LEDAS Ltd., a Russian software development company, recently released a new version of Driving Dimensions plugin for Google SketchUp. We asked Dmitry Ushakov, Director of Product Management at LEDAS for an in-depth interview with “The Daily CatchUp” on their latest offering. TDC: There is a new version of Driving Dimensions for SketchUp released last week, [...]
It may be something “personal” but I have always enjoyed SketchUcation Community Forums member Stinkie’s B&W renders (he seems to “master” a whole selection of rendering applications for this) so finally decided to post his latest work, a “Bit of Fun” posted in the Forum Gallery. See his other contributions in these search results.
“The Whirlpool Corporation Design+Development Group (D+DG) is now offering an additional continuing education unit (CEU) course as part of its curriculum for industry architects. As the first appliance manufacturer to be honored with the AIA Continuing Education System (CES) Award for Excellence, the D+DG continually provides architects and designers with innovative and collaborative education. Whirlpool [...]
“It’s been seven years ago that Blender became Open Source, and to showcase all of our achievements, celebrate the release of our Blender 2.5 project, and pave the way for next years, the Blender Foundation is pleased to launch a call for proposals for the Blender Conference 2009, to be held October 23-25, 2009 in [...]
Barbara and Dennis Fukai are the people “behind” Insitebuilders, a small press specializing in books for the design and construction industry. All of their construction books are written as graphic narratives using a combination of three-dimensional illustrations, interactive 3D construction models, short videos, captioned text, and interactive media. Their goal is to keep their construction [...]
The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge of the SketchUcation Community Forums is “Boofredlay” (Eric Lay). According to the rules, the subject for the next challenge is always defined by the latest winner and now it will be LEGO stuff.
The winner of the Subdivide and Smooth Tutorial Contest was Takeshi Hashimoto “with his outstanding tutorial of how to accurately model a Panton Chair using the plugin. He presents a very interesting workflow that might give you some new ideas on how to put Subdivide and Smooth to use.” Read more on the “Whaat’s Up [...]
SketchUcation Community Forums member and moderator “Solo” (Pete Stoppel) is teasing us again with his beautiful renders. “Had a break between assignments, so I decided to play… It is Vue, plants are from Solopack 1 and 2, No post processing except for logo and inset of model image. The model just a modified Dodge truck, [...]
Didier Bur has made a major update for his Projections Plugin saying: “It’s time for an update of my projection and guides tools set, with new features and more interactive tools. What’s new ? Everything.” Read more (and download the plugin) in the forum post. (Image “borrowed” from “Frenchy Pilou”)
Our “regular” ruby contributor, Fredo6 has just released a new plugin, “BZ_Animation, an extension to BezierSpline to divide a Polyline with the following modes, based on a Min and a Max distance given as parameters: Uniform Acceleration, from Min to Max Uniform Deceleration, from Max to Min Acceleration and then Deceleration, Min – Max, Min [...]
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