Posted by Mike Lucey
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Monday, October 31st, 2011

Photosclupt v2 has been release with many new features. Some of which are, About twice faster sculpting Fully multithreaded Perspective corrected 3D models 2 lasso crop tools Invisible seamless tiling 2 batch tools .PLY 3D export EXIF autorotate + autocalibration 20 command line options Aero interface They are now also offering 3D tilable textures and [...]
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All News, Applications, Social Virtual World
Saturday, October 29th, 2011

I’ve just learned about the newly launched NuVera ‘Social Virtual World’ which is in Open Beta. It looks to be a start up along the lines of Second Life but with a somewhat different approach. The onsite blurb reads …. NuVera Online is a Social Virtual World currently in Open Beta and being developed by [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011

This is a headsup to existing SU Podium users. I’ve just learned that for customers who have not upgraded to V2, there’s an upgrade price change coming on Nov.1, 2011. There’s also a new SU Animate V4 introduction video linked in the what’s new section that is 1.40 minutes – really quick overview of SU [...]
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All News, Catchup Web Mag
Friday, October 28th, 2011

Catchup 5 is out with a packed full 60 pages! Check out the details here.
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All News, Applications, BIM, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Presentation
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

SCF member, Palo (Paul Verhelst) has been working on a cabinet design plugin for the past year and has been giving us ongoing updates on the Cabinet Design program for SketchUp topic here CabinetSense is finally available for download. There is a 14-day free trial and it is available for both the Mac and Windows. [...]
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All News, Books, CAD Training, Google SketchUp, Google SketchUp Training, Modeling, Training, Tutorials
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

This week fellow director, Tavi (TBD), and I got off our backsides and got SketchUcation into publishing. This would not have been possible without our first published author, Tom Fenn, a respected SketchUcation member and Product Designer that goes by ‘tfdesign’ on the forums. Tom has produced ‘Let’s SketchUp’, a book that is aimed at [...]
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All News, Pointing & Painting Devices
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

I just got an update from Oleg Kostour, one of the developers of Maide, that it now works on the Mac. I made a post some days about this app that allows the user to control many functions of SketchUp via an iPad. I have had a trouble free set-up on my MBP and have [...]
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All News, Drafting, Google SketchUp, LayOut, Plug-ins
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Tomot, one of our regulars at SketchUcation, has identified a weakness in Google SketchUp’s LayOut when showing construction sections and set about providing a fix! He has developed two tools, WallSectionTool1 and 2DSectionTool, that help to produce some really nice working drawings in LayOut. If you have ever thought about producing your 2D working drawing [...]
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All News, LightUp, Plug-ins, Solar Analysis
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Using LightUp for SketchUp you can perform an insolation analysis to assess the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. It can provide realtime navigation of Insolation results with a realtime spot meter showing kwh/m^2/day as well as static and tracked daily results for photovoltaic designs. View [...]
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

The DrawTop is one of those simple ideas that many of us may wonder why it had not been thought of before now! In a nutshell, the DrawTop is a piece of vinyl that is stuck to the top of the laptop. The user then has a convenient whiteboard for presentations!