Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Competition Blogs, SketchUcation Community Forums
Thursday, November 26th, 2009

The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #19 on “Pet Houses” was Boofredlay (Eric Lay). Now he seems to have taken the record for most consecutive wins. Congrats, Eric, nice job and well deserved golden badge!
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Modeling
Thursday, November 26th, 2009

As Dmitriy Ushakov of Ledas Ltd has just announced, a new version of their parametric design plugin for SketchUp, Driving Dimensions 1.2 has been released. New features have also been added: Support for national languages Japanese translation of GUI Less edges and faces are now moved when you edit a driving dimension value The time [...]
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Render
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Render Plus Systems have released a new version of IRender nXt – their integrated rendering engine for SketchUp. The latest version adds these features: Panoramic Views – creates a full 360 degree panorama with a single rendering. Time required to export models cut by 50% Automatic positioning of Camera Lights Foreground overlays – images, edge [...]
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Comics Art, Comics Blogs
Friday, November 20th, 2009

Joel Metzger, creator of these wonderfully charming movies has just posted his newest part in the “Discovery” series; “The Bellfield Lunar Anomaly“. He uses SketchUp to create these “cartoonish” looking movies and applies it very effectively during his workflow. Don’t forget to visit his revamped website to watch all the other parts as well in [...]
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Discussions
Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Whaat (Dale Martens), developer of several plugins, has just released a new version of his UV Tools plugin; UV Tools 0.2 Pro as a public beta. It is practically a quick export-import bridge between SketchUp and several other applications that can do better UV mapping. [youtube width="480" height="305"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVh-KSOHsw[/youtube]
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Render
Thursday, November 19th, 2009

As was announced a couple of days ago (when my machine was broken down), Twilight Render 1.1 is out. There have been a couple of minor fixes but new features as well like support for several (and growing number of) languages, a new View-and-Framing tool, transparency support for TGA images and many more. For all [...]
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Art, Blogs
Thursday, November 5th, 2009

I don’t know how “new” this is but nomeradona, member of the SketchUcation Community – and several other – Forums has just posted about his SketchUp, Photography and Art Blog. I am probably not alone enjoying his gallery submissions for years and it is very nice to see many of the familiar works in one [...]
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Plug-ins
Thursday, November 5th, 2009

SketchUcation Community Forum member “a4chitect” wrote this script because, as he says, “I have always wanted this feature, and since it didn’t appear as of now, I have decided to dedicate few hours to it. It is far from perfect but works in many cases” (as if it were that obvious or easy formost of [...]