How to use sketchup viewer on Microsoft HoloLens for real world presentation

This is a great sketchup tutorial video that shows how to use SketchUp Viewer on HoloLens to generate realistic architectural designs by maintaining real-world scale, proportion, and perspective.

Thus Trimble has taken great initiative to convert 3d modeling as part of the design and construction process.Microsoft HoloLens belongs to the first autonomous, holographic computer, facilitating the users to involve with their digital content and interact with holograms all over the globe.

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Brigade offers the Game Developers to experience next-generation cloud gaming

OTOY Inc. just released brigade. Brigade refers to an influential graphics API that is useful to substitute Microsoft DirectX or OpenGL graphics inside most recognized game engines like Epic Games' Unreal Engine or Unity, performing as a backend for high quality graphics devoid of affecting the game logic.

With Brigade, the game developers will be able to utilize the power cloud computing for producing the next-generation games.

Brigade offers real-time ray tracing and path tracing of game environments through its high-tech technology. It can simulate light to be visible in the real world for bringing in-game interactive graphics which are result in providing best movie effects.

Now Game Developer can render amazingly complicated 3D scenes, materials, lighting and objects in OctaneRender™ and load these into Brigade for gaming and other interactive usages. Brigade is now well versed with 15 of the most recognizable modeling programs through OctaneRender™ plugins.

Later on OTOY will transform Brigade to Amazon Machine Instances (AMIs). The game developers can access it through Amazon EC2 for performing testing and development of next-generation games.

For getting more updates on Brigade visit http://brigade3.com/. If any Game Developers want to test it, please send mail to OTOY at info@otoy.com.

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Published By

Tuhin Maity

www.sketckup4architect.com

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SEFAIRA integrates daylighting analysis into Sefaira for sketchup plugin for effective daylighting visualization

Sefaira, the leading provider of high performance building design software, recently declared that it involves daylighting analysis feature with its performance based design platform.

Benefits of Architects

With the inclusion of daylighting, Sefaira integrates two significant design metrics in the same tool. It will empower the architects to generate elegant and superior building designs by providing balance trade-offs connecting energy and daylighting instantly and efficiently.

The architects will be able to bring meaningful, intuitive performance analysis into their native design environments.

The architect can also undertake best feasible design decisions from the conceptual phases. Authoritative daylighting visualizations will allow the architects to take data-oriented design decisions and convey evidently and efficiently with their clients.

Sefaira gives provides a superior platform to comprehend this complicated interdependent correlation at initial design phases by exploring various window to wall ratios, shading possibilities, glazing systems, and orientation.

Starting this month, daylighting analysis will be accessible in Sefaira for SketchUp, a plugin that facilitates the architects to have real-time energy analysis devoid of leaving their native design environment. Sefaira can now produce solid real-time daylighting and energy metrics inside a single platform by incorporating industry leading and largely accepted daylighting engines, Radiance and DAYSIM, into this plugin. Later on, Sefaira will include daylighting analysis to other design platforms.

Sefaira Daylighting comes up with key metrics which range from Spatial Daylight Autonomy (an indicator of the amount of daylight a space receives), and Annual Sunlight Exposure (a measure of direct sunlight, and an indicator of potential glare and comfort issues).

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published by

Tuhin Maity

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Participate in the BEST Kitchen Design Contest and showcase your woodworking project

Woodworking Network is going to organize an exclusive content on BEST Kitchen Design. The Timber Products Company will sponsor the competition. By participating in this content, the kitchen designers will be able to present their premier kitchen handiwork from the previous 14 months.

In order to take part, everybody has to provide a photo and some of the project details. The winning project will receive a $500 Visa gift card plus a custom-made award.

For submitting an entry, visit the registration page for rules and entry requirements and to present your project. Before sending any entries, it should be kept in mind that all entries must contain wood- or wood product-based cabinets. All entries must reach within Feb. 12, 2014 and March 1, 2014.

Participate today and submit your project in the BEST Kitchen Design Contest.

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published by

Tuhin maity

SketchUp User

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Flatten Faces Plugin for Sketchup

Alexschreyer is the developer of Flatten Faces Plugin for Sketchup. The plugin is compatible with SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013.

With Flatten Faces Plugin for Sketchup, the users will be able to place randomly-oriented faces flat on the ground. This plugin is very useful for generating cutouts, like CNC-prep etc. The sketchup users can apply it with any solo face as well several, coplanar faces. It is also compatible with an unfold tool to flatten shapes.

How to apply it:-

In order to obtain the flatten faces menu, opt for one or more coplanar faces in your model and just right-click on them. Under this method, all the chosen faces will be grouped. But remember one thing, the original geometry should not be grouped.

The sketchup users can avail Flatten Faces Plugin for Sketchup from Trimble’s Extension Warehouse.

In order to set up it smoothly, surf it from inside SketchUp (2013 or newer) and install it directly. For getting more updates, visit http://www.alexschreyer.net This plugin can be also accessed from GitHub

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published by
Tuhin Maity
sketchUp User
www.sketchup4architect.com
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Review of sketchup4architect.com

Intro:
Sketchup4architect.com is a web site outsourcing services regarding the 3D software of Google named Sketchup. In this web site, there are various Sketchup models, articles, magazine, software, news, components and list of the services.

Form:
When it comes to look, sketchup4architect.com really appears good. The title tag displaying on the top of the website, helps the visitor to know what web site they are viewing. With the opening of the web site, you can see a slide show of various Sketchup models of kitchen, library, dining set and modern way home. In the top menu, you will get About Us, Advertising and FAQs. In the About Us page, one can know about the organization. In the FAQs section, there are some frequently asked question about Sketchup and 3D modeling. On the right side, there are buttons for media kit, magazine, software and product. Clicking on the magazine button, you can access the monthly magazine ‘Sketchup ur Space’. If you want to read the magazine, a new window will be open containing the flash ezine.

On the main menu, there are page title and the sub title like Home, Download, Services, Models, Articles, Contact, Video, Blog, Jobs, Help and News. You can download 3D components like furniture, car, plans, landscape architect and many more; plugins like Photorealistic Rendering, Building Performance Analysis, Viewer Capability, Productivity Enhancement, workflow Enhancement and Google Sketchup Pro 8. the Service button includes 3D Modeling, Architectural design, 3D Construction design, Interior design, Landscape Architecture, Film & Stage visualizing, GIS sketching, Mechanical Design, BIM Modeling with Google SketchUp and SketchUp for furniture design. The Model button shows you a gallery of various Sketchup models of their in-house production. The Article button exports you to the land of galore of articles. If you have any queries about the product and service of sketchup4architect.com, then you can go to the Contact page where you can get the phone number and e-mail id.

There are many useful videos which will definitely help the Sketchup artist in the Video gallery. The Blog will take you to the in house blog on Sketchup. The Job and Help desk serve their purpose successfully. The News button shows you all the updated news on Sketchup.

There is a section for SketchUp Components 3D Warehouse where you can find various Sketchup models of furniture, cars, plants, architecture, plants, door, people, windows, kitchen, garden, stairs and many more things. On the almost every web page there are links for Sketchup components, Sketchup Plugins, Sketchup Podium, Sketchup Models etc.

Function:
Overall the usability of the web site is good. The color of sketchup4architect.com is soothing for the eyes. The design of the site is quite impressive for the visitors. You can easily read the well written content in clear font. All the links work properly for users’ convenience. When browsers visit the site first time, he can easily understand the purpose of the web site. The loading time of 5.14 seconds is good enough for a site containing a good number of images and videos. This frequently updated web site gets a good search engine ranking. The navigation, active hyperlink, well contained FAQs and site map help the visitor to browse the site. That’s why, you can say that the web site is successfully satisfied the purpose of the web master.

Conclusion: In a nut shell, you can say that Sketchup4architect.com is a wonderful web site give perfect service and assistance to the architects all over the world. So we can say that it is doing justice with its name.

Reviewed by
DEBARATI NATH
Content Writer