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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 thinking
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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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2010 Top 10 Posts
The yearly lis is hereCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
As I am trying to do evey year end, here comes the list of the top posts of 2010. Those that you guys have found to be the most interesting by visiting them more than any other pulished during this past year. Thanks for keeping coming here.
- SketchUp Plugins: Extrude Edges by Face
- SketchUp Plugins: TIG Extrusion Tools
- SketchUp Plugins: Model Clean-Up
- SketchUp Plugins: Make Fur / Grass
- SketchUp Plugins: Component Stringer
- SketchUp Plugins: Extrude Edges by Loft
- SketchUp Plugins: Extrude with Rotation
- SketchUp Plugins: Better Unfold Tool - Flattery
- Revit Basics: Control the level of Detail of a View
- AutoCAD: Manage Layers with the LAYWALK command
This doesn't mean I will completely abandon SketchUp or AutoCAD related posts, I will post if I use the tools and come along some nice tricks to share, but since my current focus is on BIM and on improving the Processes of the AEC industry, expect more posts on this line.
Again, thanks for reading, sorry for the misspllings and please comment more this coming year, despite the 939,575 Pageviews (591,188 of them in 2010) , it sometime feels a bit lonely here with only 167 Comments on 378 Posts.
Cheers.
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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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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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SketchUp Plugins: Slice Modeler
Create Slices of a model to easily simulate curved surfaces.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
Asteronimo has written this great script based on TIG's Slicer Plugin. The New plugin called SliceModeler.rb allows to slice the model in two directions to generate the necessary slides to build it on the real world. This is extremely useful when trying to reproduce curves surfaces (or their skeleton), and I can imagine it could be used on models of ships or to create the base for a complicated terrain.
I just created a quick overview video of this great plugin to share quickly its functionality. Be careful with the settings, the first time I used it I set it wrong and it created 200 slides on each direction crashing my computer (my fault, the plugin warned me).
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SketchUp Plugins: Face Number Reduction
Reduce the number of faces in your model using this easy to use plugin. It will speed up your working time and improve render speed.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
POLYGON REDUCER (polyreduce.rb) is a SketchUp plugin to reduce the number of faces of SketchUp objects. It is useful especially when we use high poly models imported in our model or when we simply want some surfaces to be simpler and lighter. Below you can see a simple comparison of an object created with the Torus plugin before and after using the polyreduce with the face count on the left.
Above the initial object before using the Plugin. Below the object after running the Polyreduce plugin.
As you can see above, sometimes the object will not look so smooth as before running the plugin. This has an easy solution. We run the Soften Edges function and we can control again which edges are shown and which ones are hidden achieving a better result as it can be seen below.
To use the plugin you must select the faces you want to simplify. Then right click and select "Polyreduce" from the context menu. On the dialog box, you can select the percentage of reduction you want to use. Very useful Plugin!
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SketchUp 8 is Out!
A new version of the great SketchUp is out! Version 8 with many new features and tools.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
Google has announced today the release of Sketchup 8 (Pro and Free versions). They have also posted a quick video to showcase the new features. See it below.
There is also a new page listing the new features. For me, the greatest introduction is the "Solid Tools". It is what in other Programs like Rhino or AutoCAD would be called Boolean operations. Unfortunately, it is only for the Pro version. There are also new Geo-modeling tools and context gathering that will help you get better site context and better quality terrain. Also, Layout is updated to version 3 with new features. My favourite though are definetily the new Solid Tools.
This new features will leave a couple of plugins obsolete. One, the comercial one called BoolTools. With the new Solid Tools, Pro users will be able to do this without the need of a plugin. Also, the Volume Calculator Plugin will not be needed anymore, since SketchUp pro will automatically calculate the volume for Solid entities.
Haven't seen so far any mention to Multi-Processor support which is a pity, but well, one step at a time.
via Official Google SketchUp Blog: Announcing Google SketchUp 8
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SketchUp Plugins: Modeling Twisted Torus
Model Interesting Shapes with the Torus Plugin using the twisting function.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
I recently posted about how to model basic shapes like Torus, Spheres and Ellipses with or without a Plugin. Although on the videos I showed you that the shapes can be done without plugins, I've been playing a bit more with the Torus plugin and it is quite useful.
The best fucntion is to me the possibility to model twisted torus. See with the following two images what can be done.
Te plugin can be download at the author's blog.
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SketchUp Plugins: Updated Plugins List
The list of SketchUp Plugins reveiwed at CAD Addict has reached 67, check it out.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
I had no time to update the list of plugins lately. Finally today I did it and added more than 10 plugins I had reviewed recently. The list reaches already 67 plugins. Some might be getting old but the list is pretty comprehensive.
To access it click here
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SketchUp Plugins: New version of the Joint Push Pull Plugin
A new an imporved version of the Joint Push Pull Plugin has been published.
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One of the most visited posts in this blog was the one describing the Joint Push Pull Plugin. See it here.
A new version (2.0) of the Joint Push Pull plugin was published by Fredo6. The New release, available here (you need to be logged in to be able to download it), has added a visual preview to the Joint Push Pull operations (see below)
And the possibility to add the parameters window pop up on will by pressing Tab while running the Plugin.
This is one of my favourite Sketch Up Plugins, it is great to see it improved.
Remember to check this post if you don't know how to install plugins.
This is an old post from 2010. you might want to check other Sketchup related posts.
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SketchUp: Drawing Torus, Spheres and Ellipses
Drawing Spheres, Torus and Ellipses is quite easy. There are some plugins though that make it even easier.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
Some basic shapes like a Sphere, a Torus or an Ellipse are not included in the default tools in SketchUp. They all can be done quite easy without the need of a Plugin, but of course anything that speeds up the modleing process is more than welcome.
Here you can see a quick video showing how to model a Sphere, a Torus and an Ellipse in SketchUp with the standard tools.
As you can see, it is a pretty simple process. Still, some of you might want to have these tools directly accessible on the Draw menu. For this, Regular Polygon has created several Plugins, simply click on the links below to access the Plugin website and to download them.
They also have two plugins called Superellipse and Supperellipsoid (Sort of rectangle with rounded edges, or cube with rounded edges) for this one I don't see a some way to draw it easily with the standard tools, so here comes the link to the two of them.
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SketchUp Plugins: Soft Selection Plugin
Add vertexes and perform Soft selection operations in SketchUpCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
Thomthom has a very interesting plugin called Vertex Tools to perform Soft selection of vertex. It is not free (it costs $20) but if you need to perform this sort of operation it will be worth paying for it.
On a previous post about Rhino, I already explained what soft selection is and what we use it for. Below you can see a video explaining the functionality of the Vertex tools Plugin.
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SketchUp: Free Ruby Programming E-Books
Five free ebooks to learn to program in Ruby Language. Català - Castellano - Deutsch
SketchUp plugins use the Ruby programming language. There is plenty of ruby programmers out there doing a great job creating SketchUp Plugins to improve the functionality of SketchUp. If you have an idea of a Plugin that could be useful but you don't know ow to program in Ruby this post might be for you.
This is a list of 5 free ebooks to learn about the Ruby programming language.
- Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Ruby
- Learn to Program
- MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
- Programming Ruby
- Ruby Best Practices
So now we have no excuse. If you think you need a Plugin that is not out there, get your hands on this free guides and start programming. The entire SketchUp community will thank you!
via citizen 428.
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SketchUp Plugins: Could this be the Future Grasshopper for SketchUp?
I can only imagine what this Plugin could do in the future...sort of Grasshopper for SketchUpCatalà - Castellano - Deutsch
Udi from ModelFunction has sent me a link to a Plugin he has released. The Plugin called ModelFunction aims to simplify the modelling when modifications of the model need to be done. If I understood it properly (I couldn't get it to run on my 64bit Windows 7) it allows to use instances linked to paths to kind of work on the "explicit history" idea similar (much more simpler for now) to what Grasshopper 3D does in Rhino. As I mentioned, I couldn't get it to work still, but there is a quick video from UDI to get a first idea of the possibilities. See it below.
The Plugin can be downloaded here. To install it simply run the .exe file. Apparently for now not compatible with mac or Windows 64 bit.
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