Posted by Mike Lucey
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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
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011

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 [...]
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
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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 [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Sunday, September 11th, 2011

This is an unusual one, Helinbak’s squirrel-powered roadster. You will have to check it out for your self, here.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Discussions, Image Manipulation, Modeling, Presentation, Render, SketchUcation Community Forums
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

BossFanta (Anthony) has recently posted some stunning images in his long running thread ‘A New/Older SketchUp user !‘ Anthony, from Orleans in France, has a very unique style and presentation. Not to mention excellent ability and execution. You can teach an old dog new tricks!
Posted by Rich O'Brien
2D Art, All News, Image Manipulation, Modeling
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

leminlab aka Nicolas, one our the SFC regulars has created a number of cutout dancers for use in dance-floor scenes. The file also includes a DJ and the gear! The file can be found and downloaded from Nicolas’ thread here.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Google SketchUp, Modeling, Plug-ins
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Gulcan Ocali, the developer of Tgi3D, has just advised us that the plugin now supports Mac Users. Gulcan tells us, “I wanted to let you know that we have just released the new versions of Tgi3D plugins for Google SketchUP which are now also available for Mac users!” You can download Free Training version of [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Design, Image Manipulation, Modeling
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

Insight3D lets you create 3D models from photographs. You give it a series of photos of a real scene (e.g., of a building), it automatically matches them and then calculates positions in space from which each photo has been taken (plus camera’s optical parameters) along with a 3D pointcloud of the scene. You can then [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010

“Stop playing around and start playing around. If you have projects that require any type of design, then you need Alibre Design Personal Edition (PE). It’s easy to use, powerful, and much faster than a trash can full of crumpled paper drawings.” Alibre Design 2011 Personal Edition is currently on sale for $99. For those [...]