Showing posts with label architectural visualization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architectural visualization. Show all posts

Monday, June 17, 2019

"Making a Candle Holder with Patterned Panel and Bending Extension in SketchUp”

Alex Schreyer is a SketchUp specialist who has focused his works on wood working and some bending objects; he created a beautiful Candle Holder to decorate home.

Decorating home is one of the most important and beautiful work as home represents our class, passion of beauty and creates a good impression on others. But decorating home in a right way is a difficult thing as a proper planning is needed to make a home beautiful; people love designed or patterned things to decorate their house. Alex Schreyer has made a beautiful candle holder by using SketchUp; the making is described here.

Alex Schreyer is Program Director and Senior Lecturer in the Building and Construction Technology Program at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. He has been teaching courses in Building Information Modeling and Computer-Aided Design, Building materials and construction methods, wood properties as well as a culmination graduate structural design class in the M.Arch. architecture program. He mainly focuses on the behavior of wood-based structural systems with a particular interest in innovative connection systems for wooden structures. Basically he is expert in the subjects like Teaching and Curriculum Department; AEC/CAD and BIM Modeling and Architectural Visualization; Computational Digital Design; Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing; Digital and Web-Based Tools in Architecture; Construction and Planning; Building Materials and Construction Methods; North American and European Structural Design Standards and Building Practices; Design of Wood Structures; Wood-Concrete Composite Structural Systems; Connections in Heavy-Timber Structural Systems; Optimization Approaches in Design; Web Development and Social-Media Outreach; Software-and Script-Development; Graphic Design.

He is also the author of “Architectural Design with SketchUp” which provides a beginner-to-intermediate-level summary of many techniques to know more about the work with the popular 3D modeling application Trimble SketchUp. He is also the co-author on the extensively-used reference and textbook “Fundamentals of Residential Construction”, which provides a total knowledge of the materials and method used in single and multi-family residential construction.

Alex uses the Patterned panel exercise to make the basic geometry but it can be replaced the curved wave pattern with another beautiful pattern or can have the cutout pattern generated on colors in an image to create a logo or landscape etc. He wanted to make a candle holder in a wonderful shape which needed to have a curved surface which has two approaches: 1) need to make a curved surface and placed the geometry onto it by adding and subtracting it; 2) creating the panels flat and then curving them. To create the first surface Alex created the entire panel at first and bended it with Thomthom’s TrueBend extension; besides it there are other extensions to do this task are Chris Fullmer’s CLF Shape Bender, Flowify or the bending tool in the FredoScale toolset.

As this pattern consisted of repeating panels, it was very easy to break it up into quarters and just need to combine those; after extruding the pattern the TrueBend tool is used to enter the exact angle. Then he copied and mirrored the panel a few times and combines the whole thing on a flat base. Here each panel was a solid and combined them using SketchUp’s Solid Tools that made a 3D-printable solid model.

Source
www.sketchupfordesign.com/

Making a Candle Holder with Patterned Panel and Bending Extension in SketchUp

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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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Monday, July 7, 2014

Lumion 3D Cookbook - An exclusive e-book for creating stunning architectural visualizations with Lumion

Ciro Cardoso, an independent 3D artist and training author, has written an exclusive ebook alias “Lumion 3D Cookbook”. This handy guide is intended for all types of Lumion users having expertise in modeling buildings in 3D as well as basic understanding of Lumion. This book will facilitate the Lumion users to transform their skills to the next level.

Lumion 3D Cookbook contains some useful techniques and trustworthy production tricks that will save huge time for the users. Besides, these will aid the users to generate professional architectural visualizations through Lumion rapidly and professionally.

This book will cover all aspects from importing 3D models to lighting which range from providing special effects, dealing with materials, animation, terrain sculpting, realistic camera effects, and rendering. This book will guide you to become proficient with the advance level skills through thorough instructions involving the practical applications of Lumion's features to make you prepared for working in your own production environment.

Lumion 3D Cookbook comes with the following exclusive features:-
  • Create stunning architectural perceptions in quickest possible time through real-time technology.
  • Be familiar with how to apply the effects built-in with Lumion to transform your project to a superior level.
  • Packed with practical examples, and simple, apparent instructions for making sophisticated visualizations with an expert level.
  • Learn to apply Lumion's real-time lighting technology to make any realistic 3D models.
  • Produce and manage the weather with Lumion effects.
  • Be trained with how to put up special effects and apply them to speed up your projects.
  • Learn how to use layers and curved paths for producing complicated animations.
  • Create real time renders with camera effects.
  • Learn how to apply global Illumination effect as well as other lighting elements in Lumion to create stunning interior renders.
  • Arrange your project with layers and maneuver the 3D models.

Lumion 3D Cookbook 
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Published By
Rajib Dey
www.sketchup4architect.com
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Trimble Delivers 3D Scanning Extension for SketchUp

Trimble announced today the release of Trimble® Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro; a powerful, easy-to-use tool enabling architects, engineers and geospatial professionals to create models from 3D scanning data. The new solution connects the high-resolution field data from Trimble scanners with intuitive and powerful professional modeling software; simplifying the process of creating, accessing and sharing precise 3D models of the real-world environment.

The Trimble Scan Explorer Extension dramatically reduces the time required to generate a SketchUp Pro 3D model from scan data. Streamlined tools and one-touch features allow users to quickly extract construction points and lines that are used as a guide to simplify and expedite the modeling process. Automated plane extraction tools further increase modeling efficiency, particularly when modeling building interiors and facades.

For improved visual references when working with point clouds, the extension includes a simple-to-use edge extraction tool, allowing users to easily decipher important cues from the scan data directly into their model building space. Structural edges are brought into SketchUp as guidelines, and one button push displays the shell of the structure.

"By seamlessly integrating powerful tools across our broad range of best-in-class solutions, Trimble is helping transform the way our customers work and accomplish more every day. The integrated workflow provided by Scan Explorer brings the accessibility of 3D modeling to more users for as-built analysis and design changes," said Alain Samaha, business area director of GIS and Software for Trimble's Geospatial Division. "Professionals can now easily create visual 3D models that provide a true representation of the environment they are working in—improving the communication, collaboration and quality of deliverable that they can provide to their clients."

"SketchUp's enormous popularity as a design tool is rooted in its capacity to make many complex processes easier and more efficient," said Chris Keating, director of the Architecture Division within Trimble Buildings Group. "The Trimble Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro reinforces our mission to deliver SketchUp?s benefits to new users and for new uses."

The release was announced today at SPAR International 2014, the leading conference for 3D data capture, processing and delivery technologies.

Availability: Trimble Scan Explorer Extension for SketchUp Pro is available through Trimble's Geospatial distribution network and online at: http://infogeospatial.trimble.com/Trimble-Scan-Explorer-SketchUp-Extension.html

Trimble Delivers 3D Scanning Extension for SketchUp 

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Published By
Arka Roy
www.sketchup-ur-space.com
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Next Limit just introduced a new free version of the Maxwell renderer for Google SketchUp

Maxwell Render for Trimble SketchUp is a standalone package that contains a custom designed render engine. This exclusive render engine is totally incorporated with sketchup and the users can utilize its high quality, realtime rendering capability from inside SketchUp without requiring a a full license of Maxwell.

Maxwell gives opportunities for Sketchup users to apply sophisticated rendering in a custom built, user-friendly package for free of cost with its basic version which is restricted in in output resolution to 800 pixels.

   

The Licensed version containing superior and more controllable Production rendering mode will cost $95. The licensed version can increase the resolution capacity to HD (1960 pixels).

Maxwell Render is mostly accepted for architectural visualization, product design, interior design, film/animation production, engineering and other markets with a supreme render quality. The users get the ability to generate materials, set lights and cameras, and render 3D scenes etc., all in a striking, pragmatic and instinctive way.

Download Maxwell for sketchup free - http://www.maxwellrender.com

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