Giannis (Ioannis Pantazopoulos), developer of Thea Render has announced the planned release date of the open, public beta as well as the pricing guidelines today. “Regarding release dates, our open beta phase is programmed to start on 15th of December. Everyone will be able to evaluate the software. Our goal is to move as fast [...]

The voting for round #17 of the Speed Modelling Challenge has started as Remus Knowles announced. It will end on October 6, some time in the evening UTC (this part is never clear).
Cast your votes in the forum topic.

Krill just keeps releasing better and better plug-ins. The latest video demonstrates some unbelievable SketchUp moves. Check out version 1.2 of this plug-in.

It is raining plug-ins this week! Here is a plug-in that can access the Edit function of all Components on the same Layer simultaneously.

Another update on another plug-in, by TIG: Lathe version 1.2.

TIG has released version 2.2 of his 2D tool set: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=22091

Read the details here onwards: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=185496#p185496
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Artwork by community member Valkama.

Here is an interesting discussion about WebDialogs which show differences between code in various browsers.

Community forum member Vince requested a script which explodes all Groups and subGroups but leaves all Components intact, and forums Moderator Remus responded with a script. TIG also made a script.