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 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Books, Design, Drafting, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Plug-ins, Project Management
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, BIM, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Presentation
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
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. [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM
Monday, September 26th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, BIM, Modeling
Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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 [...]
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
DesignBuilder is a state-of-the-art software tool for checking building energy, carbon, lighting and comfort performance. Developed to simplify the process of building simulation, DesignBuilder allows you to rapidly compare the function and performance of building designs and deliver results on time and on budget.
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Applications, BIM, CAD, Modeling
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
IMSI has released DoubleCAD version 3 and its new features are worth the upgrade: Up to 60x faster New Powerful Ruby Scripting .DWG 2010/2011 support .SKP v8 support For the full list of improvement, see this page. Or see the website here.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
BIM, Google Earth
Monday, June 7th, 2010
The new version of Modelur, a Google SketchUp plugin for parametric urban design, has just been released. As developer and SketchUcation Community Forum member Jernej Vidmar informed us, beside some minor bugfixes reported by users, some major, new features have also been added such as Optimizing Modelur buildings for Google Earth export (see video); Invisible [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Applications, BIM, Modeling
Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Jernej, one of the developers from the company who created Modelur has informed The Daily CatchUp that Modelur is now also available in French, German and Portuguese. There is also a Mac version available now.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Applications, BIM, Modeling
Saturday, May 16th, 2009
Modelur is an application for Google SketchUp, a tool for parametric urban design. And they have an open beta, intended to add as many changes as people request. So go ahead and sign up. Also check out their YouTube Channel.
