Liquid Galaxy is a new system to upload any architectural and engineering models into Google Earth developed with sketchup

The Liquid Galaxy is a new concept to share your virtual reality experience through a group of users devoid of head-mounted displays.

The liquid can’t generate full virtual reality that perfectly engross the users in 360°x360° surrounding rather than it applies 3D VR content for developing a panorama view that spreads away into the peripheral vision of viewers.

The system is organized with five or seven large monitors in a 12′-4″ (3.75m) diameter arc and applies the Liquid Galaxy hardware and software to develop the experiences for the users for easy navigation. Motion during the 3D environment is managed through a touchscreen, a 6-axis SpaceNav controller or tracking systems like Leap Motion (www.leapmotion.com ) all facilitating the users to navigate while “in” the 3D model.

The users can test the satellite imagery and 3D building models of Google Earth in the large-scale panorama of the Liquid Galaxy as well as encircling the globe. With the capability to use Google Earth, users will be able to load architectural and engineering models into Google Earth that are produced with Trimble’s 3D modeling software, SketchUp. This aspect facilitates the users to investigate or preview and envisage new spaces that are under testing phase. It is specifically helpful for architectural firms who are digging into a robust medium for presentations.

Real Estate brokerages can display properties containing 3D models of merged Google Earth data and “fly” potential clients surrounding intense urban neighborhoods or big rural landscapes. With the Liquid Galaxy, the users can enjoy a contextual tour with various listings devoid of departuring the real estate office, although the properties belong to distant locations.

Some extra data can be included in Liquid Galaxy presentations to improve the value of the experience. An urban atmosphere could highlight facilities like mass transit, road usage, and other demographic data. End Point offers a browser-based content management system that facilitates the team to develop complete presentations with geographic maps, pins, and GIS information containing graphic overlays, video, and web pages. These presentations are utilized to walk the viewer through a full story, covering location to location together with illustrative text, photos, and videos.

To get more updates, visit liquidgalaxy.endpoint.com

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Learn how to use sketchup & google earth for conceptual site modeling

Digital Tutors offers a series of useful tutorials for sketchup & 3d modeling professionals to learn how sketchup and google earth can be used for conceptual site modeling to streamline the architectural design process.

These sketchup tutorials will focus on the application of SketchUp Pro and Google Earth for instantly generating a site model for envisaging a conceptual mass inside the framework of its overall site and in the design site.

The course will start with exploring various basic tools to be used in the design process. From there, focus will be given on how to export the preliminary massing concept into Google Earth to uncover a few essential measurements as well as evaluate its impact on the adjoining site.

Afterward, there will be a focus on SketchUp Pro as well as how to apply the Sandbox tools to sculpt and paint the terrain in the site model rapidly. Also learn how to deal with components from your preferred library and in the 3D warehouse to put in scale and a sense of life to any model.

After the design site has been modeled, gain knowledge of generating views, scenes and simple animations useful for communicating your concept.

After completing this SketchUp training course one will be fully aware of making a site model, producing scenes and even walkthroughs. Besides, one will be trained on how to facilitate the communication of your design intent through google earth.

Access the complete video based tutorial

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Best free 3D modelling applications for you

This is an awesome example of 25 best 3D modelling applications for completely free of cost that we are presenting you. However, to give you the clear concept, you need to know, what is 3D modelling and how it has been used.

What is 3D Modelling

In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the procedure of developing a mathematical representation of any three-dimensional surface of an object (either inanimate or living) via specialized software. The product is called a 3D model. Theoretically, 3 Dimensions refers to substance that are constructed on three plans (X, Y and Z). The process of making 3D graphics can be divided into three basic phases: 3D modeling, 3D animation and 3D rendering.

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Where it is used

The 3D modeling is used in a variety of industries like films, animation and gaming, interior designing and architecture. They are also used in the medical industry for the interactive representations of anatomy. A wide number of 3D software is also used in constructing digital representation of mechanical models or parts before they are actually manufactured.CAD/CAM related software are used in such fields, and with these software, not only can you construct the parts, but also assemble them, and observe their functionality. 3D modelling is also used in the field of Industrial Design, wherein products are 3D modeled before representing them to the clients. In Media and Event industries, 3D modelling is used in Stage/Set Design.

So, here is the list of 25 best free 3d modeling applications for you :-

1. Blender: Blender Foundation is a Dutch public benefit corporation, established to support and make easy the projects on blender.org. A free 3D modeling and animation application which can be utilized for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications.
2. K-3D: It is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It features a plugin-oriented procedural engine for all of its content, making K-3D a very versatile and powerful package. K-3D excels at polygonal modeling, and includes basic tools for NURBS, patches, curves and animation.
3. Art of Illusion: Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and renderingstudio.
4. SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool: Free 3D modeling and animation software for aspiring game developers and modders. The Mod Tool is a free version of XSI for non-commercial game creation.
5. Zmodeler: ZModeler (or Zanoza Modeler) is a 3D modeling application developed by Oleg Melashenko. It is aimed at modelers who model for computer games. ZModeler is capable of complex modeling, even though it does not support important modeling functions such as extruding, or beveling.
6. TopMod3d: It is a free, open source, portable, platform independent topological mesh modeling system that allows users to create high genus 2-manifold meshes.
7. SketchUp 6: SketchUp is software that you can use to create, share and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models forGoogle Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you’re done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.
8. AutoQ3D Community – 3D Editor: AutoQ3D Community is an easy, light and fast 3D model editor tool that uses the full power of your PC´s graphics hardware, allowing you to rapidly prototype your 3D designs.
9. Anim8or: Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program which allows users to create and modify 3D models with built-in primitives such as spheres, cylinders, platonic solids, etc.; mesh-edit and subdivision; splines, extrusion, lathing, modifiers, bevel and warps.
10. Seamless3d: Seamless3d is free open source 3d modelling software which designed for the artist who is realistic about the time it takes to learn any tool that’s going to offer creative freedom.
11. BRL-CAD: BRL-CAD is a powerful cross-platform constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing for rendering & geometric analyses, network distributed framebuffer support, image & signal-processing tools.
12. 3DPlus: With 3DPlus you can create outstanding 3D designs in just a few minutes – with no need for any complicated VRML or other programming. 3DPlus is the amazing 3D design software that enables you to create stunning 3D graphics for your home, school or business – no experience required.
13. 3D Canvas: 3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas’ Object Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D objects.
14. EDrawings: eDrawings is a freeware utility which will give the user the power to view, create and share 3D models and 2D drawings. eDrawings offers unique capabilities like point-and-click animations that make it easy for anyone with a PC to interpret and understand 2D and 3D design data.
15. Blink 3D: Blink 3D is an authoring tool for creating 3D environments. The 3D environments are immersive, just like today’s modern games and can be viewed using the a Blink 3D Viewer on the Web or locally.
16. Minos: MINOS extends the capabilities of your existing 2D-or 3D-wireframe-based systems, so you can take advantage of all the benefits solid modeling offers right away.
17. FreeCAD: It is a basic 3D CAD with advanced Motion Simulation capabilities. It is suitable for anyone interested in learning 3D CAD and Motion Simulation for free before using more sophisticated packages. Its motion simulation capabilities are comparable to the best and can provide accurate answers to engineers and scientists in diverse fields.
18. Bishop3D: Bishop3D is an interactive modeler and animation tool for the popular freeware raytracer POV-Ray™, a world-class renderer for creating three-dimensional photo-realistic images.
19. K3DSurf: K3DSurf is a program to visualize and manipulate Mathematical models in three, four, five and six dimensions.
20. DesignWorkshop Lite: DesignWorkshop is a three-dimensional modeling program for architectural design and related endeavors.
21. GDesign 2.0: GDesign 2.0 is a 2D/3D free generative art application for Windows. With GDesign you can interactively build, test, and edit complex models.
22. Sweet Home 3D: Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application that helps you place your furniture. On a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D helps people to design their interior quickly.
23. TrueSpace: TrueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.
24. Alibre Design Xpress: Alibre Design Xpress is a rich and capable 3D solid modeler for creating mechanical parts, assemblies and 2D drawings – and is free. Alibre Design Xpress equips the person needing basic 3D design capabilities.
25. 3DVIA Shape: 3DVia Shape is a free online 3D modeling application that eases you to create, publish and share ideas in 3D.

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Creation of SketchUp Model with the Use of Trimble Vision

The enthusiast may remember that in 2003, Trimble represented a super-camera – V10 Imaging Rover that takes images of large objects, something like building, bridges and roads. It captures as well as accumulates pictures of mega-objects – bridges, buildings, apartments – tag those site, which are deck up with those photograph with specific locations and orientation.

Trimble Vision Total Stations are gathering the images – some people are wondering about geospatial professionals might use this location-aware data to create 3D models in SketchUp.

The latest versions of SketchUp Pro and Trimble Business Center now work together to export images and camera poses for the direct use with SketchUp’s Match Photo tool.

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Trimble V10 Imaging Rover: The Trimble V10 Imaging Rover with Trimble VISION™ technology is an integrated camera system that accurately captures 360-degree digital panoramas for well-organized visual documentation and dimension of the surrounding environment. As a complete system solution, the Trimble V10 enables you to capture more critical information that can be transformed into enhanced, rich geospatial deliverables. With the Trimble V10, a picture is worth a thousand points.

Total Stations: The precision optics and robotics of Trimble total stations are paired with streamlined workflows, innovative training and in-field support services. With the performance to maximize productivity today, and the scalability to continue adapting to new challenges and opportunities into the future, surveyors around the world trust Trimble optical solutions.

Match Photo introduction: Use the Match New Photo and Edit Matched Photo menu items to create a 3D model to match a photo or to match an existing 3D model to a photo's context. Activate the Match New Photo and Edit Matched Photo menu items from the Camera menu.

Trimble has made this mixing along with improvements to Match Photo to make this kind of photo modeling easier than ever before. There is no need to designate vanishing lines and prominent features on the structure to specify each camera pose. The camera orientations here are pre-loaded with the file import from Trimble Business Center (TBC). With as few as three points exported from TBC you can set up your axes and begin to create your model.

For working in a rhythmic way, Trimble expanded the TBC *.skp exporter to permit images and points to be included. This lets you influence the TBC’s skill to create photo points with precise locations. You can generate and export any key points that will assist the modeling process within SketchUp, including points for setting up your SketchUp axes and inference points for important architectural particulars.

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The Trimble V10 comprises of a panoramic camera display. This means there are twelve cameras that collect images for a full 360-degree view. The multiple viewpoints are useful while you are processing the images in TBC, since you can generate tie points all the way around each of the photo stations to be used in the bundle modification.

For the modelling in SketchUp, the users only require to export images that include the area of interest (e.g. building, bridge …). In TBC, you can easily create a polygon boundary around the area of interest. If you use a boundary, the *.skp exporter will include only the images with view angles that intersect it. This greatly reduces image clutter in SketchUp.

To further help filter out unnecessary images from the exported *.skp, TBC let users to include a subset of your photo stations. This lets you select only those stations, which have images; you need for modeling in SketchUp. The *.skp that TBC creates during export contains a divide the sight tab for each image. This diminishes confusion and provides easy navigation during modelling.

Since the capability to move easily between images is important to efficient model creation, the “Igloo view” (keyboard shortcut “i”) has been improved to walk you through the images fast. You can see the adjacent images that provide context around the arrangement.

After exporting appropriate 3D points to SketchUp, their positions can be matched with pixels in the images, to orient the coordinate axes. If the structure is rectangular, this should only need to be done with one image using a few points, and then all of the images will be automatically oriented in such a way that a consistent model can be created from multiple images.

The images from TBC have the camera distortions removed, so they are also great for texturing users model in SketchUp. But make sure to collect the images from locations that allow for a clear view of the structure (without obstructions like cars or trees), then use the Project Photo tool to apply them as textures.

After completion of these tasks, the users will have a model that can be used in all sorts of SketchUp workflows, including daylight, shadow, and view plane analyses, report generation, and Google Earth previews.

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How to import files from sketchup to 2020 Design V10

Go through the following video tutorial, to learn how to extend the library in 2020 Design V10 by importing files from the Trimble SketchUp Warehouse.

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Geo-modeling with Google SketchUp

SketchUp is a fantastic design program to generate buildings in association with the 3D Warehouse and Google Earth.  One can utilize both Google Building Maker and Google SketchUp to make models for Google Earth. Initially create a simple massing model through Building Maker with available aerial photography. Save the model to the Google 3D Warehouse and then download to Google SketchUp to put in details and textures.

One can promptly design and competently trace his project geographically on the Google Earth for perfect sun studies, context studies, fast massing studies, city planning. Any other geographic or demographic information can also be included into your design.

The process of geo-modeling with SketchUp consists of photo-texturing (painting) the models with photographs of the structures to be modeled. These photographs are available from various sources - take photographs of any building with the help of a camera, take useful images from online, utilize street view imagery in google maps to get the imagery and generate geo-models with it. (but the modeled building should be visible in street view).

The sketchup users can select one of two following modeling methods according to their capability:

SketchUp Beginner: For newbie in SketchUp, apply the Extruded Footprint method. This method is very user friendly and makes very good results. 

Learn more about the Extruded Footprint geo-modeling method >>

SketchUp Advanced: As a advanced user, follow the Matched Photo method of geo-modeling. This technique employs SketchUp's photo-matching feature to create a model based on one or more perspective photographs of your building. This method is well matched with uncropped photographs taken from certain angles.

Learn more about the Matched Photo geo-modeling method >>

Some useful tutorials for Geo-modeling in Sketchup:

Geo-modeling features in SketchUp 8

With SketchUp 8, the geo-modeling brush set is better connected with Google’s massive geo-data paint bucket than ever before.

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Google Earth gets its complete look by SketchUp

Google Earth is the digital atlas from the house of Google. We know that we can have the geo modeling on Google Earth of various cities. And when we talk about 3D modeling of Google, the name of SketchUp must be included. With the help of SketchUp, geo modeling of many cities can be done and uploaded in Google Earth. Till date there are almost 109 cities in the Google Earth and the number is still counting. There are models of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oslo, Norway, The Hague, The Netherlands, San Antonio, Texas, Tucson, Arizona, Norfolk, Virginia, Salt Lake City, Utah and many more cities. The latest addition to this list is Paris, the city of love.

http://www.sketchup4architect.com/ may have brought out the designer side in everyone with models ranging from the very simple to the very intricate. But it is Google Earth where these models are vividly brought to life. Now using these two tools, the average internet user doesn’t even need to leave their house in order to travel around the world – or even make money.

The buildings of any city seem to be all the rage and whole towns and cities are starting to appear on Google Earth as 3D SketchUp buildings. Soon we’ll have every street corner and alleyway meticulously reproduced in 3D virtual reality. This is starting to become a boom industry as businesspeople are starting to see the financial incentives. Not only is there a thriving industry in making the models for other people but professionals such as real estate agents and architects can also harness the power of SketchUp and Google Earth to build 3D models of properties to show to prospective clients. Why look at a patch of empty ground and imagine what will be there eventually when you can make an interactive 3D model instead?


Another advantage of this collaboration of Google Earth and SketchUp is for the travelers. They can check out the targeted destination on Google Earth. Even they can map the route on Google Earth to see how far away the airport is from the hotel. Prospective house buyers can also check out the area they are contemplating moving to if they happen to live far away. But the best advantage of all is that you can re-live memories. After coming back from holiday, you can go to Google Earth and see the sights again and pretend you’re still there.

So SketchUp and Google Earth make the perfect pair. SketchUp provides the tools to make the models and Earth brings them to life.

Two Chilean cities added to Google Building Maker

Chile based Santiago and Valparaiso cities are included in Google Building Maker.
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/07/two-chilean-cities-added-to-google.html

Rajib Dey
Sketchup4architect

Google choose Jefferson City to be placed in Google Earth

Google will make a complete virtual model of the Jefferson city. The online visitors will be in a position to go through the city streets and get a close view of downtown buildins.

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Rajib Dey
Sketchup4architect

A Great Combination of SketchUp & Google Earth:

SketchUp & Google Earth:
Are you interested about creativity? Do you want to judge yourself? Do you have imaginative power?
If the answer is yes, then you must go for SketchUp, 3D program software, & the other is Google Earth.

SketchUp & Google Earth will solve your problem, or better to say through SketchUp & Google Earth you can judge yourself. These are the mediums which can easily justify your compatibility.

SketchUp gives confidence & removes complication:
SketchUp is the software which provides 3D textured model based on your drawing on a paper. SketchUp helps you keep the confidence as well as makes you self-sufficient. Using this software you can easily produce the concept or model which was only remaining in your mind just few minutes ago; even, SketchUp will better produce what you can’t imagine or draw. SketchUp removes the complication & produces an easy 3D textured model.

Difference between SketchUp & Google Earth:
These are all about SketchUp, then what’s about Google Earth? SketchUp helps you present a 3D model & Google Earth helps you freely choose an area where you want to place your model created by using SketchUp.

About Google Earth:
Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. With Google Earth's rich, geographical content, you are able to experience a more realistic view of the world. You can fly to your favorite place, search for businesses and even navigate through directions.

A great combination of SketchUp & Google earth:
Google Earth and SketchUp work together to help you build and visualize your 3D world. SketchUp includes features to facilitate the placement of models in Google Earth. SketchUp has the feature like 3D warehouse that lets SketchUp users search for models made by others. You can take any model from 3D warehouse & place it on your favorable place by using Google Earth.

How SketchUp models are used in Google Earth:
SketchUp is a user-friendly 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. You can place the finished models in any favorable place of yours by using Google Earth. You can also share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. SketchUp is a great way to discover your imagination & find out the confidence slept in you. Google Earth is another broad medium riding on which you can fly any place of the world.
Why use SketchUp & Google Earth:
You really like how easy it is to create models using this program & to place them of your selected place using Google Earth. You can recommend it to anyone from the hobbyist, for experimentation and fun, to the professional, who can use this app for preliminary concepts for larger projects.

Anurupa Roy

Sketchup4architect