Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Applications, SketchUcation, SketchUcation Community Forums
Friday, July 30th, 2010
After some technical delay, the SketchUp to Piranesi Competition Results have been announced in the SketchUcation Community Forums, too. There were two categories; Exterior render and Interior render. The winner of the exterior render category was Geshu Liu (ecco lau) with the above entry. Runner-up of the exterior render category was Artём with this entry: [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Conferences
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Google has (finally) announced SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 on their blog. After the initial inviting-nominating-inviting… process (read more about it in this forum topic), they are about to invite another 150 participants based on their SketchUp work example. To make it brief, here is a quote from the above blog post by Aidan Chopra ( [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
3D PDF, All News, Applications, Render
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
SimLab Composer 2.1 delivers an enhanced render engine with PDF exporting. Rendering and sharing your 3d models with clients or colleagues has become even easier with SimLab’s Composer latest software release. Composer is a standalone program which enables users of Google SketchUp and Google SketchUp Pro to easily create Photo Realistic images and PDFs. Since [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Plug-ins
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Vertex Tools – a vertex editing plugin for Google SketchUp – is finally out! Thomas Thomessen (aka “thomthom“), who has been contributing both with his extensive help and his brilliant and free (!) plugins to the SketchUp Community for long, has just officially released his first commercial plugin which could be best described as “SketchUp [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Conferences
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
The beans have been spilled – although there has not been an official announcement from Google yet (but we cannot hold the news back any longer); it’s finally here, and true! The Google SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 will be held as an “unconference” between September 1 and 3 in Boulder, Colorado! Whoever attended at 3D [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Books, Education
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Some of you may have noticed the changes going on at the Insitebuilders website. Not only have they revamped and simplified the look of the index for their construction books, they’ve begun posting research into what Dennis Fukai sees as an interactive construction process-document. In a recent blog article, Dennis points to the irony of [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Books
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualisation by Robin de Jongh Review by Mike Lucey I found Robin de Jongh’s approach to Architectural Visualization methods helpful for anyone wishing to learn about this process and very practical for those on a low budget. He has outlined an excellent ‘no cost’ way for the SketchUp user to become [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Competition Blogs, SketchUcation Community Forums
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
This time it was a tie; Alex1811 and Olishea were the winners together (congrats both!). The “spicy” part of the challenge was that there was also a special prize; a copy of SketchUp 7.1 for Architectural Visualization: Beginner’s Guide by Robin de Jongh. Fortunately the editor, Duane Moraes was generous and after it turned out [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Textures/Materials
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Entourage Arts has released the new Wang Wang Collection of NPR (Non Photorealistic Rendering) Flowers Mini Pak. The Mini Pak of 30 Marker style images is available both as high resolution PNG for rendering applications and as medium resolution Google SketchUp 2D “Face-me” components. The collection is offered in response to many requests and is [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
3D Printing, All News
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The houses of the “World of Houses Design Challenge” organised by i.materialise (a 3D printing plugin for Google SketchUp) has come alive according to their website. Looking at the models it is obvious that not only the participants did some really good job but also that the Z Corporation 3D Printer they use also creates [...]
