Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Render
Thursday, January 28th, 2010

As Whaat (Dale Martens), author of the plugin announced, Skindigo 2.2 for the rendering application Indigo 2.2 has just been released. Usability has been greatly improved along with integration with the Indigo material database. Main features are Integrated Indigo Material Database Search Sun Position Override Tool New Color Picker Interface for Emitter Color Custom Light [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Competition Blogs, Discussions, SketchUcation Community Forums
Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge (#21 – “Multi tool”) was CaptainLS with his “office space Swiss army stapler”. Congrats to the winner – as well as all the other participants with their also cool entries!
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Browser 3D
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

As Simlab Soft has just announced, the new version of their 3D PDF Plugin for SketchUp is available. With the plugin, one can easily export a SketchUp model into 3D PDF that can be viewed on any computer without any additional software other than the free Adobe Reader. The new version includes an existing list [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Books, LayOut
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

While we have abundant educational materials and tutorials about SketchUp, there are not too many on LayOut, the accompanying application for SketchUp Pro since version 6. Bonnie Roskes has now released a comprehensive guide to LayOut as an electronic (PDF) book at 3DVinci. Hopefully it will be a useful guide for those only now learning [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Render
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

As Glare Technologies has just announced, the latest version of their photo-realistic rendering package: Indigo Renderer 2.2. has just been released. Indigo 2.2 is at least 2 times faster than Indigo 2.0 on all scenes, and up to 10 times faster on scenes using environment maps.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Plug-ins
Friday, January 15th, 2010

Cadalog, Inc. has released SU Animate 3.1 for Google SketchUp 7 and 7.1. SU Animate is a Ruby based plug-in that automatically creates SketchUp scenes from camera and object paths. SU Animate automates the process of creating SketchUp animations. New to SU Animate 3.1 is the ability to animate objects with two motions such as [...]