a texture. Next the image has to resized and repositioned in the model, after completing it the material will be created and need to rename it and save it in the database.

Importing SketchUp textures and creating Custom Materials:

• At first, users need to find a SketchUp texture to use; SketchUp texture is a great place to find a huge number of free textures. While CGtextures extension is used as a replacement of SketchUptexture extension earlier which are not all super clean but has an awesome library to look through.
• Then users have to click on Paint Bucket Tool that will show the Materials window pop-up. Or they can go to the Window tab and select Materials from the drop-down list.
• Next click the Create Material button from the Material window.
• After that the Create Material window will pop-up; it will help to import the SketchUp textures. To import the textures users need to click the Import Image option in the Texture Editor section, here the texture image will get uploaded and a preview of it will be seen in the upper left hand corner. The Color Editor section is used to adjust the material’s color without editing it in an external program and reimport it. Te Colorize option is there in the Texture Editor section which will turns texture to black and white and then puts the color overlay on top. The Texture Scale & Lock option in the Texture Editor section will help to adjust the scale of the SketchUp texture. The Reset Color option will help to put the colors from beginning if anything turns bad.
• Next click Ok; after that the custom material will show up in the SketchUp material library. Select it, take the Paint Bucket tool and paint it.

Source
www.designerhacks.com/import-sketchup-textures



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"Modeling a Face Me Christmas Tree in SketchUp ”

Importing an image from another file in SketchUp is an easy process but transferring a normal image into a Face Me component is a little complex task that is shown in here.

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.

This article is about the method of learning to create a 2D Face Me component that always faces the camera in SKetchUp. From the previous videos about 2D Face Me it is known that using 3D vegetations in SketchUp could make good results but it also slow down the rendering procedure and overall workflow quite a bit.

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.

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.

At first, Justin downloaded the image of a Christmas tree from Google with a transparent background and then imported it in SketchUp; while importing an image, users should click on the image option. After importing the image will appear as flat image which will not allow users to work on it. Next Justin trimmed the sides as per size of the image using the Move tool and transfer the whole image in a group. Then he started to turn this image into a component by following steps:

• Right click on the image and select the option “Make Component”, which will open a pop-up window.
• To turn this component as a Face Me Component click on the Option called “Always Face Camera” from the pop-up window.
• At last click on Create button and it will appear as a component that always faces Camera no matter in which angle it is rotated.

After that this image is ready to work as a texture or component in any project; users can make copies of the image or can use it in creating new designs etc. but they will always face to the camera.

Sourcewww.thesketchupessentials.com



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SketchUp Drawing tool: Freehand

SketchUp is a 3D modeling software which is full of easy using tools both are handy for beginners and professionals; though the Freehand tool is a drawing tool for beginners.

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. 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. Almost everything can designed in 3D with SketchUp and who have splattered in 3D drawing or are interested to learn the basics of design, SketchUp for Dummies has made it faster and easier to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool that bring life into the design ideas. Users can get guidance here from creating a basic 3D model to showcase their work through 3D print or animation, literally everything in SketchUp that can help in anywhere like from redesigning the house to mocking up the future great invention. More than that, SketchUp’s vast usability has gotten very wide success as a tool that even non-designers can also make basic drawings; there are also many expert tips from former SketchUp product director Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls that help to draw and access SketchUp.

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.

About Freehand Tool: SketchUp’s Freehand Tool is a handy tool which will help to trace imported drawings, create a2D sketch and decorate models. This tool will help to create hand-drawn lines, like the planter decorations or simple lines. This tool can be found in the following places:

• Getting Started Toolbar (Click the drop-down arrow next to the Line tool)
• Drawing toolbar
• Large tool Set Toolbar
• Draw > Lines submenu

Method to use Freehand Tool: Drawing Toolbar is found in the following path: View> Toolbars> Check the Drawing Option. After clicking on the Drawing option or Drawing Toolbar a small window will open where some icons can be seen; from there users need to left click on the Pencil icon which will activate the Freehand tool, then simply moving mouse users can draw their shapes and after completing the drawing just need to click on the mouse and the drawing will be completed.

Under the hood, the drawn lines with the Freehand tool become curve entities or ployline entities. Here is a little information that is needed to know about each of these entity types:

• The curve entity contains many line segments but can be defined and divided a face like a single line. Despite of selecting all the segments in a curve entity at a single time, the SketchUp inference engine displays point and edge inferences for every segment in the entity.
• While a polyline entity doesn’t create faces or affect geometry in any way. A polyline entity is created only when am user can hold down the Shift key similar as drawing with the Freehand tool. These polyline entities are thinner than curve entities.

Sourcewww.learn.sketchup.com

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"Creating Walkthroughs in SketchUp”

SketchUp users should create the walkthroughs in SketchUp models as it will help to move the model continuously even with turns and corners by giving it smooth steps.

About SketchUp: SketchUp or Google SketchUp is mainly a 3D modeling computer program that is used for a broad range of drawing applications used by architects, interior designer, landscape architects, civil and mechanical engineers, film and video game designers also. SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth.

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.

Aidan Chopra was a beloved member of the SketchUp team for 10 years; he is the creator of SketchUp Blog where SketchUp members and professionals share their new designs and tells some tips and tricks to design various designs that help users a lot. This Blog has attracted huge number of people and helps them to know more about SketchUp tools and extensions, moreover that users can now easily use SketchUp in their everyday life. Aidan also taught countless classes on SketchUp, he authored the SketchUp for Dummies Book.

Walkthrough is a really great method to use scenes as here users have to pretend as walking or flying through their SketchUp model; just need to set up the scenes continually and here they can add a seamless tour without messing around with the navigation tools. This setup is very easy to use while walking and talking at the same time, so here are some tips about simulating a person walking or flying through the model wit scenes:

• Adjusting the field of view:

Users can adjust their field of view for interior animations and it follows some steps- at first the camera has to see in a wider “see” area by setting the field of view to 60 degrees. If they want to adjust the exterior view, they just need to try a field of view that is between 30 and 45 degrees.

• Scenes should not be too far apart:

Adding scenes in the SketchUp model gives the model more lively attractions and it will also make the model more attractive.

• Adding scenes at equal distance intervals:

It is good to add scenes in an equal distance as SketchUp only allows users to control the scene transition timing for all the scenes in one time.

• Always set the animation settings in the Model info Dialog box:

The users can set the scenes delay to 0 seconds that will help to continue the animation at every scene and it will gives the audiences time to look around and notice every scene in detail.

• Slide around corners:

While setting up a walk animation, users can have an easy and certain way to turn corners without making it to technical. Generally the trick is to add a scene just short of where the users want to turn like a few feet ahead of the doorway. The reason is to angle the view into the turn slightly and then set the next scene just past the turn, close to the inside and facing the new view; this whole technique makes the model like turning corners naturally.

Source:www.dummies.com/programming

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www.sketchup4architect.com

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"Autumn Styling with a fashionable Twist”

SketchUp Hub is fully dedicated to the interior decorations using SketchUp; they help the interior designers to get some new ideas about home decorations.

About SketchUp Hub: Anita Brown has established the SktchUp Hub 3D Visualization and here are a range of courses for helping Interior Designers and students, creating exact floor plans and elevations with a professional touch for the extreme benefit of their business or studies. The SketchUp Hub’s total vision is to authorize Interior Designers especially women providing right technical abilities for making exact drawings and creative illusions at professional standards. Besides that, SketchUp Hub creates an available, engaged and fully supported learning environment for presenting the development of STEM related skills to a female driven industry.

In the month of January this year, the Sketchup Hub had announced their first ever 5 Day Challenge where they had challenged designers and SketchUp users to create an awesome kitchen design with the help of Free SketchUp download. The event was a big successful one and many people showed their wonderful skills where the best got the winner prize and made a place for his/her design. After that the SketchUp Hub has focused on designing the Interior sides of houses with elevations, these elevations are actually some kind of visual tools that allow Interior Designers to transfer perfectly their vision for a space, specifically they can work on the design of a wall and other items within nearly view.

Autumn is now in our door step and this is the best time when people think to decorate their places in a new way or want to make their places lovely and cheerful. Autumn is the season of cleaning houses, washing lawns and houses to give it a new and clean look to welcome Winter and Spring. SketchUp Hub team is also excited to create changes in the interiors which can make lives even more beautiful and stylish. According to them, in Autumn they will love to create dramatic, breath taking interiors for the season; their dark and moody atmospheric qualities give the right foundation for designers to drive boundaries, make a statement and experiment with new colors, patterns and materials. Autumn interior decorations is mostly done by Urban Luxe which is the best interior design styles to combine into an Autumn scheme; it has all the glamour, luxury and classic detailing perfectly balanced with modern design to create a consistent and modern aesthetic that emits undeniable warmth and sophistication.

The team has worked it on and designed a beautiful living space that replicates everything about an Urban Luxe Interior. First of all they focused on the color; they chose Cordoba from Little Greene as the aubergine shades in this hue were very evocative of the earthy notes of autumn as it is full of different color combinations to introduce individuality into the space. After getting the main color for the space they also chose feature wallpaper as they thought that floral prints will create a huge effect on interiors in the future. They love patterns and applied the Farrow & Ball’s Lotus print which incredibly rich and reflects all of the classic elements, they also used it on the sofa wall that gave a mild but sophisticated look to the place. While they put muted Scandinavian colors in this design with the muted pink and dashes of grey-ish blue for make a balance with the strong wall colors.

Next they worked with sofa covers and cushions, coffee table, walls, backdrops, curtains, chairs and fire place; they applied the contrast colors, mix and match the colors against each other to create a vivid but variant stylish look throughout the room.

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.

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.

Source:www.sketchuphub.com




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www.sketchup4architect.com
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"About The SketchUp Essentials ”

SketchUp’s two specialist Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls has written the book the SketchUp for Dummies where the way of Animating sections is discussed.

SketchUp software is an essential 3D modeling software for all the 3D modeling lovers and the SketchUp Essentials course is just a path to guide the users to use the tools in it.

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.

The SketchUp Essentials is a platform which will help the SketchUp beginners by providing them right information that will help them to work faster; this is basically a course where people can learn through example, step by step information and will get many more links of useful SketchUp tools. This course is fully established and started by Justin Geis who took the initiative for giving information to the users for making them SketchUp Pro.

According to Justin there are some important reasons which inspired him to start this course cum platform of all kind of SketchUp answers, here are the reasons discussed below:

• Comprehensive SketchUp Instruction:
• people don’t know the actual information about every tool in SketchUp or don’t know the exact usefulness of those tools, in this course people will get the exact knowledge how every tool works and their right application.
• Detailed Examples:
• This course also provides some example models as a help in modeling for the beginners for each section with step by step tutorials.
• Tips and Tricks from the experienced professionals:
• Professionals also guide the users by some useful tricks and tips to avoid common modeling mistakes.
• Moreover than that, the users can get answers from Justin directly every time.

Information about the Course: This course is every kind of SketchUp users from every type of industry like Architects, Interior Designers, Hobbyists, Construction professionals, Landscape Architects etc. whoever loves 3D modeling. But this course is not for those people who want to use the free online version of SketchUp as it will particularly focus on the desktop version of SketchUp like towards SketchUp Pro users, but most of the topics will be helpful for the students who are using SketchUp Make 2017 or earlier versions. The course or training in SketchUp Essentials will help the users to begin with the right fundamentals of 3D modeling and many other advanced features.

The training will continue for lifelong and it is a total self-rated online course where users will decide their duration of learning. Lifetime access is a little weird to hear, the reason of calling it lifetime is that after enrolling users have unlimited entry to this course and if any user is unsatisfied with the purchase he can contact the SketchUp essentials team in the first 30 days to get the refund.

Source:thesketchupessentials.teachable.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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"SketchUp Talk: About Mastering SketchUp with Matt Donley”

SketchUp team has been focusing on making their website and tools easier to use for their users, the also started a page called SketchUp Talk where people will find relative matters.

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.

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 SketchUp Talk:

It is a platform for the people who want to keep updated with SketchUp knowledge themselves while they are not working with their computers; this platform offers them the recent talk about different objects. Every SketchUp professional uses this platform to publish their wordings, thinking and new updates about different tools in SketchUp.

This time Matt Donley has taken part in the SketchUp Talk about the methods which help him to become a master in SKetchUp. Matt Donley is one of the brains who are behind SketchUp.com; this is an online training resource for SketchUp users around the World. Besides being a SketchUp professional, he is a carpenter and visual artist who was drawn to SketchUp for its easy handling capability, use and the endless ways it can be applied to many projects.

This time in SketchUp Talk session, Matt has shared his journey from being a tradesman to online trainer where he has become familiar with the SketchUp team and writing and publishing his book “SketchUp to LayOut for Architecture.”

This episode of SketchUp Talk, Caroline, Aaron and Matt discuss on the following topics:

• The average SketchUp week for Matt
• Building and launching an online training program
• How Matt uses SketchUp to find discrepancies in design
• Writing and publishing a book with Nick Sonder
• How the SketchUp team met Matt Donley

Source:blog.sketchup.com/article/sketchup-talk-mastering-sketchup-matt-donley

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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