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 [...]
MoI is also a fantastic complementary tool for a polygon-based artist since its CAD toolset and advanced boolean functions enable extremely rapid creation of mechanical or man-made type “hard surface” models. The icing on the cake is MoI’s unique polygon mesh export that generates exceptionally clean and crisp N-Gon polygon meshes from CAD NURBS models. [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
I am consistantly amazed at the standard of presentation work in the area of Con Doc production being shown in the Construction & Working Drawings – Discussion The latest jaw dropping work shown is by SCF member, Sonder. He says ‘I just got so frustrated with how ACAD has been developed that I finally dropped [...]
LightUp v2.x is a new major release of LightUp that has some great new features that really accelerate the workflow of using SketchUp and LightUp to produce high quality content; there are also many fixes and improvement to existing functionality. New Features & Changes from LightUp v1.x: – Realtime shadows – Multisampling Anti-aliasing (MSAA) – [...]
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.
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 [...]
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