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.

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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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SimLab Android / iPad exporter for SketchUp

Simlab Soft has developed SimLab Android / iPad exporter for SketchUp. This newest sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

The plugin is available in different languages like English, French, German, Japanese etc.

The plugin is suitable for various industries which range from Architecture, Construction, Education, Engineering, Film & Stage, Gaming, Heavy Civil, Interior Design, Kitchen & Bath, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Woodworking.

The plugin allows the users to export SketchUp 3D models, in *.zim file format which can be viewed on iPad/iPhone and Android devises.

With the use of SimLab CAD Viewer for iPad/iPhone/Android, it is possible to read the produced *.zim files.

One can send request for a trial license to utilize this plugin. With the trial license, the user will be able to apply the plugin for 30 times (trial license will be expired automatically after completion of one month).

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Free update to the latest version of Twinmotion

Advent S.A. just introduced the updated version of Twinmotion that allows the users to transit from Sketchup Pro to VR instantly with some simple clicks of mouse. Besides, Twinmotion also contains a new series of high-quality grasses for creating realistic lawns and landscapes.

Twinmotion belongs to a superior quality, user-friendly real-time visualization tool for architecture, interior design, urban planning, and landscaping.

Given below, some exclusive features of newest version :-

SketchUp direct link: It now becomes easier to deal with SketchUp data easily and quickly with new one-click direct link synchronization with SketchUp Pro other than accessible direct links with ARCHICAD and Revit and automatic material replacement and geometry optimization.

Import time with the direct link is also accelerated as compared to import a SKP file. Besides, the issue with rendering is resolved with flipped faces. Now, the import method now handles properly with geometry that contains various materials on each side.

New high-quality grass pack: It is now possible to generate delightful lawns and realistic landscapes with a brand-new pack of grasses. The seven existing flowers are enhance with the addition of 25 new grasses.

Greater stability and performance: The consistency and rendering speed for imported data is significantly enhanced with the static mesh rendering pipeline. Some minor bugs are also resolved. Go through the release notes (login required) for more details.

This sketchup extension is available in www.unrealengine.com

To get online demonstration of the latest version, watch the following video tutorial.

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"SketchUp Hub’s Top five Interior Design Trends for 2019"

SketchUp Hub always comes with new challenges every single time, this time they have come with Spring Design with some new ideas.

About SketchUp Hub: Anita Brown has established the SktchUp Hub 3D Visualization and here are a range of courses for helping Interior Designers and students, creating exact floor plans and elevations with a professional touch for the extreme benefit of their business or studies. The SketchUp Hub’s total vision is to authorize Interior Designers especially women providing right technical abilities for making exact drawings and creative illusions at professional standards. Besides that, SketchUp Hub creates an available, engaged and fully supported learning environment for presenting the development of STEM related skills to a female driven industry.

In the month of January this year, the Sketchup Hub had announced their first ever 5 Day Challenge where they had challenged designers and SketchUp users to create an awesome kitchen design with the help of Free SketchUp download. The event was a big successful one and many people showed their wonderful skills where the best got the winner prize and made a place for his/her design. After that the SketchUp Hub has focused on designing the Interior sides of houses with elevations, these elevations are actually some kind of visual tools that allow Interior Designers to transfer perfectly their vision for a space, specifically they can work on the design of a wall and other items within nearly view.

After the January competition, SketchUp Hub is having a Spring Clean and has decided to adopt some of the more colorful and zesty interior design trends for this spring time. SketchUp Hub is shunning again their calm and cool Scandinavian vibe which will indulge much more vibrant and uplifting. This is a chance for the designers to step out from their comfort zone to incorporate colors, styles and patterns which they never tried as an Interior Designer. But before launching their final spring design, SketchUp Hub professional interior designers have made a list of things which should be included in the designs of competitors.

Top 5 Interior Designer Trends for 2019:

1. Color: Most interior designers are not comfortable using colors in their designs as they think it will provoke all kinds of nervous twitches, stone kicking and awkward silences. Though it is true that applying strong colors can be really scary thing but there are many other ways to add more color into lives without disturbing other decorations. It is the high time for designers to put more colors in their designs, playing with the contrasts to make their designs happier, lively and more vibrant to watch as it is the time for spring.
2. Pattern: Another difficult task is to add pattern with color which is very difficult to show in a design, but the designers have to be brave enough to take this challenge. They can either play with one pattern or can mix and match different pattern types with vibrant colors.
3. Natural Materials:Designers can use some natural materials such as wood, marble and seagrass to dominate interiors as it is the new trend of 2019.
4. Mid Century Design: Applying Mid Century styling in the decorations adds a ridiculous amount of character and individually all types of interiors whether it is ultra modern, contemporary or traditional. A well designed, consistent design plan should have a good mix of styles where can be layers of shapes, here designers should be clever enough to highlight the basic interiors with Mid-Century touch.
5. Mustard: Though designers are asked to add colors but SketchUp hub designers have specially focused on Mustard Color to add a different look in this Spring designs.

Wish all the best to all the participants for their works.

Source: wwww.sketchuphub.com



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DinaBox (1.9.8.7.9) for SketchUp is available in extension warehouse

DinaBox is a useful extension for sketchup that contains a wide array of furniture libraries for sketcup.

This sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

Dinabox is a complete platform that simplifies the process for developing production-related interior designs inside the Trimble SketchUp platform.

There is an online library having various dynamic components, as well as different finishes and ready-made frontal models.

By applying DinaBox cloud server connectivity, your creations can be saved online, facilitating all the registered users to get access to your license, from anyplace in the globe. It offers the automatically configured standards for architects, shopkeepers, designers and partner designers!

Besides, one can get it’s own galleries of colors and textures as well as perform various tasks like adding styles modulated, customizing front models and more etc.

This sketchup extension is available in extension warehouse sketchucation.com

To get online demonstration of the plugin, go through the following video tutorial.

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"It is easier to discover New Favorite models in SketchUp"

Google SketchUp team has been improving their tools and models continuously, at first they have released the new updated SketchUp Pro 2019 and then they released new 3D Warehouse.

The whole SketchUp team has been discussing to bring SketchUp lovers the newest development in the life of their products; they proudly announced a brand new way to purchase all the SketchUp products which is the SketchUp Subscription. They have offered the best value so that users and SketchUp lovers can easily choose the perfect combination of SketchUp for every project, workflow or creative concept.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

But there are millions of models and 17 languages in the 3D warehouse of SketchUp Pro 2019 tht makes it difficult to find the right one that can be used on the tools. SketchUp users have been facing this difficulty from a very long time so the SketchUp team has done something to fix this problem as they don’t want that their customers may miss their perfect model and they want to help in discovering som hidden gems in SketchUp 3D Warehouse. SketchUp team proudly announced the release of Categories on 3D Warehouse; these categories will help the users to easily search and browse in the world’s largest 3D model library. Here are the most improved features and the categories discussed that will help to figure the things out:

• Better browsing: The new updated 3D Warehouse has come with better browsing experience to do the heavy lifting through the following steps- 1. At first users need to start with an “empty search”, 2. Then they have to select a Category, 3. There, they can watch the search results update and 4. Can get inspired.
• Refining the search: The quality of search based as per the text of the author that uses to describe their model and if description doesn’t match with model the Selecting a Category will help to filter out the models that aren’t relate to the description.
• Sorting by Subcategory: There will be millions of categories from which users can get their own models but if they want any specific one the Subcategory option will help to select the exact model.
• Filtering by real-world products: Users can now search their needed buyable 3D models from the Manufacturer Model filter option where they can easily find and buy models.
• Categorizing the models: Categorization option in SketchUp 3D Warehouse has just begun which can be made better with the help of users like users can themselves categorize models as their own need. Actually categories make it easier to find right great content on 3D Warehouse, even there is no title or description or it can be in different language

Source: www.blog.sketchup.com

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"Review of British Institute of Interior Design Accreditation”

The BIID CPD has approved two courses of SketchUp Hub for the interior designers which can be applied by the SketchUp Hub users.

About SketchUp Hub: Anita Brown has established the SktchUp Hub 3D Visualization and here are a range of courses for helping Interior Designers and students, creating exact floor plans and elevations with a professional touch for the extreme benefit of their business or studies. The SketchUp Hub’s total vision is to authorize Interior Designers especially women providing right technical abilities for making exact drawings and creative illusions at professional standards. Besides that, SketchUp Hub creates an available, engaged and fully supported learning environment for presenting the development of STEM related skills to a female driven industry.

In the month of January this year, the Sketchup Hub had announced their first ever 5 Day Challenge where they had challenged designers and SketchUp users to create an awesome kitchen design with the help of Free SketchUp download. The event was a big successful one and many people showed their wonderful skills where the best got the winner prize and made a place for his/her design. After that the SketchUp Hub has focused on designing the Interior sides of houses with elevations, these elevations are actually some kind of visual tools that allow Interior Designers to transfer perfectly their vision for a space, specifically they can work on the design of a wall and other items within nearly view.

Confirmation on any project by highly observed and respected institution is important for any kind of business especially one which is still trying to set up itself as an important one. That’s why the SketchUp hub is very happy, thrilled and a little bit emotional also very proud to announce that they have been given CPD accreditation by the British Institute of Interior Design for two online SketchUp courses of the SketchUp Hub. The team is very proud of this important that they are announcing the news in a magnitude way, here is a little review of this announcement.

About British Institute of Interior Design:

The British Institute of Interior Design or BIID is the superior professional organization for interior designers in the United Kingdom. Their growing national and international membership represents both the commercial and residential sectors, like from heritage to cutting edge; besides that, there are requirements which assess training, experience and professionalism. This requirement needs the members to continue their professional development throughout their career to ensure their continued expertise in design process, practice and regulatory matters. The BIID is the only professional organization for interior designers which has been given the prestigious and rare accolade of Institute status by the Minister of State.

Mission of the British Institute of Interior Design:

The BIID is committed to encourage and support creativity and ability in the field of interior design through assisting best practice, practical professional support, development opportunities and education. The reason of choosing SketchUp Hub as a platform is that the SketchUp Hub places much significance on standards and professionalism when it comes to the making of plans and drawings using CAD software like SketchUp which can perfectly fit into the overall of the British Institute of Interior Design and the SketchUp Hub is much honored to have given CPD approval.

About CPD:

CPD is the abbreviation of the institute named Continuing Professional Development and it ensures that professionals should maintain and update their skills and knowledge after qualification. British Institute of Interior Design members must engage and record 20 hours of CPD activities annually to continue their membership. According to a member of the BIID, a status to CPD is a help as a form of ensure that BIID members are keeping up to date with the latest developments is a continuously changing industry. This industry gives an opportunity to update personal and professional skills and also a platform to engage with experts in the industry and a forum for the exchange ideas and best practice.

There are two different forms of CPD activities:

1. Structured and
2. Unstructured; and all BIID members engage at least 10 hours Structured CPD activity and the SketchUp Hub is proudly announced that their CPD activities for BIID are mentioned as for their online nature and clear learning objectives. The BIID Knowledge Hub is an online platform that is hosting a wide range of educational content, including the SketchUp Hub’s CPD courses.

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"Vertex Tools Extension in SketchUp”

About Extension Warehouse:

It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page

About Thom Thom:

Thomas Tomassen is actually known as Thom Thom, he is a modelmaker with a large desire for physical, digital and traditional design in most kinds of the trade. He is also focused on webdesign or programming and 3D visualizations but he is specialist in 3D modeling, SketchUp, Webdesign, graphic design and web programming.

Vertex Tools

This extension can take control over each vertex editor for SketchUp; its soft sections are a must needed thing for organic modeling and the manipulator gizmo will allow users to take great control while modeling. On the Vertex tolls website, users will find a list of all features along with a comprehensive manual and videos. This vertex tools can be tried for 30 days with proper registration where after the trail period, users have to buy a license to continue the use of it by paying $20.
But recently Thom Thom has updated the Vertex Tools and made a fully functional Trial version that anyone can test for 30 days. But if anyone get hooked and is a Premium Member at SketchUcation, will be enough to get lucky to have a 20% discount in the SketchUcation shop. The Trial Version of Vertex Tools is now can be found form the SketchUcation Plugin Store or the Extension Warehouse.

Features

• Manipulator Gizmo: The Gizmo allows for quick operations without exchanging out of selection mode and all the actions can be adjusted by the VCB for final precision adjustments.
• Extrude Edges: Gizmo is used to quickly extrude edges from any selected geometry which can even takes into account the soft-selection.
• Soft-selection: It is set by taping in a length in the VCB while a selection toll is active. It vertices within this distance from the selected vertices are affected by tools that modify geometry.
• Auto-Smooth: When a face is deformed in a way that the vertices are not coplanar, SketchUp Autofolds the face by adding new edges which are normally not soft but create a faceted surface. After enabling Auto-Smooth, these new edges will be softened and smoothened to give a continuous surface.
• Lock UV Mapping: Vertex Tools preserve users UV mapping those will distort by SketchUp then it will manipulate the model’s geometry and the UV mapping is pinned to each vertex to keep continuity.

Menus & Toolbars:

• Tools >> Vertex tools
• Context Menu >> Vertex Tools
• Toolbars >> Vertex Tools

Menus & Toolbars:

• SketchUp 6* or never
• Windows XP or newer version (internet explorer 7 or newer)
• OSX 10.4 or newer in Intel or PPC

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"Free Textures Pack Christmas 2018”

SketchUp textures are created by SketchUp professionals for making the 3D models better and lively; in the Christmas of 2018 SketchUp Texture Club has published 9 different textures.

SketchUp Texture Club is an educational and instructive portal, directed to the 3D community with particular emphasis on visualization and rendering proficiencies addressed to students and to the professionists of architecture and interior design and all for those who are impending the learning of the 3D visualization. The web site of SketchUp texture known as SketchUp Texture Club the professionals generally share about the experience and the work material helpful to the increasing of the use of the 3D world; besides that, their portal unites CG fans and Professionals alike and their success has made them one of the most important CG resource sites in the world. They at first born as a Facebook community and was founded in September 2010 to share and compare with all the 3D graphics enthusiasts, materials, information, impressions, news and trends in architecture and interior design that has become in a short time an important point of mention for all those people working in computer graphics and 3D modeling.

In the Christmas 2018, the professionals of SketchUp texture Club, they published a gift pack containing 9 different fantastic professional textures which are consistently high in resolution and came with complete maps which are removal, normal, specular and ambient closure.

Here is a little description of the package of textures:

• 3 different wooden floors textures in high resolution: they come with complete maps package which are removal, normal, specular and ambient closure. Pixels are 3598 ˣ 2563, 3598 ˣ 2881, 3632 ˣ 3565.
• 3 different Marble wall cladding textures seamless high resolution: they come with complete maps package which are removal, normal, specular and ambient closure. Pixels are 3000 ˣ 3000, 3000 ˣ 3000, 3000 ˣ 3000.
• 3 different Wall plaster textures seamless high resolution: they come with complete maps package which are removal, normal, specular and ambient closure. Pixels are 3072 ˣ 3072, 3072 ˣ 3072, 3072 ˣ 3072.

SketchUp or Google SketchUp 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. SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth. As SketchUp users are most of architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers etc. who works hard to give a nice shape to our physical world, they need great tools to do the work.

SketchUp is in mission to bring their best to produce some great tools for drawing as drawing is the key thing of the SketchUp users. They draw to search ideas, to identify the things and to show other people their work that they do with love and love to build; SketchUp understands it truly and trying to improve their software day by day.

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"An extension ecosystem with Christina Eneroth”

SketchUp is a most loved extension all over the world with lot of extensions of work on 3D models; Christina Eneroth has added some new extensions which are lacking in it.

The SketchUp extension is full of wonderful tools or commands that make the 3D modeling in SketchUp much easier; users can download all these tools or extensions and upload their models in the warehouse for others. It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more.

But there are some tools which are still not found in SketchUp Extension there Julia Christina Eneroth starts here work. She builds those tools or commands for users and she has been doing it since a long time. She is a designer and developer in SketchUp and till now has published about 66 extensions and plugins to Extension Warehouse; she also has created virtually her very own 3D modeling ecosystem.

First experience with SketchUp: Julia Christina Eneroth was first introduced to SketchUp while working on shadowing an architect in elementary school; she downloaded the free version and worked at home. In those earlier days, SketchUp download took a very long time and 3D Warehouse had a 10 MB file size limit so there wasn’t much space to publish models.

First extensions in SketchUp: Her first script was for assigning layers to geometry called Scholss Eneburg, a castle with many levels with different ceiling heights and floors. It became impossible to look inside the model with SketchUp’s native section cut tool so she thought to write her first ever SketchUp Ruby script. But as the quality of the code was not that strong so she abandoned some projects, made some small changes and there she learned about code readability, decoupling and organization the hard way. According to here, while developing an extension anyone must think about its intended scope; as adding an extra feature in extension is easy but adding it without a scope will make it messy.

The Castle Project: Julia is always been fascinated by castles and once she started a high school project on castle which took a long time, her lots of hard work and skills on SketchUp. Though it was a single project, but actually it was a combination of all her previous works and made her learn about SketchUp.

Her new ideas about new extensions: All of her new extensions are created as her own need of modeling workflow and these extensions at first start as a few lines of code or a single line which she writes in the Ruby console to make it easier. After that, she builds a proper UI, designs the icons, writes documentation and creates images to describe it.

Julia’s five favorite extensions:

• Swift Layer Visibility Control: It makes layer visibility control more flowing; she created it as a shortcut for hiding the selected layers. Another shortcut shows all layers and another one re-hides all layers that were last shown and created by Eneroth herself.
• Selection Toys: It is made by Thom Thom and a must-have product that allows users to select existence by a certain criteria often based on the previous selected to make modeling more efficient.
• Tool Memory: Designed by Eneroth, it helps to swap back and forth between tools without having to move fingers to the different shortcuts.
• Solid Tools
• Solid Inspector

Native extensions to SketchUp: Though according to her, very few extensions are native to SktechUp, but Weld should be a native command.

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"Surface Imperfection Maps in VRay to create Realistic materials in SketchUp ”

This article is about the using method of surface imperfection maps to add realism on the rendered materials within VRay for SketchUp which Justin Geis has shown through a tutorial video. Here are some details about this Surface Imperfection and its use in SketchUp.

Surface Imperfection maps are very high quality textures which are scanned from real surfaces. These maps are not like traditional scatter textures but are scans of the delicate imperfections that are shared by most materials. The resulting grayscale maps can be used as glossiness, bump, anisotropy and reflective maps for adding those imperfections back into any 3D material.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

This time Justin Geis has used maps from the website called Poliigon.com; the textures in this tutorial are all free textures which can be used in the renderings; Poliigon also has a paid option with access for many materials. One of the other map types has Poliigon is the surface imperfection map which is designed to apply with the other materials from poliigon to use them. In real life, materials are rarely perfect as in the renderings so in maps they can be used to add a little realistic feel to the renders. Justin has downloaded and used the free Smudged Large texture; he also created a material for the texture and applied surface imperfection map to the opacity section under color correction. This option allowed them to drive the opacity of the material as it is basically see-through material except for the Smudged areas. The power of the brightness can be adjusted later to change the power of effect; next they created a 3D material and the type of this one allows to blend multiple materials together. While creating a 3D material blend there will be an option to add a base material to create a wonderful texture.

Source:www.thesketchupessentials.com

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"Instant Fence and Railing from Vali Architects in SketchUp”

SketchUp models are created using many extensions with their related tools; one is Instant Fence and Railing from Vali Architects that allow users to create quickly fences and railings.

Almost everything can designed in 3D with SketchUp and who have splattered in 3D drawing or are interested to learn the basics of design, SketchUp for Dummies has made it faster and easier to learn the ropes of a powerful, user-friendly tool that bring life into the design ideas. Users can get guidance here from creating a basic 3D model to showcase their work through 3D print or animation, literally everything in SketchUp that can help in anywhere like from redesigning the house to mocking up the future great invention. More than that, SketchUp’s vast usability has gotten very wide success as a tool that even non-designers can also make basic drawings; there are also many expert tips from former SketchUp product director Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls that help to draw and access SketchUp.

This article is going to focus on a new tool from Chuck Vali’s extensions named Instant Fence and Rail used to draw some easy fences and rails in SketchUp models.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

Instant Fence and Rail Functions: This extension is one of the extensions of Chuck Vali extensions that help users to create many different kinds of fences and railings in SketchUp including wood and metal fences, stair rails, handrails and many more. This extension has a wide library of nearly 300 preset styles to choose from; this extension works in a very natural way- at first a grouped path is selected, the extension is activated and then it will create a fence based on a selected style. This extension also follows the straight and curved paths and also allows selecting the direction of facing; besides that it will drop the fences along a face and draw a straight line between points on the sandbox fence automatically. This extension also co-up well with other Chuck Vali’s extensions like instant fair to create very different kinds of railings; users can also set parameters of the different made fencing pieces everything from while getting dropped on terrain.

Source:www.thesketchupessentials.com

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"Curic Space for SketchUp ”

SketchUp Extension Curic Space is designed to help users to space objects inside the models quickly and users can use this extension for making copies of single objects etc.

SketchUp or Google SketchUp 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. SketchUp can be getting as a freeware version named SketchUp Make and a paid version with many more extra benefits called SketchUp Pro. SketchUp is software from Trimble Company and there is an online library of free model congregations and 3D Warehouse to which users can add other models; besides that, the program has drawing layout functionality with variable ‘styles’, supports third-party ‘plug-in’ programs hosted on the Extension Warehouse to supply other abilities and enables placement of its models in Google Earth. As SketchUp users are most of architects, designers, builders, makers and engineers etc. who works hard to give a nice shape to our physical world, they need great tools to do the work. SketchUp is in mission to bring their best to produce some great tools for drawing as drawing is the key thing of the SketchUp users. They draw to search ideas, to identify the things and to show other people their work that they do with love and love to build; SketchUp understands it truly and trying to improve their software day by day.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

This article is about the new SketchUp Plugin, Curic Space is an extension that gives users many options for spacing objects equally within SketchUp.

Curic Space: The simplest function of this extension is to choose multiple different objects, then selecting the axis with which users like the objects to be spaced and users can give any value to adjust the spacing. The entering of space values can be done as long as users don’t click out of the tool; they can also space across multiple axes by clicking on a new axis and typing in a value. Besides all of this, this extension also has an object duplication tool that can be activated in two simple steps: at first users need to click on a single instance of an object and then click on the Curic Space icon. Here users can type in the number of copies they like to make; just click on an axis and then type in a spacing. Hence users can do many things such as going back and spacing copies across multiple axes or using Curic space to space objects around a curve by making a circle from the selected objects and clicking on it.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

Source:www.thesketchupessentials.com

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www.sketchup4architect.com
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"Quickly Align Objects in SketchUp with Curic Align”

SketchUp Extension is coming up with new plugin every time to grow up the limit of modeling and use of extensions in the model; Curic Align extension is the newest addition.

Justin Geis: Justin Geis is the founder of The SketchUp Essentials and started using SketchUp while he was working as a general contractor in 2008 and after using it he found that SketchUp is extremely powerful that he just started to use it in his personal works also. Then he started The SketchUp Essentials as a place where he could share his ideas of using SketchUp easily through some tutorials and tips to help other users controlling the power of 3D Modeling in everyday lives.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

This article is about the new SketchUp Plugin, Curic Align available in the extension warehouse and this plugin is consistent with SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017 and SketchUp 2018. This plugin is very useful for Architecture, Construction, Engineering, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Woodworking etc. and many more. This plugin is used to align one or more following elements:

• Aligning objects with the faces or axes of BoundingBox (Left-Center-Right)
• Aligning to edge, face, and section plane.
• Ctlr is defined as Copy.
• Shift is used to move from one Point to plane.

This tool is designed to help the users to align various objects within SketchUp and this tool is very useful while trying to take multiple objects that are already exists in the model and arrange them well. To use the plugin, users at first need to select a series of objects and activate Curic align after that it will automatically add a bounding box around the objects which can be clicked on to align objects to various lines, axes etc. Users can also align their objects along any of the axes or edges of the bounding box made by the Curic preview view. Besides that, users may also align to a plane and for this they have to tap the tab key at first, after clicking on the tab key Curic align will try to move the objects to make them in line with the plane and also align the objects along lines.

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www.sketchup4architect.com

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Medeek Electrical (1.0.6) – The updated version is available in extension warehouse

Nathaniel P. Wilkerson has developed Medeek Electrical for sketchup. It is the newest sketchup extension with user-friendly interface for producing perfect 2D and 3D electrical geometry inside SketchUp.

This sketchup plugin is compatible with SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

This extension applies the SketchUp Ruby API programming interface.

All electrical types can be drawn/designed with industry standard practice. The extension facilitates the user to generate electrical components and fixtures as well as edit (presently applicable for switches only) each component in future releases.

Electrical geometry is implanted inside an accessible wall panel (developed with the Medeek Wall extension) or a wall "group". The Medeek Electrical extension is well suited with any wall, roof, floor or ceiling geometry.

The extension can now also be applied with John Brock's Framer plugin.

Custom materials can be implanted in the global settings to facilitate customization of material/color of wall plates and different electrical components.

Download a free trial version https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/medeek-wall-plugin



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www.sketchup4architect.com
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" Browsing for Extension in SketchUp”

SketchUp Extension Warehouse has a huge amount of tools or extensions under it and these are very useful for the users, there is a right way to browse extension for SketchUp.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.The SketchUp Extension Warehouse has many tools to search and browse extensions to find SketchUp extensions:
• There is the Search Box at the top of every page where tools are mentioned.
• There are many Highlighted groups on the Extension Warehouse home page.
• Users can filter the extension in the list as per the search results
• The category, industry and author tags on the extension details page

Here are some steps explained that will describe how the users can use the extensions or tools on their hunt for the perfect extension for the model:

• At first users have to go to the Extension Warehouse, then they have to type the name of an extension or graphic search terms in the Search box and click the Search button. Or, users can go to the Categories or Industries area to click an option; a page of search results will appear.
• If users want to refine the search results more, they need to select one or more filters in the sidebar on the left; the Extension Warehouse will filter the search results after selecting the checkbox. After applying a filter it will appear at the top of the sidebar where users can see quickly before applying other filters to the search results.
• For changing the sorted search results, users can select an option from the drop-down list in the upper right of the search results page. By default, the results will get sorted by application which users can change as per creation date or popularity or alphabetically by title or author.
• Clicking an extension’s title will help to open its extension details page and if users can find the right extension and want to install it, they can do it by Adding Extensions to SketchUp option. To browse more, there are two more options left which are: 1) Starting a new search in the Search box and 2) In the sidebar of statistics on the right, click any category, industry, SketchUp version, operating system or language to see any other search results related to that item.

Source:help.sketchup.com

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www.sketchup4architect.com

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"Medeek Wall in SketchUp Extension”

The Meedek Wall Plugin is another one from SketchUp Extension Warehouse that provides a simple interface to create accurate 3D Wall framing geometry within SketchUp.

About Extension Warehouse: It is an online resource with various plug-ins developed made especially for SketchUp and these extensions help to add some special tools and features to SketchUp. These extensions can be found for any particular application like drawing or 3D printing and some industry specified tools for architecture, interior design, construction and many more. So basically in this Extension Warehouse people can do the following things:

• Users can search extensions by name or as per the functionality.
• They can also install various extensions with a single click of a button.
• Or users can also control all the extensions from easy-to-use location in the My Extension page.

About Meddek Wall (BETA): The Medeek Wall Plugin is another SketchUp Plugin that provide a simple interface to create accurate 3D wall framing geometry within SketchUp. This plugin also uses the SketchUp Ruby API programming interface and is consistent with the newest SketchUp versions like SketchUp Make 2017 and SketchUp Pro 2018 as well as earlier versions like 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Currently the plugin allows the making of the following types or panels of wall which are in Metric and US/Imperial:

Rectangle (Ext-Int), Rectangle (Int-Int), Gable and Shed.
• Door types in Rectangle: Solid, Six panel, Half Glass, Full Glass, Double Solid, Double Six Panel, Double Half Glass, Double Full Glass
• Window types in Rectangle and Half Round: Picture, Slider, Single Hung
• Garage Doors: Under Construction
• Columns in Wall: Dimensional Lumber and Timbers, Parallel Strand Lumber
• Pre-Fabricated Shear Panels: Simpson Strong-tie Wood Strong Wall®, Simpson Strong-tie Steel Strong Wall®, Mitek Hardy Frame® HFX Panel.
• Engineering(US/Imperial): It is under construction

All these wall types are designed using industry standard practices, there are some other wall types for doors and windows which are in the process to add on weekly basis. Some Advanced options and features like crown moulding, baseboard, chair rails and wainscoting are also now under development. So basically this plugin allows users to create wall panels in a polyline mode; after selecting the rectangular wall tool and choosing the line mode, the wall is then defined by selecting two points from the start to end of the wall panel. After choosing this polyline mode each point defines a wall panel end point and the next wall panel starts point, when the auto-corner configuration is allowed within the global settings the wall panels will automatically form inside or outside corners as per the angles between the wall panels. When the wall panel is created then it can be moved while at the same time

remaining fixed to other adjacent wall panels; wall framing with other options are automatically re-calculated and re-drawn. This automation will provide a design tool that will reduce the need for manual modifications to the model; custom layers can be enabled in the global settings to allow various walls, window and door components to be placed on specific layers.

The Medeek Wall Plugin thus help users to accurately depict conventional wood frame construction will fully integrated windows and doors within SketchUp and better confirm the architectural models.

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