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!

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 required to solve driving [...]

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 lines, watermarks, pattern masking
Automatic [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 place [...]

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 [...]