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Spotlight: Mauritz Botha of IMSI/Design

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DoubleCAD XT and XT PRO are from IMSI/Design, makers of TurboCAD, DesignCAD, and IDX Renditioner rendering plug-in for Google SketchUp.  Mauritz Botha, the Chief Technology Officer of IMSI/Design answers a few questions from “The Daily CatchUp” regarding their DoubleCAD products. TDC: What is DoubleCAD? Mauritz: DoubleCAD is a new line of 2D CAD products that [...]

SU Podium 1.7 for Google SketchUp Released

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SU Podium 1.7 for Google SketchUp released from Cadalog, Inc. New version of the photo-realistic rendering plug-in for Google SketchUp includes blurred reflections. Cadalog, Inc. also announces the release of Fire Farm light fixtures for its Podium Light Fixture library. Cadalog,Inc. has released SU Podium 1.7 which includes blurred reflections and some utilities to help [...]

Vray RT at SIGGRAPH 2009

A very impressive demo of vray running on the GPU, courtesy of CGarchitect.com. http://www.cgarchitect.com/news/SIGGRAPH-2009-CHAOS-GROUP-GPU.shtml

SMC #15 Voting Now Up!

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The voting for the bridge modelling challenge is now up, i recomend having a look if for no other reason than to marvel at the quality of the models: a remarkably high standard given the time constraint. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=291&t=21054

SketchUp Project of the Month by Bonnie Roskes

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Starting next month (she hopes), Bonnie will be offering a new service: SketchUp Projects of the Month. Each month, subscribers will receive three projects geared toward teachers and students. One project each month will be math-related. Details on how to sign up will be forthcoming – sign up for the mailing list (at the end [...]

Augumented Reality Exporter and Player are out

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Inglobe Technologies released a couple of tools today which will take Augmented Reality with Google SketchUp a step further: the AR-media™ Exporter and the AR-media™ Player. The AR-media Exporter is an add-on for the previously released AR-media™ Plugin for SketchUp which allows users to autonomously create and publish augmented reality files in the “*.armedia” format. [...]

New Street View Site at Google Maps

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“Since our launch of Street View in May 2007, it has consistently been one of Google Maps’ (and Google Earth’s) most popular features. We’ve also found that it has been one of the features that folks are most curious about, so we have given our Street View overview site a refresh that puts everything you [...]

Featured Modelers: 3D Artists in Antwerp

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Really amazing quality of modelling for Google Earth. Congrats to Nick (aka “SittingDuck”) and Chris (aka “KR=”) who have completed a good deal of the historic centre of the Antwerp. Chris’ spectacular model of the main Cathedral of Our Lady (in the picture above) is a focal point for this area. Read more in the [...]

Super Modeler Conference in Boulder

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It seems that I should have been much more active in modelling for GE… Maybe next time. “Starting tomorrow, August 6th, twenty Google Earth 3D modelers will join us in Boulder, Colorado for a two-day conference. These super modelers are flying in from locations around the world; including, Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, Argentina, [...]

Plugins Are on the Way for Thea Render

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“Thea Render is really very happy to announce that their plugin development has already started for 9 modeling applications. Thea Render has made big steps forward in rendering realism and it is certainly unique from many aspects. The professionalism and long experience of their partners means that the plugins delivered will be of high quality, [...]

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