Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, Presentation, Render
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

LumenRT2 has been just released! The following is a list of the new features and capabilities, – A trial version to download and test – New advanced lighting modes for even greater realism – Fully moveable and animatable sun – A new material editor for adjusting LumenRT material parameters – Faster scene processing – More [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Please take a minute to read this and sign the petition if you agree.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Shaderlight, Tutorials
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Kate Marshall and Martin Cox of ARTVPS, the Shaderlight people, have had their first Webinar of 2012. In case you may have missed it, check out this link Kates advises, ‘We had a great turn out for the first Shaderlight webinar of 2012 so thank you to everyone who logged in to join us. Being [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
2D Art, All News, iPad
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

I mentioned the JaJa some weeks ago as I was extremely impressed with the idea of being able to use a stylus on my iPad that will allow me to achieve pressure sensitivity input. The project on Kickstarter has now been funded and Jon Atherton, the developer, advises that an order has been placed for [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
3D PDF, All News, Applications
Thursday, January 19th, 2012

LastRay PDF Tools for SketchUp allows the user to create 2D or 3D PDF files from the Google SketchUp environment. The plugin comes with a simple PDF designer and a merge tool Fully functional free trial is available at this link
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Design Websites, Web Development, Websites
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

I stumbled across IM Creator a few days ago and as I had in mind for some time to develop a simple personal web site, I decided to investigate further. After a few minutes checking out IM Creator I came to the conclusion that this was the most user friendly On-Line Web Development site that [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012

What may you ask is balloon mapping! I learned about it a few days ago when reading a KickStarter project by Grassroots Mapping. Basically balloon is sending a camera up on a balloon , snapping photos, and stitching them into a map. Over the past 18 months, Grassroots Mapping have build a global community of [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Friday, January 13th, 2012

What’s New with SU Podium for Google SketchUp? Well there is quite a lot of new things in SU Podium 2.9, now released. It is a free upgrade for SU Podium Version 2 owners. It can be downloaded from Version 2 Page or full details are available here. There are many new interesting features, the [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
3D Printing, All News
Thursday, January 12th, 2012

3D printing is becoming all the rage of late for obvious reasons. Mark Harrison, Community Manager at Google SketchUp has entered a post in the Google SketchUp Blog inquiring about SketchUp users interest in this new technology, here. There is also a short survey link which only takes a few minutes to complete. If you [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012

One of our SCF members, Denis (yad2000) has announced CoolPipe, a Google SketchUp plugin for mechanical engineers or anyone involved in intricate pipework design. The post can be found here From what I can gather, there is a Beta version on the developers site, here. While the text is in Russian, I managed to read [...]