2 days exclusive training on DesignPH, a useful plugin for sketchup

It is very difficult for the sketchup users to create the design of a passive house. The objective of DesignPH is to make the process easy for obtaining the Passive House standard.

Here lies the importance of the designPH plug-in for SketchUp. It offers an excellent 3D modeling interface that completely supports the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) to develop a building model, allocate building components as well as choose a location.

This sketchup plugin can easily workout the annual energy calculation to examine the design instantly. As soon as a flexible design is accomplished, crucial building characteristics can be exported for being incorporated with PHPP.

In this regard Passive House California, is conducting a two-day online course on May 12, 2016 at 8:30 AM - Friday, May 13, 2016 at 4:30 PM (PDT). The course provides huge benefits to architects, developers, self-builders, building energy modelers and other building professionals. The attendees can gather knowledge on how to apply designPH for creating the design and certification of Passive House buildings. The attendees will be thoroughly trained during the building design phase ranging from building model formation to exporting to PHPP. Special emphasis will be given on iterative design to attain the Passive House criteria. There will be a case study that will improve their practical knowledge to finish and document a designPH model for building certification.

The objectives of the Course:

Develop a 3D model of a building in SketchUp

Ascertain key building characteristics, together with areas, volumes, and shading

Be familiar with using the designPH interface and avail the components database

Allot building components and performance data to the building model

Compute a streamlined annual energy balance for the building

Gain knowledge on rectifying the model recurrently to obtain the Passive House criteria. Export building characteristics and import them into PHPP. Gather and document data and calculations for Passive House certification.

Acquire practical experience in accomplishing a designPH model for a residential development.

Prerequisites: Participants should be well versed with Excel and basic building heat loss calculations.

Optional Course Extension: The participants can get the chance to present models developed by them once the course is completed. The participants get proper feedback on these models by paying extra charge for each model.

Course Requirements: Laptop with PHPP v8.5, Google Sketchup 8, designPH v.1.0.0, and MS Excel (or equivalent), all preloaded. designPH can be purchased at one of the following vendors: FourSevenFive, Small Planet Workshop

For further details on designPH, visit: www.designph.org

Register your seat online: DesignPH SketchUp Plugin- 2 Day

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Trimble Connect now supports sketchup 2016

The Trimble Connect, a cloud-based platform for designers, builders, owners and operators to combine, distribute and view project information, has been upgraded with a improved modern user-interface, new public API (application programming interface) support as well as new support for SketchUp version 2016, and a Trimble Connect Revit Add-in that was in beta stage.

With compatibility Revit 2016, Trimble Connect sustains shared coordinates with Revit models.

Other crucial features: Other enhancements range from LandXML v1.2 file formats and that the public API is now well matched with search. Now the Users will be able to locate files by picking root folder. Besides, the users can generate todo out of a selection of snapshots and not have it to be included as a todo on the 3D page.

There exists an API to present Read-Only/No Access Folder information. To upload .rvt files devoid of the plugin directly should demonstrate exact processing status. There are also various new fixes of bugs.

To get more information on Trimble Connect visit: SightSpace.Pro

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Lots of new updates are included in sketchup 3d warehouse – latest announcement from Trimble

Trimble recently brings new updates to its online 3D Warehouse platform to optimize the process for distributing and downloading free 3D models and materials. 3D Warehouse acts as a pivotal component of the SketchUp 3D modeling software that correlates designers to get access to free, superior 3D content.

Each year, numerous SketchUp designers depend on 3D Warehouse for efficiently importing predefined models straight away into design projects. This update will improve communication & distribution systems with other SketchUp designers involving architects, interior designers, engineers, construction firms and building product manufacturers.

Besides, providing user-generated models, 3D Warehouse contains free 3D product models from several leading brands ranging from Bosch Appliances, Herman Miller, Kohler, Marvin Windows, Natuzzi and Teknion including surfaces and materials from Caesarstone, Formica and Sherwin Williams.

Architects and designers always explore methods for undertaking intelligent product decisions. 3D Warehouse is the go-to site for designers in quest of models of windows and doors, furnishings and finishes and everything amid them. These newest updates will be useful for 3D Warehouse users to get access with tools for interacting with content developers and with each other.

3D Warehouse is now based on the SketchUp ecosystem containing a new commenting system that empowers the designers to be acquainted and learn from each other through exchanging feedback, tips and other crucial information. All the users will be able to make new comments to models as well as edit or remove their past comments, respond to comments provided by others, and decline inapt comments.

A new "contact me" feature is also included that facilitates the users to make communication with other users and discuss confidentially concerning any scopes to work together or to seek approval for special applications of models. There exists an email notification through which the users get updated with conversations.

The user profile for 3D Warehouse users also becomes powerful through inclusion of new features that facilitates the users to set up more professional appearance for accelerating their brands, businesses and interests. New features contain the choice for producing a custom 3D Warehouse URL space (e.g., 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/by/NAME), link to social accounts, include custom links and lots other.

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