How Accurate Should a SketchUp Model be?
All News, Discussions Thursday, September 9th, 2010
That is a question that is extensively discussed in an article by the Garage Shop blog. Read the article here.
Animation in Google SketchUp With XML
All News, Animation, Applications, Discussions Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
You don’t need complex setups with showing and hiding of Layers and whatnot to animate in Google SketchUp these days, as there are quite a few offerings by different developers. However, animating models can also be done through Ruby. This is the first time that I have seen someone using XML to animate in SketchUp [...]
Critical Update of Some Plugins
Discussions, Plug-ins Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Some Google SketchUp users have been bugged with greying out (and getting inaccessible) of some context (aka “right click”) menu items in SketchUp (see forum topics here and here). With the help of the Google SketchUp engineers (thanks to Jeff Hauswirth and all the others who took part in tracking down the problem), the issue [...]
Speed Modelling Challenge #21 Winner – CaptainsLS
Competition Blogs, Discussions, SketchUcation Community Forums Friday, January 22nd, 2010
The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge (#21 – “Multi tool”) was CaptainLS with his “office space Swiss army stapler”. Congrats to the winner – as well as all the other participants with their also cool entries!
Speed Modelling Challenge #20 – Dr. Seuss – Winner d12dozr
Competition Blogs, Discussions, SketchUcation Community Forums Sunday, December 27th, 2009
The winner of the Speed Modelling Challenge #20 about Dr. Seuss was d12dozr (Marcus) with his excellent Circus Crane model. A well deserved prize – a copy of ProfileBuilder (worth $29) kindly offered by Whaat (Dale Martens). Congrats Marcus and thanks Dale!
UV Tools 0.2 Pro Beta Released
Discussions Thursday, November 19th, 2009
Whaat (Dale Martens), developer of several plugins, has just released a new version of his UV Tools plugin; UV Tools 0.2 Pro as a public beta. It is practically a quick export-import bridge between SketchUp and several other applications that can do better UV mapping. [youtube width="480" height="305"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVh-KSOHsw[/youtube]
SpeedModelling Challenge #17 Winner – Solo
Competition Blogs, Discussions, SketchUcation Community Forums Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
As announced in the Competition Voting Topic, the winner of Speed Modelling Challenge #17 – “Video Games” is Pete Stoppel (aka “solo”) with this entry. Congrats, well deserved yellow badge!
cgScenes 1 – Creating output
Discussions Sunday, October 4th, 2009
SCF Member Chris Glasier compiled and released his first video tutorial of a longer series of his cgScenes plugin. His vision of what he calls “superscenes” is becoming more apprehensible when watching his video (also embedded below). “…What I am suggesting is we need something other than a paperwork metaphor as a focus for software [...]
Cross-Browser WebDialog Development
Discussions Saturday, September 12th, 2009Here is an interesting discussion about WebDialogs which show differences between code in various browsers.
Smustard's Organizer Script to be Updated Soon
Discussions Saturday, September 12th, 2009Rick Wilson has posted an update on the Organizer Script thread about its next update. Main new feature will be an “accommodation for plug-ins that have subfolders for required files”.
