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SketchUp 2013 is now Available
SketchUp 2013 is now available with many new featuresCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
About a year ago, Trimble acquired SketchUp. Yesterday, Trimble announced that the new version SketchUp 2013 is now available for download.
- Extension Warehouse: Find SketchUp Pluigns in a single location from SketchUp
- Pattern Fills: Better documentation tools to fill section cuts with patterns
- Copy Array in Layout: The same way you copy multiple times in Sketchup you can now do it in Layout.
- Faster Screen Redraw when panning or zooming.
- Speedier Vector Rendering.
- Numbered Pages in the Pages panel: LayOut’s Pages panel now displays page numbers.
- Curved Label Leader Lines
- Dashes in Dimensions
- Smarter Toolbars in Windows
- Exporting a movie from your SketchUp model
- Zoom In More in layout.
It seem like Trimble is switching the focus on the documentation part, with many new features for Layout. It seems that those saying you can do construction documents with SketchUp actually saw something the bunch of us missed, but Trimble didn't. This is great news, SketchUp is by far the easiest to learn, easiest to use 3D Modeling tool out there IMHO, awesome that it is getting more and more options. let's just hope that it doesn't get many more $ added to the license.
SketchUp Plugin to Import Art Pieces to your Models
Creating a Slum from scratch in 5 minutes thanks to this plugin and a bit of smart thinkingCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
The people of ARTmine just got in touch with me to share their SketchUp plugin ARTmineSKP. I think it is pretty cool so thought I'd share it here despite not posting much about SketchUp lately. What this plugin does is that it makes available a database of artworks and allows you to add them directly to your model. This way you can decorate your interior design projects with some original artwork. See the video below that explains how it works.
You can get the Plugin here for free.
Remember to check the List of SketchUp Plugins, you might find something useful.
Top Visited Posts in 2012
2012 SummaryCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
#01. List of SketchUp Plugins: A post dated from 2009 but that has been (or used to be, when I had teh time) updated regularly with all the SU Plugins I have reviewed on this site. It needs some link updating which I will do soon, but it is still the favourite post for most visitors to CAD Addict.
#02. Using AutoCAD autosave files to recover lost work: This post explains what can you do after one of those moments when apparently you've lost part of your work in AutoCAD. It is the post with the most number of comments and all of them positive, so it is the one that made my work here feel more rewarded. Thanks to all who spend the time wirting down a comment, good or bad, it's great to know someone is reading.
#03. Plugin to Make faces from lines in SketchUp: I have toc onfess I am a bit puzzled by this post being so popular. The plugin was very useful back when the version of SU was v.6 or so and the program was not very smart creating lines from a closed set of lines. I think this was pretty much solved in later versions of SU, but oddly the post keeps getting a lot of visits. If anyone knows why the info will be very much appreciated.
#04. Volume Calculator Plugin for SketcHup: A post explaining how to use this old plugin to calculate volume of entities in SketchUp. A simple post about a simple plugin but that has had a lot of visitors and comments during these last months.
#05. How to install plugins in SketchUp: This is simple tutorial on how to get your plugins working in SketchUp. Sometimes the posts you think are too simple become the most wanted ones.
#06. List of BIM Software and Providers: Back when I was writing my Master Thesis, I started researching on all the scope of providers that have Building Information Modelling related software. This posts gathers most of that info and organizes it in different categories. One think this post taught me: People love lists.
#07. Converting 3D objects into 2D drwaings in AutoCAD: THis post explains the use of the FLATSHOT command in AutoCAD that allows you to flatten 3D Objects into a 2D drawing.
#08. Representing section cuts with solid fill in SketchUp: Another simple tutorial with images to get a nicer representation of the section cuts that SketchUp allows us to do very simple.
#09. Converting lines into tubes / cilinders in SketchUp: A post explaining the use of two different plugins that allow you to do this operation very fast.
#10. Mirroring objects in SketcUp: THree different methods to do the mirror operation in SketchUp. The oldest post (it dates back from 2008) to appear on this top ten list.
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SketchUp Plugins: Greeble2
Creating a Slum from scratch in 5 minutes thanks to this plugin and a bit of smart thinkingCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
My friend Aarti just shared this with me about using the Greeble2 Plugin to create a randomly looking slum for a project she is working on.
"I desperately needed to show slums in my project and i have been struggling for way to show it in my sketchup model...
image mapping looked shit... and i dont have the time to DRAW a darn slum...
SO i just made a grid in cad, trimmed it to the slum boundaries and imported to sketchup, did intersect, then used the make faces tool, and THEN used GREEBLE (plugin) and VOILA - a randomized height grid shows a beautiful slum made in 5 minutes..."
She even shared an image of the "quick slum" she created.
I of course felt like trying the plugin to see for myself how it works and produced also a 5 minute slum quite easily thanks to this plugin.
You can download the Plugin here.
Remember to check the List of SketchUp Plugins, you might find something useful.
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New Sketchup Online Publication
SketchuCation has released the first edition of their new online publicationCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
Got an email recently from SketchUcation mentioning the new online publication they just released. It is called CathUp and covers topics related to SketchUp and some of the applications you can use with this great tool. You can either dowload de PDF or see below the interactive version.
Nice initiative.
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(BIM) Revit to SketchUp via IFC Plugin
There is a Plugin to Import IFC Files into SketchUpCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
I was trying to visualize a Revit model we've been building in SketchUp. I actually wanted to use SketchUp to export the model to Maxwell to do a very quick rendering since the default rendering in Revit didn't please me and I didn't have the time to play with it much.
This was just a workaround, but it did help. I found the IFC2SKP plugin for Google SketchUp from Secom IS Lab. It did the trick.
The plugin will import your IFC file (you need to save as IFC from Revit) and the imported entities will be separated by layers as IFC Entities. IFC Wall, IFC Floor, etc. It does not keep much of the material properties you might have already given to each elemetn in Revit which is a bugger, but I guess that has more to do with IFC itself than with the Plugin.
Once you install the plugin, you will need to go to Plugins --> Import IFC and from there play with what do you want and what you don't want to be imported. I'll post some pictures detailing the process as soon as I get my laptop charger fixed (or I buy a new one...)
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Most Commonly used Design Software
See which software packages are being used by more peopleCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
After analyzing part of the questionnaires of my master thesis I created this table showing the answers to the question "Which software package do you or your colleagues use regularly?" There where a total of 93 completed questionnaires from several locations and from a varied type of stakeholders, so the sample can be considered quite representative. I was surprised though by the high percentage of respondents who answered that they or their colleagues used Revit regularly. Here maybe is where the sample has some flaws, and people applying BIM concepts were more prone to answer the questionnaires than those who don't. Hard to guess. In any case, here is the table, take your own conclusions.
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SketchUp Plugins: Instant Road
A great plugin for creating roads extremely quickCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
We saw last week a post by Vali Architects to create roofs very quick. They have a couple more interesting plugins. One of these is called Instant Road and seems to be a great tool to create Roads adapted to a Terrain. The video below shows part of its features.
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SketchUp Plugins: Instant Roof
A great plugin for creating pitched roofs extremely quickCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
I haven't posted much about SketchUp lately, but I just saw this Plugin and though it was worth posting about it. The video says it all. Easy roof creation. Pretty amazing the level of detailed reached with just a few steps.
You can download the Instant Roof Plugin directly at ValiArchitects website. They have some otehr pretty cool plugins, I'll post about them on the next few days.
Via the official Google Sketchup blog.
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SketcUp Plugins: TGI3D Free Form Organic Modelling Plugin
A new Plugin for SketchUp has been released. It allows great new free-form organic modelling features like never seen before in SketchUpCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
A new plugin has been recently released. It is called TGI3D Amorph, and it allows you to do what you will see on the videos below.
On the TGI3D website you can find both the full version of the Plugin ($149) as well as a a free trianing version that will allow you to test the plugin with a limited number of vertex. Looks really promising.
via The Daily CatchUp.
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Sketchup plugins: Boolean Tools for Free SU Versions
A Plugin to get the Boolean Tools of the Sketchup 8 Pro version on SketchUp Free VersionCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
Oscarlok has been working on a great plugin that mimics the capabilities of the Boolean Tools recently introduced on SketchUp 8 Pro version. These tools are not available in the Free versions of SketchUp.
OSCoolean.rbs is a Plugin for SketchUp 8 Free that allows you to use Boolean Tools in the free version. Below there is a sample video of it.
For easier use it includes a Toolbar for the five operations availabel. Union, Substract, Intersect, Split and Cut.
You can download the Plugin at Sketchucation.
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