Envimet INX – The newest sketchup plugin in extension warehouse

AntonelloDN has developed Envimet INX for sketchup. It belongs to a elementary plugin that can be used to write *.inx files for ENVI_MET 4.3.

Features:
Work out grid dimensions automatically depending on buildings
Develop a 3d model with buildings, 2d trees

Limits:

1. Unit of the template should remain in "meter"
2. Components and Group are not supported
3. Buildings should be volumes
4. Only one wall material and roof material can be used for all buildings or context
5. The soils and dem can’t be managed

To do:

a) A better method to create voxels... if model is huge it will run slow
b) Study a way to apply materials
c) Dem modeling
d) Soil modeling
e) Improve location settings. E.g. a way to set timezone.
f) Improve exception handling
g) Manage Components and Groups

To get more information, click on the following link github.com

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Demonstration of material replacer for sketchup

In this sketchup tutorial, you will get online demonstration of an exclusive sketchup extension called material replacer for sketchup.

Material Replacer is developed by Thomas Thomassen. It is used to swap out any material in your model with simple mouse clicks. It can substitute one material for another by choosing material in the model.

This sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 6, SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

Menus & Toolbars
• Tools » Material Replacer

Requirements
• TT_Lib2 — 2.7.0

To learn the functionality of this extension, go through the following video tutorial.

One can download this extension from extension warehouse

Video Source TheSketchUpEssentials

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Pipes Tubes Profiles 1.2.0 for Sketchup

Pipes Tubes Profiles 1.2.0 is the newest sketchup extension that is available in extension warehouse. It is compatible with sketchup 2017, sketchup 2018 and sketchup 2019.

This sketchup extension can be used to draw pipes, tubes or profiles as well as create documentation, BOM and cut lits.

This extension facilitates the users to perform the following works rapidly and efficiently :

- draw pipes
- modify their length
- create documentation
- use nesting (cut optimisation list) function
- generate Bill Of Material

Click on the following link to download the trial version of the plugin extensions.sketchup.com

v1.2.0
- new function - nesting (cut optimisation)

Go through the following video tutorial.

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Advanced templates in SketchUp Pro

With the new upgrade version SketchUp Pro has introduced twelve new templates for SketchUp Extension Warehouse to make modeling in SketchUp more fun than before.

According to the developers, SketchUp Free is the simplest, consistent 3D modeling till date that will help the user to access, learn and share the models with others easily. It has been more than a year at SKetchUp Headquarters with huge amounts of coffee consumed and after a long wait, SketchUp HQ finally released SketchUp Pro’s new version SketchUp Pro 2019.

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.

This is a real opportunity to challenge the team itself to earn users’ business every single day by continuously improving the tools which are needed and loved whole year. The new ways to buy SketchUp is on their website; still the team has been working to bring subscriptions for years as according them it is the best way to deliver more value to the users in a single package. Their shift in new business will make it easier for new users to buy SketchUp and for current users; even more SketchUp products can be easily available. Besides that, this shift in business will help to keep them accountable to run business by releasing new features as often as possible; this is a challenge for them which they have taken proudly and moved process from an annual update cycle to a continuous cycle.

SketchUp users have introduced with the new features of SketchUp Pro 2019 and with this the SketchUp team has added 12 new templates to make modeling in SketchUp more fun. Here are the names of the templates mentioned below:

• Extra X-Ray Template
• Super jitter Template
• Big Axis Template
• Outer Space Template
• Under The Sea
• Snow Day Template
• More Marc
• Bird Box Challenge Template
• Rainbowland Template
• There Is No Up Template
• Infinite Origins Template
• Night Time Template

Some of them include the mode “Dark mode” for the night time designs; “Rainbowland” is a little happier and more colorful while “Big Axis” helps to get back in the axis again. These new templates can be accessed by pulling them up in the template directory and scrolling towards the bottom.

Source: wwww.blog.sketchup.com

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"CLEANUP3 TOOL FROM SKETCHUP EXTENSION WAREHOUSE"

SketchUp is an essential tool in 3D printing and SketchUp Extension warehouse is full of tools that are essential in the 3D printing and creating 3D printed models, such as CleanUp3.

About CleanUp3:

CleanUp3 is an essential tool for 3D printing which is created by Thomas Thomassen, who is a Modelmaker with a large desire for physical, digital and traditional design in most genres of the trade. He has focused on webdesign/programming and 3d visualizations and he has specialized in 3D modeling, SketchUp, webdesign, graphic design and web programming. This tool checks and simplifies the geometry of every SketchUp model and it combines multiple faces, eliminates extraneous data and erases any lines that don’t make a face.

CleanUp3 options:

Two of the most useful CleanUp3 options are Erase Duplicate Faces and Repair Split Edges, which can be enabled in the CleanUp3 menu. Usually Duplicate faces and split edges are errors that necessarily appear in the SketchUp 3D model while working in SketchUp and they drive 3D printer nuts. But both these two errors are difficult to recognize and repair manually. Besides that, it is also a great tool at simplifying STL files or 3D-printable files that need to import into SketchUp.

Features of CleanUp3

• It fixes duplicate component definition names in model scope
• Also clears unused items
• It can erase hidden geometry
• Also erases duplicate files
• Erases lovely edges except edges on cut plane
• Can remove edge material
• Repairs split edges
• Creates smooth and soft edges
• Then put edges and faces to Layer0
• Can merge identical materials
• Also merge connected co-planer faces

Menus & Toolbars: Plugins>CleanUp

About SketchUp:

SketchUp or Google SketchUp is mainly a3D 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.

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.

Source: wwww.extensions.sketchup.com

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"How to handle Extension License Issues"

The SketchUp Extension Warehouse has uncounted kinds of extensions which come with their own licenses and if the license expired then problems occurred while working.

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.

Extensions come with their connected licenses that enable users to use the extension. If an extension has a licensing problem, SketchUp won’t load the extension and an error message will be shown. The status column on this error will help users to diagnose the actual problem.

Here is a list that will help users to outline the types of license errors and the way of resolving them:

Expired Trial:

When an extension trial gets expired, users just need to buy the extension to continue using it. Users can buy the extension from the extension details page or from the My extension page. While downloading an extension from the Extension Warehouse through a web browser or from a developer’s website it will come as an .rbz file that can be installed manually. Here are the steps to follow before installing: At first go to SketchUp and select the Extension Manager Option form Window menu, after clicking on it the Extension Manager window appears. Now click on the Install Extension button. The Open Dialog box will appear where users can find the .rbz file, just save it to the computer, select the file and click OK in Microsoft Windows or Open in Mac OS X.SketchUp will warn the users about installing only extensions from trusted sources just click OK option for further procedure and the extension will be installed. Purchasing Extensions in the 3D Warehouse: Anyone can purchase an extension through signing in to the Extension Warehouse or through any browser or SketchUp; but it is essential to sign in to the Extension Warehouse through SketchUp before installing a trial version or buying an extension. Here are some needed steps that need to follow before a purchase:

1. Go to the extension detail page and click the Purchase button.
2. In the prompted option, users have to enter their billing and payment information, billing information will verify the credit card, the receipt is emailed to the email address that user uses to sign in to Extension Warehouse.

The following steps is needed to install a trial or purchased extension:

1. Go to the SketchUp and select the Extension Warehouse from Windows and sign in to the Extension Warehouse.
2. Now search for the extension that is needed or go to the extensions details page and click Install Trial option.
3. Then go to the user menu and select the My Extensions option.
4. The My Extension tab will open scroll down to the trial extension or the purchased extension to install and click on either the Install Trial or Install link. Click yes to install.

• Not Licensed: This message indicates that SketchUp is not able to locate a license for the extension and if users installed the extension from the Extension Warehouse, then uninstall the extension, again restart SketchUp and again re-install the extension in some other way, next need to remove the extension manually and reinstall it form the Extension Warehouse.
• License Limit Exceeded: Users can install a purchased extension on two different computers but it is installed in more than two, then this error will come.

Source: wwww.help.sketchup.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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LUMINGS (1.2.182c) for Sketchup

Lumings belong to a video projection design tool that facilitates video mapping study. Besides, it can be used for the design and 3D modeling application in Sketchup. Lumings is compatible with SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

It’s main objective is to simulate in the most naturalistic for the technical rendering side of video mapping.

Lumings expansively incorporates the technical characteristics of all prevailing professional projectors. Lumings obtains, verifies and measure the required data to properly for any set of projectors with the following information:

1. The illuminance
2. Positioning
3. Pixel size
4. Energy consumption
5. The impact of shadows
6. Pixel distortion
7. Heat release ...
8. ... and other features.

With Lumings, it is possible to design complete scenography with correct and models and information before entering the site.

The users can avail a subscription-free version of Lumings. It disallows “manipulation” of the project, revision of the layout of the projectors, but provides the same visualization possibilities as the complete plug-in.

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

A free version for academic entities is also accessible on request.

To get more details, send mail to contact@lumings.io



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Vertex Tools (1.3.2) for sketchup

Vertex Tools (1.3.2) is another useful sketchup extension developed by Thomas Thomassen. It is well suited with SketchUp 7, SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

It is a strong vertex editor for sketchup that can take the lead over every vertex. Soft selections are inevitable for organic modeling and the manipulator gizmo facilitates you to keep control at the time of modeling.

A 30 days trial version is available for vertex tools (registration required). Once the trial period is completed, a license should be brought to continue to use it.

SketchUcation Premium Subscribers will obtain 20% discount if they purchase via SketchUcation Store.

Menus & Toolbars:

Tools » Vertex Tools
Context Menu » Vertex Tools
Toolbars » Vertex Tools

Requirements:

SketchUp 6* or newer
Windows XP or newer (Internet Explorer 7 or newer)
OSX 10.4 or newer. (Intel or PPC)

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

Watch online demonstration of this sketchup extension.



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SENTIO VR: Sketchup to Virtual Reality (VR) walkthroughs

SENTIO VR: Sketchup to Virtual Reality (VR) walkthroughs is the newest sketchup extension and its purpose is to provide your sketchup models in Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR.

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

With some simple clicks of the mouse, it is possible to make 360 tours or 3D walkthroughs and involve your clients within your designs. No coding or installations are necessary. SENTIO VR streamlines the method to upload your 3D content, make walkthroughs and provide in VR devices like Oculus Go or Samsung Gear VR.

It contains the following exclusive features :-

• Directly upload your Sketchup models to your account through plugin
• Quickly observe your 3D models in Virtual Reality: Oculus GO & Samsung Gear VR
• Control and present your content from any remote location, anytime with the help of your unique access code

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

Go through the following video for online demonstration.

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Layers Organizer 2.2.0 for Sketchup

The renowned plugin developer George T has introduced the latest version of Layers Organizer i.e. Layers Organizer 2.2.0.

This newest sketchup extension is considered as a perfect substitute to the native layers that facilitates grouping, sorting and various other productivity functionalities.

It can be used to group and sort layers to arrange any model in efficient manner and decrease visual noise.

Save layer indicates that it is possible to name, recall and assign to other scenes.

It manages the visibility setting of new layers in other scenes.

Integration features with our other plugin, Cross Reference Organizer, to controls layers from Cross Referenced components perfectly, and several other productivity functionalities.

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

For online demonstration, go through the following video.



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Click-Window 3D – The newest sketchup extension

Click-Window 3D is the newest sketchup extension available in extension warehouse. It is compatible with SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

Click-Window 3D can be applied to generate 100% adjustable windows and french doors. From hung, sliding, french, panoramic to crank windows, all of these 3D windows are obtainable in PVC, wood and aluminium.

With click-window 3D, it is possible to perform with 3D models of superior quality to accomplish interior design projects efficiently and successfully.

Two versions are available in both metric and imperial systems.

How to use:

1. Click on the icon « START » on the Click-Window 3D Toolbar to import & insert the control panel.

2. Choose the icon « Interact with Dynamic Components » that is accessible on the toolbar, « Dynamic Components ».

3. Just click on the thumbnails of the « Control Panel » to fix the settings of your future Windows.

4. Import your 3D Window, with a drag and a click.

5. Wait for some times while the program is loading.

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

For online demonstration, go through the following video tutorial.


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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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"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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MeshWrapper Tool 1.0.1 for Sketchup

MeshWrapper Tool is another useful sketchup extension from Cadman. It is compatible with SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

It offers a series of tools for generating an exterior shell around 3D geometry, streamlining the model and leads to an equally distributed surface mesh around the object.

The Wrap Objects tool provides a consistent grid mesh around an object(s). The dissimilar grid projections belong to each group inside an overall MeshWrapper group. Each grid mesh is formed with a quad faces, and is well suited with quad face tools.

Choose the object(s) to be covered with a mesh. Then fill out the Gridding Options dialog:

the Grid spacing size. If this number belongs to a negative number, the longest dimension of the object(s) will be subdivided with that number to settle the grid size.

the mesh projection style, either all around (surround), Top and Bottom, Front and Back, or Right and Left.

the Shard filter indicates a grid edge multiplier. When the length of an edge goes beyond this multiplier, its triangle will be excluded of the final mesh.

Stitch edges: The subgroups of the mesh are detached from one another, but their perimeter grid cells are modified to sui each other while the Stitch edges variable is fixed to ‘yes’.

The Seam Zipper tool stitches the edges of two grid seams collectively, or fills in a 1x grid inside a mesh.

Ensure there exist an edge on each end of the seam opening to transform each end of the seam as a single grid width 'boxed end'. A boxed end is when an edge contains faces entirely encircling it on one side.

To get more details or purchase the extension, go through the following link extensions.sketchup.com

Choose the ‘box ends’ of the seam and the Seam zipper tool stitches the grid seams jointly.

The Reverse group faces tool reverses all faces inside a selected group.

If a seam from Seam Zipper is facing inside out, reverse it with the ‘Reverse group faces’ tool. Then rupture the seam group and it merges into the encompassing mesh.

The Diagonals to quads tool converts pairs of triangles into a quad face (four sided face). Choose the common edge among the triangles, (or multiple diagonals) and the tool will convert them into quad faces.



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"Curic Space for SketchUp Function description”

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.

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.

This extension does three things which are:

• Creating Copies of Single Objects
• Space objects based on the object centers
• Space objects based on object origins

Copying objects: Users can create copies of objects with Curic space by selecting a single object and clicking the curic space button. If user selects only one object, the extension will ask the number of copies want to create and after creating the copies, all are inserted at the same point that can only space out by Curic space.

Spacing objects based on centres: The following extension allows users to neglect objects based on object centers where the center is found as pr the selected objects, then space every along a selected direction. Users can type in a numerical value and press the enter key to space every object; also users can enter a different value and press enter key to put different spacings.

Spacing objects based on origin: Curic space also has the option where users can space objects based on the object origin which can be useful while dealing with objects which are not the same width.

Source:www.thesketchupessentials.com

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Features of Sandbox Bonus Tools 2.0.2

The Sandbox Bonus Tools is developed by Cadman to include the functionality of the Sandbox tools. It simplifies the process for working with terrain all through the design stage.

This newest extension is compatible with SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018, SketchUp 2019.

The Project Mesh tool shows a regular surface grid onto a selection. The new surface grid belongs to a quad face mesh and is well matched with quad face tools. Choose the surface or objects upon which a grid mesh should be arranged.

1. Provide the size required for each square of the mesh grid. Put a negative number (except units) to subdivide the extents of the grid by that number.

2. Indicate the direction, the mesh is required to be projected onto (Top, Bottom, Front, Back, Left, Right).

3. Provide a number for a shard factor.

Since a grid is draped over an unequal shape, the length of each triangle is expanded greater than the base square size indicated in step #1. With more stretch the projection surface or objects become steeper. The shard factor specifies a multiplier of the base square size away from which the triangle will be removed from the draped grid. The default is 0 (no triangle should be removed despite of edge length). A number of 2.5 is a standard limit for steep slopes. For most landscape drapes, depart the shard factor at the default of 0.

The Foam Core tool performs sequential push pull operations upward on selected faces, increasing each following push-pull with the user specified increment distance.

When a negative number is provided, the tool will push the contour surfaces (levels) downward. This tool forms a ‘layer cake’ version of terrain out of contour surfaces.

The Hoola Hoop tool forms Contours around a selection set of surfaces and objects. Choose the objects or surface, then

1. Put the type of contouring to be executed: either Interval or Number. Interval belongs to the contour interval. Number sets the total number of contour lines to produce equally across the entire depth of the surface or objects.

To get more details or purchase the extension, go through the following link extensions.sketchup.com

2. Put a Value. For Interval put a distance, for Number put the total number of contours required.

The Drop Downward tool places (drops) every item of a selection of groups and components downward in the blue direction onto the model. Choose the objects to drop downward. All through the drop, the elected objects will not drop onto one another. The objects will land on the first part of the model they run into.

The Set to Elevation tool shifts all objects in a selection to a symmetrical elevation. Choose the objects to shift. Then provide the elevation value to where it is required to shift them.



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