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.
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 [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The winner of Speed Modelling Challenge #24 on Christmas Tree Decoration was Boofredlay (Eric Lay) with this entry. There were many other, really nice entries so decision was kind of hard again. Congrats to the winner as well as all participants!
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Sunday, December 26th, 2010

Jsteacy thanks SCF for all the help he has received over the pat 18 months and shows us a design / render he has produced for a competition! He tells us, ‘The project is for a home design competition. It is a lakeside cottage. These are my favorite two images out of nine. If I [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
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Friday, December 24th, 2010

Pilou, one of our long-time SCF Member’s has sent the members a ‘Joyeux Noël’ star produced in interactive PDF using SimLab. Collect your star here.
Posted by Rich O'Brien
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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 [...]
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Saturday, December 18th, 2010

Beeeeeee! by Artymedia Roberto Arróniz, one of our SCF members is developing an interesting website! Roberto’s description is as follows, ‘This is a flash website. The website will have a comic style. The theme is a hive of bees in a meadow. I will use SketchUp to create the scenario (to put a lot of [...]