A new BIM generation built on top of the IntelliCAD functionality and affordability IDEA is a powerful BIM Architectural application that combines the Autocad-like interface with a sophisticated BIM technology. IDEA meets the entire needs of the Architect regarding model creation, high quality photo realism and virtual walk-through. Now IDEA 10 redefines the AEC industry [...]
gModeller has gone through some radical changes since January; As well as bug fixes, gModeller now has Model to Cloud sync functionality. You can now set up gModeller to sync your .skp file and gbXML file to our cloud storage system (gWorkspace) which is free up to 1GB. Within gWorkspace, we also allow versioning, which [...]
Wacom has just launched a 24″ 1920 x 1200 pixel version of the Cintiq. Its an impressive looking graphics / display device packed with lots of features. Full details can be found here
This is the ground floor plan of the house build by Dale Stephens I am following with great interest on the forums. Dale has now posted the floor plans and section. This gives us a much better understanding of what we are looking at in the construction stage(s) images. The build is coming along great. [...]
Adam Billyard, the LightUp developer, is complaining about the weather in Brighton, UK. Its pouring rain there these days but the upside is that he is working hard prepping the forthcoming LightUp 2.3. Check out the ‘Roman Bath realtime capture in SketchUp’ (Video), here.
I’m following Dale and Judy’s self-build thread ‘From SketchUp to Reality‘ with great interest. They are finding SketchUp very useful for on-the-fly modifications and it looks like it has saved the day on a couple of occasions. I’m finding Dale’s advise and explanations on the ICF system he is using (Quadlock) extremely informative. If you [...]
This is an unusual one, Helinbak’s squirrel-powered roadster. You will have to check it out for your self, here.
The team at RenderPlus have been testing, improving and simplifying the use of background images with IRender nXt. They decided that what was needed was a good wizard to let users scale and position the background without having to re-render each time to see if it is working the way intended. So they created a [...]
Shaderlight 2 has just been released with many new features. There is added support for animation and the ability to switch billboard images with real 3D model on the fly. Replace Me, another new feature, enables users to switch out billboards in their scenes with 3D models. This is enabled using a smooth proxy system [...]
Dale Stephens, one of our Top Contributors, is sharing his own house building experience with the community. He has just started a thread, ‘From SketchUp to Reality’ here. The ‘green’ build looks very interesting so far with SketchUp images and on-construction site pictures! Dale has told us that he will keep us posted on progress [...]
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