Posted by Mike Lucey
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
A new Mini Publication, Sofa & Cushions by Alvis has just been launched on the Book Site. Its a great step by step tutorial for anyone that would like to learn the tricks of the trade when it comes to learning how to model a sofa and cushions. Its aimed at intermediate level SketchUp Users [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, Animation, LightUp, Presentation, Textures/Materials
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
There is an interesting topic on LightUp here, ‘Loft Model’! The topic revolves around LightUp’s texture baking abilities. Adam Billyard, the developer, advises and demonstrates, ‘LightUp bakes “view independent” lighting offline, and calculates “view dependent” effects in realtime. That essentially means diffuse light effects are calculated once and cached, and specular effects are calculated on [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
All News, LightUp, Plug-ins, Solar Analysis
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Using LightUp for SketchUp you can perform an insolation analysis to assess the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. It can provide realtime navigation of Insolation results with a realtime spot meter showing kwh/m^2/day as well as static and tracked daily results for photovoltaic designs. View [...]
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
All News, Art, Discussions, Google SketchUp Tutorials
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
Bonnie Roskes of 3DVinci is putting the final touches to her new book on SketchUp v8. This is what Bonnie says, “The main writing about new SketchUp 8 features is just about done – I’m putting on the finishing touches, working on the book covers, etc. Look for an announcement within a couple of weeks [...]
Posted by Rich O'Brien
All News, Case Studies, Discussions, Google SketchUp, Image Manipulation, Podium, SketchUcation, SketchUcation Community Forums, The Daily CatchUp
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
Paul M. Olson one of our SCF members has created some fantastic kitchen remodeling jobs using an Su8 Pro – Podiumv2 – Photoshop Elements 7 workflow. Check out Paul’s work here, and follow this work in progress!
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Tutorials, Woodworking Tutorials
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Bombe Chest – An Exercise in Complex Geometry – Pt. 2 http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/32434/bombe-chest-an-exercise-in-complex-geometry-pt-2
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Tutorials, Woodworking Tutorials
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/32495/chamfered-post-table-and-mortise-tenon-joints
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Tutorials, Woodworking Tutorials
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
A new woodworking tutorial by regular FWW contributor Tim Killen to make Tongue & Groove Joints in Magazine Rack: http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/32372/tongue-groove-joints-in-magazine-rack
Posted by Coen Naninck
All News, Google SketchUp Tutorials, Tutorials
Monday, November 8th, 2010
Here is the November update for the SketchUpArtists site: Two great new tutorials for those who want to get started quickly with rendering and IES lighting: http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials-2/architectural-rendering-with-sketchup-and-kerkythea/ and http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials-2/basic-ies-light-tutorial-using-v-ray-for-sketchup/ And some new Styles added to the Style section by Dave Richards and Jean Luc Clauss: http://www.sketchupartists.org/presentations/google-sketchup-styles/ Also added is a new download section where all [...]
