Some useful tricks to utilize skatter plugin in sketchup

In this sketchup tutorial, you will learn the functionalities of skatter plugin in sketchup. The tutorial focuses on the following sections :-

1. Distribution
2. Uniform
3. Grid
4. Vertices
5. Faces centers

It is a robust scattering extension for sketchup to render numerous vegetation, instantly populate city blocks, generate parametric assemblies, crowds, carpets etc.

By applying “Render only” feature, one can deliver all the scattering information directly to the render engines, skipping Sketchup. In this way, it is possible to retain a lightweight and responsive file whereas still rendering huge amounts of objects.

The users can return back and edit your work at any time. Every option and parameter is saved, so it is not necessary to delete everything and restart from beginning.

Produce huge grass fields with simple mouse clicks. Besides the default grass, trees, bushes, gravel, rocks and more, the users will be able to save their own presets for reapplication, and allocate them with others.

To download skatter, click on the following link getskatter.com

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How to make naturalistic pool water design in v-ray for sketchup

In this exclusive tutorial, you will get step-by-step guidelines to make a naturalistic pool water with v-ray for sketchup. Here, the design is made for a rectangular pool with white tiles.

Various water materials are provided in the pool. To avail water material, go to v-ray material library and click on the liquid category and choose the materials for water.

V-ray caustics effect is another useful function to make physically perfect water bodies in swimming pools. Caustics belong to the wavy light patterns which are developed under clear water while sunlight refracts through any uneven water surface.

Another useful option is to perform clay render in Vray SketchUp. For this purpose, go to the global switches in the Vray options and mark override materials.

To learn the complete process for making naturalistic pool water, go through the following video tutorial.

To download the model of pool, click on the following link gumroad.com/l/AI19

Video Source Architecture Inspirations

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How perform exterior rendering for a concrete box house with v-ray for sketchup

This is a useful tutorial for the architects where they will learn how to perform exterior rendering with v-ray for sketchup for a modern concrete box house.

Given below, some useful tips for rendering with v-ray for sketchup :-

1. Model what you observe.
2. Choose the time of day.
3. Render in eye level view.
4. Render in 2-point perspective.
5. Perform fast test renders.
6. Recognize your resources.
7. Apply sketchup materials inifially.

8. Utilize VFB channels.
9. Utilize settings presets.
10. Apply an HDRI image for your lighting.

To learn complete rendering process, watch the following video tutorial.

The model can be downloaded from Gumroad, by clicking on the following link gumroad.com

Video Source Architecture Inspirations

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Step by step guidelines for modeling club chair in sketchup

This exclusive sketchup video tutorial will present the detail guideline for performing club chair modeling in sketchup.

For modeling purpose, different types of sketchup plugins like Jhs Powerbar, Vertex Tools, Joint Push Pull and Subd are utilized.

Given below, the details about these sketchup plugins :-

Jhs Powerbar — It allows the users to produce an array along a path. A series of components can be provided instantly in a predefined arrangement.

Click on the following link to download the plugin sketchucation.com/pluginstore

Vertex Tools — It is a robust vertex editor for sketchup to take the lead over each vertex. Soft selections are suitable for organic modelling and the manipulator gizmo allows keeping control while modeling.

Click on the following link to download the plugin (evilsoftwareempire.com/vertex-tools)

Joint Push Pull — A script devoted to Face extrusion, with wide array of Tools. The users will be able to push pull numerous and curved surfaces inside SketchUp. Besides, a tool like Vector Push Pull facilitates the users to extrude the footprint of a curved surface into a flat shape.

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

SubD — SUbD refers to a parametric subdivision extension for SketchUp that is best suited for quad-based workflows. Apply free tools like QuadFace Tools to generate meshes with quad-topology and subdivide and crease with SUbD.

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

Watch the following video tutorial to learn the process for chair modeling.

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Shape Bender tool creates Curved Metal Panels in SketchUp

SketchUp is made to create different models and designs, the tools are perfect to help in 3D modeling, similarly Shape Bender is another extension which help to create Curved Metal Panels

In this article, we are again going to discuss about the method of creating and bending a series of linear metal panels into a curving serpentine shape with the SketchUp extension Shape Bender. Justin Geis has explained this tutorial through his video we are just going to give you a detailed written description of the tutorial.

Shape Bender: This extension can create a shape which is made to bend but that must be in group or component. After grouping the shape, users have to select a single horizontal line that can be used as the ground to bend; next select the curve that the shape will bend to match the existing one. After that, the shape will show a grid and preview of the place where the object is going to transform to. Then, press ‘UP’ Arrow key to move the orientation of the bend. Path: Plugins > Chris Fullmer Tools> Shape Bender or select it from a Shape Bender Toolbar.

To create the Curved Metal Panels, two extensions are needed: 1) Shape Bender, 2) Weld.

Note: SketchUp 2019 version doesn’t support Shape Bender extension, so users must do it in SketchUp 2018.

After entering in the SketchUp Home page, users have to create wide and long rectangle and click inward it which will take a shape of metal piece. Next this shape needs to be grouped and given a name. This shape may need to copy many times to give a cured look, users can use move tool and copy the object and paste it multiple time with a distant space. As Shape Bender extension allows to bend any object using a base line and a target line, so users need to fix these two lines first. The base line must be drawn on Red axis, the line is then need to copy and paste the line to make it a target line; it will be known as another base line. Using Arc Tool users can make the half of the line a barrier, using Rotate tool the line can be bended as a curve line. Previously the shapes were copied and pasted which made them look alike a sheet, this sheet need to be in group and shape bender tool will curve this group shit along the curve line.

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Demo of transmutr, a brand new sketchup extension

Justin Geis, the renowned sketchup instructor, has presented this useful sketchup video tutorial that focuses on the demonstration of Transmutr, a brand new sketchup extension from the developer of skatter to instantly import and export external models with several formats into sketchup.

It will allow sketchup to read along with the capability to generate proxies for your rendering programs.

This sketchup extension contains some unique features like automated render-ready materials and proxies, geometry simplification. Besides, there are some useful options like scaling, unit conversion, axes/origin transformations and lots other.

Details of the features are given below :-

Automated render-ready materials: Automatically transform render-ready materials or fine-tune them with some simple mouse clicks.

Automated proxies: With a single click, Transmutr can create proxies for V-Ray, Thea and Enscape.

Geometry simplification: Streamline high-poly objects with numerous faces down to a few thousands or hundreds.

Direct link with Quixel Megascans Bridge: With a couple of clicks, it is possible to deliver Megascans assets from Quixel Bridge to SketchUp.

Correct units, scale and axes: Scale the model, amend t the origin or modify the Up Axis with just a couple clicks.

Clean model hierarchy: Transmutr retains the model hierarchy whereas simplifying it to get rid of unnecessary nesting.

To get more details or purchase the extension, go through the following link https://transmutr.com

For online demonstration of the extension, watch the following video tutorial.

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"Bending an object in SketchUp”

David Richards always works on different tools from different SketchUp extensions to create some differentiates in his models and this time he made a tutorial on Radial Bend tool.

About David Richards: He is a Biomedical Equipment Technician and provides anesthesia and Respiratory equipment for the largest medical facility in southeast Minnesota. Beside that he works in his garage woodworking shop where he has made various wooden items, he is a regular SketchUp user who uses it for designing projects, working out joinery details and solving the order of operations in time. He has made a various range of SketchUp models like tiny parts for medical equipment, large architectural and other construction projects. Most of his models are furniture and other woodworking related things, besides being a SketchUp users and woodworker; he helps other woodworkers around the world to use the program through his blogs in ‘Fine Woodworking’ which has become very popular among the woodworkers.

David Richards has drawn a SketchUp model and going to show his viewers the tip of bending any object in it; at first he drew a SketchUp model while creating plans for Michael Robbins’s Contemporary Desk that is marked in the current issue of Fine Woodworking Magazine. The desk mixes practical utility with elegant details like its slender base with turned legs and curved side profiles; the construction is divided into two parts that are top and base. The joinery for the top section is elementary mortise and tennos; the two-part desktop is part solid wood and part plywood and covered with leather to make a blotter. The base with its turned legs is a straightforward frame secured by bridle joints. This leather on the blotter surface is represented by creating a component at first that is twisted up at one corner.

The work of this bending is easily done with the help of the Radial Bend tool in the FredoScale extension and here is a little detail of that work.

Radial Bend tool: Radial Bend deforms an object by radically bending the deformation axis which is perpendicular to the base reference plane. The radial bend is applied to the selected end of the deformation axis while the opposite end stays fixed and when the mouse moves, the shape radically bends in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction as per a circular bending track that is displayed and is subdivided in degrees. The orientation of the bend may be rotated around the deformation axis and done through the rotation handle attached at the bottom of the axis. This control is activated by clicking on it and an extra rotational track is shown to assist users with the positioning of the rotation.

In this model, David started working from the base for the blotter; he took a component, copied it pasted outside the component. Next he took Push/Pull tool to give the component a little thickness; next he thought took the curve tool to start the guideline to set the arbitrary. Now it is the time to bend the object, so he took the Radial Bend tool from FredoScale extension, placed it on the object, here users can set the number of faces they want in the curved object, next he drag the cursor along the guideline click on the corner and bring that corner up to make it a bended corner.

Source:www.finewoodworking.com




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"Animating Sections with Scenes in SketchUp ”

SketchUp’s two specialist Aidan Chopra and co-author Rebecca Huehls has written the book the SketchUp for Dummies where the way of Animating sections is discussed.

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. 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.

This article is going to focus on drawing some Animating sections with scenes in SketchUp and this tutorial is given in the SketchUp for Dummies site.

Aidan Chopra was a beloved member of the SketchUp team for 10 years; he is the creator of SketchUp Blog where SketchUp members and professionals share their new designs and tells some tips and tricks to design various designs that help users a lot. This Blog has attracted huge number of people and helps them to know more about SketchUp tools and extensions, moreover that users can now easily use SketchUp in their everyday life. Aidan also taught countless classes on SketchUp, he authored the SketchUp for Dummies Book.

Animating Sections with Scenes:

Uniting section views with scenes for creating an animation is a useful and impressive way to exhibit the SketchUp models and it is a basic idea that scenes are used to create animations where the section planes can move inside the models. Here some reasons which are effective to use this technique, such as:

• If user has a building with many levels then he/she can create an animated presentation that will show a cutaway plan view of every level.
• An animated section plane is also used to “get inside” in the models easily and it is an easier act than simply hiding certain parts of it.

• To show a relationship between the plan and section views for a project with the help of an animated section plane helps the users to discuss the concept of different architectural views to 3D beginners. Some basic steps are listed here that will help to create a basic animation:
• First of all a section plane has to be added to the created model.
• Next a scene has to add to the same model.
• Now another section plane has to add to the model and it can be done in two ways: 1) the Section Plane tool can be used to create a brand-new Section plane and it is fur most the simplest option that makes it right choice for beginners. 2) Or users can use Move tool to copy an existing section plane but make sure that the new section plane is in the active mode which will cut through the model. In case it is inactive, context-click the section plane and select Active Cut from the Context menu.
• Then another scene has to add to the model which remembers the active section plane.
• At last the users can view their added scenes through the animations; here one can see an animated section cut as SketchUp transitions from one scene to the next. To enable scene transitions chose Window> Model Info> Animation Panel> check in the Scene Transitions box.

Source:www.dummies.com/programming/google-sketchup

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VR Sketch – A new wing has been added to extension warehouse

Maciej F is the developer of the newest sketchup plugin alias VR Sketch. It is well matched with sketchup 2017 and sketchup 2018. It is only compatible with windows platform.

It can be used for editing and visualizing architectural models from SketchUp in virtual reality. HTC Vive with SteamVR installed should be necessary for present setup.-

The trial version of the plugin functions for 2 weeks. After that a paid version is required with free access for 2 weeks.

The current version allows the users to view and edit directly in VR and the users can use it to deal with large models. The link from SketchUp files is instant and it is possible to edit both on the monitor and in the VR simultaneously.

The present version is not intended for photo realism and rather features on having a cartoonish but well performing mode that allows you to edit SketchUp files 100s of megabytes in size.

To get more information, go through the following link vrsketch.eu

Go through the following sketchup video tutorial to learn how does it function.

Video Source VR Sketch

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CutList Bridge 4.4 is available in extension warehouse

Joe Zeh has developed CutList Bridge 4.4. This newest sketchup extension is compatible with SketchUp 8, SketchUp 2013, SketchUp 2014, SketchUp 2015, SketchUp 2016, SketchUp 2017, SketchUp 2018.

This sketchup ruby extension can be used to export a cut list to Excel, OpenOffice Calc and CutList Plus fx.

It expands the characteristics of components to contain such things as the material type employed in its milling, the species or material name, re-sized dimensions, shop method tags, the sub-assembly to which it belongs and lots other.

These attributes are connected to the component and preserved in the model file. The user can export these characteristics to either a .cwx or .csv file. CWX files are opened in CutList Plus fx Gold or Platinum editions with simple clicks on the .cwx file(needs version 12.3 or higher).

CSV files are imported to CutList Plus fx (applying a Parts import Wizard), Microsoft Excel, Open/Office Calc or any spread sheet application that supports CSV importing. All of these applications will generate a cut list but CutList Plus fx will also generate a materials list, optimized cutting diagrams, inventory control and project costing.

The most vital feature of CutList Bridge is that it preserves all components’ material and milling attributes in the SketchUp model file.

The user should retain only one file of a design and doesn’t require for synchronizing other files when modifications to design are done. The CWX, CSV, CutList Plus fx, Excel or OpenOffice Calc files are reproduced with just four mouse click

For online demonstration, go through the following video tutorial.

Video Source Joe Zeh

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How to swap low-poly proxy components for highly detailed model through components window

This sketchup video tutorial is a part of sketchup skill builder series. In this sketchu video, one will learn the process to interchange low-poly proxy components for exceedingly detailed model with the use of components window.

If you have models which contain lots of geometries, it will slow down your computer. To resolve the issue, you have to make proxies which are nothing but simple components to represent where the geometry is going to be placed. It can be done with a instant click substituted with more complicated geometry.

While going to create more and more complicated objects SketchUp, you need to save those objects in order to utilize them repeatedly. It is also often required to allocate your objects with other or download other people's objects from the web. All these can be performed with components. It all takes place in the Components window that is available under Window, Components.

It does not represent all the objects in the scene but only those objects which are transformed into components. There are three tabs in this components window. One is the Select tab that facilitates the users to choose components. The next one is Edit that facilitates the users to edit current components. Besides, there is a Statistics tab that empowers the users to observe statistics about the components.

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How to swap low-poly proxy components for highly detailed model through components window

This sketchup video tutorial is a part of sketchup skill builder series. In this sketchu video, one will learn the process to interchange low-poly proxy components for exceedingly detailed model with the use of components window.

If you have models which contain lots of geometries, it will slow down your computer. To resolve the issue, you have to make proxies which are nothing but simple components to represent where the geometry is going to be placed. It can be done with a instant click substituted with more complicated geometry.

While going to create more and more complicated objects SketchUp, you need to save those objects in order to utilize them repeatedly. It is also often required to allocate your objects with other or download other people's objects from the web. All these can be performed with components. It all takes place in the Components window that is available under Window, Components.

It does not represent all the objects in the scene but only those objects which are transformed into components. There are three tabs in this components window. One is the Select tab that facilitates the users to choose components. The next one is Edit that facilitates the users to edit current components. Besides, there is a Statistics tab that empowers the users to observe statistics about the components.

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Interior lighting with v-ray for sketchup

Chaos Group presents this exclusive video tutorial for v-ray users. The video sheds light on the fundamentals of lighting an interior scene by applying v-ray in sketchup.
Here, in this video, different types of v-ray lights (IES, spotlight, rectangular, emissive etc.) are used for both day and night renders.
By watching the video, one can gather knowledge on the general lighting workflow for interiors in sketchup.
To obtain more information, click on the following link docs.chaosgroup.com

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How to apply a pencil drawing style to your sketchup model

In this sketchup tutorial, Justin Geis presents some essential tips on how to apply style and overlay to your regular sketchup model and transform it to be look like a pencil drawing.

Pencil drawing or hand-made images are useful while explaining architectural projects with clients and planning authorities similar to each other.

Conceptual images can fulfill the purpose of maintaining a project open in the initial phases of design progression.

For more details please watch the tutorial as displayed below:

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How to Create Lattice Texture in Vray for Sketchup

In today’s session of learning we are introducing you with an exclusive video tutorial of Vray for sketchup. This tutorial is produced with a view to provide detailed demonstration on how to create different materials with a realistic look in Vray.

This tutorial is proudly presented by the Robson Jacobsen, CEO of Jacobsen3D, Company specialized in Renders and 3D designs of interiors and architecture. He is constantly updating his channel with his valuable video tutorials of interior design, architecture, 3D modeling and rendering.

Requirements: To develop this tutorial you just need two software. The first important one is sketchup pro 2016 and Adobe Photoshop (latest version preferred).

First of all, you have to download a texture image according to your need and then you have to implement this texture into sketchup and finally have to give the finishing touch with photoshop.

For more details please watch the tutorial as displayed below:

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An exclusive tutorial on Mystique FX with 3ds Max

My inspiration come from X-men days of future past. This FX is Procedural so you can apply it to any mesh you want,

open 3ds max
create Thinking Particles System
go to modifiers panel click on properties
from TP system create Group and name it Active
create two Dynamic set and name it 1- Birth 2- Run
in birth dynamic set create matter waves from operators

Open it
pick object you want to scatter on it
in Group : select Active Group
make the other settings like the image (01) below

in birth Run set
make ppass group and select the active group

create **

Node from helper
surface Follow From operators
SCale From operators
GeomInstance From operators
particle Die From operators
Particle Age From Conditions
connected like the image below (02)

in node
pick the same object to keep the particles follow if your object is animated

in Particle Age make it Absolute and set the age of you particles

In GeomInstance pick your feather to make scatter in the object pr you can use my Feather you can download the scene file from here you can find it in the description

if you need any help you can email me

My Email : salahinpeak@hotmail.com

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Sketchup Team of Global Associates just release the updated issue of it's exclusive magazine "Sketchup-ur-space"

We have just published the updated issue of our exclusive magazine “Skethup-ur-space”. The present theme of the magazine is “Geo modeling and Sketchup”. In this issue our readers will find an interesting cover story prepared by our previous editor-in-chief Debarati Nath. The cover story focuses on how to model real world building applying sketchup and what process should be followed to build a geo-model with SketchUp.