Architects utilizing SketchUp

Making a space with a numerous of employments is never a simple assignment. Communicating the draftsmen's answers for the brief not exclusively to customers yet additionally to those making the real structures is one of SketchUp's numerous favorable circumstances, as this venture for a Victoria school illustrates.

For LAW Architects in Melbourne, its design for Viewbank College's Performing Arts Center and STEAM Precinct would have been a much progressively impressive task without SketchUp. That, yet the program's utilization amicability implied they could make their own modules to take care of business and set principles for best practice.

The Performing Arts Center Project

The Performing Arts Center, when finished, will be a two-story office involving an adaptable assembly hall and theater arranging, including back of house specialized, stockpiling and taking care of offices, front-of house social occasion and anteroom spaces and related dramatization and music learning spaces.

The program incorporates extra broad learning study halls and a reason fabricated Materials Technology office as a component of the school's more extensive learning and educational program procedure. Another shelter will furnish a climate ensured interface with the repaired connecting two story working to make a STEAM learning area.

How Architects Use Sketchup to Work on this Project

SketchUp was utilized by LAW Architects from the very first moment of the task, including being utilized to survey where best in the scene the structures would work. The group developed fundamental 'obstructs' to help pass on the design in its condition. These were imparted to the partners and the siting was conceded to, moving the task to the following phase of architectural ideas.

"The design answer for this venture prompted a mind boggling course of action of adaptable spaces which would have been trying to impart without the utilization of SketchUp," said senior engineer and design advisor Barde Gregory.



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Furniture design with SketchUp

A great many people use SketchUp fundamentally for Architectural Design and Visualization, Interior Design, Renderings and Presentations. Anyway SketchUp can be an extraordinary resource in the Furniture Layout Industry. By utilizing predefined furniture Symbols or Components, you can make your own design work simpler and progressively effective.

The program fuses additional expansive learning study corridors and an explanation manufactured Materials Technology office as a part of the school's increasingly broad learning and instructive program strategy. Another heaven will outfit an atmosphere guaranteed interface with the fixed associating two story attempting to make a STEAM learning region.

SketchUp makes it simple to:

1. Make Components to picture furniture in 2D or 3D models.
2. Turn, Place and alter your parts as you format the furniture.
3. Make 3D renderings to make it simple to picture furniture.

The gathering developed the Cross Reference Organizer module to allow every partner to propel their design in their model space while acquiring other associates' parts as Cross Referenced portions. With complex assignments, for instance, this model is created and worked in parts as free SketchUp archives. SketchUp is used through the design course of action, from thought through to detail design. These parts are significant considering the way that people from the gathering must have the choice to manage the assignment at the same time.

Taking things significantly further, in SketchUp you can make exceptional Components with characteristics, utilize unique situations and altering schedules, tweak properties and reports, and make parts records and introductions for customers. The design answer for this endeavor incited an amazing strategy of adaptable spaces which would have been attempting to confer without the usage of SketchUp.


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s4u to Components ? The newest sketchup plugin

s4u to Components is a useful sketchup plugin. It supports sketchup 2016 and sketchup 2017. It is paid plugin.

This is sketchup plugin is mostly suitable for the landscape and hardscape design industries.

It is useful for transforming objects to components. It offers the following features

Draw Lines To Components :
It is possible to draw line and change to components with draw line component attribute.
Choose 1 Face or 1 Component for drawing purpose.
Press Tab or Ctrl to switch insert point
Press Up, Down, Left, Right for mirror x,y axis

Lines To Components:
Change Lines to components with lines to components attribute.
Choose 1 Face (or 1 component or no select for get default component) and Lines to transform



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BoolTools2 - SketchUp Extension Review

Another blockbuster SketchUp extension from MindSight Studios is here! BoolTools2, a professional plugin for Trimble SketchUp versions Make or Pro is an awesome tool that magics you to replace the Solid Tools in SketchUp entirely. You can make effortless solid operations in your model with just one or two clicks. This super-easy and perfect plugin comes at a cost affordable to most players.

Features of BoolTools2:

1. You can perform multiple solid operations easily like Union, Difference, Intersect, Trim, Split, and so many more!
2. Designed with 3D printing as a goal.
3. Can easily work with small, complex objects, like nuts and bolts!
4. Can handle nested solids effortlessly.
5. Unlike some other solid tools plugins, BoolTools2 does not create a new object. It only modifies the original one.
6. BoolTools2 does not change the Layer and the Names of the object it works on.
7. New feature: single-click Object Union tool - you can click a single group of objects to merge / union all the solids in it. Works with nested solids as well!
8. Almost all operations (except the obvious ones) produce 3D printable solids.

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Download a trial verison of ConDoc Tools for Sketchup Pro

Generate construction documents automatically with ConDoc Tools for Sketchup Pro.
ConDoc refers to a plugin that accelerates the process for producing construction documents as well as automates design packets, and radically advances your project organization by applying SketchUp Pro and LayOut. ConDoc is developed to facilitate architects and designers to enjoy a continuous workflow process, simplify all of the complicated phases associated with document formation. Besides, it allows you to get total control in all phases of your project devoid of applying other software programs.

 

ConDoc includes the following features :-
1. Arrange your model with the ConDoc system
2. Wide array of line weights, 2d dynamic hatches
3. Capability for drafting 2D details
4. Avail 2D Cad within sketchup
5. Distribute work among team members easily
6. Generate lightweight editable models
7. Automate the process for managing layers, styles, mixing shadows, camera setting, section planes etc.
8. Generate illustrative design packets and transparent sets of construction documents with a slew of line weights & dynamic hatches


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Make a professional kitchen design with easysketchup kitchen design plugin

John Atkinson develops easysketch kitchen design plugin. This sketchup plugin is compatible with SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

This plugin can be used to generate professional kitchen design concept in sketchup. After being set up within SketchUp, it is possible to obtain an expansive library of kitchen components from the EASYSKETCH window.

In order to create a new kitchen design, set your designs options through drop down menu. Apply the filterable search to include a cabinet to your drawing. Units will be filtered based on your search criteria, as for instance ?drawer? will filter unit with drawers, ?oven? will filter units for ovens. To include the selected unit to the drawing space, click on the unit and it is automatically arranged at the existing cursor position.

The most striking feature of EASYSKETCH is to create design modifications rapidly. Right-click on a unit to obtain the EASYSKETCH sub menus where some vital shortcuts exist to parameters like Carcass material, Door handle, Frontal material, Worktop material other design options.

Planned content updates include new handle packs, worktop supplier swatches, door styles and pre-configured units groups. New content can be added simply from the Plugins>EasySketch>Manage Content window inside SketchUp.



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V-Ray 4 for SketchUp Released

Rejoice, ye SketchUp folk, for the new V-Ray has come!

Version 4.20 for V-Ray has been released this February. It features some significant improvement over the previous version. Primary of which is new compression used to decrease installer archive size.

For those who are not familiar, here is a short description of V-Ray.

It is a professional lighting and rendering tool for architects and designers. It is created by Chaos Group and comes as an extension of SketchUp.

With an incredible set of creation tools, V-Ray lets you render anything and everything. You can create some quick models, or pull out all brakes and render a whole scene in realistic detail.

You get around 600 realistic new materials to adorn your model using V-Ray in SketchUp, too. This lets you create photorealistic images of your model. You can make 3D models exquisite in detail using this plugin as well.

Features of the new V-Ray 4.20:

1. You can use it to automatically remove noise in scenes. The render time is cut in half. Now you can denoise after rendering as well.

2. Now you can use global illumination in stunningly realistic scenes indoors and outdoors. There are plenty of in-built lighting styles to choose from. Make it look real!

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What’s New in SketchUp Pro 2020: Part 2

In our previous article, we have started talking about the all-new SketchUp Pro 2020 and the new features in it. We have mentioned the new scale figure, the interface enhancements, new object hiding selection, and new organizational abilities. While those were plenty exciting by themselves, it’s not all! SketchUp Pro has much more to offer. Let us see the rest of what’s new in the SketchUp Pro 2020.

Today, we will talk about the following:
New Nomenclature, LayOut 2020, Document control, Model Views, Customization, ...etc

The New Nomenclatures: The Trimble team has been deliberating over this for a while now. Without changing your workflow, the new naming conventions are supposed to give you better control over your model. The naming system is more logical now, and they sound more appropriate.

Naming changes in SketchUp 2020

a. ‘Objects’ now collectively mean groups and components. This includes dynamic components as well.
b. ‘Layers’ now are called tags.

This means you won’t have to use multiple words to mean a bunch of similar stuff now. Also, the thinking process of the designer changes depending upon the words that are used in the design interface.

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SketchUp Extension Review: Eneroth Upright Extruder

Among the most used extensions for Trimble SketchUp, the Eneroth Upright Extruder stands out for its unique features and usability. Today we will talk about how we can use this powerful extension to easily modify and design complex models.

Designed by Eneroth3, the Eneroth Upright Extruder (EUE) is available for SketchUp 2013 and above. Of course, it requires the Pro version of SketchUp to install plugins into this awesome 3D modeling interface.

What is Eneroth Upright Extruder

The EUE is an extension for the SketchUp software which is used for 3D modeling and rendering. With this extension, you can project profiles while maintaining it upright.

In the default SketchUp tools pools, there is a similar tool available called "Follow Me". However, the Follow Me tool keeps the sides of the extrusion straight. This leads to not keeping the extrusion upright. The EUE extension remedies this issue by twisting the sides to make the project the extrusion upwards.

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SketchUp Extension Review: TrueBend

Arguably the most popular 3D modeling and design software on earth, Trimble SketchUp gathers its immense following and customer base due to the user-friendliness and flexibility of the application. The flexibility comes from the enabling of adding external code, called “extensions” or “plugins”, into SketchUp. These extensions enhance the way SketchUp tools behave, add new tools or new content to enrich and ease your usage of the software.

One of the points to remember while intending to use SketchUp extensions is that only the SketchUp Pro version or above allows the users to import extensions within it. The Free, Make or Shop versions do not have this ability.

Most extensions for SketchUp are found in the Extension Warehouse from Trimble, which has released the 2.0 version of it recently with new and improved features. Other third-party web sites also host SketchUp extensions. One of these Extensions is called TrueBend, and it is that of which we will talk about today.

What is TrueBend

TrueBend from Thom Thom is a quite popular Trimble SketchUp extension found in the Extension Warehouse. When integrated with SketchUp, it enables the user to bend a given object for a certain degree. It will retain the original length of the object instance. The plugin uses the bottom front of the bounding box edge, therefore the user needs to line up the instant axis line up with the bend.

How TrueBend Works

The TrueBend plugin helps the user in bending an object within SketchUp for a given radius. It will also help you to bend the instance while maintaining the length of the object. Let us take an example to understand this better. Consider that the user wishes to bow a shape 60 inches long and the curvature of the bend is 180 degrees. To do this, the user needs to select ‘TrueBend’ in the menus or toolbar, and then click and drag the red bar on the SketchUp design screen to bend the object. Alternatively, you can click the red bar and enter the curvature value in degrees in the VCB for a precise manual curving. After finishing the dragging, or hitting enter after giving the value, you will see that the object instance has bowed to form the expected shape yet it still retains the original length.
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Sketchup ur Space Issue 56th Aug'19

ARTICLES

• Review of AutoSmooth Extension in SketchUp
• Review of Drop Vertices Extension in SKetchUp
• Review of SketchFX Ex for SketchUp
• Review of Two inputs for the Move tool

News

• Creating Wall Cost Estimates in SketchUp with Quantifier Pro
• Details of some 3D Warehouse Tools from SketchUp Extension Warehouse
• Methods to model Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes
• Texturing an Arch in SketchUp using ThruPaint
• PlaceMaker – A powerful sketchup extension to make 3D cities into models quickly
• Create Smart Building Automatically with Profile Builder
• Quantifier Pro is a powerful sketchup plugin for cost estimation

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How to make naturalistic pool water design in v-ray for sketchup

In this exclusive tutorial, you will get step-by-step guidelines to make a naturalistic pool water with v-ray for sketchup. Here, the design is made for a rectangular pool with white tiles.

Various water materials are provided in the pool. To avail water material, go to v-ray material library and click on the liquid category and choose the materials for water.

V-ray caustics effect is another useful function to make physically perfect water bodies in swimming pools. Caustics belong to the wavy light patterns which are developed under clear water while sunlight refracts through any uneven water surface.

Another useful option is to perform clay render in Vray SketchUp. For this purpose, go to the global switches in the Vray options and mark override materials.

To learn the complete process for making naturalistic pool water, go through the following video tutorial.

To download the model of pool, click on the following link gumroad.com/l/AI19

Video Source Architecture Inspirations

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Attribute Inspector – The newest sketchup extension in the extension warehouse

Aerilius has developed the exclusive sketchup extension called Attribute Inspector. It belongs to a viewer and editor for entity and model attributes.

Attributes in SketchUp means supplementary pieces of information that is preserved with any entity, like groups, components, scenes.

As for instance one can preserve a part number, unit price, weight or notes with an entity and read or adjust that information later. All attributes are contained in SketchUp's report feature.

The purpose of this inspector is to maintain the user interface nominal and fully organized similar to SketchUp's inspector dialogs, it allows you to choose one or more entities and demonstrates their attributes. By editing the text fields, The changes are instantly reflected to the entities.

Application: (Menu) Window → Attribute Inspector

The dialog presents the attribute dictionaries of the currently selected drawing element. Apply the selection tool of SketchUp to choose another elements.

Press the +, ‒ buttons on the left side for addition or elimination of an attribute dictionary, and press +, ‒ on the right side for addition or elimination an attribute.

To choose other types of entities, select the type from the dropdown and perform:

• drawing elements: With SketchUp's selection tool it is possible to choose one or more drawing elements in the model (edges, faces, groups)
• definitions: With SketchUp's selection tool, it is possible to choose components/groups/images
• materials: By applying the materials browser and it is possible to choose a material. Attribute Editor will demonstrate the current material (could be not functional on OS X due to API bug).

• layers: With the layer manager and verify the radio button of the layer.
• scenes: With the scenes manager, it is possible to double-click the scene (to make it the current scene).

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse extensions.sketchup.com

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Sketch-Cuisine for creating design sketches of kitchen, bathroom & closets

The renowned sketchup tutor and extension developer Mario C has developed Sketch-Cuisine, the newest sketchup extension to create kitchen, bathrooms and closets instantly.

The extension is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

With this extension, the users get the ability to make a quick start on all kitchen, bathroom and closet project. Prior to generate the shop drawings, this extension will help the users to start all the projects with perfect design sketches.

The cabinets are easily customizable with the native tools of SketchUp.

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse sketchucation.com

For online demonstration, go through the following video tutorial.

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Demo of fracture plugin for sketchup

Fracture for SketchUp facilitates the users to break any solids into several pieces and produce further collection of fractured solids.

This sketchup plugin is developed by renowned plugin developer TIG.

It is also known as a sketchup entity fragmentation plugin that supports custom fragmentation levels (up to level 10) and size ratios and demonstrates the blast effect. The plugin is very useful for physics simulations.

The plugin also provides good result while painting a scene. It is also very effective for shattering objects. But there is a limitation that the object should be a solid group.

In the plugin, there are various options like iterations, size, X variance, Y variance, Z variance, jitter and form. The form section is sub-categorized as stacked, exploded and scaled.

Click on the following link to download the plugin sketchucation.com

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"Review of the Whimsical Furniture ”

Annie Bossert, a fiber artist and woodworker who creates functional and playful pieces that bring levity to everyone’s experience by mixing her talents in woodworking and fiber arts.

Annie Bossert is a mixed media artist who is specialized in custom furniture design; she grew up on a farm in central Illinois where her love for stripes also born as she lived with rows of rows of corn and soybeans. She started her career as a furniture maker where she used plywood to express her interest in stripes by cutting different angles into the plywood to make different striping effects. Anne indirectly got into woodworking through working with textiles; she loved to mix different ways to combine her textiles and woodworking while working in her shop in Fort Collins, CO.

Recently Anne is designing and building all of the studio furniture pictured on her website; she is a fiber artist and a woodworker mixed up into one person. Her designs are original but she is quite inspired by mid-twentieth century furniture and industrial design.

This article is a little description about Anne’s recent work “The Whimsical Furniture” and some details about her life, work and inspiration etc.

Little about the start of Anne’s interest in designing:

In her words, her mom inspired her to be interested in strips from her childhood when her mom gave her some clothes and told her to sew them. It was her first introduction to the world of textiles as well as the concept of making hr won designs. This mindset led her to join a furniture making class where she made her first work, storage for CDs than a plastic milk crate. Besides taking classes on woodworking, she also developed her knitting and weaving skills to make more designs on wood. After a few years, she joined in a job in a sign shop where she had to fabricate signs that helped to better understandings of tools and making.

Little about her furniture design:

She is a fond of functional art and loves to assemble all the careful curation of the objects with surrounded objects to make them more interesting and beautiful. She always tries to challenge people’s expectations about the look of furniture with their mood; in her works, she mess with their perceptions on views and then she dyes and weaves stripes into the textiles that are the same width as the stripes of the laminations in her used plywood. When the striped fabric is mixed into a piece of striped plywood and both dyed in the same color than the mind blowing furniture comes out.

Her ways to communicate design intent to customers:

Anne does a lot of commissioned pieces so she has to ensure that her customers have a solid understanding of what they will be getting. Whenever she makes something which is hand dyed or hand woven fabric, she makes a custom material in SketchUp; she at first simply scan a sample of her fabric and paint into her SketchUp model for maximum realism. According to her, SketchUp helps her to make simple designs wonderful through easy used tools.

More about her design process:

She follows a new design process that she has developed in the last couple of years; it is an exciting process where she at first cut an angle into plywood and saw all the hideous different stripes inside the materials, then she saved the offcuts and scrapes from projects. But now she likes to begin with a composition of offcuts as doors or drawer fronts and then design a piece of furniture to work more over it. So she will lay out the offcut assemblage, then measure it, photograph it, then put it into SketchUp, size the image to scale and then sketch the furniture design to work more.

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Review of 3 skeng 2019 List for both Mac and PC

Sketchup Extension Warehouse is full of amazing tools and extensions that help SketchUp users and designers in designing and creating their desired 3D models. 3 skeng List is one of them.

3skeng tool is another SketchUp Extension form SketchUp Extension warehouse which adds spreadsheet capabilities to SketchUp and uses powerful edit and report functions.

About the extension: 3skeng List adds spreadsheet abilities to SketchUp and allows users to communicate and work with SketchUp entities in data-based views. It also does listing, filtering, sorting and multi-editing; besides that, it creates a bill of materials which can be parts list or a report and export to Excel (XLSX).

Features of 3skeng Tool: 1. Work more efficiently: it includes powerful and communicative filtering, sorting and editing features that help users to work more effortlessly even in the large models. This tool is not only helpful to edit detailed properties but also to make both complex and huge selections that might be impossible to make in other way. The spreadsheet view is always synced with the 3D model. Changing data with 3skeng List makes immediate changes in SketchUp model and vice versal Sub-selections are highlighted interactively in the 3D view.

2. Keeps model clean: This tool was designed to support professionals in their daily work and is packed with features that help to keep the model clean or find and solve errors. There are some duplicate entities, users can covert multiple groups to components or replace multiple components by another component of the selection.

3. Helps to export meta data: All spreadsheet views can be exported and nicely formatted to Excel, or copied as plan text directly to the clipboard. Users can use the definition, instance and material names to add custom data columns to their components. They can also save filter and column settings in customized list views to reuse them for repeating work.

4. 3skeng client: Users can use their 3skeng client for buying, installing and managing 3skeng Tools and libraries.

Users can install, download, troubleshoot, activate and purchase this extension through this path: www.3skeng.com.

3skeng 2019 List is a fine extension which can be used by both Mac and PC users and SketchUp professionals in adding spreadsheet capabilities to SketchUp. It also can be used for listing, filtering, sorting and multi-editing.

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Some useful guidelines to perform exterior rendering with v-ray next for sketchup

This is an exclusive video tutorial for v-ray sketchup users. In this tutorial, detail process is given for performing a naturalistic exterior rendering with v-ray next for sketchup.

The following tools are used for different purposes :-

1. Sandbox tool, for forming the ground.
2. Artisan for completing the ground detail.

3. Solar North for settling the sun originates.
4. Skatter, to spray the assets to the ground.
5. Laubwerk, for adding the trees.

Sandbox Tools (extensions.sketchup.com)

The Sandbox Tools extension applies the concept of a sandbox that belongs to a surface to be created and managed with sandbox tools. This sketchup extension is effective for landscape design.

Artisan (sketchucation.com)

This sketchUp extension comprises of powerful organic modeling tools. Artisan can be used to create Terrain, Furniture, Characters, Abstract Sculptures, Fabric/Curtains/Pillows, Rocks/Tree Trunks/Plants etc.

Solar North (extensions.sketchup.com)

It offers tools for the users to settle and exhibit the solar north angle that SketchUp applies to work out the sun location, and consequently shadow directions.

Skatter (extensions.sketchup.com)

With skatter, it is possible to populate your scenes with unconstrained vegetation with complete control, all while saving time and never leave SketchUp.

From small carpets in a living room to large scale forests, Skatter is developed to facilitate retaining the final look rapidly and efficiently.

Laubwerk (www.laubwerk.com)

Laubwerk provides user-friendly software extensions for architects and CG artists who are in search for genuine 3D plants, and plant scattering tools. With drag-and-drop simplicity, and user-friendly tools to alter the shape, age, season and level of detail for each of Laubwerk's spectacular 3D plants, users will be able to effortlessly add 3D trees to any CG project. It is compatible with Autodesk 3ds Max & Maya, MAXON Cinema 4D, SideFX Houdini, Trimble SketchUp, and Python.

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"Highlights of some amazing 3D Printed Projects in 2019”

The 3D printing technology allows any kind of design to be brought to life which releases architects from the limitations of standard construction.

3D printing or additive manufacturing is way of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital life. The creation or making of a 3D printed object is achieved using additive processes and in this process, an object is made by laying down successive layers of material till the object is created. Each of these layers can be visible as a thinly sliced horizontal cross-section of the eventual object. So basically 3D printing is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing which is cutting out a piece of metal or plastic with for specimen a milling machine.

SketchUp is just made for 3D printing and designing in SketchUp is cool as 3D printing is something that moves is cooler and unique than that. In this article we are going to discuss about a few features that can be include by the users to make their creations more than just interestingly shaped hunks of immobile plastic. Aidan Chopra and Rebecca Huehls this time comes up with new tricks about 3D printing in SketchUp.

SketchUp or Google SketchUp is owned by Trimble Inc., a mapping, surveying and navigation company. It is mainly a 3D modeling computer program that is used for a broad range of drawing applications used by architects, interior designer, landscape architects, civil and mechanical engineers, film and video game designers also.

3D printing technology has changed many industries globally and among them most impact can be seen on Construction industry which offers freedom and versatility in a right budget. This article will describe four new 3D Printed projects in 2019 among Construction industry.

Most of the companies that use 3D printed program in construction are startups businesses are still in their developing phase though the number of countries using 3D technology is growing every day. Dubai is the leader of those countries where the most famous and luxurious UAE city has started a new structure that will be going to be built by using 3D technology.

• Project Milestone: This is based in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), the engineers of Netherlands are planning to build five 3D printed concrete homes; this unique project makes them the first commercial housing project using 3D technology. Where the homes will be of new ages, having all kind of comforts etc.
• Apis Cor: It is a startup which is located in San Francisco made a demonstration of its own 3D technology by creating a house in Stupino, Russia in 2016. Their technology is versatile and mobile as they printed the whole home on site to cut the transport expense. In future they are expecting to make homes using dual extrusion that will allow printing components other than the concrete structure. Recently the company has collaborated with SEArch+ and entered the “3D Printed Habitat Challenge”, a contest organized by NASA.
• New Story: It is a nonprofit located in Texas who has partnered with Icon which is a company that creates printers, robotics and advanced materials to work on affordable housing solutions.
• WinSun: WinSun created its first houses in 2013 using the first continuous 3D printer; they used a special mixture made of sand, cement and fibre along with suitable additions to print house components layer by layer in their Suzhou factory in China.

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Enscape for SketchUp - Real-Time Rendering and Virtual Reality

Enscape™ belongs to a virtual reality and real-time rendering plugin for SketchUp as well as for Revit, Rhino and ArchiCAD). With a single mouse click, it is possible to run Enscape and instantly walk through your fully rendered project - no uploading to the cloud or exporting to other programs is necessary.

All modifications in SketchUp are quickly accessible to assess in Enscape. One can rapidly examine with several design options and display projects to clients.

If the client prefers to view something different in the design, Enscape will instantly demonstrates the changes already done to the project, even in VR. There is an option to generate a (web) standalone file of your architectural project and one can deliver an Enscape file to the clients or colleagues for instant illustration.

Given below, some useful features of Enscape:

a. Real-time walk-through - Rendering with a single click.
b. Live link to SketchUp - The modifications in SketchUp are directly shown in Enscapec. Direct Integration - Retain your tools and apply Enscape through the SketchUp toolbar
d. Virtual Reality (VR) - Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows Mixed Reality support with one click
e. Web based Asset Library - Simply include Enscape-ready 3D models to your project
f. Web Standalone Export - Generate a link from your project that runs devoid of SketchUp in your browser

g. 360° Panorama Views - Supports Google cardboard for 360° mobile view
h. Video Path - Several options for each keyframe

Major applications:

a. Design review
b. Internal presentation
c. Client presentation
d. Instant render formation

It is compatible with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

Free Trial Version: The free trial will expire 14 days. After that, it is required to purchase a monthly or yearly license at the Enscape store www.enscape3d.com

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