Coen Naninck 12:00 pm | POV-Ray is one of the oldest render software, and is both free and priceless at the same time (as they say in WordPress land). Integration with SketchUp is easy and fun with Didier Bur‘s plugin SU2POV. With version 3.5 now available, it brings the ‘HDRI lighting’ and ‘Save/restore all settings…

Coen Naninck 06:28 am | They told us (OK they asked us nicely), to wait announcing Google SketchUp 8 until they had officially announced it themselves. And now, it finally has gone live, Google SketchUp 8 is here! New stuff includes the Solid Tools (like BoolTools but faster), improved DWG/DXF import (it now supposedly imports…

Coen Naninck 03:51 pm | We’ve seen a lot of these releases lately to create complicated geometry. This is yet another installment of one such plugin. Spherical Spiral Archimedes by SCF member Regular Polygon. Download the plugin and view more details here.…

Coen Naninck 03:42 pm | Version 2.2.0 of Thomas Thomassen’s ‘Selection Toys’ plugin has landed yesterday. New in this version: Select Quad-Face loop now accept mulitple start-edges. Added Selection filters for Border Edges. Added Selection filters for Selection Border. Fixed Select Instances by Layer bug. Updated some method names to reflect changes in TT_Lib 1.2.…

Coen Naninck 12:00 pm | Google SketchUp allows you to turn on and off extensions at will prior to restarting the application, from within the application. Jim Foltz has now created a similar functionality that does the same thing outside of Google SketchUp. It’s a Windows executable and he states it “is not a plugin”.…

Coen Naninck 12:00 pm | The concept of software versioning will probably always escape my grasp of understanding, as TIG skips version numbers in his scripts jumping from 1.1 (first releases usually begin with 1.0 or lower) to 2.3 … in just 4 days time. This plugin adds the ability to rotate an object in…

Coen Naninck 10:19 pm | Not much of a lengthy description on this new plugin by Sahi, but I suppose that is not a bad thing in our modern world. From the topic: “The script takes a snapshot and saves the image in the folder where the file resides.” Check it out here.…

Coen Naninck 09:23 pm | While prematurely announcing new stuff before it’s actually ‘happened’, for the making of a new SCF theme we’ve ‘recruited‘ our members help in a dedicated topic asking for their biggest bugs and annoyances. While this was mostly intended as a bug fix of the current theme, it became apparent very…

Coen Naninck 08:28 pm | Yesterday I came across this website from a company named ‘DDD’ (or triple D I suppose) and their products sparked my interest. No no, this isn’t another shameless plug for a new advertiser on SketchUcation. To be honest here, I don’t think they have even heard about us! But maybe…

Csaba Pozsárkó 09:18 am | The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #29 (“Tree House”) was Eric Lay (aka Boofredlay) wit this entry. Congrats to the winner and all participants for the extremely cool entries!…