Useful Sketchup Tip For Tiurning A Sofa Photo into a 3D Model

In this session, we will feature an exclusive sketchup tip on turning a sofa photo into a 3d model by the assistance of sketchup.

Making a static thing into a 3D model is really an art. And this sketchup tip will help you to learn this art so easily.

This exclusive tutorial is brought to you by the Samphoas Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrgPCVPsfZFib4CaJ0WDrNA). Don’t forget to subscribe the channel and share it with your friends.

The detailed sketchup tip is demonstrated below:

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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How to easily edit components and groups in sketchup for a larger and complicated project

Google SketchUp is a great tool to fulfill all your modeling requirements. Components and groups are most significant parts of sketchup to develop models. One can apply some simple processes to edit groups and components in SketchUp. Just choose your object, right click your mouse and opt for either edit group or edit component.

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For a bigger project, it becomes very difficult to operate through all the supplementary geometry in your project. So, editing groups and components also becomes very complicated. But one can easily overcome this issue by applying some sketchup tips.

The existing setting for this model is not to conceal the rest of the model at the time of editing so while going for editing a complicated scene your view should appear like below :-

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But with a easy check on hide rest of model and a very complex scene can instantly move from that to this.

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Now, you will be able to smoothly & rapidly edit your model devoid of operating through all the extra geometry in the scene.

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On windows operating system based machine under windows pull down menu choose model info.

With Model Info selected, a dialog box will appear like this one. After that choose components and you will get the choice to fade or hide objects at the time of editing.

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Ref.: http://www.geniusdv.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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How use sketchup for joinery modeling of a table made with wood

This sketchup youtube video tutorial will introduce you to some useful sketchup tips and techniques for working out the design, details and joinery for a table.

Sketchup is a handy tool to generate models of any woodworking plans.

There are various sketchup extensions which can be used to automatically generate mortise and tenon joints, shop drawings, timber material lists, as well as presentation drawings.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Learn how to upload 360° Photo Rendering in facebook with eXif.er

This v-ray sketchup tutorial will teach you some useful tips to upload "360° Photo" Rendering on Facebook. One can make it possible by using eXif.er, a free, web-based tool to see and edit image metadata that is embedded inside image.

It is considered as the best tool to control EXIF meta data). It's connected with Flickr, Dropbox and Google Drive and facilitates the users to look through their cloud pictures and directly edit them.

It is compatible with JPG, JPEG and TIFF images files.

To get more updates, visit thexifer.net

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Some useful sketchup tips to place and move Thea Lights within Sketchup

Thea Render presents this useful sketchup tutorial on Thea for sketchup. In this tutorial you will be familiar with the new method for positioning and moving Thea Lights within sketchup with the use of Light Tool in Thea.

In order to discover the lights, open the Thea Tool and choose light tab. There exist four icons which represent one light type.

To download Thea for sketchup, visit Thea for SketchUp

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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How to use sketchup make to print to scale

This exclusive sketchup video is the part of sketchup skill builder series. This video offers step-by-step guidelines to print directly to any scale with Sketchup Make.

Besides, you will learns various sketchup tips to modify the output as well as fit your sketchup model on the printed page.

To enhance your knowledge, visit the following article help.sketchup.com/en/article

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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TIMMS Site Viewer for sketchup

Trimble Applanix has developed TIMMS Site Viewer for sketchup. This sketchup extension only supports sketchup 2015 and it is used to produce, annotate, publish sites having buildings and structures model generated with data that is mapped with TIMMS (Trimble Indoor Mobile Mapping Solution).

This sketchup extension can import building models , annotate them with text or links, tag rooms for locating them easily, allot the equivalent panoramic images to them, then publish the complete site online that can be seen with the TIMMS Site Viewer smartphone or web application.

Link for download TIMMS Site Viewer

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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How to control texture size in sketchup 2016

This is an exclusive sketchup tutorial video from the youtuber W Design Corp. By going through this video, one can learn some easy to-follow & quick sketchup tips to manage texture size in sketchup 2016.

The tutorial provides great benefits to include detail and realism to your sketchup models.

We want to feature this page: sketchup4architect.com/sketchup-plugins

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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The 2nd edition of “Architectural Design With Sketchup” is published by Alex Schreyer

Alex Schreyer, the Director of the University of Massachusetts’s Building and Construction Technology Program, recently published the second edition of his exclusive sketchup book alias “Architectural Design With Sketchup”.

In this sketchup book, Alex give emphasis on how to handle textures as well as become efficient with components, extensions, rendering etc.

Architectural Design with SketchUp is arranged into five primary sections: component-based modeling, extensions, rendering, making, and Ruby scripting.

This book is supported with an informative website alias SketchUpforDesign.com where one can get lots of useful resources like sketchup tips, news, sample files, 30 tutorial videos (12 free ones!) as well as options for live chat with Author.

The book briefly describes the importance of Component-based modeling as well as future aspect information modeling.

By reading this book, one can learn how to generate, develop, and arrange components as well as how to author parametric components with dynamic attributes, categorize components with industry schema, and produce take-offs from your model.

In this second edition, there is completely a new section alias Alex’s “Making Things with SketchUp” chapter where Alex has explored some of the most recognized digital fabrication methods like 3D printing, CNC, laser cutting, even 2D printing. These are supported with a primer for modeling advice, file prep, export considerations, and pre-fabrication instructions for functioning with other software programs.

This section is only about 30 pages long, but Alex gets remarkably hands-on around some important workflows.

Aidan Chopra, the renowned SketchUp Evangelist and Co-Founder and Creative Director at Bitsbox, has made a brief review of this excellent sketchup book. Please go through the following link to get the reviews.

Sourse : blog.sketchup.com

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Some useful tips to get the best result from your rendering with V-ray

It is very challenging task for all the artists to provide a perfect realistic look in their 3d scenes. In this regard V-ray can be handy tool to arrange scenes & render them perfectly as well as particularly resolve and polish up the images. V-Ray 3.0 is the most improved version that contains a wide array of new toolset useful for augmenting your workflow speed as well as making the rendering quality better.

The renowned digital artist Vinnie LaCour has presented some useful tips focusing on some of the advanced features of V-ray 3.0

Latest UI synopsis: With V-Ray Quick Settings dialog, the users can avail their desirable render settings and these can be used in new scenes for having quick views effortlessly.

This dialog provides the users some fundamental settings to start with. There is a setting button with some options through which the users can get the render settings dialogue directly where the users can adjust some of the advanced controls. There also exist Basic, Advanced and Expert modes in the UI interface.

Scene Arrangement: Provide a little lights and a ground plane, and apply VRaySunlight and VRayDomeLight. For experimentation of lighting, one can include a V-Ray material to the supersede material slot and keep out glass objects.

Progressive rendering facilitates the users to envisage their renders swiftly devoid of retarding for a final frame. The users will be able to have a instant preview of their scene and they don’t require to switch renders or modify settings. The Progressive rollout exists directly under the image sampler rollout and it includes the lowest amount and highest samples and maximum render time.

Final Amendments: V-Ray frame buffer is also significantly improved. There are new inclusions to the color correction and these are very useful to check color modifications as well as adjust independent materials devoid of re-rendering the whole image through the new Render Mask feature.

Opt for the Image Sampler rollout (V-Ray>Render Settings), change the Render Mask dropdown to Selected and pick the objects the users will prefer to tweak. Make some modifications to the materials used to those objects and re-render.

Ref. http://www.creativebloq.com/

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Perform a superior rendering by combining sketchup and blender

The SketchUp is an outstanding tool for 3d modeling work. But the main problem arises while rendering any images with sketchup as the tool is not intended particularly for viewing. In order to produce photo-realistic images with sketchup, one has to apply several plugins and 3rd party renders like V-ray or Maxwell render. But for availing these softwares, the users have to purchase a license which may not be always affordable for users.

The users can utilize Blender, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software suite useful for a series of 3d work like modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking as well as editing and game formation, together with Sketchup for creating realistic images without buying any licence.

The sketchup professionals can create a 3d model and export it to DXF format model that is supported by both the free version of the software like SketchUp Pro. After exporting the model to DXF format, apply Autodesk FBX Converter to convert 3d model twice. Now the first and second FBX will be converted to OBJ format.

Once the geometry is appropriately imported into Blender, the users have to work on the settings attached Cycles own, that would be the materials and textures in conjunction with the lighting of the scene.

For getting the best result, try to build the most of the materials and textures of the selected settings for creating the images renderer as it solves the problems of mapping and makes sure the pragmatism of the surfaces in the image. It is recommended that all the setup procedure of the textures should be performed in Blender.

There are some useful courses on rendering with Blender:-

• Course about modeling for architecture with SketchUp
• Course on advanced rendering with Blender Cycles
• Course on advanced materials with Blender Cycles

Go through the following video that focuses on how to export a scene from sketchup to blender and the fundamentals of the of the cycles render engine.

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Tuhin Maity

Sketchup User

www.sketchup4architect.com
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Make your own architecture with sketchup wikihouse

Alastair Parvin is the co-founder of WikiHouse. It is the latest open-source architecture website through which one can select a home plan online and then download the free plan and gather sheets of plywood to the local CNC machine. After that the parts and tools are sliced for amassing the home. Transmit these pieces to the building site and create your house within few days with the help of others.

http://vimeo.com/52383144

The plans concerning the structure of the WikiHouse are not generated from any architectural drawings instead of these are produced with Trimble Sketchup. The users get the ability to easily draft a structure and distribute it with the general public. The users also will be able to select a plan and customize it according to their requirements by applying the 3-D design program.

Here all the parts are numbered and finally the users will receive a full-size IKEA kit. There does not exist any bolts, screws as well as nails. The designs apply a wedge-and-peg system for constancy. The design library even consists of a printable mallet and ladder to be utilized in assembly. A group consisting of two or more people can easily create it by working in tandem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=zod8Rc2cijQ

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Published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup designer

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Submit your sketchup tips/tricks and win $500

3Dconnexion is presenting another fabulous competition for sketchup lovers. The sketchup users have to just send one most useful sketchup tip or trick and the sender who has provided the best sketchup tips will receive $500 in Amazon gift cards.

To Participate in the competition, perform the Following:

Present your greatest general SketchUp tip or trick.

AND

Present your top SketchUp tip or trick that you can produce with a 3D mouse.

The top 3 sets of entries will be rewarded the following prizes:

• First Place — $500 Amazon Gift Card
• Second Place — $250 Amazon Gift Card
• Third Place — $100 Amazon Gift Card

The participants have to send their entries in a .doc, .docx or .txt file.

The participants have to abide by the following rules and regulations:-

• All tips should be in English.
• Submitted documents should contain the format like .doc, .docx or .txt
• 3Dconnexion should posses the rights to all contest submissions and utilize this content or elements of it in any format. The sender can include their name as well as a link to their website with their submitted documents.
• All entries should reach by midnight ET on Friday, February 14th.

Local currency prizes available for non-US residents.

APPLY ONLINE

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published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup Designer

www.sketchup4architect.com
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Humber College is offering online courses on 3D landscape modeling through Sketchup Pro

Humber College is conducting an online course on sketchup which is known as Landscape Graphics with SketchUp Pro. The course is very useful for Landscape designers and architects, Permaculturists, Farmers, Land planners, Educators as well as anyone who want to use digital drafting.

By undergoing the course, the attendees can learn the following advanced technology.

• a latest combined three-dimensional design and modelling method
• Conventional presentation documents along with a complete set of 2-dimensional landscape plans
• Computer-supported presentations, slide shows and animations
• Incorporation with imported design components involving base maps and construction elements
• 3-dimensional landscape modeling
• Terrain modeling
• Incorporation with Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.
• Incorporation with Google maps.

For further information, visit humber.ca/appliedtechnology/part-time-programs or email -ceappliedtech@humber.ca or call 416.675.5094.

If anybody prefers to include a particular class to their Course List (from which one can make a registration form), please click the ADD button beside the class they wish to participate.

Apply for the course

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Published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup Designer

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Some useful tips for sketchup modelers while creating a sketchup model

Tip 1: While creating models for a small detailed object as for instance a light bulb filament or zipper pull, it becomes very difficult for sketchup users to find the perfect geometry or it becomes very complicated to maneuver the object inside the larger model.

To get rid of such issues, just follow these steps - Initially model the object at a bigger range like fifteen times the real scale. After completing it, create a group of the object and reduce it 15 times to the actual scale.

Tip 2: While dealing with an outsized site plan, the sketchup users often face problem to control sketchup models on screen as the models become unmanageable. There are several methods to cope up with the situation - keep away from multifaceted visual styles, turning off shadows as well as concealing groups and components on layers at the time of working. But if the sketchup users hide particular objects from view, they may not be able to complete the model successfully. So the users should follow some useful tips to maintain the objects to be detectable on screen and at the same time navigate the model as actively as per their requirements.

As for example the sketchup user deals with a site model and it necessitates that the users can view the exact location of numerous trees while starting the modeling process. If the user applies even fairly comprehensive 3d trees, the modeling process becomes very slower. Model an uncomplicated, low-polygon “popsicle" tree component and utilize that like a placeholder for the trees. Apply this low-poly model as a proxy and position it toward the exact location of the trees.

Once all the modeling process will be completed and scenes are placed, just right click on one of the popsicle tree components and opt for “reload” to explore more detailed 3d tree that fits in the final view. And if the detailed tree is already positioned on the site plan someplace in the file, click on the Components dialogue and select the home icon for viewing the list of components available in the existing file. With any "popsicle” tree Component selected, get the list within the detailed tree model, right-click over it and choose “Replace Selected”. In this case, just ensure that the component axis is identical for both proxy and detailed model.

The sketchup users can apply these tips for any kind of circumstances.

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Published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup Designer

http://www.sketchup4architect.com/

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SketchUp 3D modeling, rendering and animation classes taught by Brightman Tal

Private Training

Mr. Daniel Tal and Michael Brightman, the most renowned Sketchup educators, have arranged a 1 on 1 training program to teach SketchUp. They will provide consultations for individual or any firm.

All the trainings will be provided online with the help of web meeting and sharing browsers. The files and screens will be shared for successful training.

The trainings will be offered on the following topics :-

• ·         SketchUp Basics
• ·         Architecture
• ·         Terrain Basics
• ·         Terrain Advanced
• ·         Rendering
• ·         Interiors
• ·         Site Design
• ·         Cad & SketchUp
• ·         Tips & Methods
• ·         Ruby Scripts
• ·         Animations

The motto of this training is to educate the talented SketchUp users for acquiring the most out of the software to fulfill their business purposes. The attendee of this course can avail the following SketchUp related resources:

• ·         Free component models
• ·         Continued e-mail support after classes
• ·         Ruby Scripts
• ·         Additional takeaways depending on the topic
• ·         Judge skills and suggest next steps and topics. 

The training fees are as follows :-

• Initial consultation 2 hours for $135
• Follow up classes are $65 an hour, minimum 1 hour.

For undergoing the training programs, contact by sending mail at ambit3d@gmail.com

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