Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Magazines
Monday, February 28th, 2011

We’re very proud to announce the release of our new periodical (in pdf format): “CatchUp – SketchUcation Community News” It’s packed with community driven articles from some of our most talented members. You’ll find an exclusive ‘behind the scenes’ look at some of the most popular threads, plugins and tutorials that lit up the forums [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
3D Printing, All News, Applications
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

BotMill Brings to Market Affordable Plug-N-Print 3D Printer. Perfect for either large organizations or the individual consumer, the BotMill Glider 3.0 is designed to give users an easy way to bring their ideas and prototypes to life. “BotMill set out to bring to market a very affordable consumer 3D printer with cutting-edge hardware and easy-to-use [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Discussions, Image Manipulation, Modeling, Presentation, Render, SketchUcation Community Forums
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

BossFanta (Anthony) has recently posted some stunning images in his long running thread ‘A New/Older SketchUp user !‘ Anthony, from Orleans in France, has a very unique style and presentation. Not to mention excellent ability and execution. You can teach an old dog new tricks!
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Discussions, Media Art, SketchUcation Community Forums
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

Joel Metzger, a SCF member and Movie Producer extraordinaire has just released his latest movie Discovery 11 – The Bucket. You can view and enjoy Joel’s movie here
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Discussions, SketchUcation Community Forums
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Guzman Tierno from Italy is a Maths teacher and recently showed a novel use of SketchUp with some input from his pupils. Here you’ll get to see his maiden voyage! Guzman who has used SketchUp to help kids better understand solids and geometry even uploaded the pupils models to the 3D Warehouse and made a [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Render, SketchUcation Community Forums
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Ivan Scotti a SCF member has post called ‘work completed’ here Ivan clearly demonstrates that SketchUp is much more that just a 3D ‘massing’ tool. The level of detail he achieves is quite outstanding. All images are made with Sketchup + Render[in] + Photoshop.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
3D Content Providers, 3D Models, All News, Applications
Sunday, February 20th, 2011

Dassault Systemes has released v4 of their ever growing 3d Modelling software 3DVIA Shape. Here’s some of it’s latest features…. “3DVIA Shape 4.0, the latest release of our free 3D modeling software, is now available for download. This new version makes it easy to create anything you can imagine with just the touch of your [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Content Providers, Render
Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Just got word from the guys at Podium about a new free plugin for both SketchUp and Podium called SU Podium Browser. They say: ‘We have been working on this for a while. One cool thing is you can drag and drop textures from one of our web servers directly onto a SketchUp face. The [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Render, SketchUcation Community Forums, Tutorials
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Armchair: IKEA and Pelican Chair Alvis, one our our new SCF members has produced some really attractive chairs, one from the IKEA range and a Pelican chair. He shows the stages on construction in a Youtube video! Check his post out here
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Applications, Render
Monday, February 14th, 2011

Senior Technical and Support Manager Martin Cox of Shaderlight has just announced the winners of the Shaderlight Winter Wonderland Render Contest. The winning entry (see also above) was rendered by Luke Holdmann, second and third prizes go to Abedallah and Zoungy – congrats to all. Read more about the contest winners (and see all gorgeous [...]