As Whaat (Dale Martens), author of the plugin announced, Skindigo 2.2 for the rendering application Indigo 2.2 has just been released. Usability has been greatly improved along with integration with the Indigo material database. Main features are

Integrated Indigo Material Database Search
Sun Position Override Tool
New Color Picker Interface for Emitter Color
Custom Light Layer Names
Save Custom [...]

The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge (#21 – “Multi tool”) was CaptainLS with his “office space Swiss army stapler”. Congrats to the winner – as well as all the other participants with their also cool entries!

As Simlab Soft has just announced, the new version of their 3D PDF Plugin for SketchUp is available. With the plugin, one can easily export a SketchUp model into 3D PDF that can be viewed on any computer without any additional software other than the free Adobe Reader. The new version includes an existing list [...]

While we have abundant educational materials and tutorials about SketchUp, there are not too many on LayOut, the accompanying application for SketchUp Pro since version 6. Bonnie Roskes has now released a comprehensive guide to LayOut as an electronic (PDF) book at 3DVinci. Hopefully it will be a useful guide for those only now learning [...]

As Glare Technologies has just announced, the latest version of their photo-realistic rendering package: Indigo Renderer 2.2. has just been released. Indigo 2.2 is at least 2 times faster than Indigo 2.0 on all scenes, and up to 10 times faster on scenes using environment maps.

Cadalog, Inc. has released SU Animate 3.1 for Google SketchUp 7 and 7.1. SU Animate is a Ruby based plug-in that automatically creates SketchUp scenes from camera and object paths. SU Animate automates the process of creating SketchUp animations.
New to SU Animate 3.1 is the ability to animate objects with two motions such as a [...]

The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #20 about Dr. Seuss was d12dozr (Marcus) with his excellent Circus Crane model. A well deserved prize – a copy of ProfileBuilder (worth $29) kindly offered by Whaat (Dale Martens).
Congrats Marcus and thanks Dale!

As developer Goh Chun Hee of 1001bit Tools posted in the forums, a new version; 1.1.7 of his plugin has just been released. There are new features in the toolset, such as:
Rectangular grille tools: convert edges into rectangular sections.

Circular grille tools: convert edges into circular sections.

Extrude while maintaining tapering effect.

Please, visit the website for more [...]

As was announced, Version 2 of DoubleCAD XT Pro has just been released. “It’s easier to learn, easier to use, increases your productivity, and has many new and more powerful features than before.” says the announcement. There were three main areas of work that went into DoubleCAD v2:

Consistency with AutoCAD
Productivity
New Powerful Tools

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As it was announced on the SU Podium website, the Beta version of the new SU Podium plugin (an easy-to-use renderer working inside SketchUp) has just been released. We have been reading much of this coming version for long and this first, public Beta seems to be very exciting.
“This build represents a stable code base [...]