Bonnie Roskes has been part of the SketchUp scene since 2001, with her popular step-by-step SketchUp tutorial books. Bonnie answers a few questions from The Daily CatchUp about the latest happenings with her company, 3DVinci. TDC: How did you get started writing materials for SketchUp? Bonnie: I suppose it was a series of situation-based career changes. [...]
Goh Chun Hee, author of 1001bit Tools, has released two, related plugins for Google SketchUp; 1001Shadows and 1001Sky Ratio. 1001Shadows generates a series of shadow outlines or solid shadows from a start time to end time with user defined intervals. As the outlines are created as real geometry in SketchUp, they can also be exported [...]
“Google SketchUp has become one of the most popular tools available for three-dimensional modeling. Its users include architects, engineers, woodworkers, and hobbyists from all across the world. Most designers rely on the toolbar and menus, but SketchUp provides a programming interface that makes it possible to construct designs with scripts coded in the Ruby language.” [...]
i.materialise has just announce their first challenge – World of Houses – for the SketchUcation Community. You can submit any kind of house or building design, as long as you use Google SketchUp to create your 3D model. There are no limitations on your design ideas. The challenge is mainly about the originality of your [...]
As Inglobe Technologies have just announced, from now on the price of the Student License of the ARplugin has been considerably lowered with no time limit. The current pricing redefinition has its roots in their will to meet students needs ever better and make the tool more accessible to anyone. Read more and register on [...]
The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge on Laser Guns is Boofredlay (Eric Lay) with this entry. The guys had really great fun with this challenge and although a good deal of very cool entries were made, this time the voting was not as tight as some other occasions. Congrats to Eric and thanks [...]
As SketchUcation Community Forums member “Pumpkin Pirate” has just announced, he released his “Flattery Plugin” that allows users to “flatten” or unfold models then add tabs and export into a format that will let you work with it and eventually print as a paper model to be assembled. “Papercrafters can now get more out of [...]
SimLab Soft has just released their new, SimLab Composer v2. The new release of SimLab Composer is all about sharing 3D models. SimLab Composer is a solid 3D tool, by being a tool it does not try to force you to go through a predefined workflow that you cannot deviate from, it keeps your creativity [...]
New service to create and 3D print architectural scale models Holding a 3D scale model of a design you have spent many hours on creates a special feeling. A real life scale model tells you much more than a digital file. i.materialise, an online 3D creation and 3D printing service, enables you to build 3D [...]
As Google has just announced in their official blog, they have renamed themselves to Topeka: “Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce [...]
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