sketchUcation

Do you need to show a Shaderlight render to a client but you’re in the field? Want to check on the rendering status of a scene or animation? Forgot to download a render before you left the office? With the new and free Shaderlight Cloud Viewer, you can view SketchUp renders anywhere using an Apple or Android device. View completed scenes and animations, check on the status of in-progress renders, and download and display renders. The Shaderlight Cloud Viewer, combined with Shaderlight desktop software, will increase the effectiveness of your rendering workflow. Your high quality, photo-realistic scenes and animations are available anytime you need them.

"All we ever wanted was a way to model a building without huge complicated CAD software. So we created BuildEdge PLAN. With BuildEdge PLAN, you can be drawing parametrically connected models of buildings in a matter of minutes!" - says the developer. 

BuildEdge Plan 2.0 Beta was out there for interested users to test for quuite a while and the final release has also been available for a couple of weeks now.

Enter SketchFab's 3rd Sketchfast competition with $500 of cash prizes! You have time untill Monday noon (EST) to design and upload your best model of a NYC icon with the tag sketchfast3 on sketchfab.com.

It can be anything: a landmark, a cab, a policeman… Be creative! Most faved models will be the winners.

Sketchfab is a web service to publish and display interactive 3D models. No plugin required: upload your model, embed it, share it, done.

Podium Browser Paid category has well over 5,000 render ready original components that you can click and drop in to SketchUp to produce photo-realistic rendering very quickly. Content ranges from hundreds of light fixtures (with lights), living room furniture, dining room design components, sinks, baths, hundreds of 2D face me people, materials, 3D plants, faucets,etc. All are modeled with skill and crafted with Podium V2 properties. In March 2013, hundreds of bathroom and furniture components were added. In April we are focusing on 3D plants and trees.

Revizto converts Revit and SketchUp models into lightweight, interactive virtual environments with tools for simple collaboration. Revizto developers are committed to keeping Revizto up to date with the latest technology. Users of the new release, Revisto 1.1 can now take advantage of the new features in Windows 8 and Autodesk® Revit® 2014.

The developers are also looking for people interested in testing their new intermediate release of Revizto for SketchUp.

It was back in December 2012 when the developers of Thea Render actually took the decision to postpone releasing edition 1.2 for the second quarter of 2013.&nbsp. For them, edition 1.2 is a "milestone" release and this is why they didn't want to rush into it. But instead, they gave their best selves into developing something new that can define rendering in the years to come.

A new innovative approach was born: field mapping. What is it? how it works? why is it better? The developers will answer these questions very soon now with a tech announcement...

We teased you for the last few weeks showing you how we were installing plugins directly into SketchUp. Now we are pleased to announce that the SketchUcation Plugin Store is now available for the community!

There's lots of cool features we added over the last few months to help SketchUp users search for and install plugins that are part of SketchUcation folklore. Not only that, but installing is just a simple click, no more dragging and dropping files and folders.

To find out all the details about this new tool just follow the read more link below. You'll see why we are so excited about what make this tool awesome! 

Artlandia posted a new version of our SymmetryMill plug-in for SketchUp. Compared with earlier prototypes, the latest version, 1.0 can already be used for production work. It is considered the first public, final release. There are also several tutorials to go with it. Instantly apply your SymmetryMill patterns to realistic 3D models of apparel, furniture, cars, or whole buildings. This free plug-in connects SymmetryMill to SketchUp so that your SketchUp models automatically update as you edit your patterns—which is ideal for creating mockups and presentations.

A new version, 2.7b of LightUp has been released. As with all the incremental releases, this is a free update and licensed users are encouraged to get the latest version of their software. As a retail customer of LightUp v2.x they can login, go to Downloads and enter their Registration Key at the bottom of the page to get the latest installer. Simply run the new installer, launch SketchUp and enter their new Registration Key.

Cadalog Inc., the developer of popular SketchUp plug-ins like SU Podium V2 and Podium Browser, has released Viso3D to export SketchUp models for the iPad.
Viso3D will export SketchUp faces and textures, add a lightmap and then provide the ability to view and navigate the 3D model on an iOs device.