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. [...]
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 [...]
Nathan Leber, an architecture student at Arizona State University, has taken first prize in the 2011 NASA Art Contest, ‘The Future of Flight’ using SketchUp and Shaderlight. Shaderlight have the story here.
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John Higgins, one our our regulars here on SFC has produced his first Mini Publication, Modeling Country British Home with Google SketchUp and Photoshop. The book is a ‘step by step’ on how he produces his wonderful models of existing commercial and domestic buildings around the UK. This Mini Publication at $4.95 also includes the [...]
While reading a particular topic in SCF I learned about Northern Lights Timber Framing and their very informative site which is a must for any designer involved in timber frame construction. There are lots of demo videos and even some Rubies available for download. Clark Bremer of Northern Lights has made great use of Google [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
A new BIM generation built on top of the IntelliCAD functionality and affordability IDEA is a powerful BIM Architectural application that combines the Autocad-like interface with a sophisticated BIM technology. IDEA meets the entire needs of the Architect regarding model creation, high quality photo realism and virtual walk-through. Now IDEA 10 redefines the AEC industry [...]
gModeller has gone through some radical changes since January; As well as bug fixes, gModeller now has Model to Cloud sync functionality. You can now set up gModeller to sync your .skp file and gbXML file to our cloud storage system (gWorkspace) which is free up to 1GB. Within gWorkspace, we also allow versioning, which [...]
This is an unusual one, Helinbak’s squirrel-powered roadster. You will have to check it out for your self, here.
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