Guy Wydouw’s fixSolid plugin is a useful little tool that tries to fix problems with groups that are supposed to be solids but don’t show up like a solid in SketchUp 8. Guy also released realSection v0.5 Beta, which allows you to create real sections with different materials through your SketchUp models. The plugin comes [...]
The winner of Speed Modelling Challenge #24 on Christmas Tree Decoration was Boofredlay (Eric Lay) with this entry. There were many other, really nice entries so decision was kind of hard again. Congrats to the winner as well as all participants!
Just before Christmas, a new revision of Thea Render Beta was released. Major (and obviously far from complete list of), new features are: Terminator Artefact Treatment; Faster Unbiased Engine (TR1); Render Region feature: “It is possible now to specify a region to render (rather a whole resolution render) in the popup render dialog. Even more, [...]
Jsteacy thanks SCF for all the help he has received over the pat 18 months and shows us a design / render he has produced for a competition! He tells us, ‘The project is for a home design competition. It is a lakeside cottage. These are my favorite two images out of nine. If I [...]
Pilou, one of our long-time SCF Member’s has sent the members a ‘Joyeux Noël’ star produced in interactive PDF using SimLab. Collect your star here.
Gulcan Ocali, the developer of Tgi3D, has just advised us that the plugin now supports Mac Users. Gulcan tells us, “I wanted to let you know that we have just released the new versions of Tgi3D plugins for Google SketchUP which are now also available for Mac users!” You can download Free Training version of [...]
Insight3D lets you create 3D models from photographs. You give it a series of photos of a real scene (e.g., of a building), it automatically matches them and then calculates positions in space from which each photo has been taken (plus camera’s optical parameters) along with a 3D pointcloud of the scene. You can then [...]
Podium Walker (PW) Beta “Podium Walker is a stand alone walk thru/ fly thru animation program for SketchUp models. It will create photo-realistic or non-photo-realistic animations of your SketchUp model. In photo-realistic mode, Podium Walker supports sun light, moon light, Podium V2 omni/point lights, Podium V2 reflections, blurred reflections. It also includes ambient occlusion (indirect [...]
Long time member, Richard, shared a technique he developed for coding proxies to limit the impact plants were having in his models. Richard says… “I’ve created proxies for each and rather than adding a colour to the Proxy I have put a few squares (1,2,3,4) on the top so I can recognise them quickly on [...]
The DraftSight 2D CAD may be worth checking out for Windows or Mac users on the hunt for a quality 2D CAD application. The developers states… “DraftSight is a professioal-grade, open 2D CAD product for users who want a better way to create, edit and view DWG files. DraftSight is easy to use and is [...]
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