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

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How to model a folded tshirt

Nomer Adona is an art teacher at Saigon South International School for international Baccalaureate Visual Arts and Advanced Placement Art. Through his  blog SketchUp and Vray Resources , he shares to the community different resources that we know and have: Vismats, Visopts, SketchUp models and components with Vray settings ready to be imported to a new scene, textures, hdri, written and video tutorials, links, ies data and others.

Modeling clothing in SketchUp is not difficult at all. Here is a simple quick workflow on how to do it quickly.

One of the best thing in SkechUp is the ability to project the image.

Step 1: Importing reference image.

 

Step 2: Tracing the outside boundary using line tool

All you have to do is to use line tool and trace the boundary of the Tshirt, then pulling it with push pull tool.

 

Step 3. Adding subdivision 
To add subdivision, simply copy the bounding edges (not the face) and paste it twice (see the image below)

 

Step 4: Re-scale the top and bottom face.

Rescale the top and bottom face. Hold the control key so that the scale anchor point will be in the middle.

  

You can also use round corner "bevel face" by Fredo here.

Step 5: Beveled Faces

 

Step 6: Paint Projected image

You can now paint the model using projected image option. This is important for tracing the other parts of the T-shirt.

  

Step 7: Repositioning edges

In the image below, I repositioned some of the lines to follow the contour of shirt.

 

Step 8: Tracing the neckline

Here I traced the neckline.

 

Step 9: Push pulling some parts of the neckline

After tracing the neckline and offsetting it, I used push pull tool to add depth and height. Here you can see the different heights without the projected image.

 

Step 10: Tracing the sleeve

Trace the sleeve and push pull one more time.

 

Step 11: Reposition again some of the lines

 

Here is the Raw Model without smoothing. Generally you can even use this with projected image and soften edges. If your model is far from the camera, this is more than enough to fool the viewers eye. 

 

Step 12: Smoothing
For high poly models that you want to use even near the camera, we can further sub-smooth the models. All we need to do it to select the model and subdivide it with 2 iterations.

Here is the result

Step 13: Further sculpting
 

Once again using the sculpt tool script made by BTM. Download it for free HERE

Here is the finish model

 

RENDERED VIEWS

 

 

 

 

http://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.com/2011/12/skechup-modeling-series-no2-nomeradonas.html

Hope this will encourage you to model and not keep on looking everywhere for models.

Nomeradona

Cross Posted from Nomer Adona’s SketchUp Vray Resource

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Arka Roy

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Rotary Lift expands digital offerings for facility planning assistant program

Rotary Lift is expanding the digital offerings available through its free assistPRO professional facility planning assistance service.

The program offers Rotary Lift customers assistance in designing new or remodeled shops. AssistPRO helps maximize shop efficiency and technician productivity by determining the optimal number, placement and arrangement of vehicle lifts. Rotary Lift’s in-house assistPRO team works with individual customers and architects to create custom facility layouts.

The new digital offerings include 3-D SketchUp models of Rotary Lift vehicle lifts. The models will be available for download through SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse athttps://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/ later in 2014. Rotary Lift currently offers CAD blocks, 3-D BIM models and written specifications for its products through ARCAT, and the SketchUp models will give architects and distributors an additional easy-to-use resource for helping customers.

“Dealers and independent shops have recovered from the recession and are starting to invest in their facilities again,” said Larry Kendall, assistPRO technical information specialist – facility planner for Rotary Lift. “No matter if they are expanding, moving into new buildings or just upgrading old equipment, it pays to utilize assistPRO. When you include lifts in your shop layout upfront, there is less of a chance you will need to go through a costly redesign and delay the project.”

After determining a facility’s intended use, the assistPRO team draws a floor layout with lifts placed for maximum productivity. Turning radii and traffic flow are matched to the types of vehicles serviced so technicians will be able to quickly pull into and out of the bays. Rotary Lift provides assistPRO layout drawings in CAD or PDF electronic formats or as color prints, based on customer preference. Turnaround is fast (usually seven to 10 days), so users can get to work on their new spaces as soon as possible.

  

 

  

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Boulder's concept3D gets cash infusion, expands mapping, energy application

The Boulder-based developers of SketchUp set off to build a 3-D modeling software program, they sought to create an application that would make 3-D modeling more accessible and they wanted to make a living in return.

"Honestly, we could've never imagined in our wildest dreams how that played out," said Brad Schell, co-founder of SketchUp developer @Last Software, which was acquired by Google Inc. in 2006.

While SketchUp led to Google and, later, Trimble dropping anchor in Boulder in recent years, it also fueled concept3D — a burgeoning Boulder-based company that is making significant moves in arenas such as interactive mapping and energy auditing and assessment.

Concept3D, which got its start thanks to some involvement and funding from SketchUp employees, recently raised a $1.25 million equity investment — a round funded in part by Schell.

The money will help boost concept3D's efforts in expanding its CampusBird interactive mapping program and software, and bringing its simuwatt energy assessment application to market.

"We still touch on our 3D roots through everything we do," said Oliver Davis, concept3D's co-founder and chief executive officer.

The company, which has offices in Boulder and Denver, plans to add to its 15-person staff and bring the company to 25 to 30 employees in the coming year.

That would complement some management moves made within recent months. Concept3D brought on Market Force Information Inc. co-founder Rushton McGarr as president and chief operating officer, and marketing veteran Lisa Harris as vice president of marketing.

The growth could push Concept3D out of Boulder. Company officials say they're looking for new space in Boulder, Boulder County and around Denver.

The privately held Concept3D, which does not disclose financial details, expects to have revenue in the "low-to-mid seven figures" in 2014 and to record "nominal profits" in 2014 because of the ramp-up in hiring, said Rushton McGarr, president and chief operating officer. The company essentially was break-even last year, he added.

Investor Schell said he will not be involved with concept3D in any official, boardmember role; however, he'll serve as a resource for the firm.

"They're at a point where they're stepping up to another level, and I wanted to be a part of that," Schell said.

Mapping opportunities: Concept3D started as a services shop, but eventually evolved into an outfit specializing in software development.

"We realized that we wouldn't be a valuable company without embracing software-as-a-service as a platform," said Oliver Davis, co-founder and chief executive officer of concept3D.

During the past three to four years, concept3D developed and honed its Atlas program, a database-driven map content management system. Atlas serves as the umbrella for CampusBird, software that allows universities and entities to develop maps with rich graphics, interactive capabilities and the ability to customize and update information.

More than 75 entities have used CampusBird, including Duke University, Walt Disney World Resorts and the Harvard Business School.

The CampusBird business is projected to grow four-fold this year with the added expectation the company will have a position in new markets, Davis said, adding that the software could apply in industries such as commercial real estate, resorts and economic development.

"There's a lot of fertile ground out there that we haven't really approached," Davis said.

More companies are able to incorporate 3D mapping as the technology has become easier to use and more affordable, said Joe Francica, editor in chief of Directions Magazine, which follows the location technology and geospatial industries.

"People want that realistic look, or that semi-realistic look," he said.

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Learn the solar study animation with sketchup

Sketchup is a great tool for performing solar study analysis perfectly. Follow the processes given below for developing a solar study with sketchup.

Visit Window>Model Info>Location

If you are not familiar with the geo-location of your site, take help from Google. Finding proper location of the site is vital to ensure that the shadows are perfect. If you can’t find the accurate coordinates, just put in the general city.

After that you should have to specify the date and time of day: Window>Shadows

Concentrate on the Time and Date.

The Summer Solstice, June 21, consider as the longest day/shortest night, December 21, as the shortest day/longest night, and the Equinox, March 21 and September 21, is where the days/nights are identical.

One will get a clear picture of the extremes and median of the shade and sun of your site by animating these three dates.

Make a scene on the hour, every hour begins in the morning. Window>Scenes>Add Scene

While choosing a scene in the Scenes window, press the refresh button and update the shadow settings as well as the camera angle to replicate scenes for the solar study, or to arrange the animation scenes one time, and then import a new model into your solar study template.

Ward Lester has presented some exclusive videos through which he shows how to use sketchup for making solar study animation of a great room of the designed house. The animation is created with the shadows and scenes window of sketchup.

 

    

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SketchUp Plugins 2014

SketchUp 2014 was released with various new features and offers infinite 3D models that are easier to find and use. Besides, users can avail a wide array of time-saving tools for documentation. The core tools of SketchUp that comprise of plugins, groups, components, the Ruby API, enables users to use the data embedded in models.

SketchUp plugins 2014 are user friendly and helps in simplifying the work procedure of designers, architects and other SketchUp users. The new, improved SketchUp 2014 comes with an enhanced 3D Warehouse, where if a user is looking for a “sofa”, h can find not less than 10,000 sofa models to select from. The new 3D Warehouse includes new upload options, increased file size limits, and a refreshed UI. The new SketchUp Pro is considered as a highly capable and inclusive information modeler.

For better SketchUp Plugin compatibility, the API has been brought up to Ruby 2.0 standards that help developers by offering a platform to create new SketchUp tools. The plugins that might not work in SketchUp 2014 have been updated to be compatible with 2014. It is suggested that the below mentioned steps are followed while upgrading to SketchUp 2014 from previous versions to ensure high quality results:

• Installing 2014 compatible extension via extension warehouse.
• Installing 2014 non-compatible extension via extension warehouse.
• Installing via SU preferences (for rbz files which are found outside of extension warehouse).
• Finding out if there are any 2014 updates to the extensions.
• Moving an installed extension from an older version of SketchUp manually, if no .rbz is available. This is not a much preferred method and should be avoided if possible.

It is important to check out the Extension Warehouse and ensure if the most preferred plugin is already compatible to SketchUp 2014. Extensions in the “My Extensions” page are grouped with 2014 compatible extensions together at the top of the installed plugins list. User can also install all the 2014 compatible plugins with the “Install All” button. Individual plugin pages also show if that plugin is 2014 compatible. User should be careful not to transfer outdated and unused plugins and not to overwrite plugins that are already installed via the Extension Warehouse.

It is possible that user might have to open SketchUp after copying each plugin to ensure that the plugin does not cause any Load Errors on startup. In case a plugin causes Load Errors while SketchUp is starting, it is required to contact the plugin developer for additional assistance. Some of the major new and improved SketchUp plugins 2014 are listed below:

Shortcutter Beta v0.3.1: Shortcutter for SketchUp is a simple utility that displays all the assigned shortcuts of the user in a nice web dialog. It includes Modifier Keys that are are color coded for easy identification. Version 0.3.1 fixes several MAC issues. It is important to note Shortcutter requires SketchUcation Tools to run as its addon. When it is first installed, the SketchUp must be restarted, and the user should also be on-line to use it, because it uses files hosted on SketchUcation to display the UI. It is currently SU8, SU2013 and SU2014 compatible.

Video and download link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=520206#p520206
 
 


GKWare Door Maker Free / Pro v1.0.24: This plugin creates Cabinet doors for all types of cabinets of any reasonable size in a variety of styles and textures. The new Door Maker Pro adds 4 more Styles, user definable profiles and door handles. There are 7 styles available that are plain, shaker, square, arch, cathedral, double arch and double cathedral. The Pro version adds 4 more styles of multi panel doors which are square square, arch square, cathedral square and three panel square. And about 15 wood grain textures to select from. Adding additional textures is also possible. Besides, the new Door Maker Pro supports user definable profiles. Available in different languages like English, French, Russian, Chinese(traditional), Chinese (simplified), Spanish, Italian and German, the plugin is compatible to Mac OS X, Windows, SU 7, SU 8, SU 2013, SU 2014.

Video link: http://sketchucation.com/plugin/824-gkware_doormaker

 


S4u ScaleTool v2.0.0: With S4u ScaleTool user can select groups or components for scale or push/pull dimension(x,y,z axis). Scale Fix dimension(x,y,z axis) and resetting scale is also possible. 

Video link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=57067

Add Layer v1.1.0: Add Layer plugin is available with a new feature that modifies layers. Use can add a new layer and select its behavior. Add Layer brings up a dialog to let you select the name and visibility of the new Layer. User must press Apply or else no changes to the selected Layer will be made. The dialog is not updated to reflect the selected Layer's properties.

CL3VER v2.0.0: CL3VER is the first web-based platform that enables architects, 3D designers, visualization studios and agencies to develop interactive 3D presentations that works in the browser without the need to install or maintain any software. This plugin can be used for the everyday customer speak to allow them to see buildings, products, and any 3D project from different angles, inside or outside, and view and compare alternative designs.

Download and video link: http://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/cl3ver

SightSpace View v1.2: It is possible to turn any SketchUp model into a mobile Augmented Reality experience with SightSpace View.

Comments vv1.5.2: With the Comments plugin, users can add comments to their file. The users must open a window which allows them to add text including comments, history, etc. to their file. Besides, users can link a comment to a scene: when clicking on a scene, the tab linked appears. The plugin comes with translation in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish and German. Other languages can also be added if required.

Polyhedra v1.12: Polyhedra plugin helps to draw the five regular Platonic Solids, with size specified either as the length of a side, or the radius (of a circumscribed sphere). With Right-click/Edit [Shape] the size can be changed. User can also delete and redraw to change between side and radius for size. The plugin works with parametric.rb (included in .rbz file).

 


SU Draw Parametric Shapes v2.1: This plugin enables Sketchup users to draw and subsequently edit a range of common geometric shapes by specifying in a dialogue box their size and (where relevant) the number of segments to use when drawing shapes based on circles, polygons, or helix.

Layers Panel v1.0.6: Designed to be very similar to Photoshop's layers panel, this plugin adds the ability to group layers, sort them, hide/collapse groups, lock them, and choose layers to render. Layers Panel replaces SketchUp's layers window and reproduces every feature of it, except layer colors.

SketchUcation Plugin Store v2.6.0: With this plugin user can find, AutoInstall, manage plugins & extensions, all inside SketchUp. It also helps to access over 800 Plugins.

Super Drape v3.2: This plugin helps to drape one group onto another group, and copy materials from within the 1st group into the 2nd group.

3DArcStudio Tree Maker v1.06.04: Creating Sketchup 3D Trees and Plants is easy and simple with this SketchUp plugin. Besides, it also includes predifined tree templates and with all parameters customizable.

LaunchUp v1.1.4: LaunchUp offers a quick launcher to search and execute features of SketchUp, including plugins that have been installed.

3D Print Service v2.0.0: Uploading models to i.Materialise and getting it printed in a range of colours and materials is easy with this plugin.

MITSUBA Render Exporter v1.2.9 (20140330): User can now export tool from SketchUp to Mitsuba render. It is important to note that this plugin works only with Mitsuba render.

 


Video link: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=512606#p512606

2D Tools v6.3: The 2D Tools is a broad suite of drawing tools/editing for working in '2D' which is now compatible with MAC. 2D Tools works with deBabelizer.rb which is auto-installed.

Video link: http://sketchucation.com/plugin/702-2dtools

Face2Frame v4: Creates stud wall from a face with added options for displaying graphical and statistical elements.

Rotated Box v1.2.2: Create a box in four clicks and define its rotation.

Generate Ceiling Grid v7: Generate Ceiling Grid plugin supports developing a suspended ceiling "T" grid and tiles.

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www.sketchup-ur-space.com
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