Posted by Mike Lucey
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011

Learn how to model a car with Elisei Jurubita’s easy to follow ‘step by step’ Mini Publication tutorials. Each of the Three Part Tutorials includes the SketchUp car model in progress for reference and comparison.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Augmented Reality, Image Manipulation
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Version 2.2 of the popular ARmedia Augmented Reality Plugin has been officially released by Inglobe Technologies. The new version is available for Google SketchUp, Autodesk 3ds Max and Nemetschek Vectorworks. The full press release with demo videos can be found here.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Solar Analysis
Thursday, December 15th, 2011

SKELION has launched a new Solar Energy Design Plugin for Google SketchUp 8. While I not yet tried out the plugin, if the the Skelion site is anything to go by, the plugin will be easy to navigate and use. Skelion say, ‘Do you work in the solar industry? Have you been using Google SketchUp [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Sunday, December 11th, 2011

Apple’s idea (patent) for 3D Gesturing is Aimed at CAD, Avatar Creation & More! What the more will be remains to be seen but at least they have given serious thought to the ‘Problem to Solve’! ‘Problem to Solve Apple’s patent related documentation first lays out the problem that their proposed invention is to solve. [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Modeling, Presentation, Project Management
Saturday, December 10th, 2011

Trelligence Affinity is a unique software solution for the worldwide AECO industry, focused on the early planning, programming, and design stages of building projects. The new plugin allows architects to use Google SketchUp’s 3D editing capabilities to combine the powerful data & analysis tools in Affinity for visualization and client presentations, while maintaining the link [...]
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All News, Animation, Applications, Presentation, Render, Tutorials
Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Adam Billyard, the developer of LightUp for SketchUp has recently launched some excellent tutorials on the LighUp site, here. The tutorial list, some of which include models that can be used to replicate the procedures, have been included. Items covered are, Volume Light Effects This tutorial will show how to create Volume light effects. Neon [...]