Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
CAD, Interviews
Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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 [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Render
Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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 [...]
Posted by Remus Knowles
Applications, Render
Tuesday, August 11th, 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
Posted by Remus Knowles
Architecture Art, Art, SketchUcation
Friday, August 7th, 2009

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
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Education, Google SketchUp Blogs
Friday, August 7th, 2009

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 [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Presentation
Friday, August 7th, 2009

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. [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Google Earth, Google Maps
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

“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 [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
3D Warehouse, Google Earth, Google SketchUp Blogs
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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 [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Conferences, Google Earth, Modeling
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

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, [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Applications, Render
Thursday, August 6th, 2009

“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, [...]