Posted by Coen Naninck
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Google SketchUp allows you to turn on and off extensions at will prior to restarting the application, from within the application. Jim Foltz has now created a similar functionality that does the same thing outside of Google SketchUp. It’s a Windows executable and he states it “is not a plugin”. Obviously it’s Windows only (for [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Monday, August 30th, 2010

The concept of software versioning will probably always escape my grasp of understanding, as TIG skips version numbers in his scripts jumping from 1.1 (first releases usually begin with 1.0 or lower) to 2.3 … in just 4 days time. This plugin adds the ability to rotate an object in your model around a pivot. [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Not much of a lengthy description on this new plugin by Sahi, but I suppose that is not a bad thing in our modern world. From the topic: “The script takes a snapshot and saves the image in the folder where the file resides.” Check it out here.
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010

While prematurely announcing new stuff before it’s actually ‘happened’, for the making of a new SCF theme we’ve ‘recruited‘ our members help in a dedicated topic asking for their biggest bugs and annoyances. While this was mostly intended as a bug fix of the current theme, it became apparent very soon that trying to fix [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Yesterday I came across this website from a company named ‘DDD’ (or triple D I suppose) and their products sparked my interest. No no, this isn’t another shameless plug for a new advertiser on SketchUcation. To be honest here, I don’t think they have even heard about us! But maybe they want to do an [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010

The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #29 (“Tree House”) was Eric Lay (aka Boofredlay) wit this entry. Congrats to the winner and all participants for the extremely cool entries!
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Friday, August 27th, 2010

Lately I have been exploring possibilities to display 3D content interactively on the web. This can be for commercial purposes, too, but my primary goal is mainly educational. The other day my attention was brought to 3DVIA, an apparently cool and probably very effective ways to do this (I have yet to fully explore the [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Friday, August 27th, 2010

ArtVPS has just announced that they (namely Kate Marshall and Martin Cox) are going to give some preview insight and demo of Shaderlight for SketchUp at the Google SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 in Boulder, CO, September 1-3. Shaderlight is an interactive rendering plug-in that enables users to easily create photorealistic images from Google SketchUp and [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010

As developer Ioannis Pantazopoulos (aka “Giannis”) announced over the Thea Render Forum, Pete Stoppel (aka “solo”), member of Thea’s “A-Team” as well as moderator of the SketchUcation Community Forums will represent and demonstrate Thea Render – along with its latest advances (such as interactive render) – in Google SketchUp 3D BaseCamp 2010 in Boulder, CO. [...]
Posted by Coen Naninck
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010

“This plugin will construct a Sierpinski Tetrahedron up to the seventh level. Access is from the Draw menu, which brings up a dialog box with 2 parameters for you to enter.” Check it out.