Design, Bill of Material and Shop Drawing With SketchUp

Design, Bill of material and shop drawing with SketchUp – an amazing video, compiled by Warunyoo Songkran.

How does a designer extract/ show information and drawings needed in the shop ?

For this designer needs to know about SketchUp "Scenes" which allow you to define, capture, and save multiple views and details that, when printed, provide a comprehensive document for use in the shop. As an example, I will show the development of a shop documentation package for a Connecticut Stool as shown below is the above-assembled view of the stool as displayed on my computer.

The designers have cropped the screen picture so you can see the horizontal set of multiple tabs just under the Toolbar. These tabs are labeled Cutting Diagram, Scan, Orthographic, Assembly, Exploded, Leg, Front Stretchers, and Lower Edge on Stretchers, Side Stretchers, Top, and Edge Molding on Top.

To create a Scene, follow these steps:

1. Orbit, zoom, and pan to set up the desired view of the model or component.

2. Click on the minimized Scenes' bar to open the dialog box.

3. Click on the plus sign icon to add a new scene.

4. Type the name of the scene in the Name text box. You can also add a description, however I generally skip this.

5. Save the scene by clicking on the update icon with the "circular arrows".

After following this process, a scene tab will appear just below the toolbars. No matter where you are in the model, clicking this scene tab will adjust the camera to retrieve the exact previously saved view.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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3D Pen – a newest technology ahead

The newest technology in the world of 3D modeling is 3D pen.

With the world's latest affordable 3D-printing technology, 3D pens, a designer can make solid drawings and craft impressive sculptures. But how can a designer use this marvelous tool?

If you are going to start new profession in full swing, then this small and smart 3D printing pen will assist you definitely. The pen, dubbed 3Doodler that can ‘write’ in three dimensions.

Experts says, the pen, which works something like a glue gun, allows the user to wave it in mid-air to create a three-dimensional rendering.

The 3Doodler plugs into an electrical outlet and oozes a thin strand of heated plastic, which quickly cools and solidifies, allowing the user to build an infinite variety of patterns and shapes.

It can create 3D designs on flat surfaces or in the air.

Spaghetti-like strands of ABS thermoplastic in a range of colors can be loaded into the back of the pen, and WobbleWorks says each one-foot strand of plastic can produce about 11 feet of moldable material.

This 3D printing pen has great potential and can be a perfect tool for stylists, architects, designers and anybody who are interested in 3D printing. We also continually have new ideas of how to restructure our 3D technology.

The prime features of the 3D pen are:

• It helps impressive art, jewellery, sculptures, and a variety of homeware.
• It helps traditional and digital artists looking to express their creativity on a new level.
• The children and parents are looking for clean and easy creative projects to enjoy;
• The hobbyists are looking to acquire useful tips, tricks, and working practices to make the most out of their 3D-printing pens.

The pen has some nice plus points:

• It is small in size.
• It is light weighted.
• Using is noiseless.
• It offers extreme portability.
• It is very comfortable to use.
• It has beautiful design.
• It has aluminum body.
• Filament 1.75 mm.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Create a compelling design of your bathroom with Sketchup

Before any designer starts the ultimate process to make a bathroom using the 3D design software, all they need to have a solid plan. However, SketchUp is the best software that can do this work.

One approach most often used by designers is adding your chosen items and design ideas to a mood board.

The will be some carefully chosen accessories in the washroom – a vintage 1930s mirror and the glass bonbon jars – are also objects that you would more usually expect to find in a living room.

The tranquility in colour scheme and accessories of the nautical theme is a popular trend and very appropriate and easy to achieve in a bathroom design.

How SketchUp can provide benefits for design?

There are some basic reasons that the designer should use SketchUp for design this.

• SketchUp is an amazing free application for creating professional (non photo-realistic) 3D models on the fly.

• It’s a great application for someone looking to create quick mockups rather than worrying about notoriously complex 3D modeling applications that can take years to learn, which require various setting configurations like lighting radiance adjustments, multiple cameras, UVs, etc.

• You can share and import resources provided by many users of SketchUp, which helps avoid wasting time unnecessarily especially when someone has already sketched something to suit your needs

• The resources and support available for using SketchUp is quite vast, which includes an official Sketchup blog, Sketchup Products Forum, Warehouse of Designs, even related to Bathrooms and How To Tutorials on Sketchup Youtube Channel.

SketchUp Make is a free version of the three-dimensional modeling application. It enables you to plan and visualise projects on your computer; not as static drawings, but as models you can take apart, put back together, and view from any angle.

This video would make the designer believ that they could use SketchUp for innovative design.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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How to download and set up Sketchup

Learn the process to download and set up sketchup in your computer system.

The process is totally free and the users will be able to download the functional version of sketchup. There will be option to buy SketchUp Pro containing additional software and tools.

In order to download and set up sketchup, the following steps should be undertaken.

1. Visit www.sketchup.com. The following page will be visible.

2. Select the button marked with red color that shows “Download SketchUp.”

3. It will transform the page to a new one enquiring why you’re downloading SketchUp. If you do not prefer to apply sketchup for a professional or commercial application, just opt for the “Personal Projects” option. For each option (professional, professional and commercial), you will be provided with an eight hour trial of SketchUp Pro’s features and a permanent copy of the free version of SketchUp.

4. Choose your operating system – Windows for a PC and Mac for a Mac.

5. Now review the license agreement thoroughly, then turn on the box ensuring that you consent to the license agreement. After performing this, the button showing “Download SketchUp Make” will be change to red color like the following.

Download Sketchup Make

6. (Optional) – There will other box marked as “Send me SketchUp news and tips.” You can check or un-check it. If you check it, you will get the SketchUp newsletter as it is available. The newsletter infrequently goes out with SketchUp news and other materials.

7. Select the “Download SketchUp Make” button to download the setting up program to your computer.

8. Open the downloaded files. Abide the instructions to set up SketchUp on your computer. Press finish to go out from the set-up process.

Thus sketchup will be installed on your computer.

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Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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How to make scenes and animations easily through Sketchup

Trimble Sketchup previously Google sketchup is a free 3d modeling application that can be utilized to produce complicated & realistic 3d models quickly.

With its powerful technology, sketchup along with various plugins can render any model for making pragmatic images. Sketchup contains various toolset useful for generating a set of scenes which are views of the model. Every scene comes with a diversified view that is tied with each other to make an animated walkthrough of the design.

Google SketchUp is a 3D modelling program that allows the user to create complex models easily. SketchUp allows you to render your model so that realistic images are created. Part of SketchUp’s toolset is the ability to create a set of scenes which are views of your model. Each scene can show a different view that can be linked together to form an animated walk through of your design.

Follow the instruction given below to make scenes and animation with sketchup:-

• Open SketchUp and submit the drawing according to your choice. Use orbit, pan and zoom tools to form the initial view. Thus your first scene will be created.

• Select the menu bar, opt for WindowScenes to open the Scenes dialog box. Select the plus sign and the first view is made as Scene 1. A tab alias Scene 1 will be visible over the drawing window.

• Form your second view and after make it perfect select the plus sign in the Scenes dialog box. Repeat the process for as many scenes as required. Apply the check box options within the dialog box and modify the model to adjust the scenes appearance and its viewpoint.

• Select ViewAnimationPlay to view your scenes connected together to create a walk through. One will be able to edit several options as well as how long the animation lapses at each view by selecting ViewAnimationSettings.

• Select FileExportAnimation and choose the location to save the file in the dialog box as an AVI file. One can set the screen size of any AVI file through the Options button in the dialog box.

• One is able to alter the order of the scenes in the animation within the Scenes dialog box. Focus on the scene one prefers to move and transfer it in it’s new position through the up and down arrows. One can make changes among scenes with the tabs formed over the drawing screen.

• At the time of making an AVI file, if the screen size becomes too large then it might make your computer slow at the same time as the video is formed. Test how your animation will appear in a small version prior to make the final version.

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Rajib Dey

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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Autodesk Reveals 2015 Versions of Its 3D Animation Tools

Autodesk unveiled 2015 release of its major 3D animation tools that include 3ds Max, Mudbox, MotionBuilder, Softimage, Maya, and Maya LT. Maya LT, which is the newest addition to the lineup is a cost-effective 3D animation and modeling tool for professional indie game makers. Maya LT 2015:

• Offers cloud integration through the Maya LT interface
• Unfold 3D for creation of UV maps from 3D models
• Substance material integration for applying materials generated in the Allegorithmic Substance Designer procedural texture creation tool to 3D models

Autodesk also declared the accessibility of the 2015 Entertainment Creation Suite for 3D animation and visual effects. 3ds Max, Maya, Entertainment Creation Suites, and Maya LT can be obtained in two configurations: as a perpetual license or desktop subscription.

With innovative new tools like Bifrost, redesigned core parts of the applications focusing on performance and user friendly features, the 2015 releases simplifies complex tasks and allows artists to use their creative power.

The new features in 3ds Max 2015 are mentioned below:

• ShaderFX
• Point cloud dataset support for reality-capture workflows
• New viewport performance optimizations
• A redesigned scene explorer so artists can manage large scenes
• ActiveShade support for the Nvidia Mental Ray renderer
• New Python scripting support

Mudbox 2015 includes streamlined mesh refinement for retopologizing and new Sculpt Layer and Paint Layer groups for organizing and identifying specific layers in complex scenes. Softimage 2015 is the last release of Softimage and helps in:

• Alembic caching
• Allowing enhancements to the ICE platform
• Animatable weight maps in Syflex cloth

MotionBuilder 2015 highlights on motion-capture workflow that includes:

• A new plug-in for Microsoft Kinect to capture body movements.
• Animatable Depth of Field and Follow Focus camera options that supports in re-creating real-world cinematography elements.
• A library with 100 commonly required character animations in FBXformat.

Maya 2015 has the Bifrost procedural effects platform that supports an artist-friendly workflow for complex simulation and rendering tasks and is applied to:

• Near-photorealistic liquids
• XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator for easily creating highly detailed geometry, like hair, fur, and foliage
• Geodesic Voxel Binding for skinning characters
• ShaderFX, a new node-based visual interface for shader programming
• Support for Pixar’s OpenSubdiv libraries
• Enhanced polygon modeling tools
• Expanded UV options

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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EdgeInspector version 1.1 for Sketchup

EdgeInspector for sketchup is developed by Fredo. It is a useful sketchup plugin. It contains a standardize script that is used to examine and resolve on some edge deformities like overlaps, tiny edges, tiny gaps, split edges, coplanar edges in any models. These deformities may arise after DXF imports and Intersections. Presently the plugin supports five edge faults.

EdgeInspector for sketchup contains a Geometrical Magnifier Glass having capability for scrutinizing details ahead of the indigenous zoom aptitude of Sketchup (2x – 5000x).

This sketchup plugin is free and can be utilized for commercial and individual application. The plugin is compatible with sketchup version SU6, SU7, SU8, SU13. It performs better with SU8 M1 and above. It is available in English and French Version.

In order to avail it visit sketchucation plugin store and select Tools>Fredo Tools where it is installed by default.

The plugin contains the following exclusive features:- Selection of edges and faces (through clic, double-clic, triple-clic, by modifiers Shift and Ctrl) Tape Measure involving inferencing (point to point or parallel from an edge) Move Vertex, Edges or Faces with inferencing Edge Eraser - Erase selected edges and faces with “DEL key” Repair Now, to resolve deformities separately Ignore Repair, mark a defect so that it is ignored by the global repairing of EdgeInspector

The latest version of EdgeInspector comes up with managing of 2 new defects:

• lost junctions in contours
• needle-eyes, i.e. interlacing of contours

Downloadable link

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Model the Model Initiative – an exclusive sketchup challenge

The Model the Model Initiative is set off for employing SketchUp modelers like research participants who have to opt for a building, site, or object in Google Earth that is presently represented as a photogrammetry mesh model and to digitally create the low accuracy representation by hand as it were a genuine building, then to distribute the digital file to Trimble 3D Warehouse providing the tag "ModeltheModel".

This program is aimed at discovering how this modeling procedure might be dissimilar or identical to the development of modeling real buildings or sites, and what knowledge can be gathered from modeling an algorithmically produced model "by hand."

The effort is a summation of friendly SketchUp challenge, research work out, digital documentation, and an assessment of Google's verdict to eliminate all of the user–generated models from Google Earth step by step.

If any sketchup professionals like to contribute to the project, they can contact withianbesler@gmail.com.

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Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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An exclusive collection of sketchup blogs

There are lots of blogs on Sketchup and you will get some of the most interesting stuff regarding components, plug-ins, news, article, tips and tricks etc.

Here are the detailed lists:-
Sketchup 8 Blog
Jim's SketchUp [Plugins] Blog
Google SketchUp Sage
Ronen Bekerman
Sketchup Artists
Render Plus Blog
Google Sketchup Blog
SketchThis.NET
Sketchup Library
Sketchup Download

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