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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  Arka Roy

  www.sketchup4architect.com

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Background Modification in Sketchup

 

Here are the tips on how to change the background in SketchUp (not for render).
Usually when we want to present our SketchUp drawing to our client, it’s only a sky, isn't it? SO, with this way, we can change / customize our background so at least it will make our scene more real although it’s only a sketch without rendered.

If you want to render the scene (vray or podium or anything else render engine), then you should use HDRI or customize on Photoshop.

So, here is the step by step: 

1. Show the Styles window by accessing menu Window -> Style.

2. In window Style, choose tab "Edit", then choose "Watermark" from the menu

3. Click "(+)" icon then select a bitmap whatever you want to show for your background image, usually its a sky image or something else. The bigger the image size will make more smooth.

4. then, you will get a dialog question window, choose "Background". Then, "Watermark1" on the option can changed/renamed to whatever u want.

5. The next dialog, let the settings to the default, just click "Next".

6. Next dialog, choose "Positioned in the screen", then move the slider in the "Scale" to the right, This means our bitmap will strecthed fully. Thats why i suggest you use bigger image size so you will get smoother result.

7. Then, on the bullet icon, this means how the image repetition start. In this case, i select the bottom center. But you can select/try your own based on your image. Then, click "Finish"

Done.. ! ^_^ .. the parameter i mention above is not absolute, you can take your time to experience .. i hope this is useful for you ..

 

  

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Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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CG artists can get numerous Plant Species through Plant Factory Nursery launched by Cornucopia3D

Cornucopia3D, a part  & parcel of e-on software and the most recognized online VUE community designed for CG artists just declared the availability of the Plant Factory Nursery, the one stop online shop for 3D Vegetation.

Presently the Plant Factory Nursery consists of more than 100 plant species, and it is developing quickly.

Lots of the Plant Factory content are completely animated (wind and breeze), and contains automatic age and health settings.

The users can get direct access to all Plant Factory content that Cornucopia3D hosts, free or paid for, from: tpf.cornucopia3d.com

Existing TPF well-suited products involve the complete Plant Factory product lines, and all VUE 11 and VUE 2014 products (well matched with other e-on software applications).

The Users of other leading 3D modeling programs like 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Modo etc can get advantages from TPF content by applying Plant Factory Converter, an user-friendly and cost effective application to transform TPF content to standard 3D formats.

For getting more updates, visit at www.cornucopia3d.com

Brief overview of Plant Factory: Plant Factory is a ground-breaking 3D plant formation technology, catering to the CG, SFX, Architecture and Gaming communities. It provides custom-centric solutions for all audiences.

Plant Factory provides the following benefits to the users:-

• Produce various types of vegetation, from plain grass to highly decorated hero trees
• Generate vegetation by painting it, accumulating simple building blocks, or entirely graphing all plant properties
• Create procedural geometry and materials of unrestricted detail
• Animate all plant characteristics with specific wind and breeze algorithms
• Export 3D vegetation to any 3D application like standard .OBJ, .3DS or animated .FBX
• Render stills and animations for compositing jobs or to be applied as billboards
• Extend their plant library via a committed 3D plant model library

For getting more information, go through www.plantfactory-tech.com

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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SketchUcation Plugin Store v2.5.1

By applying SketchUcation Tools v2.5.0 the sketchup users can avail an extensive library formed with SketchUp Extensions and sketchup Plugins. This newly launched plugin store contains several advanced features to transform SketchUcation Tools to be the most desired extensions for SketchUp.

SketchUcation Tools is well versed with sketchup version 8 and sketchup 2013. It facilitates users to set up extensions and plugins into SketchUp with the PluginStore. The plugin store comprises of more than 800 plugins and extensions which are free for installation and application.

The sketchup users can access the following advantages from the plugin store:

• Explore 800+ plugins and extensions for SketchUp**
• Gather information, report bugs and contact directly with the author for any feature requests
• Set up plugins or extensions directly into SketchUp through AutoInstall aspect.
• Set up SketchUp plugins or extensions into custom folder locations.
• Donate to the Author of a SketchUp plugin or extension
• Control your installed SketchUp plugins and extensions
• Save enabled/disabled 'Sets' of plugins or extensions
• Uninstall plugins and extensions
• AutoInstall a plugin from an 'Archive' (both ZIP and RBZ formats)
• Toggle the visibility of the SketchUcation Toolbar

By undergoing Plugin and Extensions Managers the sketchup users can reconcile their SketchUp environment as per requirements. Identify what tools are requried on startup or for the time being load a tool for that particular session

With custom loadout defined the sketchup users can save these as 'Sets' for future. By uploading plugins and extensions into SketchUp, the sketchup users can eliminate avoidable items from their workspace and enhance their workflow.

With newly added ‘My set up’ to the SketchUcation Tools, the sketchup users can get superior control by apprehending any updates, set up and download per device.

It the sketchup users apply sketchup on diversified desktops as well as laptops then identifying their favorites among these will be more convenient.

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Published by Tuhin Maity

Sketchup Designer

www.sketchup4architect.com

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New Features Of Google Sketchup 8

Sketchup is a 3D modeling software owned by Google. This 3D software is used by professionals from all walks of life. Generally it is used for placing 3D models in Google Earth.

Sketchup Warehouse enables users to view & download various forms of 3D models. Till date, eight versions of sketchup have released. The latest version Sketchup 8 was launched on Sept. 1’2010. The important Sketchup 8 features are:-

• Geo-localization of models in sketchup:- The latest sketchup has Google Map built in it. If we create or download any 3D model from sketchup, then we can easily geo-localize it by this sketchup 8.

• Coloured & 3D view of the terrains of the geo locations:- In google map, we generally see non coloured & one dimensional view of the geolocation of any product. But for the first time, in sketchup 8, we can view the land relief of the geolocation of our model coloured & in 3D.

• The Building Maker:- The heading tells that this sketchup has building making feature. We can add buildings to google map by this feature. Its very efficient. We can use this feature to create buildings from our models.

Five years have passed since Google has acquired Sketchup from the company @Last Software. Since then, they are periodically updating their software. The latest update was the “SpaceNavigator (a computer mouse which supports 3D software)” support.

Also this sketchup version has a plugin which supports 3D animation.

To know more, please contact us