Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Guzman Tierno from Italy is a Maths teacher and recently showed a novel use of SketchUp with some input from his pupils. Here you’ll get to see his maiden voyage! Guzman who has used SketchUp to help kids better understand solids and geometry even uploaded the pupils models to the 3D Warehouse and made a [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

Ivan Scotti a SCF member has post called ‘work completed’ here Ivan clearly demonstrates that SketchUp is much more that just a 3D ‘massing’ tool. The level of detail he achieves is quite outstanding. All images are made with Sketchup + Render[in] + Photoshop.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Armchair: IKEA and Pelican Chair Alvis, one our our new SCF members has produced some really attractive chairs, one from the IKEA range and a Pelican chair. He shows the stages on construction in a Youtube video! Check his post out here
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

“Anyone ever see the episode of Extreme engineering where they discussed the possibility of a tunnel from New York to Paris and London?” Solo (Pete Stoppel), moderator and regular contributor on the SketchUcation Community Forums posted some exciting, preliminary images of a project he’s been working on lately. “It’s for a client that does graphics [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Sunday, January 16th, 2011

Long time SCF member and Design.Click.Build contributor Dave Richards recently posted an excellent step by step guide to StyleBuilder. Every aspect is explained in incredible detail. Most members are familiar with Dave’s free styles he shares here on the forums, but this article is a must-read for those who want to get to grips with [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Captain James Cook Cottage John (tadema), one of our UK members has produced a great model of Captain Cook’s cottage which now stands in Austrialia! Hopefully he will continue and show us some of the modeled interior! Check out the post here.
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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Google Sketchup Team Member, CraigD, has appealed to the SketchUcation community to help out with mapping Southern Sudan CraigD Says… “Hi Folks, As you may know, I am looking for help from anyone with local knowledge of the Southern Sudan region, or time to log on and pitch in, to help us update Google Maps [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011

tnarch, a new SCF member is working on what he calls “Entertainment Zone in Texas”. It looks like a really interesting project and the style is attractive! He only has three pictures uploaded at the moment but maybe with a little encouragement he will show us more. The Cool Project topic can be reached here.
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Sunday, January 9th, 2011

Forum moderator Edson Mahfuz has been experimenting with rendering while reconstructing a never build design by by Mies van der Rohe; “the Gericke House is an unbuilt work by Mies van der Rohe, contemporary of the famous Tugendhat House. I modeled it and have been used it to practice rendering” – says Edson – “Podium [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

Cador Mickael, one of our SCF members from France tells us about his entry to the Syd Mead Contest. His entry is intriguing to say the least! The intricate modeling and presentation video work has been completed ’100% Sketchup+Lumion’ as he says in his post here on SCF. It looks that SketchUp and Lumion is [...]