Learn the solar study animation with sketchup

Sketchup is a great tool for performing solar study analysis perfectly. Follow the processes given below for developing a solar study with sketchup.

Visit Window>Model Info>Location

If you are not familiar with the geo-location of your site, take help from Google. Finding proper location of the site is vital to ensure that the shadows are perfect. If you can’t find the accurate coordinates, just put in the general city.

After that you should have to specify the date and time of day: Window>Shadows

Concentrate on the Time and Date.

The Summer Solstice, June 21, consider as the longest day/shortest night, December 21, as the shortest day/longest night, and the Equinox, March 21 and September 21, is where the days/nights are identical.

One will get a clear picture of the extremes and median of the shade and sun of your site by animating these three dates.

Make a scene on the hour, every hour begins in the morning. Window>Scenes>Add Scene

While choosing a scene in the Scenes window, press the refresh button and update the shadow settings as well as the camera angle to replicate scenes for the solar study, or to arrange the animation scenes one time, and then import a new model into your solar study template.

Ward Lester has presented some exclusive videos through which he shows how to use sketchup for making solar study animation of a great room of the designed house. The animation is created with the shadows and scenes window of sketchup.

 

    

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  www.sketchup4architect.com

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Introduction to Interior Design and SketchUp

London school of Design will be going to conduct a course on sketchup. The course details are as follows:-

SketchUp (Advanced) : This is a 3 week course/ 1 Day per week, Wednesdays (10.00 – 17.00),1 hour lunch break (13.00 – 14.00).

Course 1: February 12 – March 5, 2014

(there will be no classes on February 19)

Course 2: April 2 – April 30, 2014

(there will be no classes on April 9 and 16)

Course 3: June 4 – June 18, 2014

All the participating students must join before 10 minutes of commencing the classes.

The course is useful for intermediate as well as advanced users. The attendees can learn the following from these classes:-

Day 1: In first day, the sketchup users will gather knowledge on components which involve axes, swapping components, dynamic components, reprocessing accessible geometry, libraries. Special focus will be give on Staircase. Learn to produce a smart staircase by applying dynamic components as well as straight flight, dog-leg stair with landing, spirals.

Day 2: In 2nd day, there will be brief demonstration on Plugins. Learn the basic of plugin and its various applications. Also learn how plugins can save huge time for sketchup users. Get acquainted with the top ten most recognized plugins for sketchup users.

Day 3: In 3rd day, the attendee will gather knowledge on scenes, layers, styles, outliner, texture. Also learn how to categorize SketchUp model for presentation or exports as well as how to maneuver exported images in Photoshop.

• Importing/Exporting JPEG, DXF to be utilized as reference/concepts.
• Moving forward with SketchUp – gadgets, 3D mouse, tablets, 3D scanners, 3D printing.

Go through the following tutorial which will facilitate the attendees to get some useful ideas on what sketch can perform and what one can discover from the Beginners class through to the Advanced tutorials.

What the attendees should fetch with them?

• Bring your personal laptop/powerbook in each day of the SketchUp course. One can also pre-load the free SketchUp software before participating the course. One can also download their copy direct from http://www.sketchup.com/. Also confirm that your laptop is configured for Internet connections.
• A 3-button mouse having left click, right click and central scroll.
• A USB flash drive that contains minimum 4Gb memory.
• An A4 or A5 size notebook and pen/pencil.

Please note - The course is useful for both Windows and Mac users. One can also bring their own Mac or Windows laptop to this skills class.

For more information, send mail to info@londonschoolofdesign.org or give a call at 020-3036-0657

In order to get the perfect specifications recommended by the SketchUp helpdesk, go through the following link - www.help.sketchup.com

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Published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup Designer

http://www.sketchup4architect.com/

Sketchup 3D Component - Art Gallery

Sketchup 3D warehouse have numerous ready collection of 3D models. Art Gallery, a cool collection of fully photo-textured 3D models is developed by Zoungy named “Models By Zoungy”. The models in Art Gallery are high definition old style which shows impressive diversity and selection of art. The models created by Zoungy are marked on his name and there are lot more models which has been designed by other sketchup designer. In the month of February the collection has been again updated with more 3D models.

You can put, share, upload, and download this 3D model to use in Google Earth and sketchup. Either you can save that model and can use it later or can load it directly in to Sketch-Up to modify.

Download Art Gallery 3D Models free