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, Architecture Art, Case Studies, Design, Gardening Art
Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Adam Hails (EarthMover) has posted ‘Flagstone Patio & Landscaping’, a great overview of one of his recent ‘Real Projects’. He uses a combination of SketchUp, Dynascape, Photoshop, Lumion and Adobe Premiere! Well worth checking out the various images and movie on the topic here.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
All News, Design
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
If you are in the AEC industry there is a spot for you at Planrocket. Planrocket is for everyone. Architects and Designers have the opportunity to sell their plans online.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Design, Hardware, Mice, The Daily CatchUp, YouTube Channels
Friday, July 29th, 2011
World first 3D Mouse! Could Lexip’s Be3D be the ‘ultimate tool for 3D’? It certainly looks interesting and it seems to combine the features we see in 3DConnexion’s Navigator within a mouse. It provides one-handed ability to select, create, edit, move, pan, zoom and rotate a 3D model or environment. If the Be3D works as [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Architecture Art, Books, Design, Education, Tutorials
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
Dennis Fukai of InSiteBuilder’s has updated the Mastering the Art of 3D Construction Modeling. Dennis tells us, ‘We just finished an update to our classic book, 3D Construction Modeling. The new book was written for project managers who want to learn first hand how to build their own piece based construction models. A construction model [...]
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
All News, Design, SketchUcation, SketchUcation Community Forums
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Long time member, Richard, shared a technique he developed for coding proxies to limit the impact plants were having in his models. Richard says… “I’ve created proxies for each and rather than adding a colour to the Proxy I have put a few squares (1,2,3,4) on the top so I can recognise them quickly on [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Applications, CAD, Design, Drafting, Modeling
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 [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Design, Google SketchUp, Render, Textures/Materials
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
IRender nXt 3.5 for SketchUp 8 from RenderPlus http://irendernxt.com/ is now available. Based on our nXt technology, IRender nXt is the premier, easy to use rendering tool for Google SketchUp. New Rendering Engine: Path Tracer Path tracing is a new rendering algorithm for IRender nXt. Path tracing can improve render quality for many scenes. Improvements [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Applications, CAD, Design, Modeling
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
Cheetah3D 5.6 with better snapping tools http://www.cheetah3d.com/ Mac users can delight, as today saw the release of Cheetah 5.6. The biggest change in this latest version is undoubtedly the completely rewritten transform tool. The new transform tool now support multi-object selections, a gadget mode to arbitrarily align the transform gadget and much improved snapping tools [...]
