Metalwork Design Tools
DrawMetal™ provides plugins (extensions) for Google SketchUp® that draw a variety of spirals, curves and tapered shapes (tapered extrusions)...
Cutlist and Layout from Sketchup
If you’re a fan of Sketchup for creating woodworking models, then the next obvious step is to use Sketchup to help you create cutlists and layouts. Sketchup plugin Cutlist 4.1 does just that. CutList 4.1 sketchup plugin helps you determine how much of each material you need to produce your design, taking into account nominal sized lumber with allowances...
Creating a Spring - free spring plugin
The Spring Plugin allows you to create springs or coils of any length, pitch, diameter and gauge; using a simple dialog box to input the required dimensions. Springs can be used in a variety of engineering, architectural and sculptural applications. To get the free Spring...
RpWallMaker - Free plugin
RpWallMaker Free is a free add-on for Google SketchUp (Windows or Mac) to create wide walls (3D walls with thickness), edit them and cut holes in them.The custom walls are generated by drawing the center line of the wall in SketchUp and the wide, 3D wall is automatically...
Mirror Tool Google SketchUp Plugin
The Mirror Tool plugin created by an unknown author at the Ruby Library Depotis a useful tool to have when using SketchUp. It allows you to mirror as you would in AutoCAD.To use the tool all you need to do is click the object you want to mirror and click the “mirror selection”...
VRay - Rendering an interior scene (Tutorial)
Part I: Adjusting the GI settingsStep 1. First render1.1. Open the scene (which can be found here).1.2. Assign VRay as the current renderer.Since the default VRay settings are not very well suited for a fast initial preview, we'll make a few quick adjustments before the...
Make a Nightstand in Google SketchUp (Tutorial)
Nice little tutorials on how to make a nightstand in Google SketchUp.
I’m a firm believer in keeping the saw sharp. Really sharp. So that means you gotta sharpen the saw regular...
How to create furniture in Google SketchUp
This is begining of a previous story.
I downloaded Google’s SketchUp just to check it out. I was actually thinking of doing some landscaping (figuring out what trees and shrubs to plant and where to plant them on a little piece of barren land I own). But I got a bit distracted and since I want to create a clothes rack of some sort, I thought...
Building a House in Sketchup (Video)
Here is video building a house in sketchup,from begining,even stairs,roof and everything, and some music too :)
Enjoy!
Source YouT...
Regular Polygon Keyframe Animation Plugin (Video)
Regular Polygon has published a keyframe animation for SketchUp version 7 & 8, Free or Pro.
Main Features include:
Keyframes are easily added, deleted, renamed, and reordered.
Any group or component can be animated.
Animated groups (components) can be nested.
Animated groups (components) can be nested inside of non-animated groups (components).
Animated...
Plugin: Instant Roof, instant productivity
Instant Roof, by Chuck Vali of Vali Architects, is a truly great SketchUp Ruby script. Its purpose is simple – you use Instant Roof to quickly create gables, hips, sheds and trellises anywhere you need them. This script has everything going for it:It's easy to install. Pop one file into your plugins folder and you're done.It's easy to learn. Chuck...
Making your rounded models look better
When you're working with rounded objects whose edges have been smoothed, it's sometimes hard to make things look good. That's because curved surfaces don't automatically produce a profile edge that helps to differentiate them from the background. You can see what I'm talking...
Welcome, Google Apps users!
Google Apps recently launched an improvement that made dozens of Google services available to Google Apps users for the first time. As part of this launch, Google SketchUpand 3D Warehouse are now available to our Google Apps users for free with their Apps account...
What amazing things sketchup do!
SketchUpArtists has been created and developed for the benefit of professional SketchUp users and CG artists to have a leading data base of information dealing with different...
Updated FREE models for sketchup
Now bring to you comletely free models to download for sketchup,updated weekly!
FREE MODELS on sketchup furniture models!
Consider Donate for more free models...
How to Improve Renderings
Edge lines are a perfect way to show off detail in a SketchUp model. But what happens when the user wants to render a high quality image of their model? If edge lines aren’t used, the details can be washed out due to lighting and material choices. Using rendering software that...
Interesting plugins for sketchup from sketchyphysics
Jim has released Find Shadow Window which resets the Shadow dialogue box when it decides to vanish off screen. A real handy Plugin to have for those who move their windows around the workspace. Currently it’s PC on...
Lumion looms large!
“A new & easy tool for architects and their clients, discover how fast you can create high quality movies.”
Certainly a bold statement, but given the pedigree, Act-3D™ B.V. have delivered a product designed from the ground up for creating breathtaking 3D visualizations....
Turning 3D SketchUp Models Into Reality (VIDEO)
The Google headquarters in 3D
[Photo by Sweet Onion Creations.]
Sweet Onion Creations is a company dealing with 3D printing. In the video, they show you how they load a model located in Google Earth (and perhaps available in the Google 3D Warehouse) into Google SketchUp,...
Another SketchUp Renderer Available for Free: IDX Renditioner
IDX Renditioner outputJoining the ranks of already available free rendering engines for SketchUp (likeKerkythea and Indigo) is the free version of IDX Renditioner Express.This is a full featured copy of the main product with the only limitations being a reduced image size...
SketchUp Tips and Tricks
SketchUp Tips and Tricks
This panel of 5 experienced SketchUp users will share tips and tricks to improve your effectiveness with SketchUp.
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Sketchup Shorts #4: Virtual Materials II - Tiling it Seamlessly
So a point was raised in my previous installment of this blog regarding tiling appearance of materials (once you assign your custom material to your model and scale it up you’d see the same material pattern repeat over and over again with distinct horizontal and vertical lines (the seams) that separate those repetitio...
SketchUp Materials and Textures Galore
The material collections (wood, stone, tile, etc.) that come with SketchUp are pretty sparsely populated. But there is a wealth of materials you can add to your collections, all for fre...
OpenStudio Plug-in for Google SketchUp
OpenStudio Plug-in for Google SketchUp makes it easy to create and edit the building geometry in your EnergyPlus input files. This free plug-in also allows you to launch EnergyPlus simulations and view the results without leaving the Google SketchUp 3D drawing prog...
OnTime5D plugin tested on newly released Sketchup 8
I just tested the OnTime5D plugin on the newly released Sketchup 8, and it works without a problem. Sketchup 8 was recetly released by Google and can be found on http://sketchup.google.co...
SketchUp™ plug-in
Integrated quick effective feedback on low-energy design metricsThe IESVE plug-in for Google SketchUp enables the direct translation of models for performance analysis within any of our tools: VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits VE-Gaia and VE-Pro.&nb...
SYCODE Plug-ins Are Ready For SketchUp 8
Google released SketchUp version 8 today and I am pleased to announce that each of our 13 data exchange plug-ins for SketchUp have been tested to work with this new version. Our subscription customers can download the latest installers from the SketchUp section of our web site and request permanent ke...
SketchUp 8 Upgrades & Features
Did you realize that SketchUp has been around for some four years? Time really flies, and over the years we’ve noticed that the number of user-generated 3D buildings springing up in Google-Earth has increased dramatically, so it’s about high time a new version of this...
What's New in Google SketchUp 8
What's New in Google SketchUp 8We've stuffed SketchUp 8 full of new and improved featur...
Google Launches SketchUp 8 3D Modeling Software
Google on Wednesday announced a new version of its 3D modeling software, SketchUp 8.New features include model geo-location integration with Google Maps, more accurate terrain and color aerial imagery, improved photo matching for model building, and integration with Google...
History - sketchup
Wiki article,Sketchup historySketchUp was developed by startup company @Last Software, Boulder, Colorado which was co-founded in 1999 by Brad Schell and Joe Esch....
Augmented Reality Plugin for Google SketchUp - AR-media™
With the Augmented Reality Plugin from AR-media™, Google™ SketchUp™ users are allowed to visualize their 3D models using Augmented Reality directly in the real physical space which sorrounds them. In a very precise sense, through AR-media™ Plugin, SketchUp™ 3D models can be visualized out of the digital workspace directly on users' desktop, by connecting...
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SketchUp Engineering ToolBox!
Online SketchUp Engineering ToolBox!Add standard and customized parametric components - like flange beams, lumbers, piping and more - to your Google SketchUp model by usingsketchup.engineeringtoolbox.c...
Ten Beginner Tips for Using Google SketchUp
Whether you want to design a new addition to your house, plan your landscaping or just make a drawing for fun, Google SketchUp offers wonderful functionality for creating 3D models. Even better, it’s completely free. If you’d like to try your hand at designing with the program...
Urban Developer
Urban Developer uses a model based approach with objects such as project plans, sub plan areas and real-estate objects which have their own user interfaces and calculations. These properties can be accessed via the context menu within SketchUp. A project tree gives an overview of all the objects that are available on the urban development plan and...
RPS RpReports
RpReports is a plug-in for SketchUp which lets you create your own applications with customized attributes, predefined attributes for components, and reports.Define attributes for your application, such as manufacturer, part number, description, building, floor, and price....
SpecifiCAD™
SpecifiCAD TM Google SketchUp™ 7 delivers relevant building product data to the designer’s Desktop within the BIM environment using CADalytic Media’s patent-pending technology. CADalytic Media through SpecifiCAD™ delivers the functionality of the Sweets Network® to provide manufacturer content directly on the BIM desktop. Designers can quickly access...
Photoshop CS3 Extended Plug-In for Google 3D Warehouse
Photoshop® CS3 Extended Plug-in for Google 3D Warehouse is a free plug-in that enables you to search and download 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse™ directly from Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended. Once you have downloaded the plug-in, you can search Google 3D Warehouse from Photoshop CS3 Extended by going to File>Automate>Search Google for 3D...
